Birthdays...

Birthdays are a special, fun and wonderful way to spend time with family and friends, so here are a few photos from my 29th birthday! For a change I had my lady friends (and Dad) over in the morning instead of at night and it was very enjoyable :)

Evette, Aunty Yvonne, Mum, Janneke with Heinrich, Dad,
Bertha, me, Charlene and Marleen

Dad, Bertha and Kelsey, me, Charlene and Marleen
and her daughter Caitlin sitting in front of her

The kids!
Charlene took so many photos trying to get a good one...and even though they're
not looking, I like this one the best because they're just being themselves :)
L-R: Corey and Tegan (from Evette), Kiera Huizinga (from Sarah), Courtney, Elisa (from Marleen), Olivia and Devon and in front in the blue is Grethe (from Janneke)

The clock, table and floor lamp were from Rod

and the kids and the butterfly hooks were from Bertha and Janneke.

From the van der Veen side of the family I got money to put towards framing a picture I got from Charlene when she came back from South Africa and from the van der Schaaf's I'm getting a years subscription to Better Homes and Gardens magazine :) Very spoilt! I've set up the table in our spare room which got a huge clean out the other day, so now my craft stuff can stay out and I can be as creative and productive as Marian ;-)

Rod was home nicely on time that afternoon so we headed down
Joe's Fish Shack in Fremantle for dinner...

... and then to the wharf to watch the boats....
by the way, the dress Olivia is wearing is one I used to wear when I was 4 - she loves it :)

... and we got to see the Leeuwin come in!

On the 22nd of February we could celebrate another birthday! We (finally) got a happy phone call from Mike to say that him and Kaffa had been blessed with a healthy 8lb 8 baby girl whom they named "Elizabeth Marie"! And she's beautiful :)

Olivia so happy to have another girl cousin!

proud parents on baptism Sunday

Proud Pop and Nanna