TREASURING RARE MOMENTS

You must be getting sick and tired of seeing photos of Blayze, but these moments are very few and far between, so we try to make the most of them. The little girl is Shaonehtea, Blayze's half sister. We call her Shao (rhymes with plough). She is very sweet with Blayze, but I don't know if she likes that Blayze gets a little more attention than she does.

BLAYZE - 3 MONTHS

Yay!! Bevan came over again yesterday. What a treat. I am so loving getting to know this little chap! He is really chubby and cuddly, but also full of dribble and oopsies! (as you can see on his tracksuit top). Bevan stayed for longer than he has ever stayed ... about 45 minutes so I lapped up all the precious moments. Wow, what a feeling! ('Scuse the pj's - was having a lazy morning!!)

MANGWANANI SPA

Mel and I were given a voucher for the Mangwanani Spa at Sibaya on Friday night. On arrival we were given cheese and biscuits and old brown sherry. Then we were given a white gown and slippers for the evening. Every time the zulu drums rolled, we were ushered off to another section of the spa. We started with a foot massage (up to the knee actually). It started off really well - was soothing and relaxing, but as time passed, we both began to grimace and soon it was jolly painful! I wanted to take photos but the ladies doing the massage did not seem too impressed, so I packed away my camera. The shot below is of Mel in his white gown and slippers!! This is where we had the foot massage.

Mel took this photo really quickly - sorry it's a bit blurred!!

We were then served dinner after the foot 'battering' and then we went on to having a full body massage with hot stone therapy. OH MY WORD! I think my therapist decided that she was going to massage my large buns away!! Maybe she thought they were knots that needed to go!! I was actually writhing in pain before she realised she had better relax a bit. I am still bruised - two days later!! Mel loved it!! Would I go again - no - I don't think so. I thought it was supposed to be RELAXING! At the end of the full body massage, we were served a tot of Amarula - I needed something stronger than that!

RUGBY FINAL

We went to the Milnes for supper and the Rugby final on Saturday. Loren and Kris and their boys were there as well. We 'pigged out' on chips and pretzels while the match was on, and then Zanne dished up some yummy home-made soup.

We don't look like we are having any fun, but we really did and SA (the Blue Bulls) won the rugby.

Jason and Ryan kept us all entertained while the adverts were on!!

Devon is the most sought after baby-sitter in town!! Love you, Dev!

KRAZY KAYLZ

I just love Kayley to bits ... her enthusiasm and energy just bubble out from her. She is such a breath of fresh air. And she has her daddy wrapped around her little finger!! Today Kaylz made me a necklace and bracelets to match. They're really pretty ... she is so creative and her work is always so neat and tidy.

She also made this pink necklace for me a while ago. Krystal and Kay are really talented - I love their new, fresh ideas.

And I thought I would just show you a "19 voetsak" pram that an old lady gave to me. Its about 52 years old!!!! It was up in her attic and rusting to pieces. So I cleaned it up and resprayed it. It has amazing suspension but rather huge and clumsy and isn't exactly easy to manoevre. Both Kayley and Krystal said I need to keep it for when they have kids. The problem is where do I keep it in the meantime???

MORE PICS OF BLAYZE

Here are the latest photos of Blayze, Jacquie and Bevan. They were taken this morning by Krystal. We're really sad that we missed their visit. So don't feel bad that you are only seeing photos of them - so are we!! Blayze is getting cuter by the day. Hope you enjoy scrolling through the pics as much as we did.

OUR NEW HOME

This is our new home - 20 Rapson Road. It is a Tuscan style home and is only about 5 years old, so the finishes and colours are nice and neutral. This is the front of the house as you come down the driveway. It has a double garage (you can't see it in this picture), but they are nice big wooden garage doors that work on a motor. Yahoo!
This is our front door - nice and wide. It leads straight into the open plan lounge/dining room. Excuse the furniture - it belongs to the old couple who are still living in the house. I can't wait to put my furniture in - I have it all laid out in my head!! The doors at the back of the lounge leads onto a HUGE verandah.

The bedrooms are nice and spacious with tons of built in cupboards. I may change the colours on the walls but I can live with these colours for a while.

This is the dining room - rather cluttered. I don't think my dining room table is going to fit in, so I may just put it on the verandah, or I will have to downsize.

This is the front entrance.

And here is the kitchen - it is identical to the colours I have in my existing home ... just 1/3 of the size!!! But it has a huge corner pantry cupboard - I'm grateful for that!! It has black granite counter tops too! This wooden counter at the front of the photo is a kind of breakfast counter with bar stools. The old lady is going to leave us her stove - she says its a lovely old stove but I'm not sure that I won't change it!! Not that I do much cooking, but it must at least look good!!

This is the lounge.

Another angle from the kitchen looking across to the dining room and verandah.

Sorry there are no pictures of the bathrooms and the main bedroom - don't know why the agents didn't take pics of them, but when I go and visit the house again, I will take more pics. We move ... hopefully ... and the end of June, but we are waiting for confirmation of that. If not then maybe end July. End of June would be great cos we will be on school holidays then so it would suit us better.

This is a view from the garden onto the verandah. It doesn really give you any idea of how big the verandah actually is. We don't have a pool, but we will probably put in a small splash pool before summer.