Over the British half-term holiday, Jenny's mum, Joan aka Nana Kukhu (Kukhu means Grandmother in a Kenyan dialect) came to visit us. We were really pleased to welcome her to Coshocton when it was a 'Winter Wonderland' because it looks a lot more beautiful covered in snow than without!! One sunny and snowy afternoon the four of us went out the back of our house to 'play' ... not sure who's enjoying it more in the photograph below!!
Just before we went inside to warm up ... Mark took a photograph of the three generations of girlies ... all of whom had lots of fun in the snow!!
We didn't get out and about as much as we would have liked because of the fresh snow that kept falling during her visit and also because Abigail was sick for a couple of days ... but we did take Nana Kukhu up to show her what goes on in the hangar ... as you can see she was straight in there with the tools ... goodness only knows if that plane will ever fly again!! ;o) (she didn't really mess with the engine ... honest!!)
There was lots of silliness while we were at home as well ... including playing with some of the toys Nana Kukhu brought with her. Below is a 'clip-clopping' and 'neighing' hobby horse ... which at the beginning of the 10 days completely freaked Abigail out ... but by the end was her friend!!!
One of Abigail's favourite games at the moment is to get in her cot with a bag of plastic balls and then throw them all out at whoever wants to play with her ... there was often a lot of squealing coming from her bedroom when Abigail and Nana Kukhu disappeared into there ... as you can see a certain little girl was loving it!!
No trip to visit us would be complete without a trip up into Amish country ... and although we didn't get up there as early as we would have liked (only because we wanted a bigger selection of yumminess at Millers Bakery!!) ... we were able to drive around and give Nana Kukhu a snapshot of life there ... we even found a new place to stop for lunch where Abigail could eat from the buffet for free!! The afternoon sunshine on the virgin snow was so beautiful ... a lot of the time the sun made it look like it was covered in a shiny silver coating ... but difficult to catch on camera! As you can see it's still amazing scenery!
It was really good to be able to show Jenny's mum what life is like for us out here ... because however you try to explain something, it's much better to experience it first hand. She headed back to the UK on Monday with lots of photos and video footage of what we got up to!
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