Sunday, October 4, 2009

September Happenings...

Warning...long post ahead!

Here's a run down of what we've been up to in the last few weeks

4th of September

We took the train to Perth with Annette to check out a wedding dress she liked. Mum and Ingrid and kids were going to come along, but they ended up catching a train back to Armadale because Ingrid wasn't feeling well. The dress was beautiful, but she's found a different one since and it's even more stunning! We had a great day out - as you can see, the weather was absolutely gorgeous. By the way, she's asked me to be her maid of honour with Tineke and Renee as bridesmaids - should be fun!

My little boy all rosy cheeked after his sleep

Every time I tried getting a photo of Devon
smiling, he'd turn his head away and pull some silly face

Yay! Finally a normal one :-)

8th of September
We helped Isaac celebrate his 3rd birthday at his party in the park. Eric had to come up for a work conference and it happened to be in the same week as Isaac's birthday, so Sonja decided to come up as well and have his party with family and friends in Perth. 5 cheeky 3 year olds Kiera Huizinga, birthday boy Isaac Dobbe,
Toby Kleyn, Olivia and Ashlyn Dobbe

Devon and Megan (from Jeremy and Emily) are in
awe of Amaya (from Eric and Sonja) - "wow, she can sit!"


Our two little water rats.
This was the first time he went in the big bath with Olivia; I usually bath him in the laundry trough, and he just goes psycho, arms and legs go everywhere and most of the water ends up on the floor and over me - entertainment every time :-)

Rod surprised me with these one day after work
sweet hey :-)

23rd of September
exploring outside on a lovely spring day


watch him go!

25th - 28th of September
The last weekend in September was a long one so we decided to head down to Albany and see how Rod's parents were doing - his Dad recently had a hip replacement. It was good to catch up with the rest of the family and other friends too. Rod got to go fishing (and caught two queenies!) and play golf so he was a happy man :-) The kids were good little travellers, Devon just wasn't such a good sleeper while we were in Albany...but hey, Pop and Nanna loved seeing them both again, so it was all worth it! Good morning my gorgeous little poppets :-)

Rod with gorgous Sienna from Darry and Kara

Sister-in-laws Kara, Leonie and Viv and Mum sorting stuff out
for Mike and Kaffa's wedding book for the night party

Fritz taking self portraits of him, Viv and Samuel

At the Dome for brekky on Monday morning...can you
believe that we were there at 7:30, thanks to our little alarm clock
Devon. He thought 5:30 was a good time to get up all weekend!

watch out for the tea spray!

Fields of gold - all the canola is in bloom and it
just so beautiful!

1 comment:

Marian said...

Haha, Devon is way too busy to smile at you in the video hey? I can not believe how much he's grown. It must have been a while since your last post:)

At the Park...

Here's some photos I took of Olivia playing at the park down the road the other day.







It's Monday
It's raining - YAY!!!
Olivia is sleeping - YAY to that too
I chopped all my hair off on Saturday...eeek!
Daylight saving is finished! It was dark at 7pm last night; weird!
It's wintry...I love it, I might head for my bed too. Olivia was awake at 5 this morning, snoozed for a bit till 6, didn't take her Dad's advice on going back to sleep, so got to go in bed with Mum till it was a sane time to get up (only b/c her Mum was sick of listening to her whinge and whine). So I'm feeling a bit sleepy...
Anyway, here's some pics from Saturday night. The van der Veen tribe had a BBQ at Paul and Heidi's place for Renee's b'day. (They might be put on one per day b/c the connection is soooo slow.)

The boys looking at Dad and Mum's Melbourne photos

the Girly Whirlys -- Heidi, Charlene, me, Annette, Renee and Ingrid

checking out some funny video clips

Akaroa

Akaroa
This is the awesome view you get as you drive down into Akaroa, a little town about 1.5 hous from Christchurch

On the beach at Long Bay, Akaroa

A shop with character

Morning tea in Timaru

Christchurch

Christchurch
Our 'Kozy Kiwi' - accomodation while in Christchurch

Rod, Kathryn and Rose on the cool blow up trampoline thing

Sunday night BBQ at the caravan park where we all stayed: Darryl, Rose, Rod and Glenn

Travelling...

Travelling...
more beautiful scenery

Mt Cook - NZ's highest mountain


river near Lake Wanaka

Cadbury's Chocolate Factory!!!

Aren't I strong!

Christchurch Botanical Gardens

all a bit bleary eyed at 5am @ the airport

sunrise above the clouds - beautiful!

Zachary

mmm, Olivia gets to lick the beater!

Tastes good Mum!


my little gardener

A busy bee