Friends...playdate...

Easter Holiday Away!

Last year our family and a few of our friends decided to go camping with kiddies... not such a great idea in the rain and in the cold. This year as crazy as it seems we decided to take a +-3 hour drive to go off and stay in cabins with our kiddies..... Mmmmmmmm A bit of crazy fun. We drove from Auckland to Rotorua! We tried our best to make the most of our time away! I'll let the pics speak for themselves.

The long drive down

Found some time to play

and sleep

I just love these tiny fingers

Kiddie swim time in a thermal pool

Having a look at the place

Couldn't just walk by had to take a shot

This was a bit of bubbling in a random puddle

Mmmmmm the number of our cabin

Our home away from home

These were some tourist that were roadtripping together and all in identical RV's

There were just so many all over the ground

Rebeca 

Awwwww look at that gorgeous girlie

I need to totally climb the fence to see the sheep mum

Feeding the guinea pig grass he just pulled from the ground

We brought this camp light along as a nightlight. was such a good idea

Redwood Forest

Thanks Libbee for taking this pic

I had so much fun in the short time of being in the forest, could totally get lost here.

I ask them to smile, they prefer jumping

Love this...

Cauuuute

Back home again!

Day-10 Photo of home!

A postcard my dad brought back from SA for me.

Well at heart I will always be a South African. I was born in Cape Town and lived there until I was in my teens before my parents decided to immigrate. There is so much that I miss about not living there anymore. The beautiful scenery, the amazing beaches that were just 20 minutes from our house, but most of all my family and friends... and boy there are so many of them. To this day family and friends back home still ask whether I can still speak Afrikaans. How could you ever forget a language when you still speak it everyday. LOL! I try my best to teach it to my son, Levi by speaking it to him and it's so nice to watch him respond by understanding what I am saying. I am blessed to be able to speak two languages fluently. I know there are some SA friends of mine who don't speak or understand Afrikaans. To go back for a visit one day is just in my dreams... one day when I can afford it, it might happen.

New Zealand the way I know it.

Well I wasn't too impressed years ago when my parents decided to begin a new life here for us, but of course that didn't last very long. It's been an amazing 14 years in this country so far and so many more to come. Every word on that photo is exactly what NZ is all about. I have grown to love this country I call home now and have done so much here that I am so grateful to God for. There is so much about living here that I love so much I wouldn't even know where to begin. I guess you just have to pop over from wherever you live to know what I mean :)

Day-9 Someone you call friend!

Today was a bit of a hard one for me knowing that I have so many friends that I hold dear to my heart. But I thought I would go back to South Africa about -+15 years...

Taken in 1999 in Cape Town, South Africa
top - House in Lotus River
Middle - Anastacia's daddy's taxi
Bottom - At Sharon AOG

Love you girlies!

These lovely ladies are some friends that I use to sing, laugh and cry with back in the day. We've all known each other in different ways and different lengths of time, but there has always been that bond that somehow still holds us together even though we are miles away from each other. All of our lives have changed in so many ways. We all have kids except for Anastacia :) The youngest of us was the first one to become a mummy and what cute babies we have.

Even though the only way we keep in contact is via Facebook or Whatsapp, thank goodness for the internet! What an amazing invention to be able to keep contact with you guys. And even though we don't chat everyday or as often as we would want to... I still call you ladies my friends and I love you all to bits. We had so many good times together... Who knows one day we might see each other again. Big hugs and kisses.

Two year olds!!!!

Happy Birthday to these Littlies...

We had a great time yesterday celebrating two little friends of Levi's second birthdays. What a great idea to celebrate together. We had it at Lollipops Play Centre and it was endless amounts of fun. I had the fun taking photos with my new toy that I am still learning to use. Love being able to taking beautiful photos to capture those memories that will last forever in a photograph.