Dropped off the face of the earth...

No not the sheep... these are the promised pics of Hot Chocolate's twins - this picture was taken not long after they were born - our newest batch of twins is already bigger than this. (You could probably insert bad blogger here!)

No, neither have we - contrary to what you may have believed had you visited or called last week (by the way it was wonderful to come home to so many phone messages - I will endeavour to return them some time.)

Dave was braving the bright lights of the big city for work & the kids & I scooted off to homeschool camp (this is a new thing for people who are registered through ACC in NSW) !!

The twins & Ellie were all part of the same group - which I helped out in (parents were just as important a part as children) - we had a lot of fun doing different activities & learning about the development of different animals - we even caught some tadpoles from a nearby dam (guess what we were learning about that day)! Here they are lining up for their race at the athletics carnival!

Talking about dams....

Do you remember the year (2008) we moved here I was asking you to pray for rain? - well this is how empty our big house dam was then: Let me tell you it actually got completely dry - in fact it was so dry you could even walk across it.

Now .... After many hours of hard work from Dave to fix the water channels so any runoff goes into the dam & with the wonderful summer rains God has provided, amazingly IT'S FULL!!!!!
(well OK it could hold about another foot of water - but really we aren't that picky!)
The bush at the front of the pic is where Ellie was standing. I will truthfully say I never ever expected to see it full as it is such an enormous dam. Our neighbours tell us it hasn't been this way since the early 90's.

Here is the view from the silt dam (if you've visited you'll know where I mean). They are at the same height.
It is just so wonderful to look down from the washing line or the driveway & see this beautiful body of shimmering blue water.

We now have plans to stock it with some fishlings so we can send the boys fishing in a few years time! The kids & I have already caught some yabbies from a neighbours overflow to give it some life! I can't help praising God for this bountiful blessing to our farm.

Hope you're enjoying your week!
Renata :)