On the way home from work two weeks ago, my dad heard that 2 of the Kanonkop wines won had international awards for the best Cabernet Sauvignon and best Burgundy.  He bought a bottle of each of the wines in question at the bottle store… along with throngs of other people who’d also heard the same news bulletin.  In fact, he got almost the last bottles - the guy standing behind him took the rest of what was on the shelf!

We opened the one bottle yesterday for our Christmas lunch, and OMW it was just too yummy for words!  I just love this photo I took of my dad and his glass of wine.

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

When my mom told me that she was baking mince pies and shortbread yesterday, I invite myself for tea.  There’s nothing better at Christmas time than eating my mom’s homemade mince pies.  And this year, she managed to find Fruit mince at Woolies that is sulphur free, so Bradley could eat them too!  Connor absolutely loved them, as you can see above… he kept saying “yum yum” as he was biting into them.

Have a very merry Christmas everyone!

Love, Light and Happiness to you all.

The kids got a treat when we went to visit Marlise today, Tommie bought them all ice cream from the van driving past.  It was a huge treat for my kids… they’ve never done that before.

We went to Cameron’s party today, and the kids had a ball…. well, once Connor accepted the noise from the planes!  They live in the landing path for OR Tambo airport, so there were jumbos going over the house every 2 minutes.  Some of the planes were so big and so low that the entire garden was in shadow!  So you can imagine the noise!  It took about 2 hours before Connor was happy with the noise… which was hugely surprising seeing as he’s normally so fearless!

I was actually thrilled to finally get a photo of Cameron smiling.  It normally takes him ages to warm up to everyone when we see him at events, so it was very cool to see him so happy and relaxed at home.

Connor had a ball playing on the black bikes with the other kids.  He had to add the sound effects though as he was zooming around the driveway.

Jumping around

Bradley trying to block out the sound of the plane

The cake (made by Magnolia Bake & Cake)

“Yay, everyone is singing for me”

Trying to blow out the candles

I’ve almost finished proofing Fiona’s maternity photos from last Sunday, so I thought I’d post a few more of my favourites… and I know she’s dying to get them, so hope she’ll like to see a few more ;).

And here’s another photo of my sister Elaine, from the day she got her results

Then on Friday afternoon, Fiona and Ethan came over to our house for a swim… and a glass of wine… and look what we found floating in the pool!! Isn’t it HUGE? I needed the wine glass to show how big it was.

And yesterday, I met a few bloggers for the first time at The Kid’s birthday party. I thoroughly enjoyed the day, but I can’t post many photos because I got asked not to post any of the kids. I’ll send the photos to the mom’s in question, and then they can decide what to post on their own blogs.

Rebecca

and Angel….

… she’s Ms Cupcake Extraordinaire! Aren’t they the MOST stunning cupcakes?

…and that’s it for the week!
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