Easter in the Mount

Nathan got a Spongebob Easter egg in a cup. Here he is having a drink of milk in his cup on Good Friday morning at his Nanny and Poppa's house in the Mount.







The Weather has been beautiful, we spent a while at the beach before taking some sand home for the sandpit. Dean and Dad went fishing this day too, didn't catch too many fish though.



Saturday night Dean and I went out for dinner. The Jazz festival is on every year in Tauranga over Easter so thought we'd go out and enjoy some of the music and food. The band we thought was playing wasn't but these guys were pretty good, they played a bit of Gypsy Kings. The food at the restaurant was good too. We then headed to Erin and Logans where we chatted and watched a bit of Super 14.

Good Friday Baby

We were a bit bummed to have missed him by a day as we headed to the Mount on Thursday and our new nephew Kael arrived on Friday morning. But very excited about his arrival and that he is a healthy, gorgeous boy. Congratulations Lisa and Troy!!! Looking forward to meeting him.

At the Park eating Raisins

Last Tuesday while Lisa was at the hospital getting a check up I took the kids to the park. Here they are on their morning tea break.

Pregnancy Update

Well folks, we're half way there. 21 weeks along, 4.5 months. Feeling pretty good physically, mentally, emotionally. Not much queezyness, no weeping over nothing, a few random vacant what was I doing moments, but not too bad. Our 12 week scan revealed all is good and our 19 week scan revealed everything in good order, thank you Lord! It also revealed...... It's a girl! Yay, we are quite excited about that.
Nathan knows there is a baby in my tummy and says hello baby sometimes and gives my belly a kiss. But don't be fooled that he is all sweet and lovely coz he tries to give it a little shove sometimes too :) But I guess overall he still doesn't really know what is going on and how it's going to rock his world! Or maybe he does (see pic). Lisa, Dean's sister, is due in a week, so it'll be good to see what it is like to have two for a while before it happens to us.



12 Weeks

19 weeks

Nathan turns -Two - 2 - E Rua -

Sunday 11th March Nathan turned two. We went out to Muriwai beach for a picnic. We thought a swim might be the go until it RAINED, well the boys still got in though!! Oh well it was nice while we ate and the kids got a good play both taking turns at throwing the very fine black sand into each others eyes.

two little monkeys in a tree

It was a lowkey affair so i didn't bake a cake, but did make a chocolate two for the kids

Hmmm Chocolate!

Can't go past the honey ricies for a birthday (mostly coz mum loves them)

West Coast black sand beach

Another busy busy Weekend!!

Saturday was full on. First stop Pasifika Festival at Western Springs. The biggest pacific festival in the pacific. Each Island has it's own 'village' area set up with food stalls, craft and entertainment. All the food looked so yummy we couldn't decide what to eat, so settled on the good ol fashioned Hangi. Dean bought some out of it Tongan desert with Taro leaves and caramel or some weird mixture like that. The winners were the Pineapples hollowed out and chopped up with Ice Cream on the top!! I started getting cranky with the heat and we had to move on. Spent a good few hours though. It was home for a rest then that evening off to the Domain for the pyrotechnic display.

The neighbours are moving

Our lovely neighbours are moving at the end of the month. Who is going to feed our cat when we go away?? Who is Nathan going to yell over the fence to and play with?? Oh well, hopefully the new ones are going to be as nice, although I know they don't have two little boys to play with Nathan.

Yelling out to 'Jacit' (actual name Jacob)

Air Show and Chinese Lanterns

Saturday we went to the Whenuapai Air Show, there were some cool displays but we couldn't stay around for the more exciting stuff like the Aussies F111. Nathan loves seeing the planes land at the airbase from our house, but up close he wasn't so sure.
Nathan and I met up with Sasha at the Chinese Lantern Festival that night which was cool, although it was a bit of a mission trying to get around as it was sooo packed. He loved all the different lanterns on display. Lucky we ate before we went as we just couldn't get near the food stalls with the pram.

Married 6 Years

Last Saturday was our anniversary. We went and stayed the night at the Heritage in the city, it was a lovely sunny day and we spent the whole afternoon by the pool. They also had an indoor pool and spa as well, which was nice at about 11pm after going out for tea and walking around the city. It was a nice mini break away.

Our Weekend

We had a jam packed weekend. Saturday morning was spent at Mitre 10 Mega getting bits and pieces to get our fence started, then Dean made a start by putting some posts in. Go Dean!! Then that evening along with half of Auckland (est 80,000 people attended) we headed to Mission Bay for the Jazz and Blues Festival. Man it was packed!! We parked up in a spot near the water which was nice, but unfortunately in between stages so only got blended sound, There were lots of stages with bands playing and lots of yummy food stalls, most of which I have to steer clear of being pregnant and having to be paranoid of 'Listeria' boo for Listeria, no ham, deli food, stall food, foodcourt food, camembert cheese, oysters, raw seafood blah blah blah the list is sooo long, sorry way off subject but had to have a moan. Anyway it was a good family evening out. I don't have any pics of the crowd but it was huge.

















Sunday
Dean finished putting the fence posts in, then it was a mad rush to attend another packed out event, this time The Black Seeds playing at the zoo. If you remember this time last year we went to see Che Fu at the Zoo and Nathan won an electric guitar with his mad tiger tail dance moves. Anyway no prizes won this year but we went hard on all the freebies around, fee Gin and Tonic samples (Dean) free coffee and brownies, and free bottles of Orange Juice/Spirulina/Berry Smoothie which we scored about 7 bottles of, courtesy of Wild Bean Cafe. The concert was great other than being so packed, tickets said gates open at 6pm, Dean's workmate rang at 5.30 saying he was already in and it was already packed. So our spot wasn't the greatest but we walked around a bit an enjoyed the atmosphere and music. For those Aussies reading, The Black Seeds are yet another choice NZ band, check them out at
http://www.theblackseeds.com/