In the beginning it was good...

 

Morally and aesthetically good.

Very good in fact...

Genesis 1-11

Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia.

beautiful evenings, blessings from God

I just thought I'd share one of our beautiful summer evenings that we spent we with lovely church family.

We spent a lovely afternoon watching the Sunday School children play

~ make believe games, playing in the mud, hide & seek, chase'ies.

Enjoying the tastes of summer BBQ's and fresh salads.

Relaxing with church family, the together~ness and laughter.

Peace and quiet falls as the sun sets behind in spectacular soft colours.

The Lake

JB & his truck

Hide and Seek

I CAN catch you!

Evening colours with JB

Christmas Fun!



Christmas...so many things to be thankful for.

The most important being our Saviour.

We are all so tired now after the crazy-ness of trying to see EVERYONE.

Now you might not think that would be very much ~ right?

I mean how many family members could someone actually have?

Here's a short list:

There is Damo's sister and her hubby and 2 nearly grown-up girls

Damo's Dad and his wife have Four kids

who all have partner's now 

There are 3 nieces here.

Damo's Nanna

Damo's Mum and her partner

There is Damo's other 2 sisters.

Two nephew's and a niece here too.

Damo's other Nanna

Then there is my Mum & Dad

My three sisters, two brothers and there respective partners.

5 nieces, 5 nephews.

My Gran.

None of this includes our numerous Aunts and Uncles..

(My Dad had 6 brothers and sisters..Mum is one of 4, Damo's Mum is also one of four...)

It makes Christmas a BUSY but lovely time of family, I thought I'd leave you with a few photo's of our various celebrations (very poor quality, our good camera has died :( inconveniently after all the pressies have been bought!)

Aunty Josie, JB's Christmas Tree! ;)

'Net' & Claire

Brad's fav thing to fill the time!

Pa sleeping off the fantastic dinner!

JB's new swimming towel from Nanna H - he thinks it is a blanket - funny kid!

Party @ Pop's

Drive with the H cousin's -JB, Kelsey, Macey & Mia

The little ones with Aunty B

'Net', Da and JB enjoying opening some pressies

Cousin Will - Look I have a duck!

Party hats, dolls and prams!

Christ~mas

Have this mind among yourselves,

which is yours in Christ Jesus,
who,

though he was in the form of God,

did not count equality with God
a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself,

by taking the form of a servant,

being born in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form,

he humbled himself by becoming

obedient to the point of death,

even death on a cross.

~ Philippians 2:5-8