Promise I will update this weekend - only been six months....
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
just a wee bit overdue...
Ingrid said she would write the next blog. (A great slogan for the next Tui Billboard I reckon). Before she does a couple of photo's and quick blurb below.
Max unfortunately deleted most of the photo's on my phone so I have bugger all to show - all the photos ans video's of his 3rd birthday too. The little bugger plays with the phone more than I do!.
Max has finally graduated to a big boys bed.
Sophie and Max's house they made at the park.
Max's other girlfriend
The little basketball star
Cruising the mall
I tried to hide the bodies...crap job really.
Sophie enjoying the pool - even in Autumn
Friday, January 13, 2012
Christmas and stuff
I noticed the other day that it's been nearly six-weeks since my last post. I am a little annoyed I haven't kept it up as much as I would have liked too, but the main reason for my slackness is this bloody blog! It takes sooooo long to format and load photos that it drives me batty. I started loading photos around midday (yesterday now) and I've had to go back and re-load 3-4 times because it keeps crashing. Face book is WAY easier but I don't really want a bunch of people I hardly know reading all about the kids. Anyway, I'll give it another few weeks and see how it goes., but I feel better now I've had my rant.
Christmas was very cruisy this year - we had Mike and Carol (Ingrid's father and his wife) up for a few days along with mum. Mike and Carol stayed in their very cool house bus and mum stayed with us. Christmas Day was a stunner and Sophie and I spent a lot of it in the pool. Max won't go in the pool yet, he has a real phobia when it comes to getting his hair wet, to the point where bath times these days are nothing short of traumatic, the poor bugger gets hysterical and almost passes out with fear. No one knows why either.
Mum took Sophie down to New Plymouth for 5 days after Christmas and from all accounts they both had a wonderful time. It sounds a bit mean, but it was kind cool spending a stack of 1 on 1 time with Max while Sophie was away, something we haven't done a lot of.
The rest of us went down to New Plymouth last week and stayed at mums for 5 days. It's always great going back home, except the more we go , the more Ingrid gets home sick. It would be a great place to live and bring up the kids their, but we'll have to wait and see if anything ever eventuates with work there.
While we were there, we did a cool day trip around the mountain and stopped off at a couple of coastal beaches along the way and found time to take in the lights at Pukekura Park one night too with Sophie, she absolutely LOVED it - I reckon the lights are the best I've seen yet!
Next week we're all off to stay at Ngungaru, a small beach town near Tutakaka in Northland. I manged to scam a free bach for 6 nights form a mate at work - fingers crossed the weather holds out!
Lots more happening - Sophie is enrolled in her new school :"Sunnybrae Primary" and starts early Feb, she's really looking forward to it because she'll be in the same class as two of her former KidsKlub buddies Isaac and Tailor. Anyway, blog has crashed again so I'll sign off. Ciao.
Max is growing up so fast. He'll be 3 next month, and despite his phobia over wet hair...he's an awesome kid.
Sophie has grown into a beautiful young girl who finished top of her class at school and knows far too many things for a 5 year old
So many presents - the kids were spoilt rotten by everyone and Santa!
Happy holidays.
Mike and Carol enjoying some grand kids time
Sophie loves climbing, sports and athletics too
Some Christmas day play with mummy
sibling love!
Sophie on Xmas day - she's getting pretty good at diving in and going under now too
Taking after her Auntie Rochelle in the kitchen - a cool pressie
A well deserved beer on Xmas day...life is tough sometimes
Max and his train set. He loves it!
We took mum to Piha beach for a day, Sophie and I climbed up Lion Rock - great beach!
Max loves to copy everything Sophie does.
My gorgeous wife and little man.
Happy times at Nana's place.
Helping Auntie Rochelle make a birthday cake for Nana
"Say cheese Max!"
Sophie was in her element - she has a little stage at home that she performs on each night - today she got to experience a real stage was on cloud nine!
In the Fernery at Pukekura Lights.
Daddy cleaning up the beach at Oakura.
A little more salt in this thing than our pool...
Sophie the water-rat
Massive Wave!
Max and Daddy around the same age
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Rugby World Cup Champions!
A picture says a thousand words.
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A great deal has happened since my last post. We've had our survey results and The Rock is number 1 music brand in NZ for the 6th consecutive year; Max and Sophie have both had nasty virus's (at different times), Sophie had 2 weeks of school holidays, Grantz stayed for a few days over the holidays which was great, Mike and Carol, along with Tara and Graham (Carol's daughter and new husband) came up for the Semi Final stay for a couple of days and of course; I managed to get to 4 Massive RWC games all for free! and The All Blacks are Rugby World Cup Champions!
Fish & Chips at the beach on Game Day
Good mates Sophie and Leo
Max looking more cute each day
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Sophie spent a day with the neighbours on Saturday during Labour weekend, so we returned the favour on Sunday (Game Day) and took Leo and the kids to Orewa Beach for the day - they had an absolute blast and it was good to see Max isn't as scared of the water this time around. Yes summer is well and truly on it's way and I can't wait.
We had a couple of invites to watch the RWC Final at friends houses and at different bars in town, but we struggled to find babysitters (I guess they all wanted to watch the game too!) So we thought it would be nice if we invited Row and Justin and their two kids, Sabine and Piper around for a BBQ evening in front of the telly...and a couple of beers to boot. We all had a great night and the kids knew something special was happening - as none of them wanted to go to bed so they all ended up staying up super late while watching most of the game! Max is pretty clever and recognises and yells out every time he sees The All Blacks logo and Sophie seems to understand the magnitude of what happened and has been asking a zillion questions about Rugby and other countries taking part.
The day aftert the big win, we wanted to show our support so we headed into town along with 250,000 other Aucklanders and stood and cheered on our boys in black during the parade. Two out of the four of us enjoyed it! (that's all I've got to say on that one)
Loads of fun on the trampoline
Half time 10pm RWC. -kids have progressed from the 'over-tired' stage to the 'gone freakin crazy' stage.
Just a couple of people in town for the parade!
at least someone was happy to be there!
We got pretty close in the end
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I've kept the pool clean all winter as it's been easy and relatively inexpensive to maintain, a few bags of salt every few weeks, a vacuum once a fortnight and making sure the pump goes on for a hour or two each day, pretty easy. The water's been tested a couple of times and it's in tip-top condition for summer. I've even braved the elements a couple of times and jumped in...and then very quickly jumped out.
Both kids love playing by the pool (while we're watching them of course). Bring on Summer-time!
Fun outdoors
Yum...a cockroach ice-cream!
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