our little family

our last sunday at church with pics

Last Sunday was our last night at our current church, we had a picnic during the day along with a few other people who also left on Sunday. It was a nice afternoon of chatting, eating, boiling in the hot weather and remembering how much God has taught us and grown us.

I will miss my church and church family but I know there are many people that I will continue to have great friendships with, who I will continue to see regularly.

I was a little sad during the last song, knowing that that was the last time I would be singing together as a member of that church but I am excited to see what God has in store at our new church, how he is going to grow us, use us and shape us to be more like his son.

serious flooding in england

My Mum called to tell me about the terrible flooding in Worcestershire (where I am from), she took some pictures of it when she was 'wading' home. Their house is OK thankfully but there are many homes that have been damaged by the floods. Click here and here to read more!

weekend at the in-laws

Well I am back from what was a lovely weekend at SP's parents house, we had the place to ourselves from Saturday morning to Monday morning as SP's parents went away for the weekend - we were responsible for the animals - Georgie the Cat, Dudley the Dog and the two chickens - Egglitine and I can't remember the other one. We had dinner with the in-laws on Friday night and then had lunch with them yesterday so we got to spend some time with them which was nice, they are so great, I really am blessed to have such fantastic in-laws.

It was a bit hairy driving on Friday night as we have had severe flooding in NSW - not in the area I live, although the rain and wind was really bad but it has been extremely bad about 2 hours up the coast. We had to drive in awful weather and I wasn't the most relaxed passenger which I am sure SP appreciated - NOT. SP's aunt and uncle lost their cars (water damage), their cat (drowned under the house) and their office was totally flooded, the whole area was declared a 'natural disaster'. Please pray for the people who have lost their homes and for the families of the nine people who lost their lives (5 of which were from 1 family - very sad).

On a lighter note we got to meet our beautiful (I am not at all biased) niece Jasmine Grace and I got to have many a cuddle, I have some great shots which I shall put up in a slide show tonight. We played tennis, watched movies, went out to dinner (got our meals free), hung out with family, I knitted and knitted some more and we went to church on Sunday with my sister-in-law (we believe she is now a Christian - Praise God) and her hubby (definitely a Christian - Praise God) they go to a Brethren church - it was really quite cool. It was a relaxing time and it was great that we didn't hit too much traffic on the way there or on the way home - not bad for a long weekend.

Back to the gym tomorrow - it's been over a month now since we have been regularly and I am feeling yuck about not going - pray that SP and I might get our lazy bottoms out of bed and back to the gym regularly, it's so hard getting back into a routine when you have been out of one for so long!

I finished my first scarf and I am on to my next one which is for my Mum - woo hoot!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Thanks Queenie for having a birthday, even if it was in April ;)

it's a girl

Well, it's official SP and I are Uncle SP and Auntie Nix. I am very very excited esp as I am an Auntie for the first time, I didn't sleep that well last night as we were thinking and waiting for the bub to arrive.

Jasmine Grace was born at 2.40am this morning (not Tues and not a boy), she weighed in at a very healthy 8lb13 (nearly 9lb) and was 53cm long. She also has lots of curly black hair just like her daddy and is apparently a scrummy chubby baby - I can't wait to meet her, I am already a very proud Auntie.

Congratulations to my sister-in-law and her hubby.