M.S. SLP (YEAH!!!!)

It's official! Sara is done and gradumuated ;) SO proud of her!

Here we are at Sara's end-of-year banquet which was held the week before graduation.

With her buddies - Cheri and Jenica!

Sara's class and the Speech Department faculty held an afternoon tea at our place the week before graduation as well. All the girls had to wear a "splash of red" - hence all the red you see in the picture! Check out Sara's Facebook page for more pics of this.

The only pic we got of us on graduation day! Clark bought the lei (to make sure Sara had a "real" California graduation) and at home there were two BIG bunches of roses and the best graduation present EVER - an Amazon Kindle!!! YEAH!!!!!

Thanks to aunty Viv, aunty Yvonne, Carly and Jesse who provided familial support (and lots of screaming and cheering when Sara accepted her diploma)! What would we do without a family close by?

It's official - there she goes Miss M.S. Speech-Language Pathologist!

Goodbye to our dear friends :(

Carlindo and Jeni-Joy have left for Indiana :( Carlindo has accepted a fellowship position at a hospital there and will be super-specializing in opthalmology. We are going to miss them so much!

A chilly Sabbath picnic lunch at their favorite spot in Oak Glen to say goodbye a couple of weeks ago.

what is going on with this weather?! It's June and here we are wearing our sweatshirts and jackets and wrapped up in sleeping bags!

Having a good chat :) and giggle!

After Sara's graduation on Sunday we stopped by to say goodbye again because they were leaving Monday morning :( Precious family - they've really been a HUGE blessing in our lives.

Happy Birthday to Sara and LA Marathon

Sara turned 29 (YIKES! only one year left of the twenties!) on May 24 but it was a bittersweet weekend for her because the day before her birthday her sister got married in South Africa and we could not go because of the fact that Sara had to be done with school 2 weeks later and graduated the week after that.

We had a lovely birthday lunch with the Lansdowns (no photo - we are becoming so irresponsible with photos!) and then headed off to Bel Air (yes, Bel Air!!!) for a birthday weekend in a fancy-schmancy hotel :) We were also killing "two birds with one stone" because Clark was running the LA marathon on Memorial Day (May 25).

Here is a our lovely suite!

and here is Clark up bright (well, more like "dark") and early to head off to LA to run the marathon! He did great - took a little longer than he anticipated but he did it! He even made it onto TV! :)

Recent Happenings!

Hi friends...

Long time, no see! Been very busy lately - Sara has been working and studying (but that's over now since she graduated last Sunday! more on that a little later). So guess the easiest way to do this is to put up some pics of the few highlights in our lives the last few months.

Clark took part in his first triathlon which was held in San Diego (in March or April - don't remember!). That was exciting and a real accomplishment for him!

Here he is with his friends Jacques and Natasa (who are veterans at the triathlon game by now!)

Ready for his chilly swim!

Off for the bike race...

Coming in at the finish line! So proud of him :)

So after that first triathlon (which was pretty serious business) - Clark convinced our friend Carlindo to join him in the Possibilities triathlon in Loma Linda....

Clark played photographer so here are some pics of Carlindo :)

Stretching before the race....

It's all done! Now we can head to Carlindo's little girls' (Bianca and Gisella) birthday party!