Happy Birthday Dee

to our amazing dee and grandpa

Wishing you the most wonderful birthday today and fantastic year ahead!!!
May it be full with all the desires of your heart, the realisation of your dreams and achieving all your goals!
Stay the amazing, giving, loving, supportive person you are
Our family is beyond blessed to have you heading it!
Thank you for showering us with your love and support and guidance and smiles!
Thank you for being the best role model us a dad, grandpa and husband!
May God bless you protect you, and give you an amazing year ahead with continued amazing health
Always know how much you are loved and treasured!
God bless, cheers to you Dee
All our love and so much more
Mark Samm Deqlan Logan

" Happy Birthday Jesus"

Merry Christmas to you our gifts of family and friends,near and far, old and new!

Let us always know and rejoice in the real reason for the season, the celebration of the arrival of Our Savior into the world

May you enjoy every moment of your loved ones and treasure the gifts you have in each other!

May you each be Blessed, prosperous , Happy and Healthy , and loved as 2012 dawns and beyond

Thank you for the treasures and gifts you are to our family

We have a lovely Christmas Eve with Mom and Grandpa and Meggie at Christmas Eve Mass - always beautiful, but this year, extra hard without our Nan with us. We all had our turns to cry and weep and miss Nan. We know that she is right at the Birthday table of Jesus today , we miss and love you Nan, so very much

Christmas morning was much excitement with Deqlan waking up saying ' HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS' What a gift that was! Father Christmas brought Deqie a lovely green and silver bicycle which we hope he will grow to learn and enjoy riding :)

We had a magnificent day at Mom and Dee, with all the family ! Mom created a feast for royalty, using purple and Faith as the them, in honor of Nan . It was stunning. The food delicious. A treat to watch the kids unwrap and run around laughing and enjoying the festivities of the day.

Our big boy has been very frustrated last week, candida being the culprit - back on diflucan, doubled the dose and he is much , much better !

Hope you all had beautiful celebrations with your loved ones, enjoy the photos and would love to leave you with some words Mom put in our cards, adapted from Dayspring Devotions

To prepare for Christmas is to prepare our hearts. Christmas isnt a product to wrap , but a person to unwrap . Christmas can not be bought , it cannot be created , cannot be made by hand. It can only be found in the lowly manger, in the cradling straw, in the bare necessities and only in the person of Christ , who is PERFECT LOVE. The only way to recieve love isnt to wrap anything up but to unwrap your heart . In His infinite wisdom, God found a way to wrap that perfect love as the perfect Christmas gift for you and me ! He gave us the miracle that is the birth of our Savior Jesus! With this gift , comes a lifetime and eternal guarantee of His Promises.


Beautiful hey?



Thank you Lord for the gift of Jesus, thank You Lord for the gift our family and friends. Thank You Lord for the most amazing parents and grandparent in the world, that shower love and help on us every single day, Thank You Lord that my Grandpa is with us for another Christmas and for the love and prayer and dedication he gives to our family. Thank You Lord for an amazing brother and sister in Megs and Conrad and Keaton and Khloe who bring light and love to our family. Thank You for our family in New Zealand, for keeping them safe and happy and that we are able to stay in touch with them through the wonders of technology and for the 2 new family members you blessed are family with this year, Rhyan and Jayden. Thank You Lord for my amazing, loving , supportive, caring Husband who is an amazing Dad to Deqlan and Logan, thank You Lord for the beautiful gift Logan is and they lovely lady she is growing into. Thank You Lord for our precious Deqlan and the love and miracles and meaning he brings into our lives every single day. For every word, touch, cuddle, song, dance, kiss, hug, every breath, thank You Lord for healing our beautiful boy, thank You that he is happy and thriving and healthy, there are not enought thank You's. We love you and worship and thank You for our gifts!

God Bless all our love Merry Christmas
Mark Samm Deqlan Logan
REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS AND AGAIN I SAY REJOICE

bye bye sea see you again next time

we had a lovely holiday and cant believe we already home again- my how the time flied

unfortunately only had 3 out of ten days sun, so we made the most of those days at the beach and pool

deqlan has become even more confident in water and now runs and jumps into the pool, goes under the water and keeps himself there for a few seconds blowing bubbles - we are so surprised this happened so quickly and now know we have to watch him even closer around water! he dived into nannas jacuzzi yesterday while nanna and i were taking the cover off!

of course deqlan loved the sea and getting bumped off his feet and going under the water :)

logan and deqlan sure are water babies and its not hard to imagine them both as surfing kids!

unfortunately dadda is back to work today :( but we look forward to the long christmas and new years weekends together!

got some nice activities planned for the kids this week and have to fit my christmas shopping in to!

enjoy the photos of our holiday enjoy the week and remember the real reason for the season !!!

god bless and love

mark samm deqlan logan

be still and know that i am god

welcome to the world Jayden Micah Van Zyl

welcome to the world precious jayden micah van zyl, arrived 13 dec weighing 3.53kg!

congratulations michael and sandi on the birth of your beautiful baby boy! he is absolutely gorgeous and perfect in every way

enjoy every moment together they grow up so quickly!

big cousins deqlan+logan send many many loves and cuddles and hope we get to meet your little guy some day soon!

may god bless you all at this very special time and always

god bless all our love+congrats

uncle mark aunty samm deqlan logan

"you wanna beach"

How awesome to be able to say yes to Deqlans request!
We are on our holiday at the sea and have woken up to the most beautiful sunny day, after having two rainy, cloudy days!Deqlans had a bit of a tummy bug praying we have got over the worst of it now. We are delighted ! Looking forward to having a good rest, some family time and fun in the sun! Check back in for news and photos, we are off to the beach!
Have a blessed weekend
God bless all our love
Mark samm deqlan logan
Rejoic in The Lord always and again I say rejoice

Happy 10th Birthday Logan!!

to our precious logan

wishing you a very happy 10th birthday today!

wishing you a beautiful year ahead with blessings of love, joy, happiness and excellent health!

thank you for being such a joy and light in our lives, we are extremely proud of you- what a gift to watch you grow up into the beautiful young lady you are. you are such a gentle, caring loving sister and cousin! deqlan, keaton+khloe sure do love you and love being with you!

may the year ahead be amazing in every way and may all your dreams come ture!

always know how much we love and treasure you logs!

god bless and keep you safe and guide you always!!

all our love and so much more

dad, samm+deqlan

xxxx