School Holidays Week 2

Faith loves reading scriptures at the moment. This is what I found the other day after she'd been at it....and she knows it off by heart!

Apparently a little boy at church has eyes for our big girl!

A little treat that we were able to drop off to Aunty Bex on her first week at her new daycare

Took this little cutesie pie out for our Mini Golf date on Friday but him and Faith had to tag along with me to the mall first to do a few jobbies.....every other second they were asking for something. Sorry Mac, this gigantic lollipop got a big, fat 'NO'

Who's taller?

We got a moment with this grubby, concretey, stubbly faced guy while he drove in between jobs

I think I can speak for all of us when I say we really really enjoyed mini golf. Will definitely take these guys back there in the next holidays....for the black course though aye Mac

Cracked me up how this little gem cracked up when she got on a roll and kept hitting it past the hole....I think one of them even got up to 13 putts!

And Mac was sooo cute...when he won a previous hole, I'd hear him say something like this 'Hey Pod, I'll go first on this one cause I'm doing real good...don't worry, I'll go easy on you!'

Pita Pitt for lunch....chicken, carrot and cheese

Chicken, corn and olives. I nearly didn't let him have the olives cause I didn't think a child would ever actually like them but as it turns out he really does

And this little Spency Spider came to meet us at Pita Pitt....yeeyah!

Lucky Faith scored a sleepover at the Leones....Sooo exciting!

Aunty Nae turned up in this out of the blue (her car was getting a warrant). Totally threw me when I was expecting the black truck and her and Pence got out of a little car. Maybe one day we'll able to have a little run about that's easy on gas and can get into any and every carpark

Lazy saturday afternoon mucking around at the park and field at the end of our street.....after a saussie sizzle on the deck

Conked out at about 5:15pm....had to wake him cause I couldn't have him do a sleep at that time and then not go down at 7pm. Was really hard to rouse him but we managed to do it with an iceblock

Mummy's gourmet meal for the kids.....simple, but soooo popular. Will have to do this one more often I think (by the way, it was a 'sharing platter',  not 5 pieces of toast and 2 packets of noodles per child!)

Saw this on my IG feed last night and had to send my hubby a pxt of it so he'd get it on the way home from Priesthood. No luck unfortunately. Everyone else must have wanted it too and they were sold out. Will have to try again tomorrow....won't be able to stop thinking of it till I get it.

Faith's sign for 'Conference Time Now'....the follow up to 'Kophrs time soone'. She walked around the house calling out to everyone with her board in her hand

Love, love, love watching conference at home!!!!

In church clothes, but very comfy, snuggling on the beanbag

Firi loved her conference booklet Aunty Beezy sent us

And Rainbow Brite loved the bingo board....we were pretty enthusiastically calling out when we heard words to check off. 'Scriptures, Scriptures, quick, he said scriptures, I heard him, hurry up!!!'

Conference Scones...delish. And we've got a roast in the oven which should be ready when the babies wake up. The perfect end to an awesome week. Not sure if I'm happy or not about school starting back tomorrow. Will miss having Faithy here and our lazy mornings.  Back to the hustle and bustle of having to get out of the house by 8:40am. I'm excited for her to get back to her friends and learning, but I'm also thinking 'Bring on Summer Holidays!'

School Holidays Week 1

Ready bright and early for Jordy's part at Rainbow's End

Sorry Son, a kindy day for you my love

Absolutely pooped after an awesome cuzzy day

Waiting for Grandie to some over last saturday.....they stood at that gate for ages talking about how much they love Grandie, he's so cool, when is he gonna be here?!?

Heavenly lunch for my hubby with Mandi, Tala and Manaia Lei

Great afternoon with Dad and the Tiras. Loved having them over!

My precious Faithy came up to be at about 4 in the afternoon and said 'I'm tired Mum' so I told her to go and have a sleep in her bed (didn't think she would), but that's exactly what she did. Didn't see her until about 2 hours later!

On the phone inviting Mac to go to Mini golf on our baby free day, which turned out to be the Ninja Turtles movie instead cause of the poo weather. Will have to try for mini golf next week cause we were really excited about it

Silly me, I thought it would be easy and fun to walk the kids down to the pharmacy to buy stamps to send Nan's letter. Anything but fun or easy thanks to Seth.....he's at such a terrible stage for running away and protesting. Please grow out of it quick Son!

A random 'go slow' afternoon for Seth. He set himself up for a sleep in the office and had a little nap, while all his cousins were here playing.

Loving the Smiggle set from Aunty Natty.....maybe the start of many smiggle things to come for my house of girlies

 

I HATE it when March 31st and September 30th roll around and we have to do paperwork for Rock FX. Usually I put it off until a day or 2 before the deadline of filing the return. For the first time ever I did it on the 1st of October to get it all out of the way. Gosh it feels good! Must remember that for next time

This little note in the receipts box cheered me up when I was right in the thick of it

Faith reading to Seth while he was in the shower one day last week

So cute....they set up chairs to have their afternoon tea on right in the middle of the driveway cause they were excited to be right there when Dad came home from work

Awesome lazy morning watching movies....just what Mummy ordered!

Loved to see this. I'd left Dallin lying down by their feet and when I came back into the lounge, sissy Ella had rested Dallin up right beside her!

Quick, clean up the bomb, Aunty Nae and Mac are coming over!!!!!

A fun afternoon date with my 6 year old besties. Turns out I actually really enjoyed Ninja Turtles....who'd have thought?!?!?!

A fun family date day at a wedding for friends of ours....Eddie and Robyn Manuel

Our awesome Bishop and his equally awesome and lovely wife!

Whose kid is he???? He is soooo hard to manage when we're out in public these days....he spent most of the time running up and down the dancefloor during the speeches

Dilly was good, but kind of lost it after about 4 hours. Time for bottle and sleep!

My big baby ended up singing I am a Child of God as part of the Groom's speech. Such a proud Mummy moment. Her Dad and I stood behind her, but she was the star with the microphone. Loved it how she whispered to me afterwards 'Mum I felt really nervous, but I still did it!'

Score! I got to bring home all the wedding flowers, about 60 vases worth of these beautiful irises and white ones....perfect for the 'Spring Party' Faith has planned for FHE tonight (more on that tomorrow)

Score for my hubby. He got to bring home a MASSIVE bowl of leftover food. He's made a huge dent in it, but there's still a fair bit left and he's loving it.....he's gotta be the king of leftovers in any shape or form

And it was my big Dilly Girl's 6 month birthday.....WOW!

And last but certainly not least, my Ella Bella surprised me with writing the numbers yesterday. Must be Stars Kindy where she learns all these things cause it's certainly not me. I think I'll try and start teaching her to read soon cause I think she'll get it. Sorry Faith, Mum wasn't that onto it with you!