Finally, we have finished our TV cabinet! Just in time too, as Gracie took her first few centimetres of independent mobility on Sunday evening... scroll down for the clip if you haven't seen it yet.
Eli has not been too happy the last two days, just really niggly and not sleeping well, so we're all feeling a little exhausted. El has been going to gym again and is feeling fit and strong, her yoga classes are pretty turbo, so she's been feeling it in every muscle! I will hopefully be joining gym too, just need to find out the details through Discovery.
We celebrated Catherine Smit's birthday with her and the family on Sunday with a tea after church and landed up staying for lunch and well into the late afternoon. Letti is visiting at the mo, so it was a chilled and enjoyable day for us. Whilst we were there, we discovered that there is yet another hole in the fence between their house and our cottage as we were greeted several times by Fox and Pooh bear, Honey is too big to fit through... Hopefully, with all the renovations and new building, a new fence will be erected.
Anthony is still staying with us and hopefully we'll get to see Ian in two weeks time as he'll be up here for work, and then the following week it's Ella's birthday, so lots of exciting things planned for that! But it's all a surprise, so you'll have to wait to hear about that.
This Saturday we will be having a pap & chakalaka drive with our home group, we've asked the church to donate the goods and we're going to package them into family parcels for our mission team to take out on Saturday afternoon. We also have a ton of blankets and jerseys to send out, so it should be a busy Saturday.
Missing you all tons,
LOTS of love and blessings
A long time has passed since I have actually written something... but most of you all seem quite content with the video content that we've posted! Maybe it's true, that if a picture says a thousand words, perhaps a movie says even more! But this is not the time for philosophy, it's too cold here for that.
We currently have El's brother, Anthony, staying with us. He wanted to come up and visit whilst his girlfriend was on Holiday, and the twins have loved having their uncle to play with! It is always so good to have family here. Dion was up a few weeks back for a meeting in Pretoria, and it co-incided with Matthew Smit's birthday party, so that was nice to have him with us to share that memory. Uncle Drew also managed to pop in for some coffee!
Eli & Grace are really growing so nicely, we haven't weighed them in a while, but reckon he must be about 7kgs and Grace around the 6kgs mark. They both sit really well, Grace tries to stand when she on our laps and she's also trying to work out how crawling works. Eli's first two teeth are coming out, so much excitement there too!
Eli is still happy just to sit at watch the world... he's turbo chilled! Grace is full of beans, she is so active and will more than likely rule the roost...
Our church building has come so far already, we are busy waiting for the roof and discussing paint colours, all the plastering is done for the sanctuary and the offices, so GOD's favour has definately been with this project. With the money we had, we were hoping to just get to roof height on the sanctuary alone, the roof and offices were going to be phase 2 & 3, but we're here already with the cash we had!
We were also blessed at home as Owen sponsored us his painter and some new paint to facelift the outside of our cottage as well as the passage and all the door and window frames. A fresh splash of colour makes such a difference!
A few weeks ago, El and I bought a TV stand/cabinet in anticipation of the crawling fest that our house is about to become, and we throught it wise to buy an unpainted piece of furniture and stain it ourselves. Wisdom, as it turns out, doesn't always mean cutting costs to do-it-yourself. The thing is still in our passage, still unfinished, and I still manage to walk into it at least once a day. Anyway, we've finished the first coat...
We are planning a trip to CT in October for Marcelle's wedding and simply can't wait to see many of you again. I've been working through all our old photos on the Mac and it's brought back so many cherished memories! We are blessed to have you all in our lives!
Love you all, may GOD rock your world today!
Finally, we have finished our TV cabinet! Just in time too, as Gracie took her first few centimetres of independent mobility on Sunday evening... scroll down for the clip if you haven't seen it yet.
Anthony is still staying with us and hopefully we'll get to see Ian in two weeks time as he'll be up here for work, and then the following week it's Ella's birthday, so lots of exciting things planned for that! But it's all a surprise, so you'll have to wait to hear about that.
