More Random Pics =)

Maria (2) and Laura (3 1/2 weeks)



Yep...my Mum's posing!



Danielle (9)
Trying to look Japanese I think!
 (Check out her eyes!)



The bride. Oops, Diana (6) dressing up.
Isn't she cute? ;)




Hmm...octuplets? lol!



Danielle again!

This vid may be more for the rallies, Maria's talking and I can't remember exactly what else (well come on, it was last night that I watched it!!! haha :P

Pics from around the house

Here are some random pics I took on the 12th of April...



Maria (2yrs) reading a magazine (Perhaps Creation?)




Monique (11) and Danielle... (9)




Laura (3 1/2 weeks)



Easter Bunnies!!

Easter Sunday involved a lot of chocolate for us...yummy!!! lol

Is your mouth watering yet?!



Diana, Monique, Danielle, Bryce




Maria (2yrs)
She has a rather unusual approach to eating these!



Monique's Pressents



Lined up to watch and participate in the
gift-giving ceremony!



We gave Monique her pressents on April 7th. We had planned to do them sooner, but we didn't have many until then, and in fact we still didn't have them all! But one of them had a fast-approaching expiry date, so we couldn't wait any longer! lol



Pressent from Maria (2yrs)





Enthusiastic hug for Diana! (6yrs)





Hug for Mummy...




New handbag





Who doesn't get excited over chocolate? lol

So...she got....a Bubbly chocolate bar (which Bryce had already sampled...but that's another story!), a handbag, mud cake (!) (yeah that's the one I mentioned previously! It worked well for the rest of us, cos we all got to help eat it!!! haha), a gift card to choose her own watch, and SS necklace with CZ, 2 Winnie the Horse Gentler books, chocolate edition Scrabble, horse stickers, and a smiggle mechanical pencil.

And I hadn't manage to find anything I really wanted to give her (as had happened with Danielle), so I gave her an Urban Angel top and a Toblerone, at a later date. =)

That's one great thing about having a higher-than-normal number of children(!), it means more pressents, because everybody gets to give one!!! haha :P

Dinner with the Sonnevelds



Monique (11), Ruth (16), Bee (15), Essie (14)
The pavlova we made -yummy!

The Sonnevelds invited us to go to their place for dinner after our visit to the Botanical Gardens. Of course, we weren't about say no! haha After the Botanical Gardens, we came home to get the washing off the line, feed the animals, and all that. Then we went to the Sonnevelds'... Ruth and Es were cooking, and Monique and I joined them (many hands make light work! Well actually, I think it's more the talking, but anyway...).

So...for dinner we had potato wedges, samosas and spring rolls, peas and corn, carrots, and coleslaw.

Pavlova!!!

Everyone ate well at dinner, so it was a unanimous vote to wait with dessert!  That gave us time to do the dishes and finish preparing dessert...

For dessert we made pavlova (or actually, I think Es made it, we just helped put the topping on), and fruit salad (yep we made that too).

 After dessert, Mum and Mrs. Sonneveld did the dishes, and we four girls went upstairs with the guitars...actually we'd planned to play Bible Trivia (as we'd had fun playing it the day before!), but we actually didn't get that far!

Mum announced all to soon that it was time to leave!

Botanical Gardens Visit



Diana (6), Bryce (4), Amy (8), and Joanna (5)

On Good Friday, while my Dad and Mr. Sonneveld were away on a father/son camp with Jarrod and Samuel, we invited the rest of the Sonnevelds to go for a walk at the Botanical Gardens with us. I'm not sure when I last went, but I know it was a LONG time ago!

yeah..Ruth and Es pushed the stroller..
thanks btw =)

It was a beautiful (and fairly warm) day, we had an awesome time hanging out...and taking pics...oh and afternoon tea is always good too...!! lol

Nice pic Essie, you could just about be a photographer!

Essie and me...

Another one of Essie's awesome pics!



Diana and Joanna



Essie and Me



Ruth and Me



Ruth, Essie, and me...oops I think the sun was too bright!



Essie, me, Ruth & Laura out the front of the visitor centre

Sorry, just HAD to post this!!!



And this...=D



Monique's Birthday



Monique with her cake



My sister Monique turned 11 on April 3rd, here are some pics of the cake (which she made herself!); we gave her pressents to her on a seperate occasion.



She made a banana cake and put a filling in it.
(the way Aunty Yvonne had done it in a cake we had been given recently.)






Maria (isn't she cute?) ;-)




Danielle (9) with Laura




Banana cake and ice cream