in which we go to the sea

 I love getting to make memories as a family...

Being the three of us is so much fun!

If you remember from my in my world post last month, I shared that we were planning a little getaway to the sea...

^How precious are sandy baby feet?

My sweet sister came along to help us with Nicholas, so Rucus and I could go out a couple times while she watched him.  We hadn't been on a date as just the two of us since he was born, so that was a real treat!

^I feel so blessed to be this man's wife!  

To be honest, hubby and I were both so tired (and still are, really), that we didn't get to go down to the beach till the morning we left.  We rested and relaxed at the house as much as we could...

^Nicholas loves Aunty Gabrielle.  She is so good with him!

It was lovely to take Nicholas down to the beach for his first proper beach outing.  When he was six weeks old we took a drive to St Francis Bay and spent a few minutes on the beach taking photographs before getting back in the car to escape the wind!

Nicholas was definitely a bit nervous of the crashing waves, and it took him awhile before he would go near the water.  He held his Daddy's hand and enjoyed walking barefoot in the sand, though...

Later we took him to the lagoon, and he sat in the shallow and calm water and splashed about very happily.  This boy really loves water!

I am hoping we will be able to take him to the beach again fairly soon - he enjoys playing in his sandpit and building sandcastles, or rather watching me build sand castles, and then smashing them down, so beach outings should be more enjoyable for him now.

I love watching Nicholas discover the world around him...it is so wonderful seeing him get excited about new things.  Mama life is crazy and exhausting but oh! so wonderful.  

My heart is full.

I hope you're having a lovely week, sweet friends!

~ Kelly-Anne

Wintry Beach Walk

Hello lovely readers...

As you may already have guessed, I am home from China...

I am actually in the process of sorting through and uploading photographs from my trip which I hope to share in a series of blog posts soon.

But in the meantime I thought I would share these pictures of the winter's day beach walk we went on this past Sunday...

How do you enjoy spending your Sundays?

May your week be blessed!

"My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music. I will praise you, O Lord among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth."

~ Psalms 57:7, 9:11

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On The Beach...

I sit here this evening feeling incredibly humbled and blessed.

In just one week our house looks and feels like a home...our home.

It is a grey evening and there is a light rain falling...  We are warm and cosy, surrounded by our loved ones and very thankful indeed for the kindness and generosity of so many wonderful people who have blessed us with gifts of furniture, appliances, bedding and more.  The Lord has been so good to us...we are completely overwhelmed how He took a situation that in our eyes appeared to be a terrible disaster, and worked everything out for our good. 

This is an exciting new chapter in our lives...so much in our lives has changed, but the steadfast love of the Lord has remained unchanging. 

 

I am so thankful to finally be connected to the internet - I could thankfully access my email from my phone and I was beyond blessed and encouraged to read your beautiful, uplifting comments, dear friends.  Your kind words of love, comfort and hope have brought such joy to my heart in a very trying time...  May the Lord bless you all for sharing His love with our hurting family!

 

And now I would love to share these photographs of a few of the little ones with you...

I took them a few weeks ago whilst we were staying in Glentana.  The house we were blessed to be able to use was very close to the beach, but sadly we were all so sick during our month in Glentana that we didn't make much use of the beach.  We did, however, have the privilege of seeing dolphins and whales close to shore from the balcony - this was very special...

 

I took these pictures one day when Mom and Dad took the little ones to play on the beach for an hour or so...  I decided to go along and simply sit on the beach and enjoy watching them play as I was feeling so ill that day.  I was delighted to be able to capture some special moments on my camera - good thing I took it along!  These were the only photographs I took in the month that we were in Glentana...

Just look at how this precious little boy has grown!  Caleb is going on 16 months now and an absolute delight!  He is a very busy little boy and extremely advanced for his tender age, so he keeps us on our toes...

He is so handsome...  I simply adore my little brother and look forward to being able spend more time playing and doing toddler activities with him.  We live about an hour away from the farm now which means I sadly had to quit the lovely little job I had as a shopkeeper...  But, the Lord knows and has given me the wonderful opportunity of investing in the lives of my younger siblings in this new season of life and I must say, I am quite excited!  Besides, who could resist spending time with such a charming little gentleman...  {{smiles}}

 

 These are special photographs I want to have framed!  It took some doing to get Gabrielle and Rebekah to cooperate...  I love photographs that aren't posed...so I had the girls walk away from me and then called them back when they least expected it...  It ended up being quite amusing and I got the results I was hoping for!  

Ah...I just love sharing photographs of this little guy... 

 Rebekah took great delight in thrilling her younger sister, Sofia, with a dead fish she found washed up on the beach.  I thought the whole process of dissection disgusting, but the girls had a wonderful time examing the dead fish and other interesting things they found on the beach...  

The Sofia smile... 

I just couldn't resist sharing this gorgeous capture...look at that little face!  {{Smiles}} 

Gabrielle...love those precious freckles and her sweet smile...

 

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Dear friends, thank you so much for stopping by...  It has so delightful to once again be sharing on my little corner of the web...how I have missed it!  I will be popping in again very soon...I have more photographs to share of our outing to Mossel Bay...  I will also be responding to your sweet comments within the next few days - how I have missed writing to you all!

 

With love and joy in Christ,

Kelly-Anne