School Holidays

The first week of the school holidays were Awesome - for us - and the kids. For us because the kids spent the whole week at their Nanny and Poppa's house in Mt Maunganui. For the kids, because they did lots of fun stuff and didn't have time to miss their Mum and Dad

Making a hut

At the library

Craft time

Down at Hart St beach for morning tea

Poppa Dunc took Nathan to Ice Age 3

Nathan made a T.Rex with his Knex - you know it's a T.Rex because it only has two claws, a very important fact for a dinosaur expert like Nathan

A playdate with C.J - Nanny's friends grandson

Maia got a new pram and squeezes as many teddys in as possible

Maia caught out feeding the cats

The second week was back at home, chilling out around the house, visits to the park with Ayla and kael, a bikeride around the boardwalk, and a few other adventures shown below...

A visit from Cadence and Rico

After a big play outside a bit of chilling out with Kung Fu Panda was in order

At the Mall to watch Garfield and Odie

Maia was invited to Eden's 3rd birthday - the girls had lots of fun and ate lots of yummy food, Eden's mum Jan, does such a great job

Birthday Girl Eden

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Muddy Girl

Latest of the Kids

After hating the vacuum for so long, Maia has made a truce and loves it now

Nathan won a robot toy on the clown game

While spending the afternoon with Aunty Lisa Maia got her hair straightened, she looked so different, it didn't last long, her curls were back when she woke up

Ayla came to spend the day and in the afternoon the kids got to relax with a dvd

Our little helper

Moses and his look-a-like having it out

Maia and her curly mop

Don't blame it on the boogie

Glued to the tele - Maia and her bubbys - she's always clinging on to one of her many stuffed toys

Snuggly smiley kids

My little Helper

Kael came to spend the afternoon with us, after a little play with Maia she went to bed.  Not one to sit around and do nothing Kael got stuck in and helped me sweep up ALL the leaves out on the driveway, man there were heaps!!  He didn't grumble and was quite happy with his rake and broom.  He only took a couple of breaks to chase Lolly cat.  After a good solid hours work we came inside and he down 2 bikkies and a big glass of juice - well deserved!

Out the dining window

Today sitting at the dining table looking out at the beautiful day, I captured a few nice things to share with ya'll.  These being part of the beauty of where we live.

Harakeke - Flax

Piwakawaka - Fantail which was fluttering around 

Some boats chugging by

1st Month @ Dawnhaven

Well even though no one had commented on whether to keep the blog going, I thought I better keep it up every now and again just for my own records as it is good to go back over and see what we've been up to...  So here is a house update...

Our first month in the house has been great.  Good to have our own space again and to get our things out of storage.  Our weekends have been busy with a few projects and we've had a few troopers on hand helping out which is AWESOME!!!  The first big project was emptying the pond which is had DANGER written all over it, emptying it was one thing, keeping it empty was quite another and involved Dean digging a drain to put a drainage pipe in.  The boys did a great job getting it to the point it is now, 1/3 filled with scoria.  Now the next part is to fill it right in and turn it into a garden of some sort.    The other mission we had was to put curtains in the house, as it was just too cold without them and not very energy efficient.  So the Mum's helped with that job which was great as it involved a bit of sewing and I'm a bit clueless when it comes to that!