Our Weekend

This past weekend brought us some guests.  

The Pereria Family & Granny Joan Von Brughan.

We had a very busy house - filled with very happy children and happy adults.

Cousins are great - especially the far away cousins, so when all the children are together it's just love & adoration non-stop.  I love that.  There's no time to get too familiar and start any nonsense.

We enjoyed a Sunday luncheon at our house, with pudding and a show - Brod sweetly entertained us on his guitar. The Slabberts, Pereria's and Von Brughan's were all together again.

Monday brought with it some shopping for Claude, Joan & I, and then lots of beach time, sand and laughter.

This morning...was departure time - which brought some frowns and tears from my little ones - but really, it was special to be together again.  Family is everything.

Here are some pictures to remember it by...

Claudette, Luis & Andre(he's totally posing for this shot by the way)

Joslyn & Erlank. Jos is an amazing teacher, and Erlank is studying (he just got back from his 2 year Mission for our church in January of this year)

There's Brod strumming his way along

Joan, Vanessa & Paul - try strain your eyes - sorry the lighting was bad

Ethan, Phoebe, Sophie & Renaldo

Noah with Nana Joan

Ethan, Noah, Warrick & Jo - off to a sleepover

Celebrating Renaldo's 12th Birthday - excuse the blurry shot!

over exposed depiction of happy cousins :)