Gardening & A Great Birthday

Greetings!

I come to you with the announcement of yet another birthday! It's my Dad's birthday today (20th). So, my Dad, brother and Mum were all born in close proximity.

This time, we ordered a cake for my Dad, we had too many homemade cakes and I think we all welcomed the change. The cake is delicious!
Oom Peet and Tannie Andra will arrive in South Africa tomorrow, they've gone for 3 weeks as usual but it just felt like longer this time, for some reason. It's always good to have them home!

The rose plants that we bought my Mum for her birthday have started to bloom! They're so beautiful!! It's amazing to see the beauty of the Lord all around us.
We've had some cold days in between the hot days, Sunday was quite cold! The temperature dropped to 3 degrees last night but today it was 26 degrees.
We transplanted the rose plants today too, I love gardening (if it's not too hot outside, that is). The garden looks great!

Last week, it stormed quite often, one time it stormed throughout the entire night and into the next morning as well! Poor little Curly was on edge!

God bless,
Sele'ha Mikhaila ~♡~

Blitzy at her heater

Curly at her place of refuge during                                    the storm 

 A close-up of a white and a pink                                                                   orchid from the garden  

The beautiful orange rose 

Another rose bud

My Dad's cake 

It was chocolate inside

Blitzy at her little window seat

Isn't she pretty?

Beautiful Flowers & a Birthday

Greetings from sunny South Africa!

Spring is definitely here, the sun is shining, flowers are blooming all around us and the air is sweet.....what more could you ask for? It's beautiful!

It was my Mom's birthday on the 7th, yes, it's so close to my brother's birthday!
Anyway, I baked a four layer vanilla cake sandwiched between chocolate buttercream, and topped with a sweet pink buttercream.
We took her out for breakfast and then we stopped at a nursery in the city, my Mom loves flowers, me too! So, we decided to buy some more rose plants. They hadn't bloomed yet and we intend to transplant them soon.

Oh, Tannie Andra and my Mom actually share a birthday by the way. Oom Peet and Tannie Andra are in America at the moment, they are busy with the preaching services in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I've uploaded plenty photos of the flowers at Claridge, it's like a botanical garden, we are so blessed to live amongst such beauty.

Have a blessed weekend!
Sele'ha Mikhaila ♡

Joshy 

I did a petal design on my Mom's cake

Birthday cards

A slice of the cake

Mmmm...

At the nursery

How cute is this wheelbarrow?

Joshy and Blitzy 

Bougainvillea

Even Blitzy admired the flowers!

The driveway

This is a weed but it's so pretty!

A Big Birthday

Hi there!

It was my brother's birthday yesterday and he's had quite a celebration!

My Mom and I baked him a huge Bible themed cake, it's a rich dark chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream sandwiched between a layer of caramel. It is delicious!! If I do say so myself. ;)
On Saturday, we took him to the Wartburg Hof for lunch, it's such a quaint, little spot. We also went there last year for my Mom's birthday I think, that was during the evening though. This time I ordered a chicken schnitzel, it was so good! Caleb got the Eisbein....their meals are big and the food is really filling, we never finish everything! My Mum and Grand-Aunt had ribs and my Dad had pork strips in a soup with bread dumplings. We had a lot of leftovers which we took home to enjoy the next day. Then, for dessert, my Dad and I had Chocolate Sundaes, my Mom had Malva Pudding with custard and Caleb and our Grand-Aunt had waffles with ice-cream. We shared and could taste a bit of everything. We were super full thereafter, as you can imagine!

That evening, a group of Russian Americans visited Claridge. The Selyukov family brought them, they were actually on their way to the main mission but they stayed over and left on Sunday morning. My Mom and I made crunchies and iced come cupcakes for the visitors.

So, yesterday we went to Spur for breakfast, it's a Native American themed restaurant.....here, in South Africa. ;) Anyway, their breakfasts are delicious, we love it there! My parents would always take us to Spur on our birthdays when we were kids. You can get the staff to sing for you and you get a complementary ice-cream if you're a member of their kids club. We decided to spare Caleb the public celebration since he's not a kid! Later I treated him to some ice-cream at Milky Lane instead, he went for chocolate sauce on his but I got Aero Mint chips on mine.

I think we can safely say that Spring is here and it has brought a taste of summer with it too, it's really hot! It's still windy but it's hot wind. I guess we are never satisfied with the weather! It's either too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry.....etc. We must learn to appreciate and enjoy every season to the fullest.

Have a lovely week!
God bless,
Sele'ha Mikhaila ♡♡♡♡

The cupcakes

Crunchies

Joshy asleep outside my window

This is how it looks from outside, he's adorable!

Caleb's birthday cake, it's a Bible

See the pages?

This is at the Wartburg Hof

The Eisbein

Chicken Schnitzel

Pork strips in a soup with bread dumplings

Ribs

Waffle with syrup and ice-cream

Malva Pudding with custard and ice-cream