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Gold Reef City

Went to an amusement park for the first time! The young people from the XD were all going and Gina paid for Phil and I to go, as her birthday present to me.--Such a sweetie pie. Thank you Gina!
It was a full day of fun and scary things. I went on the "anaconda" roller coaster first, crazy idea since it was my first time on a roller coaster and this ride was probably the scariest. When it ended and we got out of our seats I was shaking...heh. Ok, so it wasn't that scary but it went upside-down a lot! We also took Audrey on the Farris wheel, her first ride at 4 1/2 months. There was a very nice view, but I think she was mostly concerned with trying to slobber on the bars. Yes Papa and Mommy, it was very safe, there were bars like a cage around the seats.

Anyway, I'm sure you can imagine the fun so I'll stop talking and let you look at the pictures. There aren't many pictures as I was too busy running around and having fun. But if I can get some more pictures off Joy's camera I can post them at a later date.

Kiddie Pix

Charlie
Brendan

The older kids (Aisha, Kiara, Sean, and Brian), showing their latest art project: cardboard boxes we made and decorated together. :)

Family Day...With Joy and Audrey

Thanks to Papa and Mommy I now have a camera to take pictures with--yeah! Here are some pictures taken today. Joy and Audrey left for the XD, but before that we had a nice little "family day" together. I hope they have fun, but I miss them already.

Birthday Time

I usually don't like birthdays because they're so embarrassing. You know how it is when you're minding your own business and everyone comes into the room and bursts into song...?? Well, that's so humiliating for me, it's hard not to crawl under the table when that happens. This year wasn't so bad and once again I got to have my sisters with me to celebrate.
Phil worked it out for Joy, Audrey and I to go out and meet up with Mike and Gina. We had lunch out together. Poor Audrey was teething that day so she was a little miserable. Then Joy decided to have a cheese dinner for my birthday. We spent the last 20 minutes running around the supermarket grabbing cheese, olives, salami...etc. In the afternoon I was teaching the kids at Woodlands so I missed all the action at home. When I came home the boys had prepared a huge spread of cheeses with all the trimmings.....ahhhhh, it was wonderful. We had a nice time of fellowship together--Thank you Joy it was such a nice meal! Then Gina and Mike had to go home so they asked if I could open my presents first. It's so fun getting presents from far away. I do believe thanks are in order.

Thank You...
Papa and Mommy for the camera!
Sara for the beautiful necklace!
Mama for the jeans!

..and lets not forget the others, Thank You...
Joy for the pants.
Phil and Joy for the nicest coat ever!
Gina for treating Phil and I to Gold Reef City!

You guys are wonderful. Thank you for making my birthday special. :)

Hectic!!

I have a really good excuse this time for neglecting my blog: we just went through a crazy move. We moved into our new house on Saturday and have been cleaning and moving since then. The house was so dirty (and when I say dirty I mean it! So filthy you can't even imagine it if you try..), we spent so many hours cleaning and it's still not clean enough for me. Well other than the cleanliness standard everything else is okay.
Gina and Mike are in South Africa, and Joy and Audrey are also visiting and will be staying with us for a bit. I'm so happy to have Joy here, she's as crazy as usual so it makes the day a lot more foolish. And it's so much fun to have my adorable niece around. She just loves me! I would love to post hundreds of pictures of her cuteness but as you know my camera was stolen..
So it's busy, busy, busy! Thanks for all your prayers during this time. A lot of us have come down with the flu so the move hasn't been easy. Kisses to all, and good night!