Happy New Year to one and all ...
Sorry not been posting too much lately... well having a house full of people is a damned good excuse I think. (LOL)
We have had a fantastic couple of weeks ... Christmas Eve/Day we spent at Aunty June's. June made a lovely roast dinner for Christmas Eve and there were 15 of us around the table ... it was brilliant ... It's now become a tradition to go to June's on Christmas Eve ... that way she gets to spend time with her friends and then they go off and spend Christmas Day with their families etc ... I just invited my family to join us there and we all ended us 'crashing' on the floor ... in the tent etc... It was great ...
Bella getting into the swing of things !!!
Even Shadow's wearing his Christmas Decorations ... he does not look too amused eh?
Lawrence & Penny ... dancing in the garage ...
Kelsey & Jessica enjoying a jive !!!
We woke up on Christmas morning to a MASS of pressies around the tree ... Santa was a very busy chap the night before ...
Check out the morning chaos ...
The Bell family including Indi. Not sure what that is that's got our interest?
Kelsey with his I-pod music station ...
As usual we all got thoroughly spoilt ... and the kids all had fun ... It was Jane, Nigel & Bella's first experience of a Mad Christmas Morning ... even the dogs got involved ... I just love it ...
Christmas Day it rained (no surprises there then) but that didn't stop the party ... although we were all a bit subdued thanks to over indulging the night before !!! But we managed a couple of drinks (well one has to keep the spirit going Ha HA) And we 'braaied' (BBQ) in the rain... we had our Gazebo & Penny's too and we sat in June's garage most of the time so a bit of rain didn't dampen the party at all ...
On Boxing Day the boys all went for a round of Golf ... I'm told Nigel did well considering he's never played before ... the ladies spent the morning at leisure ... actually catching up on some washing because surprise surprise the sun came out !!! In fact it was bloody hot !!! We managed to do 5 loads of washing and get it all dry !!! (How sad is that???)
Ben, Nan and the kids all arrived on Sunday evening ... so we really had a house full. Bella and mum went and stayed at Aunty June's ... I am so lucky to have a friend like that ... mind you if THE HOUSE was finished !!! we'd have had plenty of space for everyone (maybe next year eh?)
It was brilliant to have them here ... and the weather played along nicely too... we went to the beach (all got burnt ... even though it was overcast !!!) we went to the Natal Sharks Board ... saw them cut open a shark (gross!!! but interesting) we spent a day at Ushaka Marine World (all got burnt). We even took the 'Wrinklies' with us that day ... and it was party time at Ushaka so we had music ... dancing a lots and lots of fun !!!
We spent New Years Eve back at June's... dancing on the driveway again ... unfortunately the mist came in and the rain soon followed but hey didn't stop any of the fun and of course once the alcohol flowed the boys started playing 'Jackass' with the paintball guns ... OK I had fun too ... Nan didn't see the funny side of that game ... sorry we upset you Nan ... Ben hope the bruises go down soon ... ;-) But New Years day the sun came out and proved to all our visitors that we can have HOT days ... in fact it was so hot I almost nearly went in the pool ... Temp 34c with humidity of over 42!!!
The week that Nan & Ben were here just flew over ... we still had 101 things to do and then before you knew it they were packing their car and going home (Sad ... sooo sad ... ;-(
And well that's been the last 2 weeks ... AND since Ben & Nan left... seems they have taken the good weather with them !!! It's back to raining again ... has done for the last 2 days ... maybe it's because that's how I'm feeling ... SAD. ;-(
We are down to our last week again with Paul here and our friends ... Jane & Nigel leave on Friday and Paul & Bella leave on Sunday ... we're trying not to think about it too much but they have all been sorting out air tickets and talking of suitcase packing etc ... can't really avoid it can you ???
Oh! well going to try and make the most of our last few days together ...
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