On the last Wednesday of school before the holidays, all the parents of the Kindy kids were invited to their classroom from 11:00 till 11:45am.

First Olivia showed me all her work in her scrapbook and then
we coloured in a picture together

Then they sang the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" and did a few different
action songs as well. Here they all are playing their own violins to the music- so cute!
We could then enjoy some morning tea that their teacher Mrs van der Jagt had
organised...yummy boeterkoek

The following weekend was a long weekend, so we made the most of it and headed down to Albany to meet Fritz and Viv's new addition and of course catch up with family and friends...

Gorgeous Jasmine

A trip to Albany wouldn't be complete without heading off to one of the beautiful beaches.
Here are our little mountain goats enjoying the weather at Dingoes.

And a trip to Albany wouldn't be complete without a photo of Rod's parents dog 'Deej' or 'DJ' which stands for 'Diesel Junior'. Olivia LOVES this dog because he's so docile and she
can do all sorts of things with him...like play dress-ups!

On the way home we were traveling behind Mike and Kaffa when they suddenly slowed and went onto the verge. We thought they had just stopped to take some photos of the canola fields so we carried on until we came to the next town. We then had reception on our phone and realised there had been a missed call from Mike. As it turned out, their car had no oil in it (even though it had just been serviced) and had completely seized! Well, lucky for the kids - they got to play in the park for an hour while Rod went to help them out. They put more oil in the car but it still wouldn't start, so Rod had to tow them into town. We were still a good 2.5 hours from Perth and it would've been very slow going to tow them all that way, so in the end they got Mike's Opa to drive out and collect them and Mike went back the next day with a car trailer to pick up their car!

Is this happiness or what?

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Last week we made the most of the beautiful weather and joined Mum, Renee, Ingrid, Annette, Marleen and Janneke at Araluen. It's a huge botanic park set in the hills not far from our place and every year they have nice show of tulips as well as other flowers and trees.

tulips in bloom

what a life!
Marleen, Janneke, Ingrid and Annette soaking up some sun

Olivia, Elisa and Courtney

And Oma with our little munchkins