Sleepy Time

Look who decided to go for a nap in her doggie 'Einsteins' bed......

Sodwana Holiday

We had a lovely six days at Sodwana Bay Lodge in Natal. Its on the Mozambique Border so the reef there is one of the best in the world to dive at! We even got my Dad and Mom to try the course and congrats to my Dad for getting his open water certification! Was so nice to be able to dive with him. We have underwater photo's and will post as soon as I recieve them. Amber and Jessie!!

Don't ask..... Oupie and Amber...
For some or other reason my Dad can just Not pull a face for a photo!

Tired after a long day of fun in the sun

Here we are having our briefing before we launch the boat!! Mr and Mrs...

Off to sea we go. Such an amazing experiance, wish I had started sooner!! Suddenly going down 20meters seems like nothing. I saw turtles eating off the reef, little 'nemo's' in their reefs, parrot fish, sharks, moray eels, blue spotted rays, pipe fish,paperfish, sole etc..I love it!!

Mommy's Pixie was on the beach with oumie and oupie

Jess and Sias in the pool with my water baby

Sun City Nedbank Golf Weekend

WE were lucky enough to be invited to spend the weekend at sun city during the Nedbank million dollar golf challenge!

What a stunning weekend we had, with our every need taken care of.
Amber and Jess in the back seat on the way to Sun City
Having a nap on the way...

Yeah, finally arrived!!

Watching golf!!



On the bus from the hotel to the valley of wavesJessica and Amber in the bus! Amber just loved being on the bus..
My Pixie

The beautiful Valley of Waves at Sun City

Sias and Amber going down the slide. She is such a great swimmer but was very unsure in the shallow pools....


Sias having a go at trying to run inside the balls...
Thank-you Vodacom Business and Broadlink fo a absolutely stunning time!!!

Mommy's little big girl....

Guess who helped mommy put up the Christmas tree this year??

All the big silver balls were hanging on the same spot at the bottom of the tree but Amber was so cute doing it. She was a real pro....

Last year she was only 11 months old with Christmas so this year she is going to have such a blast!!! Still the only grandchild for both sides of the family so she gets to have all the undivided attention!!!!!

My Qualifying Dive

Hello guys, this is how you look twenty meters under water....What a brilliant experiance. I came face to face with sharks twice where if I stuck out my hand I could have touched them. I have added a photo of the reggie sharks we saw. We dove 30meters to see a shipwrech-WOW!!

This all in Umkomaas, about 60km from Durban. I am officially an open water diver and I cannot wait to go diving again in two weeks time, this time in Sodwana.

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Sias and myself
Totally beautiful...
Sias and Ruan having a drink on the beach after a day of diving. We had a braai on the beach!!

My Pixie is growing up...

Just some random family pics..

Amber just loves her handbag and high heel shoes...Sitting with daddy on her jungle gym at home...
Hee Hee, daddy also has to slide down. What a sight to see someone weighing 100KG + sliding down a kiddies slide
Oumie and Jess
Amber and her favourite aunt, they adore each other!

My Open Water Dive

So, after a month of lectures and two pool sessions I finally did my first two open water dives at Bass Lake this weekend. Sias has been diving for years and I finally agreed to go down with him.

Thailand snorkeling practically convinced me that I have to give it a go!!

The dives didnt go too bad as we still had plenty of skills to do down at the bottom such as taking your mask off under water and putting it back on, removing regulater, clearing mask etc. This all to qualify as a open water diver so I can dive to a depth of 18m...

We went down to 10 meters today .Next week we are going to Umkomaas to Aliwal Shaol for the see dives. Apparantly one of the top ten dive sites in the world and almost guarenteed to see Rekkies (sharks) and plenty recked ships.

Watch this space for beter pics and updates.