Thursday, October 30, 2008

On it's way...

Yay! We've finally signed up to get broadband! :-)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dress ups

A few weeks ago, Annette, Renee and Tin popped in one afternoon and who knows who suggested it, but they all decided they had to try on my wedding dress - nice poses girls! When they had left, Olivia decided it was her turn to dress up, so she got the bag from her porta cot, put the handle over her head and said, "Come Mum, take photo of me". Don't you just love their imagination!







Monday, October 20, 2008




Thursday, October 16, 2008

Our backyard

Here you go Marian :-) finally some photos of our backyard! I love the garden in spring - all the plants are in flower, the grass is still green from winter rains - everything just looks fresh and colourful.









Rod hopes to get rid of this old shed and build a new and bigger one with two sections - one for garden stuff and the other as a dust proof store room, which will free up some space in the office.



The area where Olivia is standing is where we hope to do our extensions - that's her bedroom window/wall which will get knocked out.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Summer's coming!

Last Friday I caught up with Renae, who used to be my teacher's assistant when I was working. She lives in Rockingham, right near the beach, so I said I'd meet her there for a drink seeing as it was going to be nice weather. After a delicious apricot whip and cheesecake, we sat on the beach and Olivia had a ball splashing in the water, throwing shells into the water and chasing sea gulls. We just won't mention how burnt my legs were by the end of the day... Bring on summer!

Me, Olivia and Renae enjoying the sunshine




collecting shells


Having dizzy whizzies with Tin - she came after
she had finished her uni classes

And what better way to finish the day than with an ice-cream!

At the Park...

Here's some photos I took of Olivia playing at the park down the road the other day.







It's Monday
It's raining - YAY!!!
Olivia is sleeping - YAY to that too
I chopped all my hair off on Saturday...eeek!
Daylight saving is finished! It was dark at 7pm last night; weird!
It's wintry...I love it, I might head for my bed too. Olivia was awake at 5 this morning, snoozed for a bit till 6, didn't take her Dad's advice on going back to sleep, so got to go in bed with Mum till it was a sane time to get up (only b/c her Mum was sick of listening to her whinge and whine). So I'm feeling a bit sleepy...
Anyway, here's some pics from Saturday night. The van der Veen tribe had a BBQ at Paul and Heidi's place for Renee's b'day. (They might be put on one per day b/c the connection is soooo slow.)

The boys looking at Dad and Mum's Melbourne photos

the Girly Whirlys -- Heidi, Charlene, me, Annette, Renee and Ingrid

checking out some funny video clips

Akaroa

Akaroa
This is the awesome view you get as you drive down into Akaroa, a little town about 1.5 hous from Christchurch

On the beach at Long Bay, Akaroa

A shop with character

Morning tea in Timaru

Christchurch

Christchurch
Our 'Kozy Kiwi' - accomodation while in Christchurch

Rod, Kathryn and Rose on the cool blow up trampoline thing

Sunday night BBQ at the caravan park where we all stayed: Darryl, Rose, Rod and Glenn

Travelling...

Travelling...
more beautiful scenery

Mt Cook - NZ's highest mountain


river near Lake Wanaka

Cadbury's Chocolate Factory!!!

Aren't I strong!

Christchurch Botanical Gardens

all a bit bleary eyed at 5am @ the airport

sunrise above the clouds - beautiful!

Zachary

mmm, Olivia gets to lick the beater!

Tastes good Mum!


my little gardener

A busy bee