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Holiday Part 2

More pics from our holiday up north...










Little monkeys at play

Holiday part 1

Last week we went up north to Coopers Beach for the 2nd week of the school holidays. Dean's parents have a holiday house up there. It was a full house with the two bubs, Nathan and Ayla, their big cuzzie Alicia their Uncle Eddie and Nana. We had lots of fun. Lisa and I also had lots of opportunities to read our books while Nana, uncle and cuzzie Alicia doted on the kids.



At Aunty Lil's farm in Kaitaia

Ayla and Suzie


The cuzzies



At Coopers beach on the way home from Kaitaia. The rock in the background was where we got our daily feed of mussels, not huge but decent sized and yum yum yum!

Nathan's new Danish/Kiwi/Aussie friend

Last night we had Michelle and little Emma our friends from Brisbane stay the night on a short stop over. It was great to meet Emma, Nathan was very impressed with the little blond, except when she wanted to play with his toys... Sharing is not his forte

Ol mate Ron

This is my grooming routine... A good ol teeth brush, wet the wild morning birdnest down so my beautiful curls appear, and a smile to top it off


Nathan has started feeding himself, which means most times the spoon makes it and the other times... well see for yourself


Nathans new mate Ron. We stopped at McDonalds Bombay on the way home from the Mount, it was a great way for him to let out some energy in the playground, before getting back in the car. Poor kid, his mum makes him get the apple slices instead of fries and a juice or water instead of coke... What a killjoy!

Look out Mighty All Blacks

Here is a haka to rival the All Blacks. Check it out in our Videos---->

Winter

And in the blue corner, we have Nathan in the blue bear gown! He's ready to take on the winter chill... Let's get ready to rumble!!!

Netball

Tuesdays we play indoor netball. It's very handy as the kids get to play in Jumping Jacks which is in the court next door, well sometimes it's handy, other times the kids see us and have a good ol cry wanting our attention. A good morning out though, getting some much needed exercise.

Rugby

With all this soccer bombarding our tv, we thought we better stay true to the kiwi roots and went and watched some Rugby. Troy's team Kumeu were playing Silverdale, so we went up to watch.

Look out Beckham

Check out our new video of the little man playing soccer in the park next door. He's been getting up in the mornings to watch the world cup with his dad.
(put the sound on too)

I see Red, I see Red, I see Red

Happy 30th Birthday Tal's!!

Nate Pics

Today we looked after Patrick. He and Nathan went to the park and got lots of mud all over them, luck his mum packed some spare clothes. We got home to see Ayla was over to visit. Here they are having lunch.


Cheeky Monkey



Here's Nathan playing soccor in the reserve next door. There is nothing he loves more than being outside and playing with a ball.

Ayla turned 1

Last weekend we had Ayla's first birthday. The kids had a great time and far to many lollies :-) Nathan and Ayla cruised around looking very cool in their chinese outfits that Troy bought back from China.

Evolution of Dance

I know you all have pulled out some of these moves at some stage in your life, I know I still like to pull out the running man in my lounge every now and again

Make sure you have your sound on...

10 Things in my bookcase

Ok inspired by me ol mate Caleb's blog in which he listed 10 things on his work desk, but was inspired by peoples bookcases, I thought I would share with you our bookcase and 10 things on it...



1. A painting turned backwards and taped to bookcase, this is to stop Nathan from pulling all the books off the bottom few shelves. It is the very latest technology in baby guarding products, and such a great look I know.
2. A box of Mr Men books
3. A video tape of my intermediate school cultural festival
4. A bag of jigsaw puzzle pieces
5. An SLR camera
6. A 60 pack of writeable dvd's
7. A glass globe on a gold stand
8. A loony tunes case full of photos
9. Dean's dux of his computer course award (he's a clever cookie my dean)
10. Types of books include: Maori, Christian, John Grisham and other fiction, Baby info, Computer

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!!