Early Christmas with the Elders

As we will be at Dianne's house for Christmas we decided to have the Elders over for an early Christmas.  We had a lovely time eating good food and enjoying entertaining conversations.  We gave the Elders a tin of Milo each.

They kindly agreed to take a family photo for us, this was leading up to it...

 Smile everyone,

 And one of the kids.

Happy Birthday Gillian

Before and After

This is a photo from about 6 months ago, but it shows her hair at is't longest.

Then she asked for a trim and this is how she had it for about two days...

Then she wanted a concave bob, so here it is...

 She loves it!

Samuel in his Winter hat

Halloween continued

Rachel was at Angela's house, that is why she wasn't in the other pictures, this is how she dressed up for the youth Halloween activity, she has the perfect hair for that sort of thing.

 And this is her on the actual night of Halloween with Roxanne and Chloe.

Unfortunately this is so dark it is hard to see, but Angela had a bobbing for apples competition, which Zeek won hands down!  We did have a torch for Zeek's go, I don't know why we didn't have it on for all of them, oh well, enjoy anyway.

Halloween

Pen-y-Fan

Judi had a goal to climb Pen-y-Fan this year and had given it up because she thought that the time had run away from her.
Pete had a goal to climb Pen-y-Fan while we were in Wales this time.
Gill didn't have any such goals but was happy to go along.

We went on the easy route, and it was easy, I feel like I can't say we climbed a mountain, more like we walked up a mountain.  But still we did it and it was beautiful!

This is the beginning of the trail, and the photos show our journey up...

 See this is what the path was like all the way up, hence the easy route.

 Phew we made it!  When I said it was easy, I meant that the path was easy to climb, it is still a good walk up that mountain, and my thighs were a little shaky by the time we got to the bottom again.

It's all down hill from here...