The King's

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Lots on

Kids waiting outside for the others to arrive before going into the Zoo

Yeah OK - It's been a while I know, but things have been crazy lately, so here's a quick highlight package of what's been going on:

We had our 6th year wedding anniversary
Had a bunch of Rock stars filming a music video in our backyard
Ingrid got sick and has been off work for almost 2 weeks
Sophie's had three school inductions and is now only two weeks away from going school!
Max is well and truly hit the terrible two's
I've been mad busy at work and need a root canal
We sold and bought a car all in the same day

Amongst the chaos, I did manage to take a sneaky day of work a couple of weeks back and help out with taking the kids to the Zoo for the day, and man it must have been one of the hottest days we've had all summer! There were around 12 kids from Kids Klub along with 4-5 parents for the day - Soph and Max had a blast (after her traumatic experience that is...I lost lost her, but thank god for bright yellow vests and kind random strangers helping her find us all again!) After the Zoo the parents dropped the kids back at daycare for a couple of hours and we all hit the pub for a debrief...or four.

We finally ditched our Holden and traded it in today...it's been a complete pig lately and costing us a fortune in gas and getting the bloody thing fixed so got Serena from Kids Klub to come over for the afternoon and Ingrid and I went South-side and bought a Honda Accord.

We've also been to a ridiculous amount of birthday parties lately and Sophie has had a stack of play dates and is even going to the movies tomorrow for the first time ever with Leo and his parents from next door...while we're left home dealing with Lucifer's Spawn...

"look he just did a poop!"

"That's not a poop...I'll show you a poop!"

Sharing their lunch...ain't that sweet

She preferred this one to the one underneath!

Every single kid in awe watching an Elephant out in the open right in front of us!

Max wanted to stay and watch the Elephant (I think that's when I lost Soph)

Trying to make her nose grow into a trunk...

A hot day at the Zoo...so a nice cold ice block for everyone

Someones birthday party...it was pissing down so they stayed inside and watched movies

Max and his sweetheart Lilly-Rose

"Yeah so what?"

Pretending he's sweet...

Lights camera action at the Kings house!. 4 hours of filming for two scenes in a music video!

Looked like UFOs had landed in our back-yard

Out for the night on our wedding anniversary

The new car!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Happy 6 Year Anniversary

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sweet as Weekend

Ingrid and I sat back Sunday night and both said what a great weekend it was.

The weather was hot, we had plenty to do and the kids had a blast! Sophie had her first sleepover and after Sabine left on Sunday, we invited Leo our neighbour over. Sophie and Max love it when Leo's around. Ingrid took them all to the park for a while, then later we all swam in the pool and afterwards we slapped together a wicked water slide (the kids couldn't get enough of it!).

We've also started a new tradition, Sunday afternoon's we take Soph and Max to the local pub, they share a packet of chips and a glass of water together, while the two grown ups unwind with a cheeky cold one...it's pretty cool indeed.

After the pub, we ended the weekend sharing a picnic dinner with subways outside on the lawn, and to top it all off, Max and Soph went to bed nice and early to end a memorable, sweet as weekend.

The water slide was a hit

Leo from next door

Mum and Max watching on as Soph and Leo have fun on the water slide

Then kids at the pub - they love being all grown up.

Video Here of Sophie and Leo on playing.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Sophie has a sleep-over buddie

Sabine stayed over last night. Sophie had been looking forward to it all week! It was a stinking hot day so the girls swam in the pool, played with in the sprinkler, bounced onn the tramp and made lots of iceblocks.

I asked Sophie if she enjoyed having a friend over and she siad it 'yip, it was awesome'.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Max's Birthday (with photos)

Yay - Finally got the bloody photo upload working on the blog!

Our future surfer dude

A party fit for a (2-yr old) King

Max hardly moved from his spot at the head of the table all afternoon

Lots of food and lots of kids

Auntie Nicky made an awesome "Bob the Builder' cake...Max's favourite

"Bob the Builder!"

Max being a little cutie

The Pinata went down a treat with everyone

Max and his girlfriend sharing a yarn

What the?

Even snuck in a couple of beers with Nana at the party

Sophie and dad hanging at the beach the next day.

Dancing with her shadow in the water

Kids playing in the sun

Sophie's water slide!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Max turns 2!

With the carnage of Christchurch this week - I've had no time to update Max's birthday party from last weekend (plus I didn't really feel it was appropriate showing loads of photos of Max and his mates having fun while so many are suffering) but now I have some time over the weekend and the damn photo upload won't work!

Bugger, I'll try again tomorrow.

In the meantime, you can views some video's of his birthday below (thankfully YouTube still works!):
Birthday Cake and buddies
Max chasing his girlfriend Lilly around the pool
Sophie bashing the Pinata...sort of
Max enjoying Bob the Builder

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Birthday party fun!

Yesterday was the start of the birthday season...for the next 6 weeks or so there is a birthday every weekend - (including Max's 2nd next Saturday)...and boy do the kids love them!