Sunflowers and smarties

On Friday morning I was so excited to see our first sunflower open. I had tossed the seeds of a sunflower head from last summer into the flower bed and have been watching them grow ever since. It has inspired to plant some more!

Friday was also officially the end of the school term but as we are taking a our holiday later, we still have 2 weeks of learning ahead. The children and I however had a some fun seeing how many smarties they could get from one bowl to another before the sand ran out of the timer. Of course the best part was eating the smarties afterwards.

The children were all invited out to sleep overs that evening so hubby and I had an evening to ourselves. We had a lovely evening with a take out dinner and watched a movie.

The younger two were with with family friends and we were invited to join them last night for a delicious springbok roast. We had a wonderful evening with our friends and the children had fun lying outside on the grass, all snuggled under blankets, gazing up into the blackness of the night sprinkled with a magnificent display of stars.That's what memories are made of!