Pups!!

Being on holiday has made the pups VERY happy... they LOVE having someone at home and they have become more and more bonded to me as the days have worn on!! we have captured some lovely pics of them sleeping like the precious little things they are!!

Moms birthday.

My moms birthday was on the 30th December and seeing as mike and i were on leave we took her out for the day! We went to Mitchell Park...

Its a lovely park with a playground, huge grounds where families can picnic and play ball games there then they have a HUGE animal park.... we saw buck, monkeys, HUGE tortoises, crocks and many many more...
our favorite however was this little guy!!

I named him Alfred (after batman's butlers name) as he was keeping watch over his two other friends... he was perched up high and would have told them if there was any danger! Too precious!

After this we had some tea and scones, a trip to wakaberry and then to fetch some food for everyone for dinner! I love celebrating my moms birthday and spoiling her a bit for everything she does for us!

Happy new year!!

Our new year was a very chilled one, just the way we like it!! We had booked tickets for the movie "Sherlock Holmes 2" and we LOVED it!! Then we went home, dragged our mattress into the lounge for a camp out and watched movies till midnight (well i feel asleep at about 11:45pm but mike woke me at 12pm with a happy new year kiss)
The perfect way to end 2011 and start 2012!
I woke a bit earlier than the rest of the family and this is what i woke up to

My three besties snuggled up together!!

I am really looking forward to 2012, i feel this year has big things in store for us!!!
We have already done some DIY to certain areas on our house.... looking forward to doing a bit more and kick starting this year off on the right foot!!!
Bring on 2012!!!

Christmas day...

Oh man what a lovely break!! we have been busy since christmas and enjoying some chill / family time!! Christmas was awesome and we had such a lovely time... it started off on christmas eve with our new pj's - check out our family photo!

Christmas morning we woke up to some freshly made tea in our new christmas mugs and tea pot - tinsel surprised us!!

The pups also got some new threads to wear, some christmas bandanas!!

A quick family pic before church....

The pups in their bandanas!!
Timmy

and beautiful Holly..

me and my girl...

Tims and his dad...

We also got my moms doggy Nala a bandana, so they all matched!

i LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic of tims!! He looks so happy.

I made us each a reindeer coke to have with lunch...

we went to church with both of our parents which was awesome then got home to open some pressies - they pups started off with their pressies!

I played santa and handed out all the pressies...

Then pressie time!!!

After pressies it was LUNCH TIME and the food was amazing!! The best part of dinner is the crackers and the silly presents you get!!

I got a sticky hand!

The food was tooo delicious!! My mom cooks like a machine...

The day ended well with a bit of a tan by the pool and some quality time reading my kindle... pure bliss!!

Then a swim with my husband... the pups joined in the fun and swam with us (or fell in a few times) Holly even chilled on the lilo with mike for a bit...

What an amazing chilled christmas!!!

Christmas eve day...

We spent today at my folks with the rest of our family for some finger lunch and games...
I made mini vetkoek (yum) -look how good they look

I made curry mince with it....

Family lunch

check out this awesome spread (gotta gym LOTS next week!!)

We then played some rummycub - we won 3 our of the 4 games

my secret weapon was that tims was on my team and he played like a star!!! My precious boy!

Look at this face!

all the while holly slept on a pillow...

Merry christmas to you all and a blessed new year!!
God bless you and keep you!