Sleep-over

The weekend of the 10th August has been a particularly busy one for our family. We invited our three oldest Nieces and Nephew to come to the farm for a weekend away from home which we hoped they would enjoy before going back to School. We were also having a spit braai for Sunday lunch as a surprise for Nikki (Adam's Sister) as her birthday is the 16th August. 

I picked up the children on Friday Afternoon and we got home just in time to have a really nice braai (we each made our own dampers) before it was time to tidy up and get ready for bed. Adam and Joshua were camping outside for the night and just as they were putting up the tent it started to spit. Thankfully they managed to get the tent up and bed sorted out before anything got to wet. Elijah was not to sure who to look after first. He spent about half an hour running up the stairs to check on the girls and then running outside to see what the tent was all about. He eventually settled with the men outside in the tent and did a really good job at guarding them (as they were all still there in the morning!)

Saturday was fairly misserable. As a result we could not go for a walk we had planned and we could not do the picknick we had hoped for either so we watched a movie in the morning, then had a chocolate fondue made out of mars bars for lunch. There was different fruits and some mazipan to dunk in the chocolate and the kids seemed to enjoy the fruit more than the chocolate which I thought was rather good of them. We spent a little time in the afternoon playing UNO and then watched another movie. After this the kids had their baths and then it was time to make our own pizza's. We bought miniture pizza bases from ASDA which we then proceeded to individualise and then nosh while we watched another movie. Soon after that it was time for bed. Even Adam and I crashed just after 9pm, it is rather tireing having children, hopefully I never have triplets!

Sunday dawned cold, overcast and rainy, Today was the suprise birthday so after breakfast Joshua went to help Adam with the construction of the spitbraai and the girls helped me clean the kitchen, sort out the barn so that we could have the braai there as it was raining and then we got going with some Vegetable sosaties. The girls are a dab hand at cutting and skewering vegetables on a stick, we had 20 sosaties in no time. By this time Nikki and Ian had arrived so all the adults congregated in the barn to watch the meat and all the kids had a fun afternoon bashing on the piano or playing X-box  games. The meat turned out a real treat - Adam did a superb job, so we were well and truly fed-up by the end of the day. 

Adam, Elijah and I crashed onto the sofa when everybody had left despite the fact that it was a truly lovely weekend and we had great fun with the children, it was nice to have the house back to ourselves.