Blonde @ library

it's just so funny!!! have to watch!!

of rainy weather..

i thought i'd bless your day.. so, here is a photo of the most beautiful girl in the world!! don't you just love her hair!! her dad cut it for her (what a blessing to be married to a hairdresser) and i think she looks so pretty!! funky and stunning and absolutely devine!!

and here is my wish for your day..

Psl 142:6&7 Attend to my loud cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. bring my life out of prison, that I may confess, praise and give thanks to Your name; the righteous will surround me and crown themselves because of me, for You will deal bountifully with me.

May you today find freedom, my you experiance the hand of the Living God in your life, my you give praise to His name and may He deal boutifully with you!!

the boys are back in town!!

horaaaaaaaai my babe is back!! and they had a blast!! i'm telling you, maybe a bit to much fun, but who are we to judge!!! they took lots and lots of picks for me and i love them!! the picks that is!! i love them (the boys also, but i really love the picks!!)

i am rather shocked though.. these guys took some of the best photos of my husband!! so, what it takes is a half naked man and a week away from me.. and the result is killer picks!! i'll go and put all their photos on my photo bucket, so you can go look there!! where, here!!

but, they did get to speak to so many people and share the gospel with them, pray with them and shawn even got a chance to play his guitar in a church over there!! Cool hey!! and then there is the pictures of them setting up one really insane fight!! you'll have to go look.. there is way to many picks to put them all on here!! they also had amazing food, as is proven in this photo!!

They even got to see the Victoria Falls!! so i tell you, they didn't have any fun!! no fun at all... Just work, work, work.. there was long stories about dams that don't excist, about horses that runs wild and about only needing money for food and diesl!!! some of it had to be those 'you had to be there moments'!! just kidding, we loved all the stories and really loved having them back safely!!

But no trip is without it's own particular probems, they did get stuck in the mud, at least once!!
i did mention that we are so happy to have them home!! so, watch this space for more pics and more stories!!

I LOOOOOOVE Fridays

hey there!! yeah, that is true, i do love Fridays.. and today asspecially, wanna know why, well, 'cause 'Peace i leave with you; My [own] peace i now give and bequeth to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neiher let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and desturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] You heard Me tell you, I am going away and I am coming [back] to you. if you [really] loved Me, you would have been glad, because I am going to the Father; for the Fatheris greater and mightier than I am.'

Jip, John 14:27 and 28!! the stuff that dreams are made off!!

i have to appoligise, that i have not put any picks on my blog, but see, Shawn has my camara!!! but here is an old pick!!

so, did i happen to mention that i have a aircon in my office.. so, now i just go no where any more.. i love being here now!! it's a calmin 16 degrees, no matter what the temp is outside!!

love you talk soon!!

by the way, i'm learning Col 3:8-10

But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things; anger, rage, bad feeling toward otheres, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips! Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices. and have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more perfect knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it.

new news..

well, let's see.. shawn is away.. he left on Sunday, to Botswana!! yes, that is news hey!! well, he went with Donald and Kulu (Johan) to go and hand out some Bibles!! how cool is that! and he got to see Victoria Falls!! so, he has been having a great time!! him and the boys!! and they have been able to share the Word of God with so many people!! and if you know any thing about Shawn you will know that is what he actually lives for!!

And poor little me, home alone!! well, actually, 3 kids, your never home alone again!! but really, my frien Ane is visiting with me and then i have my babies!! so, at least i'm not completely alone, 'cause then i'd probably been climing up the wall by now!!

And we had youth cel last night and found out something amazing.. wanna know!! well, we found out that (maybe not we, just me) shawn truelly is the lifeblood that runs that cel!! the games befor cel was way to quiet, the worship SUCKED!! we did DVD worship and it was to soft, the DVD got stuck the whole time (which it obviously didn't do at home when i checked it!!) and the game we played just didn't work out at all!!! if i was trying to do it out of myself i would have felt like such a failure!! now, don't try to do that whole, 'ag, maryna, i'm sure it wasn't that bad thing, it really was that bad!!

and now schools close, matyn has about 2 weeks worth of work to finish and then we can all have holiday!! i haven't told Dagan yet that his school closes for school holidays, i just don't think he is ready to hear that!! so, one more week for him, 2 more for matyn and then mommy gets to rest!!

talk to you soon!!

hey there!! so, finally i brought my camara in!! so all the picks of Melanie are here. you can see matyn having a ball!! and by the way, except for the one that she is in, she took all the photos!! her mothers daughter!! she is going to take beautiful picktures!! she has a great eye!

last night YWAM (Youth with a mission) visited our youth cel and it was amazing!! wow, they have some killer drama's and their message is powerful and moving! we were so blessed by their ministry!!

so, God bless you guys,

so, go check out Wilna's blog today!! her blog is good, but the comments are amazing!! so go read them..actually, make yourself a cup of coffee first, they are long and they are deep!!

it's my anniversary!!

jipee!! 9 years!! can you beleive it!! i'm sorry i'm not blogging well the last couple of days, i'm actually a bit busy!! so, i'll blog soon!!

JJS

you HAVE to check this out!!

i know, your waiting for the update.. well, i'm busy!! yes, i really just don't have time to tell you all my stories!! and i keep forgetting my camara at home so i can't download the photos!! so hang in there, probably only 'till tomorrow!!
talk soon!!

We're going away the weekend!! jipee!! i know, it's not like we haven't gone away in a long time, but this weekend is special!!
We're going to go listen to Melani!! And why you ask, well, 'cause Matyn likes her stacks and we are taking her through!! and on Saturday we have a mommy daughter breakfast, with Melani!! how much fun!! but me, i'm excited 'cause we'll be staying with our good friends Daan and Stefani!! and i like them so much! so here is the good bye 'till next week!!
wanna know what i'm learning.. Psl 16:2,5 & 11. it says
I say to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good beside or beyond You.
The Lord is my chosen and assigned portion, my cup; You hold and maintain my lot.
You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Talk soon!!

Told you i still scrapbooked!!

So, here are some pictures.. 2 of them i did and one of them a friend did.. see if you can pick mine out!! just seeing how well you know me and my style!! anyway!!

tonight is youth.. it's a black and white evening! and we are having a guest speaker!! it is going to be so much fun and we well be ending it off with good milkshakes!!

So, i had a really cool dream last night!! wanna hear.. well, if you don't, skip the next paragraph!!

i dreamt there was a crocodile in our house and Shawn and i were attacking the crock.. but we were not afraid of it at all.. not even close. and we were hitting it with handbags and stuff. and the whole time I'm thinking i don't want to wake the kids up, 'cause i feel to sorry for the crock!! finally the kids woke up and i looked at the crock and said.. 'I'm so sorry for you' and then they let rip, they were kicking it and punching it and just letting rip on this crock!! Shawn and i were standing back and just watching our kids destroy the crock!!

it was a good dream!

weekends, fun, friends

what an amazing weekend!! we had a great time! Friday Shawn had youth and i spent time at home with Dagan and Tamar, as Matyn likes going with her daddy!! and Willem came to stay over! it was cool!

Saturday we had a meeting with the Shepherding team of our church, where Shawn and i had to give account of the last years youth stuff, how it's going, what we planing for next year, etc.. our dear friend Ane (with a ' on the 'e' but i don't know how to do it!!) looked after our kids while we were away! When we came home, with pizza!! had to be a great day then!! so, i made some scrapbook pages (yes, Wilna, i still scrapbook) and had oodles of fun! I'll post them soon!!

And then came eventful, yet wonderful Sunday!! first i had the privilege to take photo's at my friend Louise's' daughter's baptism!! what a highlight in my week!! and what a highlight in Kristie's life!! we are so proud of her that she is so in love with the word of God. she read about baptism and decided that she needed to get herself baptised!! I was blessed, honoured and all teary eyed to be a part of it!! well done, we are all so proud of you!

And then Shawn decided it is time for us all to go do something fun, so off to the eiland we went! Appreciate the photo of him.. it really doesn't happen very often!! we swam and laughed, Shawn forced all of us to play put-put, so that he could kick our butts!! He can be so thankful that his kids enjoy it to have their butts kicked!!! But it was still great! we all went down the super tube, even Tamar, but only once.. mommies nerves would never hold it!

But, all good things come to an end, and it ended with all the kids looking like angels, fast asleep in the back of the car! it was so funny, 'cause they'll work on each others nerves all day, but they will literally lye on top of each other just to be able to sleep!! and we came home, watched a movie and fell asleep!! good ending to a good weekend!!

talk soon!!

about exams and stuff and life

well, for erika who is always in such a hurry!!!
so, i've started working out exams for matyn! i've done geography, science and will finish her biology and chemistry today! then all i have to do is languages, math and something, can't think of it now!! i'm so excited, she's not, but i am! so last night i sat with shawn who was paying NO attention to Dr Dino, as he was curled up on the lazyboy, and i did exams! it was actually fun! and amazing i worked through 2 of her books in one day!! ok, given, i didn't read everything and i didn't actually do any of the work!! but at least i know everything she learnt this year!! i feel smarter!
and we've actually order the Love2Learn stuff. i just can not trust a curriculum that has not got a christian foundation! she did not do enough Bible this year, and ag, i just feel better!! so, next year, we'll be doing, Afr, Eng, Bible and characer, Computer Science, LO, Hebrew, and core science (science, chemestry and biology) oh, and our personal favourite, math!! i'm so excited! now all we have to do is pay for it!! blag, phew!!
and stuff, well, my babie is getting cuter every day! she just does the most adorable stuff! i just love her to bits!! and Dagan is getting seriously bored at home, so next week he starts school! just a playgroup, much smaller than last time and no sleeping involved! so he is out of his skin with joy. oh, not next week, the week after that!!
and life is busy, fruitfull and fun! we have to give in our years planning this weekend, having a big leaders meeting with whole bunch of people!! so, we'll just pitch up for our part, the youth part of it and then come straight home again!!
hey and Kristy (Louise's little girl) is being baptised this weekend!! hope i'll be able to make it, i'm feeling sick and i might have to go to church for the leaders thing, thing! but i'll blog it on Monday! see you then
bye erika!!