And the team left on Monday......our house is so.....quiet without all of our "kids" around! We miss you guys! But Marietjie & Anton are coming to see us this weekend...I'm way excited! I can't believe how many people the Lord has brought to us from LA for sweet fellowship. He indeed is a good Father!
Getting to know Noah has been so fun lately. He has just started noticing his "friends" ...his toy lion, and caterpillar....and he cracks up laughing, or squeals in delight when he sees them. Yesterday I was taking a shower, and I just put Noah down with his lion next to him, and I could hear him laughing through my whole shower. When I got out he was staring at his lion, cracking up at it with these huge eyes and gynormous smile. Ironically the brand name on the tag of the lion is "Noah's Friends" (no joke!) He has also started "standing" if you hold him from falling to the right or left..... Its super cute. Every stage just gets better, I love it! I just realized today that I haven't paid for a single diaper yet, and I've still got a closet full. At 10 diapers a day....for 11 weeks, that's ALOT of God's provision for us!
The team
Wesleys learning how to pitch cricket (it is done with a straight arm and has to bounce first before hitting it...unlike baseball!)
Waiting to bat!
Clint putting on his "hard core" face while pitching the cricket ball :) 
Amanda's great hit
Awesome fellowship over the braai....and some really really great steak! It was so awesome to see the unique bond of Christ and to see how the "universal" church so quickly bonds together. It doesn't matter if your South African or American...our God has captured his "bride"...the church....for himself, and that church is all over the world!
Fellowship with Kerry and Pati
Noah and I had fun while the team was teaching the Zulu kids last week (sorry no photos of Hope Valley!) 
Daddy and Noah time!
Campfire fellowship & worship
Photo of the day: Tobi sleeping on the remote phone that Jesse broke. (We found out the hard way that indeed if you plug in an American phone without the converter...it leads to a smokey death of a phone). Tobi is mourning the loss.
So we finally find the Rhino's on the way out.....and a bride and groom get out of their car wearing wedding dress and tux and all to take photos with the rhino (which is CRAZY by the way). They had a game ranger with them, but I was suspicious, .....all the Americans were like...well that means we can get out of the car too! But all the Africans were like.........no way, you'll get impaled by the rhino!! They promptly got yelled at by the game ranger for getting out of the car. 
Hungry Hungry Hippos sunbathing
And some strange looking Homo-sapiens
Jesse Johnson was our special retreat speaker....it was so cold one morning we listened outside to his sermon! (hense the beanie photo~notice the awesome pulpit?!?) My favorite sermon of his was "To live is ___" Can you honestly put Christ in that blank? If not than the phrase "to die is gain" is meaningless because anything else in that blank would make it "to die is loss"
Group shots before the sessions of the team and Cornerstone:
Kayaking on the lake was so amazingly beautiful....we had great fun racing and splashing each other....
Hanging out by the lake
All the girls
And the guys!
Thank you to all of you who sent amazing gifts from America (chocolate chips being my favorite!) It was like Christmas! 
Noah turned 2 months yesterday! We are so blessed to have such a healthy little guy...we took him to the pediatrician last week and he says that he's perfectly healthy...our God has been so merciful to us. Praise Him! 
He is starting to be soooo much more expressive very day, we wake up thinking what new face we will see! Today I had a record of the amount of times I changed him (clothes, blankets, everything!)....5 ......and he grew out of his first onesie....so sad!
It was super super cold in Joburg...but everyone still gathered to hear preaching in the ice-box of a room! :)
Just the three of us
Tiny feet!
All clean!
