Feb-April 2011

Months have passed so here's a quick review of some highlights:
Feb 2011
Caleb, a little boy in our church, had a pirate party, Stellah got dressed as a cute pirate (see collage).
We celebrated our fifth anniversary, so seriously blessed to be married to the coolest guy in the world! Had dinner at the this fab Italian place in Durbs.
Wern came for a weekend had a great time with him!
Loved having the Archers back from the states.
March
Julie came for a visit was so great seeing her and we had a big fat Portuguese family lunch to end off her stay, the food was so great, I think I can eat pickled pork several times a week!



April
Went to the Eastern Cape for about 2 weeks. Was lovely to see that part of the world it is just an awesome testimony of God's creativeness! Here's one of us on the Glentana beach.


Stellah unfortunately didn't play the game so we were sleepless in EC, poor Stelly-Bells did get really ill though and with earache comes yelling and no sleepy, as experienced Moms and Dads would know. So great to see Charl's fam and get to know Steg's parents, his Mom took some great pics of us!




Charl's grandparents and Uncle stay in Glentana near George and we drove up to see them too, the beach and area is just lovely, really cold water though. What an amazing couple, I hope to be like them at 80-something.



Easter was a really busy time and we had quite a few social events going on, one of which was an easter egg hunt at the Watts'. Stellah ate her first whole Easter egg.

Chocolate mouthy...

Was lovely to have an Easter roast at my sister's and Stelly got spoiled with a big princess duck Easter egg. Had such lovely braais and visits, really great Easter time.
So good to remember why Christ came, so thankful he died for my sin.

Christmas 2010, family, family, family and Stellah turning one!!!

We were so grateful that for this year's festive season we got to see most of our family! It was a very busy time but as I look back I just feel so blessed to have such a great family! The Bakkes' came in for two nights just before Christmas on their way to Leisure Bay, we just loved having that time with them :)
We spent Christmas morning in church and I got to play with for the first time since May, I had such fun...we then went over to my Aunt and Uncle's - where we ate five different kinds of meat and extras, wow it was truly a meal worth remembering! My Aunt brought our her piano accordian and man did Stellah enjoy that :)


Stellah now has several teeth (nine or so, not bad for a one year old) with which to enjoy all the delicacies that Christmas and her first birthday had to offer. We then headed off to Leisure bay for a few days and when we returned had my Mom and Johnny come over for a week, it was really a lovely visit. It is amazing to me how one takes having family around for granted, it just takes moving away to set it all in perspective. Stellah has so enjoyed them all and lucky us, Julie has come for 10 days and I'm so thankful to also have seen a lot more of my sister Michelle and my Aunt with all the family visits.

I must say that the highlight of this year so far has been Stellah turning one! We had a nice big fat party for her..she had a ball in butterfly style!