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Tamaran use to be a relief teacher at Graanveld Primary for one of the teachers that was on maternity leave and then Clarissa did her practical teaching period at the same primary school. That is how I started getting involved to take the rugby photos of this match at school. A first for me to do a rugby match of such young little ones and it was awesome to watch!

Oh, just for the record…

Birthdays, baptism and more…

I have written this more than a week ago and forgot to post it… I actually did not forgot, but lost my phone and was doing it partly on my phone and partly on my desktop. Losing my phone is a whole different post on its own! I will surely write soon and share the link on here as soon as I have done so.

It is Monday again and to keep to my resolution of posting on either every Monday or…

Love my family…

I haven’t used my WordPress account to write a post in such a long time as I was keeping my blogger blog up to date and it was just too much to do it on both of the sites. But this morning when I signed in again to do a post the warning sign came up for the 100th time that the post is not secure and so I thought let me go back to WordPress and see if I get the same warning signs, no warnings just…

From little we get told as girls that we need to be the perfect wife one day…  Heck even at Church we were told that we need to obey our husbands who in turn will obey The Lord.  So does this make me inferior to the men?  Does this mean I don’t have a say?  No and a million times NO!!!  I have equal rights to any man walking this earth.  And young ladies don’t let anybody make you believe differently!  And you men out there don’t think because your wife loves you and spoils you, that that is your right, no it’s not.  Woman in general is just more giving, more nurturing and therefore we love spoiling others, but don’t ever think that is because we have to do it!

I can actually see all of you frowning at this exact moment trying to figure out why I am so passionately going off on this topic today…  Well let me enlighten your minds.  I was listening to President Gordon B. Hinckley’s video clip ‘The Woman in Our Lives’ and he was defending the importance of Woman in this life…  Video clip for our seminary lesson this evening.

This morning I was anything but the perfect wife or example, I was up early enough, but got busy only got around to get bathed and dress after 11h00.  Never ever start your day with Family History before you have gotten dressed.  I have Wayne’s 4 generation filled and all my girls’ as well, but alas I have one ancestor that is so stubborn, and no Julie not our common ancestor Cornelia Christina Anna BAKKER, whom I would be eternally grateful for your help…  No, I am talking about my great grandmother from my Dad’s side, Maud Eliza REID, I’m struggling to find her parents, a witness on her marital certificate happens to be a William REED, they have a middle name, but boy this guy’s handwriting is BAD!!!  Anyway that’s beyond the point…  The point is don’t start searching for your missing ancestors before getting ready in the morning…

At least I have officially finished the placemats for Danielle (they were meant to be a gift at one of her kitchen teas and she’s married for a month already).  I am super stoked with myself and my corners.  Have I mentioned how I love Pinterest?

  I really had a tough time with my corners and with the tutorial of a few post combined I think I have finally figured it out and this is my method of choice now.  And with more practice, will come perfection…

I can actually tackle my UFO’s in the cupboard and finish them all.

Just need to get myself a long-arm to quilt my super big Bargello.  Maybe I should just move to the USA so I can get myself all of the tools to finish my UFO’s…  Maybe just a visit…

This was most definitely a fun top to work on, but far too big to do the quilting on my normal machine, maybe I must just try…  I can still remember how Francois and I wrecked the poor woman’s stall at the quilt-fair, but we have done well with the colours!  Francois this one is yours, eventually…

To get back to my original topic, what is perfect anyway?  I think my children are fantastic and as close to perfect as any human can be, my husband is still alive…  We eat most nights a proper cooked meal…  So what is perfect anyway? Just do yourselves a favour and listen to Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk, ‘Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually‘

As posted on my other Blog

Stunning people and I know that they will for sure make it far in life, Mr and Mrs Shao

My daughter Danielle is now a Mrs Wainwright and so she had a wedding in between as well…

  I am going to be a grandmother, not sure what I want to be called, either Nanna or Ouma…  Super excited about this new stage of our lives!

These photos was taken to announce on FB that they were expecting…

The weekend of the 24th of September was our last ‘pay weekend’ visit till after Frederik’s appearance so no visit during October…  I was allowed to take some photos, but I must add I only get to take 10 photos, thank you Francois for being so kind.

Next photos would be of my little grandson himself!

My Lissie, aka Clarissa had her matric farewell and that is just sad, as this means that my baby is also going into her next stage of her life…

I know I was taught this past week that I need to label my photos and I promise with my next batch of photos it would be labelled other than IMG…

  I love taking some photos of family members at the same time.

  And no shoot is a shoot without any black and white photos…

Or a collage or two…

Good luck with your end exams.  It is just a few short weeks and this chapter is also completed and you will enter a new stage in your life.  Enjoy every moment and make loads of memories that will last you a lifetime.

I love this quote and I don’t think I’m anywhere close to ask for any trials to come my way to grow just yet!  But it is so true that we grow the most during the ‘hard’ times in our lives.

So this is the time we normally set some goals set for the new year.  I have a few things I would love to add on my list, one is definitely to make sure that I try and stay faithful in doing my daily blog post and to keep my photography post up to date as I have been very bad with especially the photography posts.

Some goals and happenings for the year 2017:

I would like to do a quilt this year.  I have a picture in my head and would start soon, so watch this space for more about this project.

Learn something new in my photography.

Yes, I need to lose a few kilos this year.  Do a hike again…

Our last year of seminary and I’m excited for this.

My Bronwen is coming home…

So this will be an exciting year for sure!

Some of my favourite photos of this year…

I have so many more, but my dear hubby left my laptop in Zambia and I’ve stored my photos on my Apple Hard drive and can only get to it via my laptop.  Needless to say he was in the dog box for a few days about it and I’m still getting upset when I think about it.  Hopefully I will have it home soon again!

Something to think about:

Jeffrey R. Holland said: “No one makes us mad. Others don’t make us angry. Becoming angry is a conscious choice or decision. Therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!”

As I have said before I love to take photos with the family as well and we were fortunate to have Ouma Lilly and Oupa Johan there as well.  Jan (dad) thank you for your patience, Erika (mom) and Lourens (brother)  You were all absolutely champions and I struggle to choose favourites!

We had so much fun during this shoot.  We literally drove over the whole of Bethlehem…  And got such a great story line and I edited it in a different style to suit the props we used.  Just loved it!

  I love taking photos of gorgeous people…

Karina thank you so much for trusting me to take your matric farewell photos and to preserve your memories for a lifetime to come.  You looked stunning and I enjoyed doing the shoot.

I always like to include the whole family during my matric farewell shoots.  Some family photos:

Alwyn (dad) and Surita (mom) you have stunning children!  Thank you for being easy models to work with Mionè, Alwyn and Kaylee.  The Shield family was a pleasure to shoot…

My advice to any young lady is to choose a date that you know you would have fun with and that is a gentleman and would treat you well.  Mionè you done well, Gerrie is a friendly young man with wonderful manners and the camera loved him!

And obviously we need some black and white photos, I love my b&w photos!

Thank you for trusting me with your special memories.  You guys were awesome!

In life, having a friend is like a mirror and shadow; the mirror does not lie and the shadow never leaves you…  And they say that girls can survive without a boyfriend, but cannot survive without a best friend!

If you want to start preserving your memories, give me a call and book a shoot.  Remember a picture speaks a thousand words…

Thank you Laurette and Marianka for trusting me to take photos of your beautiful friendship.

It was for sure a wonderful experience and one I will most definitely attend again next year.

The airshow on the 27th of August 2016 here in Bethlehem attract thousands of people, I haven’t seen so many people in our little town, ever.  This has been the 17th year of the show and I think every year it gets better and attract more people.

Well done Dihlabeng Municipality for an awesome show this year.

Newborn

This little one is a full 5 days young and she was such a trooper.  Very strong willed little girl and so sweet!  I will do a few practice rounds to see if it is something I will get into first.  So if you know of someone that wants me to practice on their sweet tiny little humans give me a ring.

I love the sitters and it is definitely something I will do!

  These little ones were so cute and as soon as I have edited more I will do another blog post dedicated to sitters.

And we end the day with the Maternity session.  And were these ladies brave?!  They got dressed in these gorgeous maternity dresses not made for winter outside at all, but looked stunning.  Thank you Nicole and Esti for being our brave models for the day, so I could practice on you.

And once again when I’m done with the editing I will dedicate a post to each of them.