39 Again!

Wee Ginger Button Turns 8

My wee button turns 8 years old today....

Happy Birthday Megan!!!

From this 2.6kg Megan born at 35 and a half weeks.

One Day Old





Megan's First Birthday

Megan Two Years Old

A Three-Year- Old Megan welcome's her new wee sister





4 year old Megan

Megan at school - 5 years old

Megan 6 years old collecting Easter Eggs 

Silly Megan 7 Years Old

8 Years Old with her beloved Nintendo DS XL

Birthday Coming Up

My Birthday is coming up this weekend and I would rather just forget it than celebrate it for a number of reasons:

• Its winter and its cold and no one wants to come to a party in winter.
• I'm dead broke
• 38 candles does not look good on a cake (more like a fekking towering inferno).
• I'm on diet to I can't have cake anyway.
• I've already received my gift from My Boerewors.
• Its Soccer World Cup and everyone will be watching the footie on telly.

Case closed.

Christmas and Farmville

I must apologise!

My mind has not been in the "blogzone" this week. 

Stoopid me has gotten myself hooked on Facebook Farmville.  Its so pathetically sad - I constantly think about how my crops are growing and how many ribbons and awards I have achieved.  I work out my life around the times when my crops are due to be harvested.  It must stop!  I really must curb this nonsense.  Its distracting me from blog-thoughts and I haven't even starting thinking about Christmas shopping?

I haven't even planned what I'm going to buy everyone and I don’t even know where we are going to be on Christmas Day. Perhaps we should just stay home – just the four of us – and I’ll cook us a nice Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and enjoy the sunny weather and our pool. My mum and dad will not be coming up from the coast for Christmas. My Boerewors’ family are going to extended family in Pretoria for the day.

As for gifts, I know I'm getting Megan a new bike (one that she doesn't have to ride with her knees up at her ears). The bike she currently has she got when she was two years old and it’s tiny, even though we've moved the handle-bars and seat up to full height and capacity. I know I want to buy Kaylin a new doll and pram with some cute accessories. I have no idea what I'm going to get my Boerewors as usual.

Our 10th wedding anniversary is coming up this Friday, 4 December and I've organised for us to go somewhere nice for the afternoon and evening (kiddy free of course) and then his birthday is the week after that on the 14th of December and then its Christmas soon after that.

I never know what to get my Boerewors this time of year as he's the proverbial "Gadget Man" and all the stuff he really wants is way out of my price range. I hate getting him things he really doesn't want because it makes me feel like the substandard wife who never saves and plans for these three events that come really close together. For once I wish I could gt him what he wants. A BT 4 Paintball gun with all the accessories.

Also, in January its Megan’s birthday and February is Kaylin’s birthday so my anorexic piggy bank takes a knock during these three months.

This has been tough this year with no salary increase for the last two years and no pending bonus like we usually get in December.

Perhaps I could play my luck with the lottery?

Janie's Surprise 40th Birthday Celebration

A lot of time and love was put into organising my Sister, Janie's 40th Birthday party over the last week or so. Cake, decorations, food, drinks, invites, movie making, poem writing and lots of secret emails back and forth to Mick (her boyfriend) to make it a success.

Janie was indeed surprised when she arrived at The Boerewors Bar (either that or she's a much better actress than I give her credit for). We karaoked and danced and generally had a jol. The wine was flowing and we had tons of giggles.

Thanks to everyone who came to join in the celebration. I was a little disappointed that none of her friends showed up or that my mum and dad didn't put their issues aside to be there for Janie.

Nevertheless, we we still had fun.

The woman who made the cake read my email incorrectly and by the time she made the cake she only read I wanted chocolate. So she made me this other chocolate as a freebie.

The decor

The Lapa

The Props

Riaan and Percy in full swing

Shaun and Dirk

Riaan

Richard and Shaun - were we really THAT crap at the karaoke?

Shaun aka TinMan

Megan

Riaan and Mel
Mick
Janie Blowing out her candles...

The Karaoke projector on the wall.Janie and Mick
Mick, Gilz and Janie


KK and her loopy dad in the background

KK with Mick

Mandy on form
Mandy and Dirk playing silly buggers again

Janie giving S-E-R-I-A-S attitude

Gilz, KK and Janie on the mics
Janie, Riaan, Dirk and Justin giving us some toonz
The Karaoke Queen Janie
Our KK


Shaun and Donovan

A group pic without Mandy (she was taking the pic)

Megan practising her cheerleading with Justin
The guys chillin with their homemade paperplate skips...