Sunday, December 28, 2008

Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season!!


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Wedding

There are a few weddings coming up that we are going to, so Rachel and I decided to have a more traditional Ugandan outfit made to wear to these fancy celebrations!

Last Saturday was one of the teacher’s wedding, the invitation said ceremony at 12:00pm. We have been to a couple of other weddings and many other celebrations already to know it’s good to be a bit late!! We put Mazzy down for a nap and began walking to the church at 12:30pm. A few steps down the driveway and we were stopped and told not yet, the ceremony won’t begin until after 1:00pm. So we walked back to the house to wait. At 1:15pm we began to walk to church again, and were stopped at the exact same point, told the wedding won’t start until 2:00pm. At 2:00pm we made it to the gate where we were stopped by the groom, he was just on his way to get dressed!!! They said the wedding should start by 3:00pm for sure.

Mazzy has now woken up from her nap, so we decided to get her dressed and she could come to the ceremony with us, (Joel, Avin and Finn still wanted to stay home!) so just after 3:00pm we finally made it to the church.



The church was quite empty still when we arrived, word must have gotten out to everyone that the ceremony would start later in the day, or maybe it is normal for a wedding to be that late, I’m not sure which!!!
A couple of beautifully dressed guests.
One of many bridesmaids!
At 3:45pm the groom walks down the aisle, followed minutes later by the bridal party, the bride walked down the aisle just before 4:00pm!!!


Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Finn


Finn is full of energy from the moment he wakes up until his head hits the pillow! He’s always playing soccer, climbing trees (and falling out of them), or jumping off the highest diving board when we go swimming.



A day doesn't go by where he doesn't do or say something funny. Here’s a few things that have made us laugh recently:

Finn at the dinner table, “Mom, remember when I told you not to make yucky things?”
“Yes.”
“But you did!!”

Finn, “Dad, can you pick Mazzy up by just her neck?”
“No!”
“Oh, I can.”

Finn, after getting in trouble, “Fine, I’m moving to Canada!”
Us, “Canada is very far away Finn, our family lives in Africa.”
“Fine, I’m moving to Kenya!”