Soaking up the sun

As you all know by now, my crazy bird loves the sun. I took her outside with me early this morning when I hung out the washing and she enjoyed climbing around while I was busy. I decided a little while ago to go and "survey the estate" and took her outside again. It is lovely and sunny outside, but also a bit nippy in the shade. She loved being outside and was not impressed at all when I came back inside again. While I am typing this she is climbing around on the burglar bars enjoying some more sun! Crazy bird!

I must agree with her that it is really lovely spending time out in the sun. I was amazed to see how much the plants have grown and how clean and vibrant everything looks. We have really been very blessed with all the rain, even though it is very cold it is still the best thing to make plants grow beautifully! Maybe I should go for a nice walk later ........

My weekend was very busy and we didn't leave home at all except to go to church yesterday morning. It was actually very nice just being at home for a change without feeling the need to rush around in the shopping centres or just visiting people. My mom came for a visit on Saturday afternoon and we had a lovely time just chatting and knitting. Friends came around yesterday afternoon for a braai and we had a wonderful time. And then we had some more friends pop in last night for a cup of coffee. This is what I enjoy - relaxing time with friends and family!

Family

Colin and I decided to take the parents out for tea at Stodels yesterday, and Andrew promptly decided that I needed him to do Sandart for my scrapbook! This is the result and it also created a photo opportunity!

Robyn took this photo of us. Isn't he just tooo sexy with that beard! We ended up having a lovely "tea" and enjoyed walking around in the sun and looking at the plants. I bought a hibiscus tree with two tags on it. The one tag says that it is a white flower and the other that it has a lavender flower. Sort of reminds me of John Travolta in "Look who's talking" with his unmarked cans - "Is it peaches or maybe meatballs?" if you get my drift! It will be interesting to see when it eventually gets flowers.

We also had friends around on Saturday. My friend Carol and I did some scrapping and then we had a braai in the evening. My sister also came and brought the most delicious cheese sauce to have over our steak! Yum, could do with some right now!

Christmas

This is a photo of all the people that had Christmas lunch at our house!

We started the day by waking Andrew up after 8h00 as the poor child had so many late nights that he couldn't wake us up at his usual 5 am! Quickly opened all our presents and then went of to church. Had a lovely time in church and then it was home again to prepare our house for the crowd!

It is always a lot of work having such a huge amount of people, but was so totally worth it at the end of the day as everybody had a good time. Our lounge was back to normal at about 9 pm last night, but we really had a good day.

Colin gave me a lovely pair of gold earrings, Michael and Richard gave me books, Robyn gave me the Freshlyground CD (juck!) and Andrew gave me a vase. And I also got LOTS of chocolates! I asked for the CD as I liked the Potbelly song on it, not knowing that the rest of the CD would be rather "weird".

Anyway, now we have to wait a whole year for the next one!

8 Sleeps

2 sleeps down, 8 to go! I got my first sms from Colin yesterday. The plane from Johannesburg to Washington was delayed with the result that he missed his connecting flight to Orlando. Had to wait at the airport for 5 hours. Poor guy was exhausted after spending 26 hours on the plane! Got another sms today saying that he slept well and he sends his love to all. He went for a long walk this morning. He loves going for walks in new cities, because he can see a lot that way.

My weekend wasn't to bad, very nice in fact. Spent a wonderful time at Colin's aunt's 60th birthday in Paarl. The food was good, company was great, view was incredible, I could just imagine myself sitting at the top of the garden, under the tree, reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee - pure bliss!! My sister spent the afternoon with me and we made some christmas decorations, scrapbook style. I went to visit my friend in Monte Vista this morning and then had supper at my mothers house - not bad at all. Now the kids are busy watching Superman returns and I am knitting and fiddling with the computer.

Have a reasonably busy week planned, will see if it all works out!

My beautiful son turns 21

Tomorrow morning at 07H10 my firstborn will be turning 21. We had a very nice family braai for him yesterday and everybody enjoyed it very much. Robyn made a poster and I named it "Michaels journey to 21".

Looking at the poster afterwards I realised just how far we have come in the past 21 years. He was this gorgeous little baby that screamed a lot and drove me almost insane, but very proud that I could create such a gorgeous little thing (with a little bit of help from Colin of course!)

It was really lovely having the whole family here and catching up with them a bit. Max tried to convince me that it is much further from Fish Hoek to Brackenfell than what it is from here to Fish Hoek, but we still felt very honoured having him, Aunty Judith and Karl here with us. The amazing thing for me was that Max quoted " Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass - its about learning to dance in the rain" for Michael in his birthday card and then when I opened my e-mail this morning there was a mail from Stefanie with exactly the same quote! Must be God at work as I felt it to be a very apt quote!

I just realised that my little boy has grown up into a gorgeous young man that I am very proud of. For those of you out there with the appropriate age daughter - he asked me to add his cell number, but I think you can rather phone me for it!