Frozen 4th Birthday Party!

We celebrated our dearest Nikah's 4th Frozen Birthday Party on Friday! What a celebration it were! 

DIY Snowflakes - Tutorials on Pinterest!

The Birthday Cake was a Frozen castle Layered cake, 

build with 4 x squares,

3 x circles, covered in a marbled fondant icing with various intricate details!

Ice Sticks

Table setting

We served waffles with vanilla ice cream, which each guest could decorate with various treats from their ice bucket Trees

Printed

Masks, crowns and antlers  

Jelley Ice cubes

Frozen inspired activities:

An Ice Journal Colouring book as a thank you gift - 

Throw Olaf with snowballs!

Homemade Snow - Shaving Cream and Baking Soda

Glitter Play dough table

The chuft Birthday Girl

The aftermath

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

                       

Its been months!  But we will be making a come back slowly but surely!

But first - We have a Birthday Party to throw...

 We love you too bits little precious girl! 

xxx

A month with Khai

We can't believe it has been more than a month already that we've shared our life with two little people!  What a blessing it has been so far - We rarely catch our breath but it is worth all the effort!

Hooray to many more days, months and years to come!

Freedom

*Giggles*

A slow week

We've been super busy with a few new inspiring concepts the past two weeks, hopefully all will come together very soon!  We are truly excited about it all...

On the blogging side its been slow!!

And I guess it is going to get much worse in the next couple of weeks as we are off to fetch our baby boy! Hooray! Unless I convince hubby to start blogging too...

Bare with us, as we will be sharing all the news and excitement as we figure out the ropes - 

In the meantime I leave you on a high with something Nikah said...

Ek vra haar nou die oggend of sy "A bugs life" wil kyk.

Sy sê: "Nee mamma, Nikah nie "A bugs lice" kyk nie, Nikah wil miere kyk..."

(Ons laat haar movie kyk terwyl sy haar Rooibos tee drink in die oggend tot 8 uur, daarna is dit speeltyd, so nie sal sy die heledag voor die tv sit.)

Ooh, how we adore that extra bit of afro, and a warm cuddling body early in the morning!

The Jellyfish

Tiny Handmade Slip-ons

The first pair of our handmade teeny shoes...

These beauties are really comfy and boast genuine leather inner soles and finishes

Watch this space, there will be plenty designs and styles to come!

Nikah Birthday Part II

This post is LOOONG overdue, but I accidentally stumbled across my own video that I uploaded onto YouTube without knowing or receiving any confirmation that I had done so last year already!

Bummer!

Anyway loved it way to much to let it slip a second time!

We spend the morning of her birthday at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town...  We had a total blast!

Enjoy

Nikah Says:.....

Aan tafel gisteraand gesels ek met Eugene, sy sê so ewe vir my: "Mamma nie praatie, mamma eet!"

Vanoggend toe sy my wakker maak, kom lê sy styf met haar koppie langs myne en sê: "Mamma, Nikah lief baie!" Wow, seker die mooiste ding wat enige ouer ooit kan hoor!

En die heel beste...

Net nou stap sy heel ontsteld die kamer binne met ietsie in die hand en sê: "Stoute dorin, Nikah byt het."

Ooh, ons love jou Sooo BAIE!!!

Second Bithday Part I

We've been away from home for a month!

Thus, way-far-behind in posts, but we'll try to make up as the year comes to an end...

Our little girl turned two, while we've been away, so there wasn't a major 'opskop' like we held on her first year.  But we had so much fun, being at the beach, baking her Fishy cake, going to the aquarium, having friends over for dinner, and giving her presents a whole week long, with that I think we made up for all off it!

Inspired by the beautiful coastline of SA!

THE FISHY RED VELVET BIRTHDAY CAKE:

Sift together 350g cake flour, 300g sugar, 1tsp cacao and 1tsp salt.

Blend together 1cup buttermilk, 1tsp bicarbonate of soda, 2 eggs at room temperature, 375ml of oil, 1tsp vinegar, 25ml red food colouring and 1tsp vanilla essence.

Combine with Flour mixture to form a dough, cast in three prepared individual 18cm diameter round baking tins, bake for 40min at 180 degrees Celsius.

Icing:

Mix together 250g cream cheese, 250g butter at room temperature, 2cups icing sugar and 1tsp vanilla essence.

Spread in between to layers of cake and cover the top.

For our aquatic friend, we placed two circular layers on top of each other, sliced it in half leaving a strip of approximately 6cm to form a rectangle through the center of the circle.  Then we iced the two halves back together, cut four triangles from the rectangular piece and used them for the fins.  Decorations were smarties, waver biscuits with a marshmallow and shortcake tumble as the eye. 

Yummy!

SUPER Balls - Toddler Entertainment

Did you know?

Quinoa is considered a complete protein because it has 8 essential amino acids, it is also higher in unsaturated fats and lower in carbohydrates than most other grains.  It also provides a rich balanced source of vital nutrients!

NOW THAT IS SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

The REAL pigtail

Isn't this just the sweetest thing?

Snapshots that I love

We've been REALLY slow on the blogging side the last couple of weeks!  Sorry about that... It has been quiet a emotional few - 

We were filled with sadness, loss of a loved one - We've been blessed with special moments shared between close family - We've been beyond excited, for the new adventures of other super relatives.  We squeezed in a holiday.  Had a really fantastic time catching up with a best friend - and to top it off the last three days was spent with the brother-in-law-wife-and blue-eyed-daughter, priceless. This weekend is going to be jam-packed with more family and friends!  Spare a thought for us!  In between all of this there is WORK,work,WORK, food, diapers, wine,  dishes!

Even more in LOVE!

'Can't wait for the rain to wash away the dirt from our faces'

      

Rooi Bloeisel Blom

15 months filled with something more beautiful than life itself!

I never dreamed of my little girl bouncing up and down on a valentines gift of mine a few years ago...

This tiger was the first animal that got a proper ROAR out of her! YAY!

*Love you tremendously*