Deans Birthday Weekend

Last weekend for Dean's birthday we went camping at Tawharanui. It was a nice weekend. The whanau came up with the fishing torpedo, so they put that out a couple of times. We got about 5 snapper, 4 small ones, and one rather big one, the pics don't do it justice really.


The beach at Tawharanui, Dean went for a snorkle and as it is a marine reserve there he saw lots of cool fish.


Alicia and the kids building a sand castle




One of the smaller fish just fit in our pan, yum!


In Leigh

Birthday pics

Yesterday I turned 31!! So i'm in my thirties now. Had a good day. Started off at playgroup where I gave some of my brochures out to the mums there. Then Lisa bought some coffee and cake over, and Dean bought home some lunch. Then Nathan took me to the zoo, well I took him :)



Up close and personal with Oz the tiger from Israel, we helped bring him over by buying a $10 tiger tail, which in turn helped us win an electric guitar (see blog way further down)



Lazarus the Lion

Dean and I having pizza at Mission Bay before our touch rugby game

Nanny Mardi's Visit

Our trip to the Auckland Museum



Eeew, lots and lots of cockroaches..






LUNCHTIME OUTSIDE
Going for the wasabi

Tackling some sushi

The Cowley's Housewarming

On Saturday we ventured out South to Manurewa to visit Donna and Ali's new house. It was great to catch up with them and see the lovely house they've bought. The kids had a great time tearing around the place, I also had a great time eating Donna's divine Chocolate brownies!!

Marcus' 1st Birthday

Today we went to Marcus' 1st birthday party. Marcus and his mum Lisa go to our playgroup and Mainly Music group too. Lisa did a great job with the party, there was yummy food a cool cake and a playground for the kids. Happy Birthday Marcus!!


The cool cake

Nathan with the Birthday boy

The Park Has been Mowed

Dean, Nathan and Moses took advantage of the newly mowed reserve next door. They kicked the soccer ball around and then played in the hay. Moses quite enjoyed being covered in it by Nathan. He puts up with a lot our poor cat, he is quite tolerant, thankfully.

New Table and Chairs

I bought Nathan a table and 2 chairs from the Warehouse and when we got home I told him one of the chairs was for Ayla so for the whole week he was dragging the chair around saying 'Ayla Ayla'. It is rare for them to go a whole week without seeing each other and it seemed he couldn't wait for her to get to sit on 'her' chair.

Warming up the seat for Ayla is 'Moo', having weetbix and peaches for breakfast...




Yay!! She finally gets to sit on her chair

And later that day a bit of dinner together...

Parents and Child Expo

Nathan and Ayla are always so excited to see each other, even though they see each other so often. It's lovely seeing them being nice with each other, they give each other kisses and cuddles. Here they are holding hands on their way to the expo :) The expo is good for sussing out all the cool things out there for parents and kiddies and also to score heaps of freebies!! The kids get to enjoy a bit of Banana's in Pyjama's too.

Preschool Day Out

Nathan goes to Daycare on Wednesday afternoons, his cousin Ayla goes two days a week too. On thursday they had a morning over at the Primary School for the 'Travel Wise' morning. They had an obstacle course and then we did a mini walk-a-thon to raise money. They had lots of fun as you can see.

Moments in Motion

Hello friends,
Well I've slowly been getting myself organised as far as my business goes. I would like to show you my temporary website. I've opted at this stage to create a blog site as it is free :) Hopefully I have enough information in here so people know what I will have to offer. I'm also doing up Brochures to hand out to all the mums at the various playgroups we attend, and also just to whoever I come across. This is my initial marketing strategy. Nothing huge, but a start nonetheless.

You will find me at
http://momentsinmotion.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to comment or give any advice you think might be helpful. Also feel free to refer anyone you know may be interested in using the service to the website, he he.
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Thanks

Back to the grind

Back from a great two weeks, we got into a bit of spring cleaning. Nathan helped me with the windows, and the next day when we finished them off he cooled off in the bucket which he was loving so much I got the bigger tub to put him in.

School Holidays - 2nd Week

Contemplating life, in Mt Maunganui

School Holidays

We went up to Coopers Beach again for the holidays. This time the boys took some time off work and came up too, they heard how much fish Eddie was catching on the new torpedo they couldn't resist. It was a good investment, even though on an evening fish it got snagged and we thought it was lost forever, but they went out the next morning on the dingy and rescued it. So we had heaps of snapper to eat, and heaps of mussels too, as you just need to walk out onto the rock to get them. The kids had a great time. Nathan went earlier in the week with his Nana, and didn't even miss me. I missed him a little bit but actually enjoyed my time to myself and got heaps done, like sleeping in :)



the bubs and their daddy's


Fishing on the new family investment, 'the torpedo' it has been named betty, don't ask me why. Betty nearly went missing, but the boys saved her and she caught us heapsa fish over the 4 days we were there.


fishing with Uncle Eddie



ayla the pink frog

giving a flower to Nana

It's hard to see in this pic but Nathan has the funniest ice cream eating style, he opens his mouth real wide and has a quick lick, and it's like he gets a fright each time

This is Ayla's been at the beach all day hairdo