van der Schaafs down under

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

July and August

I did do a post on May and June earlier on, so here's a few photos from July and August...

July

got to get them started young...

pancakes for lunch with Naomi

out for dinner with Glenn and Leonie and Mike and Kathryn for Rose's (far left) birthday

Our biggest project inside yet, was to rip out the carpet in the games room, dining room and passage and the tiles in the kitchen and get it replaced with vinyl planks.

bye bye dirty carpet

Rod had fun getting the kitchen tiles out;

I had fun cleaning the dust from everything when it was all done!

a big improvement

We spent a day at the zoo with Fritz and Viv and kids as it was school holidays and they were up in Perth.

Devon, Samuel, Olivia and Jasmine

echidnas

still happy and smiling at the end of the day :-)

August

mmm, licking out the bowl after baking!

A nurse came to talk to the Kindy kids about her job and I was asked to stay and help with the activities afterwards which was fun. The kids could try out lots of different things to do with nursing and hospitals...like using crutches

Devon keeping a close eye on the drip

listening to his heartbeat

A day at the playground at the beach...

For more photos from Levi's 1st birthday check out Renee's blog here
xo

Thursday, December 12, 2013

March and April

March is always a month of celebrations here...

celebrating with friend Bertha...a vintage themed birthday

lots of fun!

with the birthday girl

Olivia turned 7 - with Courtney here

celebrating with an after school party with class friends

dinner with Dad and Mum and Marcel

Devon turned 4 and we celebrated our 8th anniversary!

Anya came for the day seeing as we were having the party on Levi's birthday

I took Rod out for lunch :-)

and last but not least, little Levi turned 1!

receiving a present from Marleen

it turned out to a be a bit of a cooler day so we were inside at first

hooray for Devon and Levi!

That's Sienna de Vos next to Devon - he's going to marry her when he grows up

and he's going to be a minister - two definites in his life at the moment

one spoiled boy

kids giving Rod a hand putting up the wooden slats

Dad turned 60 in April! Here is with his grandkids and

cousin Eric and Mary's kids who are like his grandkids as well :-)

spoiling the kids with a tractor ride!

60 colourful balloons tied on the back

not sure who had more fun - Dad or the kids :-)

Olivia's teacher got married!

visiting Rod on the job one day when they stood panels

Mike and Kathryn were blessed with another beautiful daughter

Bryony

Mum's surprise birthday present for Dad - an afternoon drive

in a convertible cadillac

watching planes land

and then to the city to get some lunch and enjoy a bike ride

along the river - photos of that are on Rod's phone...

Ok, I have to admit, I am a bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to certain things...like hangers in the shops - they have to all be in the right size order and sizes together or I will rearrange them! :-) and like with this blog...I feel I need to cover the parts of the year I haven't otherwise it's just not right. So anyway, here goes, way back to the beginning of the year...please bear with me :-)

December 2012/January 2013
We spent a wonderful 10 days in Bremer Bay with Fritz and Viv, Ed and Evette and even Jaco and Tin, who were visiting from Holland, managed to join us for a few days :-) We had the best weather out of all the times we've been there, with just one sunny day after another which of course meant spending lots of time down at the many beautiful beaches.