Rylan "Hard-Kour" Is Here!

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Meet Rylan. This is Rylan in his natural habitat. 

He's an incredible photographer.

Ambitious entrepreneur.

Loves life. Loves people. And he loves the Lord.

He also sends me random parkour videos that he gets of himself.

Hence the nickname: "Hard-kour".

Yes... I came up with that, myself.

He's also seeing how long he can grow his hair... Kind of intimidating

having a guy walk in with hair almost longer than your own.

Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks of "Sunshine" from Remember The Titans???

Rylan is my partner-in-crime. 

But he is also my culinary enemy.

I've recently forced him to work in the kitchen for the remaining 1.5months here

because he is ULTRA picky.

He doesn't even like cheese in his scrambled eggs. Gross.

So here we pose pre-cinnamon roll making. 

(Photos to follow...That is if I can get any before they are pulverized.)

I've been loving my life since he arrived because I now have THREE food photographers for Douceur.

And I take full advantage of their competitive nature because they now race

to take the food photos for my Instagram account. 

This. Is. The Life.

We are all very random. It's amazing to look at him and he remind me of when I used to babysit him and his siblings. 

Now, he's a traveling young man advancing the Kingdom.

The Bruce was quite entertained by the young adults who seem to not be able to overcome the child-at-heart spirit within them. 

But together, we fully enjoy the life God has blessed us with and make the most of our time together. 

"Well... That's all I have to say about that."

My Cup OverFlows

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     My dear friend, Ash, has made it safely back to the states. God is so good and, as usual, I am overwhelmed by His goodness to me! 

    I stole this photo from her instagram. I was sad and stalking her and found LOADS of photos of us that I was completely unaware of. I forgive her. ;-) 

    This time was bittersweet to me because it marks new beginnings and could potentially be our last time together when we are both still in our fathers' households and all of our siblings are around us. - Growing up is overrated. If anyone forgets anything else I said, remember this: cherish the moments you have with your family. Time is fleeting.

     Ash has such a beautiful heart for the Lord and I am honoured to watch as He blesses her faithfulness to Him!

    A mutual beloved friend of ours, Susannah, also came into town. (I'm still waiting for the photo we took as a family with her.) In fact, she and Ash were in Joburg airport at the same time unbeknownst to either. Both were sad to learn that they JUST missed each other! 

   Sue has been a friend of mine for almost as many years as Ash and I have known each other. She has been on a Christian world tour since last summer and she didn't realise until yesterday morning that the "Nelspruit place" she was staying in was the very same "Nelspruit" that I live in. Once it dawned on her, she sent me a few emails informing me of where she was. I was elated to discover that she was staying 5 minutes from my house! 

    The Lord has surrounded me with incredible young women/sisters-in-Christ who challenge and encourage me to delight in Him! As my title says: my cup overflows.

"Well... That's all I have to say about that." 

{Day 1}

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    So... We are approaching Morgan's 20th birthday in two days now. We have some exciting things planned to commemorate this milestone... I post this confident of the fact that she is soaking in her birthday trip to Israel.

     I mean, she already doesn't follow my blog so I run no risk of her seeing this.

   Anyways... Gabbi and I hacked Morgan's instagram on Saturday morning - as all devoted siblings do - and posted photos expressing our initial distraught over her leaving, then our moment of epiphany, and then our utter joy over a week to pretend like we get to do whatever we want. (The latter being a pathetic effort to console ourselves.)

   I've decided to post random pictures for each day. I'm already a post behind so I will be posting twice for yesterday and today.

    Yesterday's photo:

This young woman is a GEM, I tell you! Her husband will be highly blessed.

Katelynn is another partner-in-crime. My parents have expressed the desire to have more children and God has blessed us tremendously with friends like her that become family.

 She came to hang out over the weekend

and I quite enjoyed our conversations, concert moments, and movie time. 

I want to be like her when I grow up.

"Well... That's all I have to say about that."