Easter Sunday & Nana's birthday

Yesterday we went over to Taupo for my Nana's birthday. For her present we got some of the lads in the whanau to do up her gardens. We also had a lovely Roast lunch.

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.