Grammy and Granddad

We are so excited to have Grammy and Grandad here with us for a few days. We picked them up on the Dec 26th and Taylor ran right to them. We are having so much fun. On our way to Botswana we stopped at a lion park to play with the baby lions.

These are the 8 week old baby lions. There are 4 of them and they are all males. They were pretty active, we all got our fingers chewed on!

Fun times!

The next lions we saw were much older, 5 months old, and they seemed to like to play and bite mom a lot. Above is right before this one turned his attention to mom.

Grandad took Grammy’s arm out of the lions mouth only for the lion to attach to her knee, way to funny!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas here in Botswana. It was very hot and we even set up Taylor’s Christmas present, a new kiddy pool!

Here is Bradyn with Aunt Kelly, Meredith, and Micah, check out those pants.

Style I say, style!

Bradyn at his first Christmas Eve Caroling service, he did wonderful.

Taylor putting out Christmas cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer.

Taylor waking up Christmas morning, still trying to figure out what to do first.

A new ball for the pool!

Bradyn watched Taylor open all of his presents and loved every minute of it!

A new dress from back home, she loves it!

Later that day we went to a friends house for food and fun, this is Taylor checking out the boys new Wii game, she loves these boys!

After dinner we were able to play games, we are so blessed to have such a wonderful mission family!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Turner’s!

Visit From Sara and Scott!

Aunt Sara and Scott came for a visit and we had so much fun with them. Taylor loved seeing Sara and did not stop talking to her the entire time. We had a great time showing them our city, where we work, and our home. We also were able to show off some amazing game parks close to the house, here are some pictures.

Sara did a wonderful job showering Taylor with lots of love!

Getting in the Christmas Spirit with snowman sunglasses.

Aunt Sara holding Bradyn, she won the race and was the 1st family to hold Bradyn, sorry grandparents!

We saw tons of animals and really enjoyed our time in Mokolodi. Here is a beautiful female Kudu.

We even saw and got very close to a huge heard of Eland. Fun times.

The next day we were able to travel to Pilanesberg where we were able to hold and even feed 6 week old baby lions, here is Sara and Scott.

Taylor also picked up the lions, she truly has no fear when it comes to animals, we both think she will work with them one day!

We thought that the highlight of the day was the mommy rhino and the baby rhino right before we left the park, until we saw 3 elephants swimming in a lake, having a blast(below).

They all swam to the other side, got out and went right back in a minute later, it was so much fun! We were so thankful that Sara and Scott were able to make it all the way to Botswana! We love our family and can’t wait for Grammy and Grandad to arrive in just  5 days!

Fall fun

Yep, we are that family that dresses  our kids up in funny little costumes. Enjoy!

Kittens

Taylor has been helping out with some friends kittens while they are on vacation. She has loved playing with them.

The family has 4 kittens, 1 cat, 1 puppy, 2 birds, and 2 Great Danes, Taylor was loving life. 

Taylor tried very hard to keep them all in the basket but this was after they all escaped, hard work for sure.

Wii with JB

Taylor has found a game that she truly loves to play on the Wii, chicken shoot. She gets the gun and shoots chickens, it’s fun to watch her grow up, she is getting so big!

This is her and our friend JB, notice the tongue hanging out! Watch out chickens!

Pre-Thanksgiving fun

To be honest, it is a little hard to get into the spirit of Thanksgiving when it’s 90 degrees outside and all of our family is on the complete opposite side of the ocean. But with that said, this year we have tried to make the most of this Thanksgiving season. The weekend before thanksgiving, we vacationed at a place called Pilanesburg with some of our American friends that also are overseas. We were able to go on a game drive, eat a wonderful Thanksgiving meal (including a turkey), and play at a wave pool. Thanks to the Norton’s for joining us for a fun filled weekend and being some of our family away from home.

Our dear friends the Norton’s, each of us with a new family of 4.

Judah and Taylor playing in the dirt…it so much fun to be a kid.

Juliana (left) and Bradyn (right). Juliana is just 10 days younger than Bradyn, so you can see what a big boy Bradyn really is in comparison.

The rest of the pictures below are from a place called Sun City at their Wave Pool.

On the lazy river

Bradyn and mommy sat on the side of the pool the entire time. Bradyn wasn’t much company as he slept the entire time…guess that is better than crying the entire time!

Taylor got the above booboo on her knee right when we were getting ready to leave. Ice cream always makes booboos better though (below).