All your bookmarks in one place.

You know how you lose your bookmarks when you reformat your machine or switch between Firefox and Safari? It drove me mad so I built a quick application to store bookmarks and favourites on the web so I can access them any time from any machine.

You are welcome to take a look and use it if it’s something that will add value to you. It is www.bookmarkplus.net.

Zeek

Patrick has these magnets which he brought out for the kids to play with. Zeek decided to make an interesting hair style. I can't believe how grown up he looks in this picture!
Then Cheryn wanted to show Granny Bowen that she is using her book.

St. Cathrine's Point

St. Cathrine's Point is the Southern most point on the island. Mom and I took a drive there and then walked through some fields to get to the light house. There was a light on and off drizzle, it was actually quite lovely. It was a nice day out with my mom.
And when we got home Pete was glad to see me. This is my favourite place in the whole wide world.

Family Photos

Roxanne

Roxanne made her first daisy chain for the year. I love Spring!

One Million Giraffes

Have you heard of the one million giraffes craze? Well there is this guy that had a bet with his friend that he would be able to collect one million giraffes. So if you go and take a look at his website you will be able to see how his collection is going. Please join in the fun, it is great! Take a look at our creations below. (Sorry Can't seem to get all the links working, but you get the idea. If you search for the name and where we live you'll get the pictures.)

Corbin

Rachel

Rachel

Rachel

Rachel

Cheryn

Gillian

Vincent

Vincent

Vincent

Vincent

Vincent

Roxanne

Roxanne

Photos of the siege weapon

Have a look at the Siege Weapon. Imagine that hitting you in the face! OUCH!

Relaxing afternoon on the beach

With the beautiful weather yesterday we decided to head off to the beach for some relaxing time. Roxanne and I walked far out onto the beach, it was low tide and where we were walking would normally be quite deep in water at high tide. We were enjoying the sun on our backs and the 13 degree temperature. I was telling Roxanne that this would be a typical Winter's day in Durban. It was our warmest day so far this year and it is certainly very promising, I think we are going to really enjoy this Summer. I only own one pair of shorts, but I think that I will be needing some more! I am so excited!

Zeek's hole was actually quite deep, later on he sat in it and couldn't get out, we all enjoyed ourselves very much. I am glad we took advantage of the glorious weather.

Deadly Siege Weapons

Corbin studies Romans at school because they used to live here (they called the island Vectis).

Homework for the holidays was to build a model siege weapon and see who could shoot a ping-pong ball the furthest. I fear I may have gone slightly overboard. His catapult was built from 2" x 3" structural timber, powered by elastic as thick as a man's thumb and stood about waist high. It can explode an orange against a wall 15m away.

Exploding an orange is fine. Killing your teacher is not!

She shouldn't have bent over to see how it worked while a small kid was using all his weight to stretch the elastics and load it.

The firing arm (imagine a baseball bat sized piece of timber) slipped out of Corbin's fingers. She was released from hospital the same week but has to wear an neck brace and has been booked off work for a few months!

We don't think the kid will make head boy.

Corbin's talk in Sacrament meeting

My mom is very important to me, she typed this talk for me. I told her all of these reasons why she is so important to me:

She is nice

She is kind

she is loving

she is beautiful

she likes sports

she makes my life easy

she sometimes earns money

she taught us how to swim

she gets us clothing when we need it

she buys food and brings it home

she makes me eat healthy food

she cuts my hair

she makes my school lunch

she helps me to do things that I don't want to do, but should do.

The world would be sad and lonely without moms

Mom's keep a balance in the world

Mom's make us in their tummies

We get born because of our moms

Mom's make the world more peaceful

I love my mom.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Samuel! We are glad you are finally here.

Sorry I forgot my camera, so these are from my phone, but I will be uploading my mom's photos tomorrow.