Still Counting - but getting very close now

So as i write this we have 2 days and 1 hour before we are heading to our first stop Beijing.  Last week was very hetic so i will attempt to update.

As Scott have previously written he turned 50 and said that it wasnt too bad for him - maybe thats because he had not 1, not 2 but 3 parties to celebrate and yes you guessed it i organised each of them!!  So the first one was at the Hubertas Club, which is a German club.  He shared this night with Laurence, as Loz also turned 50.  The meals were huge and very yummy and everone (apart from the clumsy table - yes you know who you are!!) had a great time.  Scott chose this place not for the huge meals but for the apple strudel that they serve for desert.  Kim and I got the birthday boys a gelato cake which was amazing.

Not only this but both of the birthday boys won meat trays - which our boys were very greatful as now they have something to eat while we are away!!

We then had his actual birthday dinner down at the river.  Again enjoying the night with family and friends, just glad it was last week and not this week with all this rain.  i made a chocolate birthday cake which Scott proceeded to squash the lid to the writting and icing - but it looked good before we took the lid off!!

And finally we then celbrated with the young adults down at institute where we had on the menu - fairy bread and chocolate crackles!!  so really glad that it is over.

I finished work on Friday night so its now full on with getting things ready for the holiday.  On top of this Matt received the long awaited news that he has been accepted into Brigham Young University in Hawaii.  He will be doing Youth Councelling, which he will be amazing at.  We are very proud of he and know that when he puts his mind to it he can achieve all he sets out to do.  The downside to this is on a selfish nature that i dont want him to go as it is for 3 years and 1/2 way around the world.  a very different perspective than him going on his mission.  Anyway he is very blessed to be accepted.

The next couple of days are going to full on and very exciting.  We are very lucky that we have been able to go and cant wait to see and meet all the family.  We read all the updates on Deb and Lav's blog and on face book and cant wait to get there to join all the fun.

We had our last family dinner tonight where all the boys kept shouting 'shot not' when we mentioned all the jobs they would have to do while we were gone!!  Scott is stressing but you know what they are all big enough to look after themselves and as long as they feed the animals all will be good.  they have circled the calendar 2 days before we come home to start cleaning!

Happy dawdling

Jene

We are now down to 2 days and 31 minutes - but who's counting!!