Brian and Bailey Pruett Serving in the Philippines with Aviation 
Maycie’s birthday is coming up and she
is starting to think about her party. So far she seems decided on a princess theme. After breakfast this morning she informed us that she wanted to be excused from the table so she could “go shoot”. While still dressed up like a princess, she proceeded say, “I think maybe I want a gun for my birthday.” That’s my girl!
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Birthday Wish
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Monday, February 13th, 2012
We Found a Car
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
We will soon be very well acquainted with this little grey car. We plan to spend over 120 hrs driving in it over a period of 30 days.
We are so blessed to have found a car for our road trip. It’s a used Honda Accord and we think we’ll be able to fit everything in it for the trip, but if not, we’ll just have to leave some things behind. During the next few weeks Brian will be making any necessary repairs to the car in hopes that we’ll have a breakdown-free trip – especially since it’s going to be cold in the Northwest during January. We’re also getting mentally prepared for that rude awakening!
Making a Home
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
We are so blessed to have such a nice home in a quiet neighborhood. There is even a park just around the corner from us where our kids love to play.
We finally made it to California after quite a long sprint to-the-finish in the Philippines. We were very pleased to leave a fully functional flight program in the capable hands of Joel and Missy Davis. The transition took a lot of work, but we were able to make the switch without any interruption in flight service at a time when a lot is going on in the ministries that we support with the airplane. We praise the Lord for a safe checkout for Joel and for safety in Brian’s final flights. Thank you for praying for us, we feel we were able to finish well. (more…)
It’s a Another Boy!
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Shortly after our new baby is born Maycie will turn 4, and Dylan will turn 2 years old.
We are back in California and getting used to living in the States again. There are so many things we are really enjoying and not the least of them is being able to choose a Doctor and hospital for the delivery of our third baby. During Bailey’s recent appointment we had another ultrasound and can now say with confidence, “It’s a boy”! We are really excited to have a brother on the way for Dylan and we look forward to watching Maycie develop into one tough big sister. We are expecting the guy’s due date to be April 9th; one week before Maycie’s 4th Birthday. The doctor says both Bailey and the baby are healthy and progressing normally.
How Would You Pack?
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
This plus one more bag is all we could take with us for 9 months. We were so thankful to our home church who setup and furnished a house for us to come home to. All we had to do was unpack our bags, and we were settled.
We arranged the house to make room for the chaotic packing job.
Maycie and Dylan were excited to help us pack up.
We still consider ourselves to be new missionaries even though we’ve been with New Tribes Mission for about 5 years. We had still never packed for the infamous “Home Assignment” and we were a bit overwhelmed at the thought. We needed to pack for 9 months which would include two-months of road trip, travel to the Northwestern US in winter, a new baby, and summer in California. Thankfully we didn’t have very much in the clothing department that was still in good enough shape to bother taking with us, so it made packing light a bit easier. It is too expensive to ship things home, so we decided to just bring what the airlines allowed and no more.
We went through every room in the house and just pulled out the most important things and set them inside open suitcases. The things we left behind needed to be packed in such a way that they wouldn’t mold or get eaten by pests in our absence, so we put them in another pile which we would later seal in containers with desiccant.
Then there was the issue of the house itself, our vehicles, dogs, etc. It is very likely that the house would be broken into by thieves if we just left it without a caretaker. We had to arrange someone to watch the house, cut the grass and pay the bills. We also had to sign a new rental agreement on the house to be sure it would be ours when we returned, and we needed to arrange for someone to care for and exercise the dogs regularly. After that, we arranged for a couple of people to drive our vehicles periodically while we’re gone, someone to register them, a way to get insurance updated, and a means for transferring money to those who are helping us, etc, etc, etc.Needless to say, leaving for 9 months was a daunting task and a very expensive one. Thanks to a wonderful community of missionaries and Filipino friends, we were able to make the necessary arrangements and get packed up with time to spare. Things will most certainly come up that need our attention while we’re gone, but we now have one more major “missionary” experience under our belts.
Another Pruett Baby
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Many have tried but there is just no way to look cool driving a minivan. It's like a scab, picking at it just makes it worse.
That’s right. We came as a family of three when Maycie was just 4 months old and we’re returning with a 3 1/2 year old, a 1 1/2 year old and another one in the hangar due to arrive in April. We are so excited about a third Pruett to add to the clan and to be at home for the first time when one of our kids is born – Maycie was born in Arizona during our flight training and Dylan in the province in Mindanao. (more…)
Going to California in November
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Our family just days before we left for the Philippines. Maycie was 4 months old and Dylan was nowhere to be found!
Maycie is now a big 3 year old girl and Dylan will be one and a half years old when we get home.
This week marks our three-year anniversary of life in the Philippines and it has been an incredible three years. We have really felt God give us unnatural strength and endurance through some really hard times and incredible stress. As we look back at our first term here we see better than ever just how important it is to have a team of folks standing behind us, praying for us and encouraging us. (more…)
American Calibration | A Top 10 List
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Limited Edition "American Idol Pizza"
When we first arrived on Mindanao we were invited to go out to eat at a restaurant down the road with our friends. It was described to us as “good if you’ve lived here for a while.” At that time we hadn’t lived here long enough. It wasn’t very good, but it was edible. 1 1/2 years later, we found ourselves back in the same restaurant eating and enjoying the same food and debating about whether or not the ketchup was “real” or banana ketchup. That got us thinking, “what else have we adapted to that might be an indicator that we’ve been here a while?” (more…)
My Amazing Wife
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Thursday, April 21st, 2011
My amazing wife. Maycie and Dylan's amazing mommy.
It’s the night before a flight. A flight that involves me staying in the tribe for the day until the missionaries are ready to come home. I can see on the weather map that a stationary front is moving in over the Eastern Philippines which means rain and nasty weather – stress. Bailey and I just put the kids to bed and Maycie was complaining off and on through the afternoon about her stomach hurting. We braced for a possibly long night of getting up to help her because she knew she had some leverage. We were near the end of a movie when we were interrupted by Maycie crying, and then throwing up all over her bed. (more…)
Maycie and Dylan’s First Flight
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Friday, April 8th, 2011
We had a great time and Maycie is already asking when we can go again.
We finally found some spare time to all go out to the hangar and go for a short flight. I had to fly to get current before a cargo flight the next day, so we decided to make the most of it and all go for a ride. This was the first time that Bailey had ever flown here in the Philippines and it was also Maycie and Dylan’s first flight. Maycie wasn’t quite sure what to think of it at first, but she ended up having a great time. Now she asks every day when we are going to go again. Dylan on the other hand, screamed for most of it, but I think I would have screamed too if I had to sit backwards in a seat like his and miss all the action.
The next step is to get all of us into our tribal locations to spend some quality time with the missionaries we are here serving. We are hoping to visit each tribal location before we leave on our 9 month home assignment in November.
