Thursday, 9 May 2013

A fine day for the beach!!

Ryan had a seminary course to take on P.E.Island this week, and last minute found a spot for us all to stay while he was in class all day long. We were 5 min from Brackley Point Beach. The girls and I would spend the day at the cottage, and Ryan would come home from class, eat supper and take us there!! The first night we went it was a little cool and windy, but the girls had a blast running around and playing in the sand.
                               I love taking beach pictures.

                                        Elle's energy is limitless !!
                   
                                   Eva loved slopping around in the wet sand.


 Emily became a photographer for Ryan and I so we could have our picture together!! She rolled her eyes at this one!! (But grinned the whole time!!)

                                 Almost 12 years! Crazy how time is passing so quickly.
                   Emily's heartfelt message to us in the sand.

          Heading back to the cabin for bed. They have never slept so well since we can remember. All that fresh Island air. Another fun experience was that the 4 girls shared 2 double beds. Elin and Emmy slept in one bed, and were so happy to snuggle down together, and Elle with Eva .They loved it!! Elin did tumble out of bed 2 nights in a row, but no major damage was done to her little self, just a few tears. I backed a chair up against her side the next night and it worked great as a little rail.
It was so much fun just getting away from the regular daily life!!

Finally!!!!

Well we've been waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally........the day came. The belly kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and poor thing waddled slower and slower and slower. All things we were in the middle of were abandoned .. from .the game on the deck.....

   to  the math in the pasture....(.Emily had been keeping one eye on Bella and the other on her school work all morning.)
                            When the word was out that things indeed were finally happening...we all rushed(not so quietly) to the goat shed, where poor Bella was doing the hardest work of her life....birthing her babies!!
                                     Elin thankfully was napping,for those who know her, she has a very loud set of pipes, and shrieks liberally when she is excited ..and this was indeed a very exciting time. But an exciting time that required quiet watchfulness, not squealing and dancing as Elin is so fond of.
                           Eva was being so good....not sure why she thought it best to wear the lovely ball cap to such an event. The color alone would have thrown many a laboring mammal off kilter, but Bella is one of the best, and soldiered on bravely.
               Finally a new life was born much to our delight!! We named this beauty boy Moses.
  The girls were allowed closer as Bella was done most of her stressful work now.

                                          Moses' sister May was born shortly after and Elin woke up to join us for the celebrations and congratulations!!  Even Ryan made a quick trip home from work to meet the new arrivals! We were so proud of Bella . Those babies were getting snuggles and kisses before they were even dry and fluffy!  Emily's pride and joy Pippa is due in another week or so ,so another similar post should be on its way shortly.

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Aunt Ruthie Comes to Visit


Our little family had a very fun filled week-end a little while ago. Our church had a missions conference and my Aunt Ruthie was one of the guests. Well we made sure to ask if we could have Aunt Ruth stay with us and were counting down the days until she came.!



 
The girls made a little "fire pit " while we were showing Aunt Ruthie the goats. They were having a great time pretending to roast marshmallows!!


Aunt Ruthie had the girls help her get some crafts ready for Church the next day. Did we ever have fun sitting in the sun on the back deck making necklaces and gluing shells!!


Everyone had something to do.


The girls sang special music for the evening service.
The next morning Aunt Ruthie and Aunt Laura had the children's services, and all the kids met Ernie, the dummy!!

Aunt Ruthie brought lots of  dress-up clothes from Africa and the Philippians and the girls had a ball modeling everything!!



Eva especially loved the  African mommy doll with a teeny baby doll on her back.
                                 Aunt Ruth is quite handy at making balloon animals and showed her talents as she created flowers,butterflies and puppies for the girls. Elin thought she could help blow the balloons up!!



                   Elin also thought that the baby doll was more fun to take out of the mommy dolls sling than to leave in...much to her older sister's chagrin!!
Elle loved looking at all the beautiful pictures in Aunt Ruthie's books.
 Elin loved the Jewelry too!
 Here are the balloon making adventures!

                          Icecream in the sun!
                           Happy 3 year old with new jewelry!
Now this was a visit we will not forget! Aunt Laura has an aunt Mildred who lives just behind our church. Aunt Mildred was a missionary to India for many years and has many great stories to tell . We have heard so  much about her and finally got to visit. Well what a time we had. We had "tea" in fine style.
                  The girls sang,
                                        admired all the furniture imported from India,

                           sang some more..
                 had a very personal encounter with Ernie,
                                    And got lots of pictures with our new friend Aunt Mildred!!

               Lots and Lots of pictures!!

                                     Elin was never very sure what she thought of Ernie.

                             But in the end the girls sang yet again . This time to teach Ernie the song that they had been singing all weekend with the Swahili  word "Jambo"in it, so he could learn it for when he goes to Africa in a few months!! \
   So much fun and so many blessings. We were pretty sad to have Aunt Ruthie leave us at the end of our conference. Hopefully we can have her back for a visit before she leaves for Uganda in a few months.