Ali and Evan's wedding

4 weddings down, 1 to go in my 5 weeks in a row run! It was a lovely day. They got married up at Observatory Hill and had the reception at Manly Golf Club which was very swish.



Ray looked at this photo and reckons Nat looks exactly the same as she did in high school. I guess she does...apart from the 27 week baby bump of course!

Gadsby fun in Maitland!

Lo Lo and I decided to cut all the grapes of their vine out the back because they were rotten and the balcony smelt like a distillery! Here she is with the big bag of insect ridden grapes!!!



This is Simon and his brother with Simon's new toy helicopter. It didn't seem to be doing what is was supposed to though... We went for a picnic on Australia Day to Lake Macquarie. It was a beautiful day. Very pleasant!!

Tamworth

Bec and the kids under the big pig on the main street of Tamworth for the Country Music Festival.


I always think it's funny the places they find to put stages at Country Music. Here we are outside K-Mart!


We saw a great concert in the park one night with Lee Kernaghan (who became Australian of the Year the next day). Colin sang just after we arrived which was a happy coincidence! This is him on the big screen...couldn't get close enough for a proper look.


This is Penny and Clinton's lovely little house. Had dinner with them one night which was lovely. They say hello!


We found this one night after the kids had gone to bed! Never know what you might find climbing out of your taps!

Jen and Pete's wedding

Summer School - Part 2

Here's Jamesy driving the double decker bus. They changed the system around a bit this year so that the big kids got dropped off at the high school and the little kids got to take the bus over to the main site.


Here's Katie eating a meat pie... for breakfast!!


All the other kids had a funny photo so I asked Lizzy if she could do one for me. This is what she came up with. Very fashionable!


This is Clairey blowing bubbles in her drink at the flowerpot scone cafe. By the time she was finished I think there was more scone than drink in the bottle. Gross!!!


And my personal favourite... Marilyn trying to clean the bottom of a burnt saucepan by boiling water and bicarb soda... til it was overflowing! Meredith made her put it back on the stove to bubble up again so that we could get a good photo for you!

Summer School - Part 1

Summer School was great as per usual. There were heaps of people. Apparently there were about 1100 kids in the children's program each day! They said it was a record. Everyone was of course asking after you all. You were even prayed for on the last day with all the outgoing missios, as those who left before Summer School!!!

Anyway, these are some general photos and I'll stick some individual ones in the next post.

By the way, in case you didn't guess... Aunty Mary won...

Grant and Nadine's wedding

Hi guys! Here are some pics from Grant and Nadine's big day. It was a great chance to catch up with people...a few unexpectedly. The guy who preached was one of my old primary school classmates!

NYE 2008!!!

We watched the 9pm fireworks from the Cahill Expressway. It was pretty cool to stand in the middle of what is usually a busy road!


This little boy obviously wasn't too keen on the noise from the fireworks. Kind of reminds me of someone else I know...


For the midnight fireworks we went across to Milson's Point. We tried to go into the Botanic Gardens but it was closed because there were too many people in there already. Milson's Point was packed too. We literally ate our dinner sitting in a ditch, but it was a ditch with a view so that was ok!
Ross and Emma rang. They were in Brisbane and it was raining. Apparently the fireworks on the Gold Coast were cancelled because of bad weather.
I hope you guys have a great night. 2008 doesn't start for you for quite a few hours yet. Did you know they're holding a party in your honour here tomorrow. I took a photo of the entrance gate for you.


Anyway, Happy New Year! Talk to you soon!
Love Iss Iss