27!

Yep! That's how old I turned on Wednesday! Bit scary seeing as then it's only 3 more years till I turn 30...mmm, now that sounds old! But who cares really; you're only as old as you feel :-)

Well, I had a nice relaxing day. In the morning I went out for coffee with Olivia, Mum, Annette and Marleen and Elisa at a really nice cafe/restaurant up in hills not that far from our house. Nothing beats an iced chocolate and cheesecake! In the afternoon I didn't do much...just went to the library and then caught up with Sonja who was up from Albany for a few days while her hubby Eric was in Sydney for work. They've just had a baby girl so I got to see her and have a little cuddle :-) At night Rod had a (short) meeting and Mum and Dad popped round for a cuppa.
Olivia was sooo excited that it was my birthday, it was quite cute. She was telling Rod exactly what he had to do...put up streamers and balloons, get a birthday cake and candles etc. And in the morning, when she saw the decorations she remembered it was my birthday so she raced back to her bedroom shouting, "I've got a present for you!" So after hopping back in our bed and opening the present (a rain gauge) she says, "Oh, I've got another one for you!" and off she goes again. I can't wait to see her reaction when it's her birthday - she's really looking forward to it because then she'll be 3 and then finally the baby will come! It must be hard waiting for all these things to happen when you're so young.

Marleen, Annette, Mum, me and Olivia enjoying our
drinks and cakes...yummy!

This cream is sooo good!

Happy chappy Elisa

And just a photo of my big tummy at 34 weeks. I've almost had enough of being pregnant now...sick of getting up every hour at night to go to the loo, sick of not being able to enjoy my food at night, sick of not being able to lie in bed comfortably at night...ok, that's enough whinging. I just can't wait to meet this baby and hold my very own newborn again! I'm sure these negative thoughts will pass...we're going camping with my whole family at the end of the month so that's something to look forward to :-)

Olivia showing off her big tummy - she has a baby in there too you know

Shed extension

So here's a bit of a photo update of the work Rod (with the help of his mates) have done on the shed extension...it's getting there! I can't wait till it's all finished so we can clear out the office a bit and get it ready for the baby...only 5 more weeks till my due date! This is what it used to look like...

Tearing down the old shed

Using the bobcat to clear and level the dirt

Up goes the frame

In goes the concrete floor

Bacon and eggs for brekky for all the helpers
L-R: Marcel, Tony de Man, Paul B, Ed Bruning, Rod and Michael

Olivia the supervisor

Finishing off the concrete with the helicopter

Mike and Rod putting up the frames for the internal walls.

Mike's a roof carpenter so it didn't take him long to knock up the frames. They've now also sheeted one wall and Dad has started putting in the wiring for the lights and power points! The first section is where we'll park the camper trailer and next to that will be the garden shed (rear) and the storeroom (front, where the window is). Looking good hey!

Australia Day

Ok, so it's been a while ago that we had our Australia Day (Jan.26) long weekend but here's still some pics of what we got up to on the Monday...spent most of the day at the beach of course!

Oom Jaap, Rod, Dad (snoozing), Mum and Tannie Yvonne
Courtney and Olivia enjoying their burger rings

Olivia enjoying her LCM bar from Oma

some beach cricket action with the 'neighbours' who were also from the church
(Tim & Cora Houweling, Bert & Agatha Veenedaal,
Phil & Lisa Houweling and Rev& Mrs vander Jagt)
A tired little girl
At night we went to Armadale and watched the fireworks - Olivia's first :-)
She thought they were pretty cool...
...just very loud! She sat like this the whole time!

It's 9.10pm and I'm sitting here watching Aussie Jelena Dokic playing in the Australian Open (tennis). Rod has been working in Northam this week and will hopefully be back Thursday night. Not that I can complain...he came home last night seeing as it's only a 1.5hour drive. It's just that he has to get up at 3 the next morning so he can leave by 4 to be back at the job on time. They're busy pouring a 4000 sqm slab for a huge workshop, for which they'll also be doing the panels. So they'll finish the slab this week and will be going back in a few weeks time to start on the panels. So I may as well get used to the idea of him being gone :-(

On a :-) side, Olivia is now in nickers during the day!! Yay! It really didn't take her long to click on to when she had to go to the toilet, I think I was just too slack to get started with this sooner. And of course she's quite proud of the fact that she can go to the loo all by herself. She just won't do poos on there yet...she knows when she has to do one, but she'll just hold it in till she has a nappy on at night. I'm sure she's not the only kid who does this but it is a little frustrating!

Well, I wish one of these women would hurry up and win so I can watch the men play; they're much more exciting and plus a 16year old Aussie is playing so I want to see how he does... then again, maybe I should just go to bed and get some much needed sleep.

Just a little video clip of Olivia singing her favourite psalm at the moment, Ps.116:7 - "What shall I renay" as she calls it :) She loves singing and learning new psalms; she's bound to get 10/10 for her psalms when she goes to school!

New Years Eve

So here are a few photos from New Years Eve which we spent at Oom Jaap and Tannie Yvonne's along with lots of other de Jagers and my side of the family

Paul and Heidi, Andrew and Marleen

Renee, Albert and Marinus

Paul Byl, Rod and Herbie

Tannie Yvonne, Mrs Spaanderman, Jacolien, Renee with Courtney and Ingrid

New look for 2009 :-)

more de Jager ladies

Charlene, Heidi and Marleen
(you rarely get a photo of Charlene with her eyes open!)

Paul, Paul and Andrew having a chinwag

All the noise woke Olivia up just in time for 12 o'clock

Albany

So after spending 2 relaxing days at the dam we headed down to Albany for Christmas Day and the weekend. Christmas Day we didn't do anything overly exciting, just headed down to Middleton Beach with Kaffa and Mike so Rod and Mike could have a swim. As you can see the weather was just magic!

Spot the boys in the wave

Kaffa, Olivia and I relaxing on the beach

Olivia giving Mike a hi-5

Rubbing sand on Rod's feet

At night we went to Glenn and Leonie's for a BBQ dinner together with Dad and Mum vdSchaaf, Fritz, Viv and Samuel, Kaffa and Mike, Roseanne and some of the Kleyn's - Mr and Mrs, Eric, Sonja and Isaac, Tish and Matt. T'was lots of yummy food there too!

Glenn, Rod, Dad vds and Mum vdS with Zachary

Roseanne, Mike with Samuel and Kaffa

Zachary

SamuelTish and Matt
Lauren, Isaac and Hannah enjoying their food

Then on Boxing Day pretty much everyone who was at the Christmas dinner headed down to Two People's Bay for another day of gorgeous sunny weather and good company :-)

Hannah, Olivia and Lauren helping Kaffa put on suncream

Lauren and Olivia

Olivia with her cousins Lauren and Hannah

Two People's Bay

Drying off after a nice swim

Then on Saturday morning we headed down to Mutton Bird Beach with Fritz and Viv and Kaffa and Mike for a bit of 4WDing and fishing - the boys had no luck with the fish though

Mike's rig.
Like the bull bar? (not that you can really see it)...Rod built it. He's so clever :-)

Olivia on the 2-way to Kaffa (in the background). She's also got the map
book on her lap finding our next holiday destination

Rod playing 4WD games on Sunday afternoon

And Olivia reading a book to the dog - for once she's
not terrorising the poor thing! She chased him everywhere the whole
time we were there, trying to catch his tail or put pegs on it...in general,
just annoying him!

Aaww, I love DJ - he makes a good pillow

Tickling him - he likes that

Christmas lights in town