Random Christmas Pictures

The girls sitting on Santa's lap at Pat's Black and Veatch work party. Of course, they both had their hands in their mouths the whole time. uhh
Pat and I at the party. We brought a nanny to watch the girls in the kids room, so we could have fun too!

Above: Our Christmas Tree!
Below: Lillie on a pony at the Mom and Babes Christmas Party at the Farm Yard.


The girls had fun at the party and fed the animals.

Above: Lillie walking around...she's slowly getting better and better.
Below: Isabel in time out for hitting Lillie and not saying "sorry."


Above: It was a little boy's (Edwin) birthday in Isabel's class, so they had a cake. All the kids gathered around to watch him blow the candles out. Isabel's teacher is the one in the black shirt. Her name is Louise.
Isabel had a kit kat stick for dessert and got it ALL over!
Lillie likes to "hang around" with Daddy!


Lillie also likes to get into the tree decor! uhhh
MERRY CHRISTMAS from our family to yours!

The Drakensberg Mountains

Over Thanksgiving we all took a trip to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. 6 families, including us went on the trip. Above you can see the view of the mountains from our room.

We went off to play a little family corquet....


On day 2 Pat and I went on a Canopy Tour. It consisted of 12 zip lines through the mountains. Since so many families went on the trip we all set up a child swap...as in - you watch my kids today and I'll watch your kids tomorrow. This way everyone got to do everything. We had a total of 10 kids on the trip. 2 -12yr old boys, 3 -6yr old boys, 1-4yr old boy, 2 -2yr old girls (one was Isabel), 1 -1.5 yr old girl and 1 -10mth old (Lillie). Oh and a partridge in a pear tree!











Above: Our Canopy Tour group
Below: Walking around the pool with Isabel






Above: Pat playing Qolf..."the lawn game golf." You play only using a wedge.
Below: Isabel and I joined the game later too. It's pretty fun.
Above: Monkeys hanging around our hotel.





Above: Isabel "hanging around." hahaha I crack myself up...j/k
Below: Pat and I went horseback riding on Day3.

Above: Clayton taking Isabel for a walk. They were soooo cute. He just held her hand and she followed.

Below: Taking pictures before going to dinner.



More croquet....even Lillie wanted to play!

Above: The view of the Lake. We took canoes out on it. Pat also went fly fishing on it, but didn't catch anything.

Below: Luke playing peek a boo with Isabel. She was cracking up. She loved playing with all the boys. These boys in our group were so well behaved too! A pleasure to be around. :) Luke would go around to all the tables at dinner and ask how each table was and if that table was okay today. I love it!


Isabel going on a horsey ride!
That was the end of our trip!! yea. Goodbye all.