If you get dirty…..

it is a sign of a good day!!

We had a great day playing at the pond (which the South Africans call the dam).  My mom decided that we should take a walk to the dam.   Mom had to go home to make dinner, and so we stayed at the dam a bit longer.  We also found MUD and had a mud fight, and that explains the picture.  As we walked away from the dam we thought how mad mom was going to be.  When we got home, we didn’t even have to tell her what we did, the mud told it all.  So, if you want to have a mud fight in Africa – come see us!!

Siyabonga had his 12th birthday this past week.  We invited him and Thobile over to have a birthday party.  We gave Siyabonga a soccer ball, glow sticks and a small nerf gun.  We asked him if he had a soccer ball because he is really good at soccer, and he said, “No, all of mine have popped!!”  We thought perfect timing for a new soccer ball.

My mom and Thobile tried a new recipe for lunch.  They made pizza rolls for us.

Thobile also made vanilla frosting for our cupcakes, and we added food coloring, and decorated them.  We really like hanging out with Siyabonga, Thobile and Nathan – we see them almost every Saturday.

On Wednesday we went to Cornerstone Family Church in Heidelberg.  This is the second time we have gone, and we were able to hand out a lot vegetables to over 100 people.  The poverty over here is so great.  They are taking vegetables that we would throw out – and they are feeding their families with them.

Hudson had a yogurt bath.  Mom and dad went to the daily prayer meeting, and mom told us to get started on breakfast.  We all had breakfast and Hudson decided he wanted some yogurt.  We keep the yogurt on the top shelf of our refrigerator and he got it down.  Austin told him not to eat it until mom got back because he had already had breakfast.  So he tried to put the yogurt back up on the top shelf but the lid and the yogurt came tumbling down.  I took a quick picture, and Austin ran him through the shower and everything was cleaned up before mom and dad got home.

– Tate