More Pics from our holiday

Christmas Day

Well we had a great Christmas day with Nathan. He got far too many presents for someone who isn't really that fazed, he he! It was a big day but lots of fun with the family. He got to bed at about 10.30pm. We're off on holiday tomorrow so will not be able to update blog for a couple of weeks. We're going to have a great time camping... Check in after the 11th to see how it all went.
Have a safe and happy new year ya'll.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hello Friends and Family,
The Hilliard family would like to wish you all a happy, blessed and stress free Christmas, and that you keep safe as you go on your holidays and have lots of fun!! We are looking forward to this first Christmas with our beautiful son who is going to make it extra special for us. We plan to have both sets of grandparents and his auntie and uncles and cousin Ayla over Christmas morning so we can all open our presents together, then it is a late brunch for us before we head up to visit my dad's family (40min drive). In the late afternoon we will head back to Auckland to have dinner with Dean's family. So it's going to be a busy but fun Christmas day. Well take care ya'll and take time to remember the reason for the season... Jesus :-)
Love Janna, Dean and Nathan

Eating Dirt

In between the showery weather Nathan and I headed outside to enjoy a spot of sunshine. To avoid hurting his knees on the concrete he came up with a new hands and feet way of crawling and headed to the garden to have some afternoon tea consisting of dirt, flowers and grass. I remember enjoying a bit of dirt myself back in the day, but being the modern day overprotective first time mother and considering we have a cat that poos in the garden I won't be letting him chow down on too much dirt in the future. Check out the video evidence...

Dean the Groover

Here's Dean off to his school friends 30th birthday... 70's was the style... Here's a picture to make you smile...

Rainbow's End

On Sunday we ventured out to Rainbow's End for Dean's works Christmas party for the kiddies. We had a nice bbq and Santa came to visit. There were a few things we could take nathan on, not much but hey, I got to go on a few of the big peoples rides, so it was all good. He enjoyed the balls and the merry go round but wasn't too fazed by the dragon ride. I went on the Free Fall, which is only half the size of the Giant Drop at Dream World but still fareeeaky!! Also the Roller Coaster, which is always fun :-) It was a nice day out.

Trip to the Mount

We had a few days in the Mount as Dean had to go and do some work for a client down there. It's always a good time to catch up with the whanau. We had Erin and Logan over for dinner on Sunday night, with a game of 30 seconds afterwards, good fun!!!
Monday it was out shopping for a new fridge with Mum and Dad. Tuesday we hit the beach for a short while. Nathan didn't quite know what to make of the sand, and it wasn't too good when he started rubbing it around his eyes. He didn't mind the water though, it wasn't as cold as what I thought it might be. We had a good drive home with Nathan and I posing for a few photos.

Brushing the teeth

Here is Nathan with his groovy new toothbrush getting a lesson in Oral Hygiene :-) Gotta keep those pearly whites, white I say.

New Poll

Hello People,
We have a new poll up. Not many people voted on the last one, so come on it only takes a second to do. The answers are anonymous and are for interest only.
Dean was the winner in the last poll, where 5 people thought Nathan looks like him, 1 person though he looks like me. I have to agree with the majority though. Although nobody thought he looks like Johnny Depp, I'm sure he will be about that handsome when he gets older :-)

We had mainly music this morning and with the excitement of it all Nathan got so pooped out he fell asleep right at the end. This could also be due to the fact that he woke up about 10pm after hearing the banter happening in the lounge with all the adults playing Scattergories. I did very poorly and the winners were Troy and Rob who drew. Top marks to Ueta who tried his luck at every turn with some very out there answers.

Nathan's New Trick

STANDING UP!! He was supposed to be going to sleep here, but he stood up a couple of times, thinking he was pretty clever, which he is I suppose :-) He also loves to stand up in the bath.

Water Baby

This morning we took Nathan to the pools. We have been getting him used to having water splashed on his head, and putting his face under in the bath, so he had no worries at the pool. He loved his bright orange ring that I bought him from the good ol Warehouse, and lazed about in that most of the time.

Santa comes to Playgroup

Santa came to visit us at playgroup on Thursday. Lucky Nathan isn't old enough to notice that his mummy forgot to bring a present for Santa to give him and was happy enough to play with his friends discarded wrapping paper.
He's not to sure about this Santa business, who is this funny man with the big white beard??

New Poll and Video

Check out the new poll and video in the sidebar...

WOW We're 30!!

On the 23rd Nov I turned 30 years old and Dean quickly followed on the 25th. We still feel quite young and don't have many wrinkles popping up so it's all good! We are very blessed actually to be healthy and happy and look forward to many more happy, healthy years.
I had a nice day on my birthday, Nathan and I went to the movies then we picked Dean up and had sushi for lunch on Mt Eden.
Our celebration on Saturday was cool. Unfortunately the bad weather meant we had to cancel our bbq at the park, but we had one at home with a few people over. That night we went up to Khuja Lounge where we had a private room and caught up with friends, had a boogie etc.

Bring on the Holidays!!

We took a trip to Te Kaha on the 19th/20th Nov which is on the East Coast of NZ. This is where we'll be having our Christmas break. It was a busy weekend for the blokes, getting into some hard work. They're fixing up the shed so we can have our sink and fridges in there, and they're also putting in a flush toilet off the side.. back in the day we had to endure a long drop :-/ They're also building a deck attached to the shed which will be covered and will have our bbq cookers and open fireplace. We had beautiful weather so a lot got done.