Christmas is Coming...

and I am running out of time to post all my pictures, so I have decided to do an all-in-one post with lots of pictures.


Two weeks ago now ( I can't believe its been that long) these lovely girls came to spend a Sunday with us. We talked and laughed lots and went on a walk and ate food and and amongst other things took lots of selfies. Well, I did. You should know by now that I love selfies, and it's not because I think I have a beautiful face. I mean, I know I have a beautiful face, but I love taking selfies because mine come up sometimes ugly and often quirky and thats me (except for the ugly part). I know that my face is in centre of all these pictures. I do apologise for that and I am sorry if it gives you an overdose of Bethany.










And I think the most we have of Sarah's face is in this picture where we have 2/3. It's hard to fit 8 people in when you're taking selfie and I'm the photographer. Mine are almost always off centre.




I love my sunglasses. If I put them on the top of my head they get stuck and ruin my hair. They are also too big, so they fall off my face when I bend over. Other than that they are brilliant and are very dear to my heart. So when I was trying to take a picture and they wouldn't hang on my dress I wisely put them on the ground and when I returned Caitlin was standing on them, totally oblivious to the fact. As you can see I was very upset. I went out this week and bought a new pair and these thankfully don't ruin my lovely locks and stay on my head. Bonus!





We were in jovial spirits and everyone kindly obliged me and agreed to a playground photo. It was lots of fun






I couldn't decide between colour and black and white, but I think I like B&W a tinsy bit more.






The Sunday after Tegan had her ensemble concert and she played a solo.
 

 

They played "William Tell Overture" and it was so much fun I wanted to jump up and down in my seat.

 

 

And then last Wednesday a few of us went with Sean and Cassandra to the Stage 88 carols. As said in the previous post the music wasn't as good as our carols, but it was so nice to relax with lovely and beautiful people, have a picnic dinner, and sing some songs.

 

 

 

Mr. Tumbell looking gorgeous as always.



 

Unless you've personally met us, you probably don't know what Lachlan and Angus normally look like. I don't often take candid pictures of them and they can't take a posed picture like normal human beings. :) But as you can see they are normal and attractive like the rest of us.

 



 

 

 

Miss Georgia is so cute my finger is glued to my shutter button when she is around. Hence the amount of pictures of her on this post. We call her Georgia Porgia as a pet name (or Georgie Porgie, whatever takes our fancy) and the other day Cassandra called her Georgia Claire which is actually her real name, believe it or not. Well, she didn't believe it and was adamant her name is Georgia Porgia. Well, I suppose if you could choose between the two you'd choose Georgis Porgia, wouldn't you?

 

 

 

 

That face is, oh my, well I don't know what to say. Georgie's face that is, not mine. :)










Oooo fire




and chips make this girl happy.




And after that, this photo isn't good advertisement for fake candles.
I love you, Emma and I promise there'll be lots of beautiful and happy pictures of you in my next post.




Though I suppose they are more baby safe. Campbell loved them.




And well, yes, this is Emily.





And to quickly finish off here are some gingerbread house pictures. I generally try to decorate it the day before we eat it, so then I can gaze at my handiwork for 24 hours, but this time it didn't work out, so I really only had about 6 hours. :( Also 24 hours gives me a good deal of time to take a good photo, but my camera battery was 100% mostly dead (I did manage to revive it with the charger), so I quickly snapped these while my siblings were chanting "eat, eat, eat" in my ears. Just kidding we're WAY more civilised than that.

 

 

 

 

I don't think I'll be posting again before Christmas as we start celebrations and present opening tomorrow afternoon. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas being awed and amazed at God's greatest gift to us. I'll look forward to reading about all your Christmassy celebrations and posting about mine in a few days.