I love it when the girls dress up as pregnant mommies...it makes me look forward to the day when they have their own families...besides that...it looks really funny!!

During the school holidays we were so blessed to have Liam, Selby and Kelly join us for a day of fun. The kids mostly played outside, when it wasn't time to feed Jude or burp him or something...it was Liam's first time meeting little Jude and by his love and affection, I think he is very glad to finally have a new little boy cousin. Maybe we can add some more boys to the family in the future hey Liam?

Once again the time of year has come around when we have our annual VBS (Vacation Bible School). As usual the weeks before were filled with much preparation and prayer for this week - and now we are excited to see some new faces as well as some old ones walk through the doors of our church. Our prayer is that every child would come to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior as they see how God saved a man who was a hater of Christians - Paul, previously known as Saul of Tarsus.

We had a lovely first day back from Skogheim today. We enjoyed the lovely warm winter's day outside with a braai - which we also plan to do tomorrow (weather permitting - God's will be done).



In our free time at Skogheim we enjoyed some time on the beach. This was our last time - the weather was overcast...it was cold and dreary, and there were hardly any crazy people swimming...but in typical 'Vaalie' fashion, we were there...enjoying the waves!

No...I didn't build these...good guess though...

Amanda and Rachel also couldn't get enough...I don't think that they will ever go deeper than their knees...due to my fear of the sea being well passed onto them... 

Jude and I just 'chilled' on the sand - isn't he a cutie?

We were so priviledged to attend this year's Skogheim conference. Someone anonomys sponsored our whole family to attend! The speakers this year were Derek Thomas and Brian De Vries. The spiritual food definately parred with the physical food, which was out of this world!

Wow...18 already...felt like just yesterday when she came into our lives...

Kids grow up so fast hey?

As part of my catch up, I am just going to post a few arb pics of the past few weeks...somewhat in order...and somewhat not!

My attempt at a fish plait...