Sunday, April 17, 2016

Whooops.... a bit late!

Well.... let's just say that time has slipped away on me :)  Here are a few photos of our goings on in March and fingers crossed I'm more organized at the end of this month, though no guarantees!

The month started out great with a road trip up to Snell's Beach for Patrick's 21st.  Great weather the whole weekend! The kids both had flat travellers to show around (a kind of penpal think) and we all enjoyed relaxing, seeing family, catching up with friends and sight-seeing.

Up in Snell's beach

 Daniel has now been made a leader of his posse in Keas so the incentive to go along to each week's meeting is at an all time high!  Here he is in full uniform with his flat traveller from USA. He  had to write in a journal for the flat traveller while it is visiting for 2 weeks.

On the deck at home ready to go to Keas

 Finally his front tooth decided to come out! They are slowly being released and he is slowly growing in his big teeth.... still have the gap from this one though :)

Yay... another tooth for the tooth fairy.

 As usual Liam has been super busy with the house renovations.  Downstairs is pretty much done apart from the carpet which is coming at the end of April and some windows which will be done around the same time.  So exciting that the vision we had 6 years ago is becoming a reality thanks to himself and his handiwork!

Downstairs kitchenette

As I have probably mentioned before themselves each have a night to cook.  Daniel decided to stretch himself from pizzas and make a bacon and egg pie.  Just had to share as he did such an amazing job and even the vegetarian could appreciate it :)  He has an eye for detail that boy as you can see in the decoration that he insisted on. 

Daniel's Bacon and Egg Pie.

Well the weather has certainly been more summer like that autumn however the pumpkin harvest has begun.   Think the heaviest in this picture is 3.9 kg as Jasmine decided to compare them all and order them however we have had a few bigger ones since.

First batch of pumpkins

 With all the warm weather it seems that a few butterflies have been fooled into thinking it isn't Autumn too.  The kids found a caterpillar on a rather sad looking swan planet however by the time we came back from shopping for more swan plants it was safely snuggled up.

Fingers crossed it can hatch before a cold snap arrives
With our plans of getting a house-bus ever present I have been doing a little de-cluttering of my wardrobe.  Themselves had a great old time trying everything on, singing and dancing around.... cheeky monkeys!

The de-clutter dress up

Well just a quick one as it is so late and I'm mindful I'll have to be doing this again in a few weeks :)

Hope this finds you all happy, healthy and enjoying the awesome weather.

Arohanui