this naughty little girl was supposed to be in bed, when we suddenly found her walking around in mommy's shoes, being a sneaky sneaker
time to get out of the house and stretch our legs...
so, this family day we stumbled upon the arcade. actually, our only intention was to go bowling (which we did, but i left the camera with the kids, so i didn't get any pictures of that), but then since the bowling was inside the arcade...oh well...what to do with all those coins...
dava tried out a few games, and won one whole entire candy, which we was very happy about (that's her and carlos trying to claw one of those little cuddlies, but them sneaky sneakers snuck right out of their grasp)
sharing her icecream with liney...
testing the quality of their junkfood. take home. eat by pool. with beer. kids swim. (uh, yeah...i would've posted pictures of the kids swimming, but first they need to get their swimsuits on...)
as in "holy ghost fire cannot be bound it just burns out the dross..."
anyhoo...this is our first night out in south africa, and our first night ever without a-n-y babies or kids since the birth of that little skinny-turned-fat one...
remember that guy from hi5, waaay back when, the ring dude "one ring to rule all"...yeah? well, that's him. turns out he's sam's little childhood foolishness buddy from portugal, way, waaay-er back when...
uh, yeah...he's wearing his ring on the wrong finger. and in the other picture, that's meli, one of sam's many younger sisters
and these are just food pictures:
of course, there must always be soccer...
thanks for watching. good night.
this is some good portuguese wine...unlike it's sweet sparkling counterparts, this one is dry...
looking less than inspired...but i just really like our room...
when change decides to come around and do his thing, he makes sure he overturns everything...including my christmas decorating...
so, in my whole entire christmas decorating career, this christmas is the first time i've ever:
- used tinsel (those who know me, know just how ma-jor-ly life changing that is)
- NOT decked the tree out with lights, putting lights on every single branch (in fact i only used TWO whole entire strings of lights, one of those strings happening to have half its lights not working...AND...they're COLORED lights!)
- not known before hand how i was gonna decorate, or what i was gonna decorate with
- not lined a door, entrance, pillar, or bar with wreaths, lights and decor
- finished decorating in one morning
- hung a wreath that i did not make myself
- used only one box of decorations (yeah, not a huge box, a regular size, aurora box)
- not had to use a ladder, chair, or other means of elevation for decorating the tree :)
so, here's to christmas around the world:
a man came and started flying his motorized toy plane, very entertaining
dava making a "fortress" with her friend, and aileen playing in some ash (which she eventually started eating)
dava with her friend...forget this boy's name, but he's like gibby, also has a speech impedient. they got along great together.
beginning of the game...
...sunset...
...7:00pm and still as bright as day...
dava tried out a few games, and won one whole entire candy, which we was very happy about (that's her and carlos trying to claw one of those little cuddlies, but them sneaky sneakers snuck right out of their grasp)
sharing her icecream with liney...
testing the quality of their junkfood. take home. eat by pool. with beer. kids swim. (uh, yeah...i would've posted pictures of the kids swimming, but first they need to get their swimsuits on...)
remember that guy from hi5, waaay back when, the ring dude "one ring to rule all"...yeah? well, that's him. turns out he's sam's little childhood foolishness buddy from portugal, way, waaay-er back when...
uh, yeah...he's wearing his ring on the wrong finger. and in the other picture, that's meli, one of sam's many younger sisters
and these are just food pictures:
of course, there must always be soccer...
thanks for watching. good night.
liney was being naughty that night, so we brought her our bed, and she immediately grabbed the baby's hand, and just held it while she fell asleep...
liney, making more noise than she already makes...and sitting by the waterfall-ish stream-ish place, with some nice christmas pointsettias...
there's dava, all bundled up on the couch one freezing morning. and then holding another one of alan's prize tomatoes...this is his biggest one harvested so far...
with what was left of the cookies she made with meli on the day daddy went to the cmas benefit dinner...
"give to him that asketh you...turn not thou away..."
looking less than inspired...but i just really like our room...
