Graduation 2008

Last night I went to the Year 12 Graduation as my 'little' brother Marcel was graduating. I can't believe he's all grown up and stuff...well, he thinks he is anyway ;-) He already has his licence, a car, a girlfriend and a job lined up for next year! Wow, where has time gone?!

The man himself :-)

with Charlene, me and Ingrid

Marcel and his girl Eleisha

Albany...

Here are some pics from our weekend in Albany. Rod's youngest sister Roseanne did her Profession of Faith and seeing as we hadn't been down for a while, we thought we'd head down to witness this special occasion and catch up with family and friends at the same time. Fritz also planned on putting up a shed on their block so Rod helped him with that on Saturday morning while Olivia and I went shopping with Mum vdS and Kathryn. Saturday night most of the family got together for a BBQ at Glenn and Leonie's, which Olivia thought was great of course as she could play with Lauren and Hannah. On Monday us three went out for breakfast and while Rod played a round of golf with one of his friends, Olivia and I went for a walk along the beach (bbrrr!) and then did some op shopping.


Rod and a couple of Fritz's mates giving him a hand putting up his shed

Samuel (from Fritz & Viv) and Zachary (from Glenn & Leonie)- they're about 7 months apart in age, but almost the same size - Samuel is such a solid boy and such a cutie!

Lauren pushing Olivia and Hannah on the swings

Glenn dong the BBqing, Dad vdS, Fritz and Rod - guess who's doing the talking ;-)

Missy Moo and her baby...such a little mum!




latest thing - walking around with her hands in her pocket

On it's way...

Yay! We've finally signed up to get broadband! :-)

Dress ups

A few weeks ago, Annette, Renee and Tin popped in one afternoon and who knows who suggested it, but they all decided they had to try on my wedding dress - nice poses girls! When they had left, Olivia decided it was her turn to dress up, so she got the bag from her porta cot, put the handle over her head and said, "Come Mum, take photo of me". Don't you just love their imagination!

Our backyard

Here you go Marian :-) finally some photos of our backyard! I love the garden in spring - all the plants are in flower, the grass is still green from winter rains - everything just looks fresh and colourful.









Rod hopes to get rid of this old shed and build a new and bigger one with two sections - one for garden stuff and the other as a dust proof store room, which will free up some space in the office.



The area where Olivia is standing is where we hope to do our extensions - that's her bedroom window/wall which will get knocked out.

Summer's coming!

Last Friday I caught up with Renae, who used to be my teacher's assistant when I was working. She lives in Rockingham, right near the beach, so I said I'd meet her there for a drink seeing as it was going to be nice weather. After a delicious apricot whip and cheesecake, we sat on the beach and Olivia had a ball splashing in the water, throwing shells into the water and chasing sea gulls. We just won't mention how burnt my legs were by the end of the day... Bring on summer!

Me, Olivia and Renae enjoying the sunshine

collecting shells

Having dizzy whizzies with Tin - she came after
she had finished her uni classes

And what better way to finish the day than with an ice-cream!

Mt Hotham Ski Trip

Rod and Mr&Mrs Kleyn heading for the plane
Yay, we're on our way!

boys playing footy in the shopping carpark while us girls
got the groceries

putting snow chains on - a new experience!
(and a challenge for the boys...)

Heidi and Mrs Kleyn getting dinner ready

the cosy sitting room of our house

me, Paul, Heidi, Ali, Mrs Kleyn, Mr Kleyn, Tony and Quint

unreal!

who needs a fridge around here?!

brrr, cold ski lifts

Heidi on top of the world

all our gear

cheers Rod

quick get a shot of me while I'm actually standing up!

Hotham Central

making snow angels

our cute little snowman

Heidi, me and Mrs Kleyn having fun on the snow

Look at the weather we get on the morning we have to leave!

Group shot: me, Rod, Ali, Quint, Mr and Mrs Kleyn, Paul and Heidi, Tony

what a hairy hubby I have!

beautiful views

dinner at the airport before catching our flight home!!