Life with 4 children

Sooooo  I have not been on my blog for 6 months...... ha ha  ha... Life with 4 children... no time to blog.

But let me give a quick update.

We had a couple of Birthdays....

Neo-Rie turned 10 and she had an Art Party


Painting and eating pizza




Playing games at the fire

Her American girl doll for her birthday

Jac turned 8 and had a "Jaclandia" (his own country) as a theme. With volcano's and a treasure hunt









I had my 44th birthday



 Chereni turned 2












Zane had fun playing Baseball this year and he also went to Serbia for a game!


Jac loved the Cub Scouts.  He was a Wolf this year.





Raingutter regetta


Working on one of his criteria


Cub Scout and Girl scout hike

Neo-Rie loves the Girl Scouts and they were a total of 3 girls in her troop this year.
They had some fun activities.

Working on their savvy shopper badge




Ice cream social

Getting their Photography badge




Girl Scout hike



all the badges and fun patches this year

Tea party


During the beginning of the year we had a lot of snow, and this was so much fun for the kids



Chereni's shoes stayed behind



Our street this winter








We celebrated Easter with the neighbours and painted some eggs.




Midnight feast


Easter lunch

We had bonfires for celebrations during the Orthodox new year


It was really cold

The bonfire and music

Dancing around the fire


On the first of April the kids dressed up and went to school with Elena






with Elena our neighour's daughter



Spring Picnic in the park 




Doing some schooling with us

Having friends over

We got a bird

Making pinjur with Beti

Chereni with our landlady "Baba Duska"

Had Bayram with friends

Had a scara (braai) with freinds

Enjoying the summer in Skopje
Our adoption was finalized at last!

The day we finally got the adoption papers
Chereni's Macedonian passport


Off to Greece for some visa's for South Africa



Visited a museum in Thessaloniki
 Her 6 months adoption anniversary!


So this is our first half of the year in Pictures.  

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