Love being home

There is no shadow of a doubt, that I have been to busy to actually sit down and blog about our lovely family.
we have done so much in the last few months and the is so much to say and show.
We have finally moved into our own house. It still has a lot to be done but, we are proud of our little home. While Tim was away I laid floors and created a wall- painted with the help of the girls. I wanted to get as much done during the time Tim was away, so that we could move in as soon as possible.

God has been so awesome and faithful to us and we have been blessed with a new set of couches, built in cupboards and the kitchen is on it's way. I can't believe it sometimes - when we have people over and just marvel at his goodness - it's almost mind blowing. But this is the God we serve.

Anyway, in the last few months our girls have grown A LOT.

Aislyn has since turned 4 and had her little fairy princess party. She is jut growing into an intelligent little person. There is a new debate that we are working through at the moment- Aislyn: mommy, I don't want to be a person! Me: why not my love? Aislyn: I just don't want to! Me: well then you're going to have to talk to Jesus about that one because I can't help you. Aislyn: no mom, you tell Jesus that I don't want to be a person, I want to stay little and not grow bigger!

I can't help but laugh- she is absolutely adorable and absorbing every little detail of life and taking a lot of what she see's, hears, experiences- to heart and reveals her simple way of thinking. We love her and where she's growing to- even if she doesn't quite want to go there:)

Little Iraina, is turning 2 at the end of November. It's absolutely mind boggling how fast the time has gone with her. I see it in her clothes and her ability to understand various concepts and instructions.

There are very big signs that it's tie to start potty training. She now calls a pop and "ewe" due to the fact that we always say ewe when we change her nappy :)

I am so proud of her- she is very forgiving and is quick to apologize. I know that she may not understand the full concept of sorry and i love you, but none the less My heart swells with pride when I see her use her phrases all on her own and in the right places.

Tim and I are really excited about where God has positioned us at the moment. It isn't perfect and we are getting tested every day. But like some one told us last week- there is no testimony without the test. So we are grateful for the awesome people God has aligned us with and continuously seek to have an open heaven over our lives.

Here's to the great tests in our lives

Lounge picnic with the girls

Iraina was still learning to sit. Aislyn is such a great big sister and making sure that her landing is soft and supported.;)

Reilly Logan – Our Nephew

We’re proud to welcome a new member of our broader family. My sister – Cezanne and her hubby, Quinton, had their second baby boy on the 18th of July. She was a champion and did really well and the labour was quick and she’s recovering well. Reilly is as cute as the pictures and a really good baby.

Here he is

Reilly Logan Viret – 18 July 2010 – 2.6kg’s Proud Parents – and grandparents

Seth (his big brother) wasn’t there as it was a busy day for him too. Will get pics of him soon.

Soccer Coach

Tim is getting really busy with all of his ministry responsibilities. Which is great. One of the things that he is getting into is being a Soccer coach to the School of Hope boys. He’s really fired up about it and it’s wonderful to see the little bit of an impact he’s making into those boys lives.

As a family we go with him to the practices to support him as well as for the girls to see what Daddy does and enjoy the outdoors. We’ll get pics of the boys, but here’s the field that they were playing on. What a view hey?

 

Girls play

These are just pics of the girls loving each other. Aislyn gets a bit carried away sometimes.

Actually – Aislyn was sitting with Gran-d and she calls from across the room, “Mommy picture, mommy picture” I then had to take a pic of her loving Iraina. What a sweetie.

Iraina’s hairstyle

So cute!!! Iraina can now have her hair tied up. it’s so cute and she’s looking like a little girl now. her afro left her looking a little unisex, so now there’s no shadow of a doubt that she’s all female.

We’ve moved from the two ponies and now have just one (you’ll see in later blogs) and her nickname is “Pebbles” from the Flinstones. She’s a cutie ;)

Feder’s at Moyo’s - Blouberg

Today we took the time to spend some time with Lindiwe (a lady from the HP N1 band) at Moyo’s. We were saying farewell to her as she is moving to Durban to be with her Fiancee and planning on staying there to get married.

It was great to have the girls with us and it turned out to be a lovely time with friends. Aislyn was thrilled to have her face painted and got a flower (her favourite) on her cheek. Iraina sat still for half of her flower and as you can see it’s a bit blurred on the bottom. Tim and I got paw prints on our cheeks.

The food was great – can you believe it, you can get gormet boerewors rolls there.  Tim had a crumbed mussel Gatsby – which he said wasn’t as great as the ones from Golden Dish.

 

Aislyn had a meal that was called Izinduku. It was two chicken  drumsticks, a potato pattie and a mealie. For the first time in Aislyn’s whole life, she ate everything at this restaurant – normally, we would order safe things like chips or chicken wings, mac and cheese. But we’ve always taken a doggie bag for her. She polished everything – It great to see her enjoy it so much.

 

 

Iraina didn’t lose out either. She screamed for bread and so we let her gum a little piece and she thoroughly enjoyed it!  We’ve  got her this little gum sack thing that allows us to put food in a gauze sack (that has a handle) and she can gum at it without choking. So she had bread and ice. 

 

I had just desert (as my mom would appreciate) It was the almond and nut ice cream topped with caramel sauce and  the Koeksisters. Divine!

They’ve got the most amazing set up there. It’s on the big bay beach and is fully enclosed (especially in weather like we’re having). they’ve set up a deck with surf board benches at tables, over pools of water. I can’t wait until summer, because I am so going to go there and try that out.

[Iraina liked Stet’s head – so shiney ;)]

Lastly Tim was pulled into the festivities at Moyo. The staff danced to the world cup song by Shakira – Tim was pulled into dancing with them. I tried to get the video online but the format is out - Aislyn cried because it totally freaked her out that her dad left her alone.

After that we went home as Iraina was due to have supper and as it goes with littlies we had to go home.

 

It was a really great afternoon – hope to go there again sometime soon. (and it was affordable – we had small meals instead of the main courses, which were basically the same as big meals)