Seven Things

Our friend Dennis, aka Buddy, just tagged us through his blog http://www.speakergeek.com/ and we thought it would be fun to take up his challenge. There are only four rules...


The rules:
1. Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Ok,...here it goes.

Seven Facts About Our Family

1. We were almost trampled by a hippopotamus. During our first year in Kenya, we spent a night on the shores of Lake Naivasha, home to a herd of hippos. After supper we were walking back to our cabin when a night watchman offered to show us a nearby hippo. We couldn't see anything until his flashlight hit upon the purple grey mound moving slowly before us. We were amazed by the gigantic four ton monster munching grass and moving almost silently between our cabin and the parking lot. We watched for several minutes when all of the sudden there was a crash behind us and a second hippo came barreling up from the lake past our cabin. We dashed up onto our steps pulling our children up into our arms. The watchman bravely stepped forward, his light trained on the galloping beast, when from behind him emerged a third hippo charging after his mate. The poor guard jumped aside narrowly escaping the hippos path. We all stayed safely on the step and didn't venture out again.

2. Erica's first job was as a Dicky Dee ice cream girl. Yes, she had the bicycle with the ice cream cooler attached that she pedaled all over Riverview and Moncton. One summer was enough!

3. Aaron wants to be a pirate. Well, he loves reading the nautical adventures of Wilbur Smith and dreams of sailing tropical waters. During our first six months with CBM we traveled throughout the maritime provinces in our car periodically stopping at a rest stop to beat reach other with sponge swords..not making this up. Since coming to Kenya Tristan has acquired a basket of well beaten wooden swords and shields that serve the purpose. One big thrill of living near the Indian Ocean is that Aaron has been able to find fisherman willing to take their ancient smelly dhows out to choral reefs where he and Tristan and snorkel with beautiful and sometimes poisonous fish. Shells are the biggest treasure our pirate has found.

4. Emma loves having tea parties. Each year she hosts a tea party for the girls in her class. Everyone comes in princess dresses and they spend the day making jewelry,playing games, eating cakes and drinking tea.

5. Tristan rocks! There are few moments in our home when we don't hear him tapping away on his knee or waling on his practice pad. He's always loved music, but this past year he's started drum lessons and he's great. Maybe he got the rhythm from Erica's tambourine tapping days at UPEI (he surely didn't get it from me (Aaron)). The great challenge is encouraging him not to play his jambe when he wakes up at 6:30 am.

6. Erica is a master house painter. She has covered the walls of all of our homes over the years with every hue from burnt toast (our current bedroom) to super hero blue (Tristan's current bedroom). The greatest challenge was Spiderman red that took about eight coats in Tristan's Kiersteadville bedroom. Her next project will be Emma and Ava's bedroom...

7. It is a miracle that we are all alive. Klutz may be a little strong... but it is not far off the mark. The Kennys are a little accident prone. From minor to the major we have our share of embarrassing bumps and bruises. From falling up stairs, walking into doors, falling off chairs, the list goes on. Aaron takes the lead though... at this moment he has torn almost every shirt he owns on the door knobs of our apartment. Given Ava's knack for climbing into precarious places, we'd say she is definitely living up to the family tradition.

Tagging:
http://adamivy.blogspot.com/
Adam and Ivy Kenny who live in Calgary, Alberta.

http://autumntremer.blogspot.com
Autumn and Corey Tremer who live on Prince Edward Island.

http://www.rhyminggame.blogspot.com/
Our friend Carolyn Ward who is a youth pastor in the prairies.


enns.humanclay.ca
Our friends Wes and Jean Enns who live and work at Rosslyn Academy, Kenya.

http://thewolvertons.blogspot.com/
Our friends from language acquisition training in Toronto, Tag and Susan are missionaries in Amsterdam.

http://www.mjolijournals.com/
Our friends Kyle and Jessica Davis who live as missionaries in what must be the coldest part of Kenya.

http://www.theropers.ca/
Our friends Chris and Janice Roper who now live and work in India.