Family Reunion and ENLIGHTEN Festival

MARCH

I taught 14 days in March.  It seemed pretty busy, as I recall.

The first weekend was our family reunion in a beautiful house in Bundanoon. The ten of us "oldies"spent the weekend there. On Saturday, March 1st, some of the grandchildren and great grand children visited us.

 Deirdre and Phoebe out for a walk.

 Lois and the cows.

 

Sophie and Lois loved playing with the umbrellas.

 Lots of room to relax together.

 Joshua with his parents, James and Sarah, celebrating his 1st Birthday.

 Stuart and Phoebe

 Paul and Braxton.

 Pa and Sylvia

The great grandies that were able to come, all lined up in age order: Braxton, Joshua, Phoebe, Sophie, Lois and Noah.

Stuart and Cherie with the girls... out for a walk in the drizzle.

Rick and I went to the ENLIGHTEN Festival : part of Canberra's Birthday celebrations.

Church Camp

 February 21 to 23, 2014

Rick and I had a very enjoyable time at the church camp. It was at a new venue, after the previous 39 years at the same place ( Burrill Pines) !  Lake Tabourie this year!
We camped, walked on the beach and swam in the chilly water. had fun with about 130 others. This great location along with good company, food and weather,  made it an enjoyable time.

Church family barbecue

Saturday February 15.

We hosted a church family barbecue at our place. 

It was a very rainy evening but we all fitted inside our sunroom. 

All 28 of us. We had fun!

Happy New Year!

It's already the end of January!
Rick's contract was renewed for another six months! He started work again on January 2 and really likes his job. Cameron is now his boss!

In early January, Rick and I had a very enjoyable time one weekend, visiting Deirdre and family at their camp site at Broulee and then travelling on to Nowra to spend time with Richard and Jenny.
Here we are at Broulee trying out our new wet suits we got for Christmas. They are great.

Phoebe's First Birthday was on January 15.
We celebrated the weekend prior with a party luncheon here at home.

Phoebe has been practising all this month to master that amazing new skill of walking! She has it now!  Such fun for us to see her accomplish that feat.  She looks more grown up suddenly... but still in a tiny package!

Lois is using her imagination and playing games with me , such as Shops. We love having her visit and enjoy spending time with her.

I've been to visit Mum and Dad in one of the weeks and Rick and I have just returned from a lovely 5 day break at the coast..... over the Australia Day weekend plus two days.

Rick is now back at work and I have attended a course at school. I'm not expecting much work in February, but one never knows.