grandee time

While the boxes were being packed I had the joy of taking Natalie & Calvin for one last visit to the beach in Whyalla and when we were in Orroroo we got to visit the farm and wander through the tall marshmallows and then on to the play ground at the oval before a visit to the reserviour. Also a sneak look at the house (You will have to wait for Debbie to unfinish packing and she will show you more then. We did get a visit to the school and was surprised to learn that the Marine Centre is run by the school. A great place to visit. When you go to vist the kittos in Woomera this will be the view you will have while you wash the dishes at the kitchen sink.

Jessie's Birthday

The birthday girl!!!!

The March/April Kitto Update

Hello all. Hope that you are well and looking forward to an enjoyable Easter. Thought it was time to throw up some more photos of the Kitto happenings.

Going back to the last blog post, we were about to see monster trucks. Apart from being freezing cold the kids loved out evening out and the fire works at the end were pretty specky.

Natalie was voted as SRC rep for her class and is enjoying going to meetings and helping to plans things for the school. She even gave a presentation to the school last week reminding them to keep out of the garden beds!
To celebrate winning an acting principal position at Whyalla High for two weeks Stuart bought himself guitar hero. Surprisingly Natalie also got really into it! :)
Cute boys in matching PJs. I know I shouldn't keep matching their clothes, but they are SO cute. And besides, I won't be able to do it much longer as Calvin is going up into size 7 clothes and so into the big boy's clothes section!!!  :O
He certainly belongs to us! Elisha already loves the microphone, lol.
Lovely big sister Natalie reading to her little brothers. Eli really likes it when you lie next to him to read. Not only does he like to play with and look at books, but he loves to be read to. Good boy.
This weekend just past, we all travelled down to Thuruna (just south of Tumby Bay) to do the music/up front stuff for a Kid's Camp Out (7-12 yr olds). It was completely stressful and a lot of hard work, but very worth it. The kids enjoyed themselves and Eli was fabulously helpful, sleeping through all of the sessions that we presented. The theme of the camp was KCOnia, a planet where the explorers (campers) flew to meet the KCOnians (that would be us, thus the awesome wigs) where we told them about God's love.
Natalie stood in line for 30mins then 70 minutes then 20 minutes (what amazing patience!!!) to finally have her face painted and this was the result. She was VERY pleased with it.




To start each session the kids walked through this space ship to get to the mat area. 
Eli is very very very nearly crawling. He can now head in a straight direction towards his desired destination (nearly always power cables!). I will be Eli proofing the house these holidays (probably with Elisha's help!)
Calvin's class hosted the assembly on Friday the 27th of March. They had made masked and had learned about alliteration. Calvin proudly told the school "I'm Calvin the Cheeky Cheetah."
Eli had decided that this little sword is his. It is one of his most favourite toys! Gosh, he can't tell that he is Calvin's brother!!!

Will be nice to catch up with most of you over the holidays. Love and squeeeeeeezy hugs.

-Debbie and family.

Sell the farm one day, break the drought the next

The Thunderstorm clouds developed quickly after lunch and within half an hour Jim Kuershner has recorded 190 points of rain. This brought floods down the Black Rock plain over the road at the Peterborough turnoff and flooding the Airstrip. The Flood waters also went out over some of the paddock at brooks. Hopefully the start of things to come. Big rains in a number of places only 52 points here in Orroroo although we lost power for over three hours. I am off to Adelaide to do a few jobs on the way down and then ready for an Enmmaus training day on Sat.

From Whyalla

Hello. Thanks for the post Lindy. I had been thinking that I should put some pics up today so thanks for the news and the inspiration.

Not a lot has been happening here apart from illness. The boy and I have been unwell since last Tuesday (10th) but thankfully Calvin has been back at school this week and Eli doesn't require being held all the time, but it is taking quite a long time to feel good again.

Oh did I mention that we were now very into duplo! (see above pic)

Stuart has been very busy with school and trips out of town, church and stuff. Can't really see that slowing down (!) but we are hoping to make a bit of a holiday of my birthday and head to Melbourne at the end of May, so that's something to look forward to.

We had mum and dad here Monday and Tuesday and that was absolutely lovely (not to mention that the house looks cleaner for mum being - thanks mum). 

The kids are very excited and I'm feeling rather bogan, because we are planning to go to our first monster truck rally on Saturday night! Complete with a car eating dinosaur!!!! lol Oh well, can't live in Whyalla without being a bit bogan I guess.

Hope that you are all well. Have a great holiday mum and day. Big hugs for you all. Mwah Mwah.

-Debbie

We're Not Dead!

Hello everybody. Just thought I should let you know that we are still alive and kicking, just not writing on the blog. So there is not alot new happening with us. The kids just had their mid term exams and then three days holidays which was nice. Work is still going well at Dar El Awlad, although we got struck by lightning which blew the generator so half the time there is no electricity and also the internet has not been working for the past week, but I think it is fixed today. And work is going well at All Saints' though I updated my computer last week and when I did the back up of all my files, for some reason it didn't copy most of my church folders so I lost all that info and had to hunt through emails to recreate as much as I could! And work is going well at YFC, we had some really good clubs the past couple of weeks with more kids than ever and plans for exciting things coming up.

So life is good with us. Lots of love to you all xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Lindy.

Finally photos from Whyalla Kittos

Hi all. Hope that you are all keeping cool (or warm if that's more appropriate). Thought it was time to update the blog and share some pictures from the last month. Sorry, I don't have to time to lable each picture, but below you will find photos from the holiday the kids and I had in Orroroo in January (thanks mum and dad). On the way home the kids and I stopped at the lookout in Horrick's Pass and found a lizard on the road. 

The lego that Calvin is holding in the last shot is what he bought with his birthday money from Grandma Jean and Grandma and Grandpa. Thank you very much :)

Calvin has enjoyed starting school (despite the heat, and being trapped indoors without air-conditioning!).  It was lovely to have Ian and Karen Kitto here for a visit this week. This kids really liked their 'Nana & Pappa time".

Elisha is quickly becoming a big, active boy. He is on 3 solid meals a day now and likes to sit up and play on the floor. This morning he enjoyed his first outside playtime while I hung washing as it was a very pleasent high 20's at 9am.

Enjoy the pics. Love and hugs to you all.

-Debbie

(Eli does not like brocolli!)