Some highlights of our December vacation with Ruben and Audri

Okie dokie...been neglectful of our blogging duties especially since we literally have something like 2000 photies on our desktop of Ruben and Audri's holiday in December!!! yip - it was very convenient for Clark and I to not have to worry about taking photos since we had 2 such enthusiastic (and VERY good) photographers with us :)

anyhow - I am doing this on the Mac since I am being lazy on Friday evening and so just want to sit downstairs under cozy blankets and blog :)  that being said, the pics may be a little mixed up because my Mac (I'm a very inept Mac user) is not co-operating with my formatting efforts!

Rubs and Auds arrived on a Saturday afternoon/evening and we picked them up at LAX and took them to Manhattan Beach for Starbucks (very quickly becoming our tradition with visitors) to miss traffic and stretch their legs a bit.  But, as soon as we returned to Casa Botha - we started exchanging gifts! Here Ruben is trying on one of his gifts from us - a plush robe.

They put us to shame with TWO full suitcases of gifts and goodies from South Africa! and that was just the beginning - we were so spoiled on Christmas AND on our anniversary (more on that later!). 

Okay - so here's where the formatting gets a bit wonky!  in the middle of our gift-opening pictures - here is our breakfast laden table for R & A's first morning in California (Sunday)!

Our lovely guest-bedroom...

We welcomed them with a Starbucks gift basket on their bed (it just also happened to color co-ordinate perfectly with the room! - Sara is so obsessed with aesthetics!)

Dried Mango!!!!!  YUMMY!!!!!  You don't get it better than in South Africa!  Mom knew just what to send me :)

Opening gifts from Tracey and Kelvin - lovely DVD of our little niece Kaitlyn (who, by the way, turned 1 the other day!)

Ma - we knew straight away this gift was from you! 

Thanks to all our precious family for spoiling us rotten - we loved receiving goodies from home :)