Primary Presentation 2015

A month or 2 late in coming, but here's a few pics of my babies on the day of their primary presentation. So proud of all of them even though it was touch n go there at the beginning with Seth. He was so good at practising his song at home 'Jesus said love everyone....', but his little brain short circuited just before it was the nursery's time to sing. Instead of standing up there proudly with a big beaming smile, he stood up there with a grumpy face and didn't sing a word!

 Thankfully by the time it was the Heke children's time to sing the 4th Article of Faith he'd had his happy pills and they all did really well.

Crazy to think that next year Seth might do a talk in front of everyone. Wow, this coming sunday is his last week in nursery, then he moves up to Sunbeams. Holy moly, how did that happen? I remember being the nursery leader when he was 'underage' to be in there. Time really does fly!

Sunday Arvo with the Whatas

8 years in to my marriage and we've just now met up with a cousin/aunty and her family that are so so cool. We went to their house last sunday for lunch and had a really great afternoon, like we've known them for years. Well, Joe does know them, but I felt so comfortable, the kids love it. Great all round!

How cool was their music room upstairs!!! (notice the towels on the drumkit to dull the sound this kid created)

Thank goodness we don't often go to houses with stairs cause this little girl loved them but I had visions of her falling from the top right down to the bottom...about 20 stairs!

And because they live in Cornwall Park, we had to go for a Sabbath day kind of play with the kids

Daddy Joe and Aunty Alisha (no pic of Uncle Stan unfortunately)

Will definitely be keeping in touch for more whanau catch ups with the Whatas for sure

Stuff Lately x 28

At a welcome powhiri for new kids that started school in Term 4. So cool to see this little wahine in the kapa haka

At a primary presentation practise...flippn' Dalls

A fun evening and dinner at the Bradfield's home

A few pics from the party on Halloween from the Dad of the party boy. He's got a great camera and sent these to me the other day

Poor Ella ran head on into someone during lunchtime :( Lucky Dad was at home so she got to come home and rest (read: play at home) for the afternoon.

We had a ward potluck dinner a few weeks ago because there's a new Samoan ward and quite a few of our members left to attend it. The game Joe did at the start was sooo much fun, and got quite competitive. Try and pop everyone else's balloon and be the last one standing.

Poor Dalls at the hairdressers. Ella needs a hair licence bigtime!

Love looking at the my babies on my way to bed. This kid always has at least 2 or 3 toys with him, sometimes 10!

Ella's been obsessed with the sleeping bag since we had it out for the Hall's BBQ over a month ago. I tried to make her bed with fresh sheets yesterday and she acted like I was trying to kill her when I said I wanted to roll up the sleeping back and put it away. Whatever, I just walked away from that battle

Since my hubby's had quite a bit of time at home lately, he's been doing the washing, grocery shopping etc. One day last week I asked him to get lamb chops out of the freezer and peel some potatoes for dinner. When I came in the house smelt so good, like there was a delicious dinner brewing. And brewing it was, turns out he's put the chops, potatoes, and cauliflower leaves (he'd just cut them off the big plants growing along the front of the house) and put them all in one big pot with water!!!

So although it smelt really nice, I bought dinner on my way to youth that night

Oh, and he made some kind of dough and added like circles of dough to the pot as well

A year 4 class had a market day at school on Friday. I went in with $10 to see if there might be a cupcake or something I could buy. A girl had a really big nail kit and was doing manicures for $3 so I sat down at her little station and gave her my $10. She got all flustered and said she couldn't work out the change. Thankfully we figured out that $3 and $7 makes $10 so she needed to give me $7 change. But then she fumbled around in her kit and gave me some photocopied coins. Awkward (as Faith would say, she's just learnt what that means). So I quickly took my $10 back and said I'd talk to her teacher to sort her out for the money. So cute how she did the pink nails and added some beads!

Seffy and Dad surprised us at school with frozen slushies on Friday after his christmas party. Joe was Santa....I know, you'd never pick that he'd ever be asked to be Santa, but he did it really well of course. Dalls wouldn't go near him cause she couldn't figure out it was her Dad, even when he kept talking to her, and Seth calls out 'it's my Dad with a massive tummy!'

This is how we rolled on our trip to Hamilton yesterday. I put my foot down and said no eating in the car cause I'm so sick of having crumbs and packets left in there. That pretty much left us with nothing to do but talk, fight, sing and put stickers all over our faces!

Look who served us at McDs Rototuna last night!!!!

How many people does it take to hook up a car to tow home? 2 men and 5 little kids

My garden is growing like it's on steroids, so much so that we're struggling to keep up with it

Homemade beetroot. Yummy!