We started our holiday with some time swimming at Granny Zan and Grandpa Alan's home. Of course Eden had a ball...even though she looks a little frazzled, I think I could' hear her teeth chattering!! Amanda and Rachel (especially Rachel) would literally swim no matter the weather - and even though it looks sunny the water was literally icy!! I didn't stay in long...just long enough to take the pic to prove that I did get it :-)

 

This post is really really outdated...this event happened in September, but I had forgotten to add it in, and so here it is:

 

In September we hosted our first Ladies Lunch since Glen and I have been at Krugersdorp. It was a very well attended lunch, and the ladies were all very excited to be a part of the planning and organizing for the day. Our speaker this year was Beth de Swardt, who did an excellent talk on discipleship - having purpose in our frienships. We were all really challenged and encouraged, and are looking forward to our next Ladies Lunch next September. We also started our Pollyanna Friendship ministry, which seems to be working well - it is ongoing until our next Ladies Lunch, and so we are in for a year of much spoiling and purposeful discipleship.

 

 

 



Ok, so we aren't really Claire's parents...but have been acting a little like parentals this year - and so it was our priviledge to be askd to join Claire for her matric dance photos before she left for her grand entrance at the school. She looked so beautiful in her mermaid dress - truly out of this world! 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to add this photo in, 'cause I said I would...I think Claire was getting kinda tired of smiling and posing....wait till your wedding day Sis!

 

As per usual the Sunday School hosted a fun evening at church - this time it was the dreaded "Fear Factor". Dreaded mostly by Glen, who was sure to be given pumpkin or something like that to eat. The evening consisted of eating the likes of worms, pigs ears, and raw fish....yuk! Most of the challenges were not as bad as what they looked, and all in all it was a glorious evening of laughs, and thankfully not too many tears...

 

 

We decided to have a picnic at the Botanical Gardens today, instead of the usual Monday at home or at a mall...it turned out to be such a wonderful day of relaxing...just what we all needed.

This last Friday we had our monthly Middle Ages Get Together which is always such a wonderful time of sharing and learning and chatting and eating...stuff mid-lifers tend to enjoy! Anyway, this last week we also celebrated Mark's birthday, which Charlotte, Cornel and Ria relaxingly organized. So just before Mark walked in we were told to put on these silly masks, blow on those silly kiddy noise-makers...it was really really silly...haha...anyway, the things we do to make ourselves feel young hey?