Gracie comes for the weekend

Port Hills

We live in a beautiful country! The other day I took my breakfast for a walk in the hills. This was just a short drive from my house, and a shortish walk. Magic!

Knocked Up

No, not me! The movie. We went to see it the other day, a real good laugh and great dialogue, almost seemed unscripted a lot of the time. Check it out!

Recent happenings in pictorial form

These first five pics are from homegroup camp at Hanmer, this is Phil and I after hoofing it up conical hill.

Formal dinner. Phil was the one who pushed the self timer button and didn't plan it very well (hidden behind Laura)

The homegroup baby (AKA Maggie Robinson) asleep after an exhausting "walk". Do these things
come in adult sizes??

Hamish holding a child. Such a rare sight it had to be captured. Note the worried look on Maggies face!

Jenn, Ness, Laura, Kathryn up Conical Hill

Looking back towards Lyttelton

The Dewars

We went to Diamond Harbour on the ferry when Phils parents came down from wellington. This is at the Godley Heads Cafe. Check out the flowers Phil grew outta his head!!

Pilates

Have started going to Pilates at the gym. Its so trippy cos afterwards you walk away feeling a few inches taller. Great workout but quite embarrassing when you're as bad at it as I am!
This is what I'll be able to do in just a few more weeks (hardy-ha-ha -its harder than it looks!)




In other news, Phils folks are coming to visit this weekend, and we plan to do some fun stuff like going on the gondola (we drew the line at the antartic centre - its a rip-off). Photos to follow im sure. Also coming up is homegroup camp next weekend. Then once those 2 events are out of the way it'll only be 7 weeks til we head overseas!

Hammy and Ness...

....have just been round to our place for tea. Ness chastised me for not updating my blog, so this post is dedicated to you. And this photo is for Hamish, so he can understand the domestic bliss that is a mother at home with her kids. (subliminal message = hamish - kids are cool, have a couple!)
The pic is of my Mummy, me and Frank. Ain't my mumma a hottie??

Queens Birthday Weekend

Phil with the gorgeous Maisie Mitchell

Me, the Bro and Nearly-Sister-in-Law

Stormy St Clair

this is how much of a geek ive become....ive got some photos from the weekend and I can't decide whether to put them on ringo, flickr, facebook, bebo or my blog. yes, this is what ive been reduced to folks. I seriously need another hobby (and preferably one that doesn't include hairdressers - ask me if you don't know my sorry story).

As you can see, the blog won out!

Happy birthday the queen - to celebrate we went down to dunners to catch up with all our 'couple friends' including my bro Frank who's just moved down there to be closer to his darling Emily. It was a good weekend overall. Was cool to see how much Re and Jase's wee girl Maisie had grown.. and her amazing talent for covering stuff in snot and spit. You didn't hear it from me but babies are so gross!!

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This post goes out to the only 3 people who actually read this blog (if the comments on the posts are anything to go by). Soph, Anna and Celia. I love you guys!!
If I knew I had more readers I'd most definitely update this more. I think.

Anyways, heres a pic of Captain Jack Sparrow for you to show my appreciation. Im off to see Pirates 3 tomorrow night.




Not much else to report here (well nothing im gonna put on a public blog for all to see) except that I spend too much time on Facebook. I don't even know why. its cool and all but when did I turn into such a geek? guess it makes a change from trademe.

kids say the darndest things..

Theo's been coming up with some pearlers lately.
some examples..

• "don't you have 4 arms?" (when I told him I couldn't play a game with him cos my hands were full of poo-ey nappies)

• "boys turn into men, and men turn into old men and old men turn into little babies" (we had to have a discussion about mortality after that!)

• "don't even talk to me" (said repeatedly after I laughed at him for being grouchy - this guy is 2 remember - imagine him as a teenager!)

Orana Park

sometimes I think I have sponge between my ears...

I just checked this blog to see if anyone had posted comments, and I had a fleeting thought of "why is this blog never updated?" well duh. cos its mine.

Work

"take-your-little-sister-to-work day". This is Grace going gaga over Amelie.

The little angels I look after

Jenn, Juliette and Evelyn

Easter

The May kids

Beths B'day Cake

We went to Blenheim for easter, to see the family and attend Beths 3rd Birthday party. Had a great time apart from the random bout of chundering that struck me down on sunday night. Mum and Dad have moved into a rental so it was weird not being at the usual place, but its homely all the same. More photos on flickr of course! We bought Gracie, Ru and Beth back to chch with us so its a full house at the moment!

aaaages ago

So Brown!

Um, I think we were being sofa kings. It was funny at the time.

You have to make your own fun in Roxburgh. Sumo westling seemed like a good way to pass the time.

A Letter from Phil!!

Rumaging thru my old stuff in the garage I found a cd I forgot I had, with pictures of my summer in Roxburgh (Remai I hope you're reading this!) in 03/04. Heres a few but ive put some more up on flickr (follow the link to the right). They're probably only funny if you were actually there.

Europe!

Soon i will be sitting in a cafe in Paris eating one of these.

Or in London eating this.

As previously mentioned we're off for a holiday later this year. Im so excited! Nothing new has happened recently, so im just posting about old stuff. We still haven't thought much about where we're gonna go in Europe, apart from Paris to see Soph. Suggestions/reccommendations anyone?
We're off to blenheim this weekend for our god-daughters 3rd birthday.
Happy Easter everyone!

ib god a cold.

A nasty common-garden-variety cold. Which is unfortunately an occupational hazard for me. The kids, their mum, and I were all a pretty sorry lot this afternoon. On the upside I had a good weekend, lots of people from Dunedin were up for a wedding, so we had Tim staying with us, and caught up with Anna and Matt on Sunday. Its always too long between seeing all our Dunedin friends, so we're thinking of doing a trip down sometime maybe a few weeks after easter.

Me and Phil

This is my fave pic of me and Phil from Chris and Kates wedding.. its pretty good for self-taken shot aye?? can't hardly tell..I was gonna put a whole lot more photos on here, but most of the ones I wanted to put on are already on flickr, so just go there!

Omega Plums

Has anyone else discovered the joys of these? I did, last year, and ive been waiting all year for them to come back in season. FINALLY I found them, ridiculously expensive, at a gourmet deli down the road. I captured the rapturous occasion of the first bite to share with you all..

Photo link

Heres the link for my flickr photos. (I think)
http://flickr.com/photos/65498971@N00/

didya miss me??

Im baaack in business baby!! finally remembered how to work this blog thing.
Although I can't figure out how to have a links section thingy like other people have in their blogs. Anyone clue me in on that?? I don't know html or whatever so if its too hard ill just flag it.
Its been a while since I last posted. We are having a spectacular thunderstorm here in chch, thunder/lightening, the whole works!
In other news, we've just booked tickets for our trip to europe (goodbye savings!). At this stage we've just booked flights in and out of London (arriving 11 Sept, Leaving UK 5 Nov with 4 nights in Singapore on the way back), and we're yet to plan what we're doing/where we're going in between. Im so excited - except when I picture me in Europe I kinda look like Lindsay Lohan. So better start working on that!

Ive figured out that its easier to post photos on flickr than on here, so ill try and post a link so you can check out what we've been up to (the usual really, attending weddings etc).

Heres a pic though, so you can see how much im enjoying my nanny work. This is Amelie (in yellow) and Juliette (in pink). This was taken a few weeks ago when they were about 4 weeks old I think.