Random shots...

YAY! Look Aunty Marian, it fits!

Our Indoor Soccer Team: back - Sarah, Diana, Tineke, me
Front - Charlene and Annette

Olivia with two of her Albany cousins, Hannah and Lauren -
playing on the keyboard at Pop and Nanna's house

Fritz and Viv on Samuel' s baptism

One of Olivia's favourite past times - playing with her play dough

Naomi, Olivia and Chanel

Meeting 'Elisa Bruning' daughter of my cousin Marleen

mmm, she doesn't seem to like Olivia's kisses

Our Veggie Garden

At the beginning of March we planted our veggie garden again and it has just been great! We put in seedings of silverbeet, capsicum (peppers for you Canadians), and tomatoes and seeds of carrots, beans, lettuce and cucumbers and, as you can see from the pics, it didn't take long for them to take off and start producing fruit. The tomatoes were the most amazing. We have tried growing them twice before and nothing happened, but this time we have so many I can even give some to my family and neighbours! So, for the last couple of weeks all the stuff that goes on Rod's salad sandwiches to work every day have come out of our very own garden :-) It is very rewarding.

Beginning of March

about a month later...

nice bunch of tomatoes

silverbeet

ripe tomatoes

delicious beans

crunchy cucumbers

Off to Perth

Just a couple of pics from a few weeks ago when we went to the city by train. Olivia sat so quietly the whole way there, it was quite funny! She thought it was pretty cool though :-) and was a bit more lively on the way home.

Enjoying a cuppa while the sun was out

Foundation Day long weekend

We had a great long weekend last weekend. Saturday Rod worked on Marcel's car at Dad and Mum's, so later in the morning, after I had done some baking for Sunday, Olivia and I went there too. Mum wanted help with her intro, so I gave her a hand editing it. It was perfect weather to be inside seeing as we had rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. It's been a while since we've had a good storm here so it was very welcomed! Sunday night we had a Ed&Evette, Andrew&Marleen, Ali and Chris around and played Pictionary - always great if you want a good laugh! Lots of sunshine was forecast for Monday so we arranged to go to Long Pt with Ed and Evette and it turned out to be every bit as good as was expected! Not much else can beat relaxing on the beach, soaking up the sunshine, and just doing absolutely nothing! And to top it all off, Rod's persistence at fishing paid off when he landed a nice big salmon! You know what meat we had with our vegies that night :-)

Enjoying morning coffee - yummy apple cake from Ed's mum

Olivia chillin' - this is how Rod likes to sit in his chair too!

Olivia and Tegan having fun in the sand

Gorgeous Tegan

Rod pulling in his salmon

The smile says it all!

Two little ladies discussing the catch of the day