Commissioning Time!

There's been a flurry of "commissioning activity" lately, with ours coming up this weekend. A commissioning service is basically a send off /farewell church service run by our sending organisation CMS and we loved being part of our friends one as well, given that we all lived and trained together in Melbourne for 6 months this year. Sadly we missed Amy's, but were able to make it to the lovely Snowdons last Saturday. It really does make it all feel very real and official. Can't wait to see how God uses them in Spain in the coming years!

Making their promises as missionaries

Celebrating Will's Ist birthday afterwards!

Beautiful Amy- heading to Argentina as a missionary.

Meeting the newest member of CMS.

No queues here..

Kids getting their photo with "The Jesus Display" at our local shopping centre. Three metres away there was an enormous queue for Santas lap -but funnily enough, there was no wait for this one! And the best bit was that the kids didn't find it embaressing at all...!

Controlling the action

I can't believe I am still writing about Ethans birthday which was over a month ago! However these birthdays somehow manage to turn into festivals and we have a pretty big list of " Sydney things" to do before we leave. We've been talking about going to Jambaroo Action Park for 3 years now and so we finally bit the bullet! We grabbed Angus and the cousins and headed down for a fun, but cold day in the water. According to Eth, it was worth the wait!

It's a hard life....

We have taken a bit of time off the last couple of weeks -and enjoyed the sun, surf, food, boardgames etc... We had a great family holiday at Avoca, thanks to some very kind friends, and then just the two of us headed south to Gerringong for a couple of nights while the kids hung with my mum and dad. All of us agreed that we were gone for too short a time -so I will be sure to quote my parents on that next time we need some overnight babysitting! Actully we did miss the kids, but came back very refreshed and semi-ready for the craziness of the next couple of months.

Monopoly and pistachios- the new tradition.

Reptile Park

Beautiful Gerringong

Not a bad place to spend a couple of nights

Lunch at a winery