remember...

I remember when I was in Ottery Road Methodist Primary School, we all had to get our names printed like this. I have kept a tiny piece. It doesn't look that great anymore. But it comes with a lot of memories. Just sitting here typing makes me think of our uniform. Man they were so strict on what we could and couldn't wear. #primaryschool

Family...

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My uncle Romy

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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.

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For the past few weeks I have been organizing my mum's 60th birthday together with my sisters. As I have boys I will never get to plan a girly party... so I thought here is my chance. My mum has so many favourite colours. When I asked her what her favourite colour was she said Oh I love Autumn colours. So yep you can imagine! It was good fun though thinking I was going to spend forever making pom poms in her favourite colours I found some that were ready made.

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I took a stash of my mums photo albums home one day and scanned way to many photos to create this memory 60th board for her. She only realized that it was a 60 made up of photos when she got really close to it and of course she had tears in her eyes. Was a lot of crazy fun creating it!

Day-29 A great Memory!

I always love seeing daisies. It brings back so many memories of when I was little. I don't know if kids still go outside these days to play with all the technology keeping them busy. When I was young we would always find a whole stash of daisies and make necklaces. Then it didn't matter to me that it wouldn't last because it would die. It was just the fun of collecting and making something from scratch.

Not the most outstanding flower, but there always seems to be an endless amount of them.

Day-24 Something you cherish!

Well when I was young I spent a lot of those years at my grandma's place. There were a lot of little antiquie things I wish I could keep forever. She always had glass display cabinets full of glassware, and just stuff. I loved her house because there were so many old things. I remember those years like they were just yesterday. Both my parents worked when we were really young, so Ma(my dad's mum) looked after us(Geraldine & I). Nothing wrong with that.

This is as close as my camera would allow me to get to show you the detail of the top. Old and fading...

Held it in my hand to show how tiny it is.

This is a tiny Coca Cola bottle I took one day from Ma's house. I know, how naughty *Smacking my hand* I don't exactly remember when I took it, but it was a loooooong time ago. It is something I cherish a lot. I keep it in my jewellery box. I have always been thinking of making it into a charm for a necklace, but then I am too scared I might loose it. It is the one thing I can feel and look at that instantly reminds me of those fun young years... Thank you Ma!

Also when I was young I use to collect and safe keep just any old thing. My mum can tell you all about that. I guess that's why till today I still collect and keep things, but this time in cute jars or tins.
Back in the day I had this 'purple case' that would hold all my precious things like my diaries, letters, shells... I think I found the case when we lived in Cafda when my dad was the caretaker at my mums work. They always had a day when you could just have a rummage through and keep old books, records, suitcases, just things that other people no longer wanted. Well I found my beloved 'purple case' and to this day still have it.

My 'purple case'

I still have the key to lock it.

Just a bit of rusty detail.

Day-13 Something to look forward to!

Well this year Christmas we will have our newest addition to the family join us, baby no.2 (due 1st Dec). It's going to be a very busy, yet sleepless time of the year for me. I am totally looking forward to it. At least this time around I know what I am getting myself into :) I have no idea what we will be doing in regards to Christmas day, but oh well... we'll just have to wait and see. I am not one to cart a new baby around so I say we're having Christmas at our house this year. It will be a fun first Christmas for baby no matter what!

I am also looking forward to the coming years and all the fun things we will do as a family. Having family traditions and passing those onto our boys. Makes me think of days to come where we will reminisce on the past and all the memories we made together as a family. My family use to camp every end of the year holidays and those were the best times of the year and one of the things I will never forget. We love camping and will definitely be carrying that on...
We love music and singing! There is no doubt that Levi loves music and is totally crazy about the drums! Oh dear! It's all good though, I love it <3 For as long as I can remember we have always been involved with music in church. I would love for my kids to grow up loving Jesus the way we do and love to Praise & Worship him in song!

I look forward to the future with my family!