Christmas Past 1999 Part 1

Greetings to all our family and friends in this last Christmas of the millennium!
Wow, 1999 is just about over and all of a sudden we are all going to be incredibly old people who were born in another century!! Doesn't that astound you? Does me!!
Well, once again a year has flown by. We spent our normal two weeks in January at Scott's Head camping at the beach with most of my family, Darlene and Paul were only missing, but Darlene doesn't like sand in the bed! Triniti got that pet hate from her I am sure! Christmas day last year saw me in tears with missing Kati who spent Christmas in Scotland frozen! But our big surprise was Triniti paid for her to come home the week after christmas, it was great. But alas her feet were barely on Aussie soil and a couple of months later she was off to a job in India. She is back home again and is working for Crusaders, a Christian Camp mob, for the next year, then of course she'll be off again overseas! Triniti did her whirlwind romance this year and was married in November, a simple gorgeous wedding. 450 people joined with us to celebrate the occasion! A great day was had by all. The girls were all in the wedding party and we were certainly proud parents.
Brenton and Triniti are living in her house at Rutherford at the moment but will be moving in the new year, possibly to Sydney. Linli is still working on her house at Mallabula, but it is slowly turning into a work of art beach house. Linli has finished her nursing course and is very happily working at Stockton Centre still. She has lots of funny stories to tell but most people don't want to hear what the clients get up to! Calli is still enjoying her distance education as it gives her a chance to do so much more in a day! Mind you, I think the school work is getting less and the much more is getting greater! She has picked up a part time job with Crusaders doing the kids private school camps and just loves it. She has learnt so much over the last few months and certainly has an absolute gift with kids. She is at the end of Year 11 and not phased at all. She has had a stay in hospital in July as she has lost a lot of weight, and was skinny to start with. The doctors have no idea what triggered it and she has not put any weight back on so she is very much on the boney side. Many people have offered her kilos of their weight and I thank you all for it!!! She isn't unwell but gets very tired very easily, but she is happy! Also on the scene has come the first boyfriend! Her two oldest sisters are having a great deal of trouble handling that!, we as parents don't have to say a word. Trin and Lin do it all! I'm feeling sorry for Kati and Calli when it comes to boys!!! Kati is unattached, doesn't have time with all this flitting overseas.