Christmas Dinner with our Fiji family and also a farewell to some great friends who are heading back to Australia, via Timor and Africa.

Water balloon fights.

Our friend who is a uni student here for 3 years, while the rest of his family are in Nigeria.

We will miss these two very much- good friends and a great tennis buddy.

Singing happy birthday to the girls once again.

Some pics from the last couple of weeks.

All dressed up for ice-cream at the Grand Pacific Hotel for early birthday celebration.

Checking out the foyer decorations.

Yummy!

Farewell dinner for some school parents we have got to know.

Farewell lunch for a wonderful staff member.

Soph's Christmas concert at school.

All the Sunday School kids performing Christmas song.

Getting ready for the party.

Nail painting and loom banding.

Photo booth.

Happy Days

Sugar high?...

Pizza lunch with some of the students.

Dinner at our place to farewell the 3 boys.

Hannah doing school "community service" at SPCA.

Hangin' at the Sandbank....

and on a friends boat.

Yesterday we headed out to Pacific Harbour, which is about 45 minutes away, to celebrate one of our Board members daughters 1st birthday. In Fiji, first birthdays are important, along with 16th and 21st. There was a formal ceremony with speeches and prayers, followed by swimming, BBQ and cake. Lots of fun and lovely to be invited to be part of the fun.

Amazingly decorated.

Speeches, with all the kids invited to join the family.

Superb looking cake.

Cake and singing.

Birthday girl selfie.

Cool pool and slide.

On an unrelated note....READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then give it to someone else to read.

Happy days.

We just had a very exciting weekend. Hannah's church youth leader of over 5 years, Sarah, popped in, with her new husband Will, to stay with us during their honeymoon. The Saturday before, Hannah spent the day wishing she was at the wedding and checked facebook every few minutes to see ANYTHING she could of the big day, so having them surprise her by turning up to stay with us a week later was massively fun!

So, we met them in the lobby of the Holiday Inn....

then went home and showed them the " Honeymoon Suite"(i.e Hannah's room)

Drank from a coconut....

played a bit of Fifa on playstation..

made Will earn his keep and tutor Hannah in maths,

go out for ice-cream at the shwanky new hotel in town

show them her school

and then said goodbye before school on Monday.

It was such a treat to have them with us, to pray with them, eat our way around Suva with them and play bananagrams with them. Hannah was particularly excited to just show them our life here, come to church with us and of course hear about every detail of the wedding. Thankful for great memories like these.