Zack is 3!

We had two days of celebrating Zack's birthday. On Friday, we had a party at Zack's school with all his class friends. On Saturday, we had all the relatives who live in Cape Town over for lunch. I could not ask for a more beautiful day. We BBQ'd fish, while the cousins played outside with all the cool new toys. Being able to celebrate birthdays with the family is what makes moving back to South Africa all the sweeter. Having a little bit of summer in the middle of winter was just the cherry on top! Zack is so proud to be 3 and I cannot believe my baby is 3 already! He loves school, drawing and jumping off things. He still loves his two blankets and drives his brother insane when he mixes the letters while singing the ABC song. Guess some things never change!

The way we like Winter :-)

The weather this past weekend was absolutely perfect and exactly the way we like to do winter… 24 degrees C and sunny. We visited the Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens on Saturday afternoon followed by the boys' highlight of the weekend - CARS 2! This was only the second time that that all 4 Harvetts went to the movies together. It is a fantastic movie and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. On Sunday Christina and Zack were not feeling too well, so they spent most of the day at home. Gavin and Aiden went on a bit of an adventure… A hike in the Silver Boom Kloof Nature reserve, followed by a game of Battleship on the beach in Gordon's Bay, followed by lunch at the Spur in Gordon's Bay and then grocery shopping for the week.

Quad bikes and Olive oil

It's been a relaxing winter weekend with lots of good sport on TV to keep us occupied, including Djokovik's first Wimbledon victory. We left the house only twice... once to go shopping for beds for the Harvett Boys (where we were sidetracked by 2 quad bikes outside the furniture store!) and once to go buy coffee and do some wine tasting. Our favorite coffee roastery is on the property of the Lourensford wine estate. It was rainy and sunny at the same time with a beautiful rainbow over the mountains. We also went to Morgenster wine estate where we tasted some of their amazing wines and Christina did an olive oil tasting. It was very cosy... next to a fire place... Aiden was reading and Zack was sniffing olive oils and eating olives with his Mommy.