Monday, January 5, 2009

Celebrations, Celebrations, Celebrations!

All For Me!!

Fish!


Look at my fish tank


Look Mom, this is fun


Hannah Opening Pressies

Hi All,

It has been a long time since I updated our blog and i have so much to write about and so many different subjects. So not to confuse anyone, I will do 1 subject at a time.


Hannah's Birthday 15 December 2008:


I unfortunately had to work on this day but nonetheless tried to make it a very special day for my very special little girl.


I firts went shopping for the perfect gift, so she would have something nice to open. Need less to say her Daddy was thinking the same thing and also went shopping. I then went and bought a cake and invited friends of ours over to come and have cake and celebrate with us.

Well Daddy came home early too , so that was a surprise on its own. Daddy bought Hannah a fish tank and fish and every gadget to set - up a tropical fish tank. For those of you that don't know, Hannah is crazy about Nemo, so Daddy thought a fish tank for her room is a wonderful idea. She loved it.

Her second present was a little dressing table, with a little play play hairdryer and lipstick and curlers. Hannah loves these things. She enjoyed opening her pressies.

Later, after supper we sang Happy Birthday to her and she blew out her candles, she was incredibly shy.. I am sure she enjoyed her birthday very much..


A Trip To Tania's farm



We then decided to Tania ( a friend of mine) farm in the Freestate. What a lovely trip it was. Hannah enjoyed running around outside and playing in the water but it was incredibly hot and both kids were unhappy, they cried a lot.

Nevertheless, Hannah enjoyed all the animals and went crazy when she touched the goats...

I do have photo's from our trip to the farm but they are opn my husbands cell, so I will post photos of the farm visit as soon as he downloads them for me.


Christmas with Ouma & Oupa

We then left on the 24th December for my Dad in Tzaneen. We left at 5 am while the kids were still sleeping and had a very easy trip down to my dad.

Ouma & Oupa were very excited to see the kids and we were just as excited to go away for a bit. We arrived in Tzaneen at round 08:30am and Hannah was keen and ready to start exploring this new and exciting house.


We then opened some gifts on Christmas eve and Hannah had an absolute ball. Ethan on the other hand found the christmas wrapping more intigueing then the actual present.


On Christmas morning the kiddies opened the rest of their presents and my step mother prepared the most wonderful lunch for us to enjoy. We sat at the table and just enjoyed being together as a family.

We then left Tzaneen early on Monday 29th December @3 am and we headed home. At around 6:00am we were just an hour away from Pretoria when we got the dreaded phone call that we had been burgled and that the body coporate was not sure what the had stolen. They must have used someone very small to fit through our burglar bars because I left 1 window open for the cat and this person must have locked the back door open as I left the back door keys at home (silly me) and they went through our entire house throwing out the cupbards and drawers in all the rooms. they stole all my jewellery and nothing else. We can be thankful that that was all that was taken.

Other than that experience, we enjoyed our break.


New Year Braai


On the 31 st December we had a braai at our house for new years with a couple of friends and we had a great time..


We visited and laughed and just enjoyed each others company, needless to say we only finally got into bed after 4 am... We were a bit exhausted but all in all we had loads of fun...


January 1 - Happy 4 Months Ethan

Ethan is 4 months old now and is cuter than ever. He is smiling and laughing at every opportunity he gets. He is trying to sit and he sits well with pillows as a support. He is such an easy and content baby.

To My darling Baby Boy, Ethan,

WOW, look how you have grown precious baby boy! You entertain us everyday with your emerging personality. You are our everything.. We enjoy watching you learn new things and we can just see that Hannah is already a firm favourite in your eyes. Everytime you see your sisters face, you smile from ear to ear...

You are so precious, and absolute gift from God..

Love you precious boy...


Happy Birthday My Big Brother, Sean - 1 January 2009

Dear Sean,

A very happy birthday to you, big brother.. 29 hey, you are knocking on 30's door.. We hope you had a fantastic celebration and we wish you many many more..

May God bless you and keep you safe for many many many more years to come! We love you lots and lots and lots!


We would just like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true in 2009. May God Bless you all in abundance and my this year be fantastic.


All Our Love

Claire, Stephan, Hannah & Ethan

PS: Enjoy photo's of Hannah's birthday, will post other photo's soon!


















1 comment:

Deqlan said...

claire, i am shocked to hear that you got burgaled! i am lending marks moms pc so checking all the blogs and catching up with all the news, so sorry to hear this, glad you are ok and had a great Holiday! chat to you monday lots of love samm