Nostalgia - The 90's my favourite memories, movies and music

Who could ever forget

• "Stay" by Lisa Loeb


• U2 (All)


• "If it makes you happy" or "All I wanna do" by Sheryl Crow


• "Ironic" and "head over Feet" by Alanis Morissette


• "I don't wanna miss a thing" the animal cracker seen by Aerosmith


• Madonna (All)


• the Police ( not sure if that is the 90's, but that's when I loved it)


• "Gigantic" by The Pixies


• "Just another day without you" by Jon Secada


• The Fugees and Lauren Hill


• "This Kiss" Faith Hill


• Jamiroquai!!!


• The Macarena!


• The Spice Girls....Wannabe...lol


• "Wonderwall" Oasis


• Getting jiggy with it - Will Smith


• Summertime - DJ Jazzy jeff and the fresh prince (remember fresh prince of belair)


• last but NOT least, Counting Crows, Live, The goo goo dolls and REM.

Movies! the best movies!

• Forrest Gump


• Armagedon


• Shindlers List


• Saving Private Ryan


• Four Weddings and a funeral


• The Lion King


• Jerry Maguire


• The last of the Mohicans


• Dirty Dancing ( can't remember if this came out in the 90's or not, just remember watchng it over and over again in highschool)

Memories:

• Coming home early after exams and swimming


• Block days


• the smell of rain and freshly cut grass in Goedehoop cresent.


• Working Mareijkes


• Greek walnut cake and the huge salads at Mareijkes


• Competing in the highschool night galas and the smell of chlorine :) (is that a good thing?)


• Youth conventions bond fires and shaving cream fights, staying up all night and being so tired the next morning you feel sick.


• Mom's sunday lunches


• Sunday afternoon sleeps


• Sunday afternoon scones with jam and cream


• Ryan Haw tripping Yvonne as she came out of the Welkom Chapel.


• Mom kicking Martin in goonies when she thought he was smacking Warren. (needless to say he was speachless, breathless among other things - luckily they had had their last baby by then :0)


• lying on those pink couches in front of the big window in the lounge in winter


• The big white kitchen in goedehoop cresent


• dust storms while walking to mutual on a tuesday night.


• running away from the neighbours because Warren broke a street light....lol


• standing on the back of the bakkie singing recovering the satelites by counting crows with Warren (screaming actually)


• pretending to be asleep when my seminary teacher came to collect us for early morning seminary.


• going to seminary in my PJ's and taking my duvet with.

I have so many great memories shared with so many great people in my life :) I am sure that I have missed a whole bunch of great songs and movies and memories but these are the ones that put a smile on my face when i think of them.......

Happy Birthday Dad!!

Now you can start crossing off that 'bucket list' you've taken 55 years to create :)

We love you and miss you so much, I only wish that we could be there to share your birthday with you.

Butterfly kisses

Whackhead and Obama prank Malema

If you aren't South African you might not find this funny.

To Gran with love......Cheeky Chops

It's been a while but I have finally found a gap :) I love pictures for many reasons but my favourite one today is the fact that they capture each moment perfectly and so it enables me to just upload - without having to type out looooong dissertations you can see what we have all been up to.

All the U/8 boys playing mini cricket at the Wanderers stadium.

Emma and Leah playing at the Bakers mini cricket day.

Reece and his buddies at the Bakers mini cricket clinic, they had a full day of fun and games. it was also televised on Super Sport.

Reece and his buddies at the bakers mini cricket clinic.

Reece swam at the Westrand gala and did really well :)

Caibryn and Drew having fun.

Getting ready for the Moscow circus

getting ready for bed.

Em and Caibryn singing in the bath.

My two bubble bearded beauties.

A gorgeous view from the flat in Balito, Thanks mom and dad for a great holiday! it's horrible being so far away from you all.

Another view from the top :)

Reece at the sharks board in Umghlanga.

Em at the sharks board in Umghlanga.

That is as close as she would go :) it took forever to convince her that the shark was actually dead - she only agreed after Reece touched it.

Lakeisha, Emma, Caibryn, Laya and Elisha.

Em and Caibryn

Very proud of these :) even if I do say so myself - made them from scratch!

Em and her friends on her birthday

Emma and her friends on her birthday.

Caibryn's birthday - she had her face painted and had a blast with her cousins at spur.

Caibryn's birthday take two - she had a cake and party at school with Pauline and her friends.

Drew at 4 months old, he is growing so quickly and is so much fun!! always happy, even when he has reason not to be :)

Mom and Drew, the day he was born - what a day......I have more pictures on another computer so I will have to blog about this very special day soon

Reece and Drew meet for the first time:)

Catch you up :)

I know that i have been really bad with updating my blog, I promise to get that all sorted out this week (mom :) )

Watch this space ;)

Terrified

For all my fellow American Idol fans, Didi sang a song by Kara Dioguardi called "Terrified" the clip of her singing isn't very long so here is one of Kara and Jason Reeves singing.... I wasn't sure of how Kara sounded but i think it's my new favourite song for this season so far, I love this song!

Hope you enjoy it as much as i did..... P.S. they only start singing around a minute and a half into the clip.