a word to live by...

Creativeness...

Last week this time I was thinking about how I was going to put this all together to make some really cute engagement cards for some friends of ours. I love polaroid photos! These little ones I bought from a shop called Typo <<<< This link is for their Instagram page. I love it! I love making cards that are just totally personal and for the moment.

Autumn...

love the leaves changing colour

at our favourite playground close to home

I have a thing for pine cones. love them.

some leaves i picked up in the front of my house.

it's been raining a lot this week

tree in the front of my house

spent this day at the Museum with my little family

My parents

#my parents
love these two always!

Family...

#family
My uncle Romy

#family
My aunty Rita

It was their first time coming to visit us in New Zealand. The time went by so quickly, but it was such an amazing time together. There was a lot of long drives, dinners with lots of food and just good old fun times together. It was a month of treasured memories and will not be forgotten. Love you both. And will definitely see you again one day. Our boys miss you both lots. Levi always reminds that you have gone home and you are both very far away.

30 Day Challenge_12_Letters

I have had this sheet of craft paper for a few years now. But I just love it way too much to use it or part with it. I have jars full of #letters, I have hand written letters... but this this shot was my favourite of the ones I took.

#letters

Sunset....

Taken from my porch. Beautiful!

Love these guys!

Just looked out of the window last night and totally needed to take this shot!

Hanging out under the playgym!

Levi always hangs close to Asher when he is under the playgym.

Levi has a habit of always playing with Asher's hair.

Asher is having tummytime, but Levi isn't impressed that
Asher isn't enjoying it. So he is trying to comfort him.

My busy boy!

Sometimes he can totally give you a facial that just means... No Photo Mum! Lol he has said it to his Nana at one point. But never to me. Must just be because the camera is never too far away. This monkey is just growing up way to fast these days. Talking too much and just way to busy and energetic for me at times. Love him too bits.

Daddddyyyyyy!!!!

Way too excited when daddy arrives home from work. I couldn't not take a few shots of this moment. Way too cute.

Who could resist this cutie.

Fun on a hot day!

One of those humid days where my toddler totally drives me crazy and we decide to play in the water for a bit of fun. January sunshine!!!

Heeelllllllooooooooo...

Sorry I haven't taking any time to update my blog. This little man has been keeping me oh so busy. Not just him the Mr 2 year old has been keeping me busy non stop since this little one came along. Well he has started back at daycare again so I get more time to do what I like. Well it has been an amazing few weeks. Getting use to saying my kids and not just my son. Love it! I never thought everything would just fall into place the way it did. I never quite imagined what it would be like to have to two boys. It is absolutely lovely. A lot of hard work, but lovely and just such a blessing. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Chat again soon...

Day-23 A recent splurge!

Well I can't remember when last I spent a ridiculous amount of money on something other than our recent new family wagon. We own a Toyota Bb, but we thought it was by time we bought a car that had 7 seats since we have a growing family. LOL! We bought a Toyota Sienta, we need the boot space for the bigger buggy and just for those in case moments when we will be taking some extra passengers other that our own kiddies. Some people might not like the look of our new car, but it is really cheap on petrol and so nice to drive. Just wish the DVD player actually worked! Would have been way cool! When we had our alarm installed the guy was trying to convince me that he could do a good deal for us to get a new DVD player installed that would come with a navigational system and all all sorts of other goodies and it will only cost us $500... I was like yeah sounds great! Just hurry up and install my alarm so I can get out of here. Yeah right I was prepared to pay that much!

Our Toyota Sienta

Day-15 Someone you love!

Well that's just way too easy. The love of my life of course. My amazing hubby!!! He is the best husband and daddy I could ever ask for. He is so thorough with everything he does and very proper LOL I say he gets that from his mum, but neither of them agree to it. Even though I think he is an amazing guitarist, he always wants to be reassured that he sounded really good on stage. He is so talented in so many ways. A Mr. Fixit when you need him to be and way to smart when it comes to computers. Quite handy for me cause I wouldn't have a clue how to fix anything regarding computers. He is an amazing daddy to Levi. Levi is at that stage now where he just thinks that his daddy is way cooler than mummy and I just love it! He waits everyday for daddy to come home (to play). Sometimes poor Quinton is so tired and just wants to relax when he arrives home and Levi won't have a bar of it. I love the bond that they have, it is just so sweet to watch. While being pregnant I haven't been able to play all the rough games that Levi wants to play. So I'm guessing when daddy sets foot in the door it's on...

My boys...

My Love...

We've been married for 7 years and 7 months, been together 11 years. We've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I guess that's what keeps us together and appreciating and loving each other all the more. I pray everyday that God protects him and looks after him. Life would be ridiculously boring without him! He can make me laugh so much sometimes that my tummy hurts and sometimes so frustrated. But he is all mine and I wouldn't want to have it any other way!!!

Love you Honey!!!

Day-11 Something that makes you smile!

Today Levi having his nap made me smile only because without him knowing. I sleep the same way. I have a habit of falling asleep with one hand under my head. Clearly something that he doesn't copy, it's just natural instinct. I think it is so cute.

These always make me smile. Since Levi started Day Care I have endless amounts of these beautiful artworks that come home for me to treasure. I bought a book to paste them all in so that I can keep them forever.

This definitely makes me smile. For the 7 years that I have been married to my wonderful husband he has never owned a dresser. A few weeks ago he bought these two babies. He had to assemble them together all by himself. I was so proud of him, he was so determined to get it done all in one day. I have a huge smile every time I see these dressers in my room instead of an endless amount of clothes lying on his side of the room.

I had to smile today when I walked into hubby's pc/music room and took this shot. He has so many precious things in that room. In a few weeks time our baby no.2 is arriving and daddy has willfully given up his special room for baby to sleep in. It will probably be for a wee while before Levi will be able to share his room with the new baby.

Every day my lounge looks like this. I love it!!! I am so blessed to have a little person running around my house that brings so much joy to our lives and always makes us smile.

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.

Day-6 A Sacrifice!

At the moment I am pregnant with baby no.2 and to me for the nine months I think there are a lot of things I have to sacrifice. So many yummy foods I have to give up at this time like sushi, medium-rare steak, soft cheeses, chocolate mousse, a runny egg ahhhhhhhhh the list could go on forever. Well that is for me. I try my best to stick to the lists on all the handouts I get from my midwife to only eat fresh cooked meals and all the rest of it. How many pregnant woman actually do what they are told who knows!!!

Also people tend to love to ask about morning sickness... Did you have morning sickness? Who cares, that only lasted for so long for me... it's more the rest of the time when you get bigger and can't think of what to wear? How to tie your shoe laces? How to bend down to cut my toe nails? Having baby-brain and starting a conversation and halfway through the sentence not knowing what you were actually wanting to say! Being really forgetful! Sitting in a comfy couch and taking forever to get up out of it. Having to go to the toilet what feels like every 5 minutes. Don't even mention trying to roll over in bed when you need to go in the middle of the night LOL.

I know totally sounds like I am having a moan!!!

But it's a good sacrifice to me because it only lasts for so long and then you have these little people surrounding you that need you 24/7 and it doesn't matter, because you just love them so much in a way that you can't explain.

Levi giving my 34 week bump a kissie...

Was trying to take a pic of my bump with my feet sticking out the bottom and all this while standing on my bed. But Levi thought we were meant to be jumping on the bed. I took so many pics, but this was my favourite!