What an amazing year!
A year filled with so much love, laughter, fun, excitement, tears, fear, anticipation and then the welcoming of the most amazing little being on planet earth!
Calling the last little bit of the year the "silly season" is spot on! I didn't even get a change to blog all that often, 'cause we've been entertaining, been entertained, been holidaying and been enjoying the company of some amazing "long lost" friends!
The last couple of weeks before saying our goodbyes to 2009 ...
We went to Kirstenbosch Gardens for Carols by Candlelight with the Nevelings, unfortunately Luca couldn't join us, so our little Frog truly missed his friend, but had an absolute blast with us oldies!
Martin, Kels and baby Neveling :)
John and I with our little wrapped up Troy!
The hundreds of people with their candles, singing carols and enjoying the beauty of a Cape Town summers night!
Love my little family!
So another Big Woollam Braai! We decided to host a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, Goodbye Cape Town and Saints Reunion Braai all in one! We had some blasts from the past and some amazing friends we have not seen in ages join us at our home and as always, had a fabulous day in the sun!
John getting ready before our friends arrived
All ready ... now relax and wait ...
Our house all Christmassed out!
Pool ready!
Yeay ... our first guests arrived!
BFF's ... Beth (bride to be) and I
Mike and John
The Hoopers and Troy!
Little Luca crawling ALL over the place!
Loving Christmas!
A pool filled with happy people!
The cutest little foot!!!!
Our BEAUTIFUL little boy!
Mommy absolutely LOVES her boy!
Eskimo kisses!
John & Lloyd relaxing in the pool!
Beth finding characters in the clouds.
Ross & Neil's friend from the UK
Neil Solomon & his wife with Ivan
Bethy giving the cutest boy kisses!
Blowing bubbles!
Rory, Beth and Troy!
Rory and the Frog!
All the boys loving Troy!
Ivan, Neil, Matt, Rory, Lloyd, John (the proud daddy), Neil and Ross
The day before Christmas mommy and daddy had to do some last minute Christmas shopping and I decided to just chill with my bunny!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Christmas day John, my Dad, Troy and I went to visit my Aunt, Tannie Letta, my cousins, Suzette and Danie and Suzette's little girl, Tara in Wellington, we ate the most amazing food (as always) and had so much fun seeing our family again!
Tara and Troy, the first Grandchildren in the family!
Ouma and Oupa with their grandchildren!
Rudi, die foto is vir jou!!! Tannie Letta het alweer haar spesiale chocolate rol gemaak, toe MOES ons vir jou 'n fototjie stuur!
Tara with her I love Kentucky shirt that Danie bought during his last trip to Lexington!
Oupa and his little reindeer!
Loving his Christmas outfit!
Our family photo, but we missed my brother and Katinka so much!
Tannie Letta, Danie, Suzette and Tara!
Tara and her Uncle Danie!
Loving my dad!
Our Christmas Sunset while driving home! How beautiful!
Troy visiting the Hoopers!
Beth, Troy and I
Our boy for his first Christmas!
On the 27th of December my dad flew to France to go visit my brother, at the airport my dad was very careful holding Troy, he didn't want to get any spit-up on the clothes he was going to sit in for the next 18 hours, having checked all his other clothes. I just saw my dads big blue eyes go even bigger when he showed me his hand covered in poo ... hole in the nappy! So off we run to the mothers room to change Troy and to clean my dads pants before they called him for boarding. As I took Troy's nappy off, I realised I didn't have another one with me ... I know, I know!!! So made my own old-aged version to keep him going till we got home again. My poor dad had to wash his pants in the basin and dry it with those hand air-dryers.
Below ... my dad with his still slightly wet pants and Troy with his fancy nappy showing!
(I now carry at least 5 extra nappies wherever I go!)
Off to Hermanus for a quick beach holiday over new years ...
Martin, Kelly and Luca came to visit us at my dads house. Luca can only walk with his little trolley, so we decided to put Troy on his trolley in his bumbo and they absolutely LOVED it. I don't actually know who loved it more, us or them, 'cause we made them do it over and over again. It was the cutest thing we've ever seen!
Look at their faces, the excitement!
How cute is that????
Then off to the pool at the Hemel and Aarde Estate for a swim and some lunch!
Luca with his pasta sauce all over his face!
Troy having a swim with his daddy.
Sitting with the kidos.
Then a little bored of the pool, so off to Onrus beach we went so John could get a quick surf in.
Martin building sand castles and Luca breaking them down ... what a game!
The first time Troy put his feet in the sand!
Sandy Toets!
The next day we met up with a couple of friends at Grotto Beach. What a beautiful day!
Martin & Luca playing in the sea.
The little frog and I.
John and the frog.
Lots of love,
The Woollams ....
Team Woollams said goodbye to 2009 at 11:00 o'clock.
We can't wait to have a million more memories to share with you all in 2010!
