Two weeks before Easter we had Mike and Lee surprise us with a visit. It was awesome to see them and we spent as much time as we could together over the four days that they were here. It was so encouraging to be reminded of the special people that we have in our lives and how GOD has blessed us with such amazing friends and family. We truly are blessed!
At the end of the week Stu and Tracey arrived from England, as Mike and Lee were leaving, so we had this continual presence of visitors, which, although tiring, was really really awesome! We spent lots of time with the St Albans Slatters and they got loads of contact time with their niece and nephew, which was rocking! Then on the Thursday evening before Easter my folks arrived from Oz, laden to the hilt with gifts for Eli & Grace, of which they really liked their little dolls. Unfortunately our time with them was short as they left early the next morning for their Easter trip to the berg with my Grandparents. However short the time was, it was rocking none-the-less.
Easter weekend seems like such a blur now, with all our visitors, we barely had breathing space with all our services and then our trip to Cape Town on the Wednesday. Although... Eli and Grace always seem to find time to snooze!We managed to have an awesome lunch with the Smits, Frederiechs and two other families on Easter Sunday. The twins had plenty of hands to hold them and all the other kids had fun outside in the (very wet) sand pit. Bethany went through about 3 sets of clothing...
The Goltmans joined us for a quick visit on Monday just to wish us well for our trip. We combined it with our housesitter's, Heinrich, visit, and both came armed with hotcross buns, which are always a winner.Eli & Grace both picked up sore coughs over the Easter weekend, so on Tuesday we went to the Pead to get them checked out. He was happy to tell us that they were not serious coughs and prescribed some anti-biotic nose drops. He was also happy to tell us that Eli was 4.95kgs and Gracie was 4.5kgs! They were so good in his office, which is a first, and were so full of smiles... definite preparation for their CT trip.
For the rest of the day we just chilled at home and once the twins were asleep, El and I packed for our trip home to CT. What an effort to pack for two babies!!! We eventually crashed into bed at about 12mn, then woke at 1 for a feed, then again at 3, because Eli couldn't sleep and then had to be up to get to the airport by 6am, so not much resting for us parents!! The twins flew so well, we went straight from the airport to El's mom's work to surprise her, as she didn't know we were coming so early. We then went to my Uncle in the evening, where Stu, Tracey and my folks were have supper and surprised them too. Eventually we arrived at my Aunt's house where we were staying and sleep found us at about 23h30, so another looooong day. The rest of our CT trip was jammed packed with family and friends and everyone went out of their way to see us, which was rocking!
I will post news and pics of the Christening soon, just waiting to download them all! We are missing you all very much and hope that GOD is blessing you richly!
