I have taken a break from bashing things down and building new ones up. So I thought I would update the photo albums.  I have started with Kyra and Kayden but the wedding are on the way.  Watch this space I guess.  Anyhoo… there are new pics in the Kyra 2008 and Kayden 2008 folders.  Check em out

Cheers

Pete

Last night, Pete and I attended our last wedding (for a while).

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO JASON AND TRACEY BROWNE

After 10 years and now finally tying the knot, you guys are sure to make it work.  Pete and I wish you all the best.

We’ve updated some albums.  After 4 years, Pete has finally added my bridal shower to our wedding album.  Taryn and Daryn have just recently received their wedding photos, so give us a week and we’ll have them on our website – look out for those, they’re really worth a look.  Their photos were done by Linda Twiggs and what an excellent choice they made!!

Seeing as Jason and Tracey only got married yesterday, it will be a while before we post any of their wedding pics.

On the home front Pete has started assembling the kitchen cupboards and they’re now all stacked up in my lounge…  I’m really looking forward to seeing the end product!

The kids are fine.  Tristan is back at school, Kyra is her usual sweet self and barring another sniffel, Kayden is still as cute as ever – rolling around like a little barrel, every chance he gets.

Other than that, there’s not much else to tell.  We’re off to breakfast now, so I’ll end off.

Cheers,

Lauren

We’ve finally posted the pics of Taryn’s bridal shower that took place on 29 February.

The evening started out at our house.  Taryn was under the impression she was coming over for a braai (barbecue for the non South African’s), to welcome Pete home – it just so happened that he arrived home the same day, so the excuse for Taryn & Daryn coming round fitted in perfectly!

Well Taryn soon realised once they pulled into our driveway that she’d been duped.  She entered the lounge all flushed and shocked, but was ushered into the bedroom for her ‘transformation’, before she had time to even touch sides.

Dressed in a little nurse number, gawdie make-up, flashing "Bride to Be" sash and questionable accessories; she re-entered the lounge looking like a self propelled gratification dispenser in a nurses outfit.  After many giggles and photos the party started.  I decided on jelly shots for Taryn, as a penalty for every wrong guess as to whom her gifts were from.  By 10pm and after many jelly shots, the girls gathered their things and went to a quaint bar up the road from our house and joined Daryn, Pete and Daryn’s dad.

This is where all the fun and games really started.  We had dare cards which Taryn had to read out and then act on.   It was one episode of hysterical laughter after the next!  Even Daryn’s Gran had a wail of a time and had everyone reeling in shock at how she was partying it up with all of us!

The fantastic night eventually ended with us crawling into the house just before 3am.   Everyone had a great time, especially Taryn and of course Daryn – which is what counted most!

Take a look at the pics in the Weddings album under Taryn & Daryn in the Bridal Shower folder.

Lauren

It seems like forever since I have updated this site.  Looking at the date of the last entry I guess it has been.

So what has been happening… well a lot really.  We had a camping trip where it never stopped raining, a wedding, Kyra turned 1 year old, Christmas, Tristan paid us a visit and on top of all of that we undertook a major building project as well.   So let me piece together all that has happened and then I will start up loading all the photo’s.

So first to the Camping…  This was the LAS KZN end of year piss up.  Instead of throwing a party we all headed down to Illovo Beach to a spot called Natalia.  It is an ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuur Vereenigin) resort.  A Lovely spot but just as luck would have it the rain never stopped once that weekend.  It did however give us a chance to proof test our new tent which showed up a few minor leaks.  The campsite area was more of a Caravan type camping area and it is amazing to see what people take with them camping.  It seems nowadays that unless you have a satellite dish, automatic washing machine, tumble drier and at least one  form of ATV you are a nobody in the camping world.  Oh and any car with an engine smaller than 3.0 litres is just for sissy’s.

So rain stopped a lot of the play on that weekend but we had a great time nonetheless.  Kyra was a dream as usual.

The week after that we had our friends wedding.  Alana and Andrew were married at the Methodist Church in Manning Road in Durban.  A brilliant wedding with the Padre cracking a few jokes about the Groom’s choice of wardrobe.  Unfortunately my video camera had a critical failure as a result of being dropped on the way into the church.  So I don’t have any video.  I do however have a very grainy video of the couples first dance which I shall put into the weddings folder in the photo album. 

As with any fantastic day there always has to be that little bit of nuisance that comes with it.  After the reception had ended, a bunch of us headed out to a bar to play a bit of pool.  As luck would have it, I locked the keys into the car and had to wait until a locksmith came out and opened up for me.  Of course all this time our poor babysitters are waiting at home for us to arrive… never rains it pours!  To Tammy and her boyfriend thank you for your patience and understanding.

The next big day for us was strangely enough a Thursday.  Kyra had her First Birthday party at her day care school.  All the kids were coralled around her centre table and the cake was brought out.  Lauren made a cake shaped like a number 1 and we shoved a candle into it.  Then came present opening time and man alive did she get a good haul.  Thank you to all the parents for the wonderful gifts you gave to our little Kyra.

 The 19th of December 2006:  Kyra turned one year old and the day started like most others.  Kyra woke up at sparrows and then cried till we went to get her in her room.  She then came into the bedroom with us and all her presents were laid out on the bed.  Unfortunately at this age shiny wrapping paper is just another thing to put into the mouth and swallow so we had to help her out with the opening of her gifts.  Once again she got another good haul of presents.  Thank you so much to all the family and friends who gave her something.  She loves playing with her toys and is slowly getting the hang of matching the square blocks to the squares holes puzzle.

The pics are in her Album in the December folder.

The big thing to happen next was the outside room.  We needed to renovate the room to get it ready for living.  This involved bashing a hole in the wall, bricking up another opening, running new plumbing into the bathroom, shower, and kitchen.  Then building a new kitchen cupboard, pantry and laying new floor tiles.  Also the walls needed repainting and we had to run new electrics to all the rooms.

The pics are in the blood, sweat and tears album.

 Christmas…  that was a good day.  Lauren’s Mom came through and we had a lovely day with everyone opening presents and talking crap and stuff.  Kyra had her first real christmas.  We didn’t have a big christmas last year as she had just come from the hospital.  Thank you to everyone who gaves presents to Lauren, Kyra and Myself.   They are greatly appreciated.  We then had a big sitdown meal that night.  A Roast leg of lamb with all the trimmings.  Daryn and Taryn also popped round and it was then that we discovered that the christmas crackers we bought were indestructable.

Work then carried on in the outside room and on the 28th of December Tristan came down to visit us.  We had a second christmas when we dished out all his presents and the next thing we knew it was New Year.  We spent New Years Eve up on Jason’s Farm in Hammerdale.  Tristan brought his quad down and the farm was the perfect spot to ride around. Check out the Video in Tristans’s Folder.  There are also a lot of pics of Kyra and Tristan together.  I have split them between the Kyra and Tristan Folder.

 And that is pretty much all I have for now.  The room is now finished… well sort of, I still have the kitchen cupboard doors to put up but all the carpets are in and the room is now livable.

Hopefully it won’t be another month before I update again.

Cheers

Pete

Conrad, my mom and I are spending the weekend at a WONDERFUL resort called Cape Hillsborough Nature Resort.

Going in a northerly direction up the coast, it’s a half hour drive from Mackay, just before Seaforth.

For more info on the resort, you can go to:

www.capehillsboroughresort.com.au

Once again I have taken loads of pics and a bit of footage.  Unfortunately you wont be able to view it for a while still.  But Pete or I will let everyone know once there are pictures to be viewed.

We went out on Conrad’s boat this morning and I got some footage of him catching a spotted mackeral.  He was thrilled to the ends of the earth.  My tummy however did not appreciate the ‘motion of the ocean’ and I soon asked my brother to take me back to land.  My sealegs are not what my husband’s are!

Anyway, I won’t hold you up too long.  But I’ll be sure to return with more news as soon as possible.

Love to all who know me

Lauren

Lauren tells me that there a good few pictures to be added.  A friend of ours - Alana - is getting married soon and she has recently had her  wedding shower.  We are still in the process of crunching the pics down in size to be a bit more web friendly.  Give me a few days on that.

Next, Lauren will be heading to Australia soon.  Her flight leaves on the 3rd of November and she returns on the 25th.  During this time she will be available on her G mail account so don’t spam the Telkom one.  I am sure that she would love to hear the goings-on back home while she is away.

And finally in todays post.  My side of things.  Bermuda is starting to cool down a bit now.  It is still shorts and T shirt weather but I have cracked out a second blanket for the evenings now.  As far as my return to the Motherland goes, I am due back around the 16th or 17th of this month.  So put the beers on ice & start up the aircon  – Daddy will be home soon.

Cheers

Pete