DO YOU HAVE INSURANCE??!!

Umm, not I have not started working for a company and want to sign you up. Just wondering actually. Isn't insurance a funny thing. At this stage we have House, Contents, Car and Life. We pay this money to these companies 'JUST IN CASE' kinda sucks really but has to be done in a way. Be kinda stink if you didn't have it and your house burned down wouldn't it. Anyway why did i get onto this topic?? Well coz we took some pics of our 'contents' for record purposes and I am just putting them on the computer and thought I would share with you all some of the things we own. Hope there's no burglars reading this, sizing up our computer chair, or wall frames knowing we have insurance... Lucky this isn't an open to the world blog, and lucky strangers don't know where we live...


Our fridge, bought it new but cheap coz it had a dent in it. If you sleep on our couch you might wake in the night and think it's about to take off, it gets a real hum going sometimes.


Eeww what's that green thing on the vidcam? Don't know if we could claim back on that..


I don't think anyone would really steal these, but Dean took a photo anyway, I suppose you could claim back a hundy or so for the frames??


I think that's meant to be the chair not me



Our little piece of Australia

Random Pics

Hi Everyone,
Well feels like it's been a while since I checked in. We don't really have any interesting pics of the little man of late, maybe he's all pic'd out at the moment. He's going well though, still up to our normal activities with a new one added. There is mums indoor netball on tuesdays, the kids all play at jumping jacks which is on the court next door while the mums play netball. I really enjoyed it as I need to get some exercise, I haven't played in years and it was good getting back into it. We've got Ayla's first birthday this weekend so will have some pics from that. Other than that I thought I'd put a few random pics on to give you something new to look at... Make that quite a few


Afro


Jack Johnson and Donavon


Me and my bro


Where's Dean?


The Bump


Me and B in the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. I'm about as graceful as a brick

A couple of dags at a daggy dinner

Some pics

Boy in a basket


The Showdown


Nathan's not too keen on crayfish just yet. It was yummy though, thanks to Uncle Reid for catching it

A bit late

These pics are from a couple of weeks ago. Wendell and Emma were over from the UK and got to meet the bubbas. They think Uncle Wendell is pretty funny!!

A week in the Mount

Hi all. Well Nathan and I are having a lovely week in the Mount. Meanwhile Dean is at home trying to get rid of his cold before joining us on the weekend to catch up with Paul and Mary who are over from Brisbane. Last weekend we went to Taupo to visit Nana and Pa, so Nathan could finally meet them, his great grandparents.





Here's Nathan after discovering his Poppa's Pineapple Lumps, he ran from the bedroom into the kitchen and hid in the corner so no one could take it off him.





Today was the Tsunami false alarm. I tell you the Mount wouldn't be the greatest place to be during a tsunami, Nathan woke up extra early this morning so we could turn on the telly to see the news. We didn't panic and run for the hills, maybe we should have just in case, I know some people did. Anyway it is a beautiful day, so we went and had our lunch at the beach. We txt dean to check out the website with the Mount Webcams on, and he could see us eating our lunch. If you want to check out beautiful Mt Maunganui live, go to...
http://www.citynews.co.nz/webcams/mtbeach/

Easter

Thank you Jesus!! He's the reason we get a nice break, so let's not forget the sacrifice he was for us, and that he rose to life so that we may have life eternal. Awesome!!

Well we had a lovely Easter weekend in Waiwera (north of Auckland). The Hilliards book out the same house each year. It has a pool and spa that are heated thermally There's also some kayaks and a row boat that can be taken out right off the back door step, and quite safe for the kiddies as it only ever gets to about mid calf height. Just enough to be able to row :-) It was a pretty relaxing time, with a few outings. Dean, Nathan and I went for lunch in Puhoi. We went to the cheese factory and bought some yummy cheeses from their shop. We went to the silverdale markets on Saturday too. Other than that we swam heaps, ate heaps and veged heaps. Oh yeah we also took heaps of photos, here is a sample...

Tokoroa Old Girls

Saturday 8th April saw a few of the old crew from Tok get together. Our mums used to hang out a lot and we all played together while they had parties, or at the rugby or sqaush clubs. It's not really as bad as it may sound :-) we had heaps of fun, and they always gave us some money for a pie or some milk toffees, bonus!!. It was great catching up on what everyones been up to. Some of us hadn't seen each each other in over ten years. Most of us have little ones now, so that was cool having the kiddies hanging out. It was great fun looking over old photos and watching an old home vid from over 20 years ago, very funny!! We hope to make it an annual event.


Kelly and Paula Morrissey with their little ones


Nathan and Otis


Shannon with her bub Maddison


Maddison with Aunty Stacey


Nathan took a liking to Paula

Waiting for our bath

The Weekend

Cuzzie Alicia with birthday presents for Nathan




Nathan enjoying some Mr.Whippy




Spasifix


Ayla ringing all her friends to come down...