Squished? Or normal?

Thought I'd give you all a glimpse at our every other Sunday night at SIL (where all the missionaries come for church and fellowship with each other), the youth group leads the worship part of the service :] Here's a pretty normal picture of how we look when we travel from the LP's house to SIL. The Wood's pick us up in the Land Rover, then we drive down the street to the LP's and pick them up along with the drums, keyboard, guitar, amp, bass, cords, and music books :) Which adds up to 9 people and all of the instrument stuff :) And are we squished? .... Um, I don't think so, I think we're all used to it by now... after all this is Africa :]

Safari Salon

This weekend us youth group girls (minus Zoe *she's in South Africa* and Esther *who was sick :(* ) Decided to have a salon type thing for the missionary ladies here! We spent Friday night there and planned stuff out :) All the youth group boys were over there too playing computer games ;)

Sparkle, the Wood's very spoiled dog ;) hehe, she's not even a year old yet and loves getting pet and doted upon!

Us girls having our almost-midnight snack ;) Tacos! Yum!

The next morning we baked some stuff and made veggie platters :)

And the boys were still staring at their computer screens ;)

Aw! Sarah and Sparkle, both smiling away :)

The food on the table :) Mmm!

Since we had six girls and 2 chairs, we decided to break up into teams. Dot, Bethy and Sarah worked together and Sylvia, Gracie and I did. Sylvia would start out rubbing and cleaning the hands. Sylvia would be rubbing the back, and I would wash and massage the feet. Then Sylvia would paint the toe nails, I would massage the hands and Gracie would rub the back. Then Sylvia would paint the finger nails, I'd rub the back and gracie would rub the feet. :) It was a lot of fun!

Working away :)

Gracie led a lil' lesson with some of the young girls that were there :)

And then we got to paint their nails. :) 

The Girls! :)

It was a blast getting to treats all the ladies to some relaxing time! :) They definitely deserve it!

The Wood's have magnetic letters on their fridge and everyone always tries to use up all the letters to make a huge, real word... Well, I think Uncle Ken won! He wrote out a chemistry word and used up most of the letters! His word was : 4S Metaquinylpheroxide

Hehe, Aunt Lisa and Kent doing dishes :)

All in all we had a very very fun time!! :) And later that night we watched the Woodbull Vacation Movie! :) It was fun to see all the fun we had on our vacation :) Wow, we have an awesome family :)

17 Months!

Yahoo!! Today marks our 17th Woodbull Anniversary! Wow, it is hard to believe that we have been family for that long!! I'm so thankful to God that He brought our families together :) It for sure makes living here a whole lot easier :)

Anyways, I thought I'd post some random things that I'm thankful for about our family!

1. There's so many of us that you always have someone to talk to:) And there's never ever a 'dull' moment!
2. Whether you're whistling a tune or quoting a movie,  someone will always finish up your quote or your song:)
3. You can never say something funny that at least one person won't laugh at:) hehe, someone's bound to laugh! :) 
4. It's a blast to play big group games! There's 10 of us and always something fun to do!

I'm sure there's more, but these are the few I was thinking of. Thanks Woodbulls for being such an awesome family!!! :D And happy 17 months! YAY!

Kruger Park

After splitting up for 4 days in Pretoria, we were looking forward to hanging out again, this time at Kruger :)

hehe, a statue at Skukuza. One of them is Mr. Kruger, I think it's the one with glasses.

Baboons! SO cute!

Bethy and Dot on our Safari Sunset Drive! It was a neat experience!

This is the safari truck

And the guinea foul. They love getting mobs of themselves on the road and holding up cars:) hehe...

An elephant that we saw on the Sunset Drive. It was scary! we were shining lights on it, when all of a sudden it charged right at us! Haha, some of us were definitely scared!

Sisters forever!!! * Sarah's not here* :(

A Bridge:) I love bridges!

Deep in thought...

How many people does it take to put a coin in the washer??

Ok, so the museum we went to had an enormously large name! "Gold fields" Is the name in English and that long word is the Afrikaans word for that!

Aw poor elephant got stabbed to death by another one's tusks! What a painful way to die!

Ian and the 2nd were... hot... ha ha.... so they cooled down by the huge air conditioner!

:)

Runnnn!!! It's a charging elephant! (the woods have a cooler pic... but i don't have it right now)

A Real elephant! So amazing!

Buffalo! :)

Rhino

impala! They covered the park! There were at least 20 every kilometer.

A HUGE bird, although huge is putting it lightly. These things are massive!

Water Buck. So serene and wise looking.

Aw, this is sad! We were driving along and saw these 2 hornbills (The bird off "Lion King") Anyways, one was dead and the other one was staring at it with this blank look :( Aw, poor thing! Anyways, we named them the "Dead Birds" cause we realized later how that bird must've died. They would fly right for your car like they didn't even see you! We almost hit one, but fortunately braked at the last moment! We went flying but the bird wasn't harmed;)

Hippo:) They are huge!

And have a rather large and scary looking mouth!! Did you know, that they are Africa's deadliest animals? They've killed more people than any other animal. And here I was, always imagining them like ballerinas, like in all the books I read as a kid. Hehe, not anymore!

Alligators... or maybe they were crocodiles?

Rinho!

Aww, I don't know why I like this pic, but I do.

Us at a picnic lunch:)

Wart hogs:) They are a very... interesting creature.

The largest Boabob tree in the southern half of Africa, I think. Maybe it was just below the Tropic of Capricorn...

Ostriches! I love how they walk!

More buffalo.

Lions!!! They look so peaceful and nice!

Hehe, a Pawpaw... it's a type of fruit that looks really exotic!

Giraffes! They are my favourite animal! I looove how they eat! And they always seem so laid back and just go with the flow. :)

Another ginormous bird!!!

Awww, a baby zebra!

This was sooo amazing! There were zebra, giraffe and an elephant all together! WOW!

All of them together again. After this pic, the elephant started to shake it's head (Sign of it getting angry) and started running at us. We figure out it was cause we were in the way of it and the watering hole! Whoops!

Hehe, he jumped up onto this watering hole and stuck his trunk in to get a drink of water! It was really cool to watch!

This was so majestic! It was like we were in a scene off of "Lion King"

Hehe, uh oh! Uncle Ken got out of the car?!?!

Giraffe drinking! I wasn't actually there to see it, but everyone else said it was really cool!

Eating out at Satara... This was before the night drive:)

Hehe, Dot and I got out of the car too. We just had to say we actually stepped out in Kruger outside of the campgrounds. :)

Aw! This was so sweet! A mother Hyena with her pups! 

Cute pups!

We celebrated Gracie's 13th birthday there:) She loved all her presents, especially the one she's holding that she got from her parents. She talked in high pitch voice for about 2 minutes straight! 

Aw, Uncle Ken and Aunt Lisa feet in the sunset. What can I say, we love feet pictures;)

The brothers:)

And the whole Woodbull family, with parents:)

Uncle Ken barbecuing for everyone! Mmmm was it good!

Yummy!

Some of the icecream we were all treated to. Thank you!!

The next day we left Kruger Park. We saw all these elephants crossing the road on our way out! It was at least 30 of them! They just kept coming! Awww, and the babies were so cute!

We spent 6 days total in Kruger and it was a terrific experience! We got to see so much of God's amazing creation!! He is a marvelous Creator!

After that, we went our separate ways again, and that was the end of a wonderfully great vacation! :)