Babysitting.... Dad style!

Kez and I were in the kitchen making amazing food (duh, what's new?) and The Dad's were in charge of entertaining the kids.  I snuck in and took some pictures while no one was looking.  You gotta love it!  Dom's puppet shows are halarious, especially when Unicornio is involved  :)

Happy 2070

We recently went to a New Year celebration for the Nepal - NZ Friendship Society (best food ever!!) and during the evening there was some dancing...  Dom was doing us proud down at the desserts table, but Meg got up to dance!  It was Gangnam Style so I stayed glued to the chair, but Meg was up with the Nepalese grandmas and super good dancer guys!  I know this picture doesn't really show her in action, but trust me, she was dancing wildly like her mother does at home...

Check out the body positions here!

And this is my Lucy-Angel about to go to a Fun Fundraising Night at her ballet school.  Isn't she adorbs!!??!!

Bolder Bay!

Best few days ever...  We've been up and down to BB for the last few weeks and we just got home from spending a few days there.  Dom was a tropper and went up every morning at 6.30am to go to work, and then came back (thru the vile earthquake traffic that is ONE LANE IN AND OUT OF SUMNER) after a full day of work for an evening of Cluedo, long-drop trips with the kids, and showers in the great outdoors.  As you can see in the pictures we have done some EQ repairs, and it is just bliss down there...  There are record numbers of walkers going past the bach at all times of the day and night because of the new walkway around Godley Head.   

 Meg, Kate and Lulu playing Monopoly - after an hour or so of this Lucy said she still didn't know the rules or what she was supposed to be doing.  Meg's leg is wrapped in plastic wrap because she and Kate went for a wander over the hills and Meg decided to do a Kate impersonation at one point and (of course) fell off a rock and ripped her thigh to bits.

 Mike, about to BIKE BACK TO CHCH!!!

 Oh yes, Mike biked to BB and then back home after a hard day's grafting.  What a legend...  See ya in 27km Mike...

 Sebas' first fist (he is telling Dom about it on my cellphone)

 See how the bolders are now more like small, volcanic rocks?  This is because of the scree slopes made by major cliff falls during the EQs.  I guess the little rocks will eventually get washed away and the big bolders underneth will be exposed again.  But for now, it looks odd.

 Bear Grylls would be proud!  Mike made himself a raincoat of a bin bag... to go back up the hill.  Meg and I decided we preferred the Backpacker look - and just put our backpacks in the plastic bags.  Far be it from me to stop Mike from looking like a homeless muscle man as he hiked up the hill inthe driving rain.  I was laughing so hard that I nearly fell off the path several times.  And what did he do as soon as he got to the car? Got changed... yer, that raincoat sure worked a treat Mike! 

Lucy and Seb raced up to the car,as usual, and then had to sit there for 10 minutes trying to shelter from the rain.  They had muddy bums is allI will say.  (And yes, those bags are full of rubbish, you have to bring it back home and dispose of it)

ANZAC Day 2013

April 25th is always a special day.  We attend a Dawn Parade with the children, and then we usually try to go to Bolder Bay.  Today and always we try to remember them all, at the going down on the sun, at in the morning, and when we see the stars in the sky at night.
xxx

An evening out :)

What with there being no CBD anymore, and working full time etc, we don't get out very often.  But... last week they had a celebration to end the 4 years of redevelopment at the Chistchurch Airport and Dom and I were invited!  It was great to be in a big building (that just isn't all that possible anymore, but they are building more) and have fun with all the nice people from Dom's work.  We had a great time.

Sunday morning... 14/4/2013

Sometimes I feel like life is one eternal round of school, homework, making lunches, cleaning house and going to church.  I can't tell one week from the next except that I find myself at church again thinking "eh?  another week has gone by?"
From today I am going to try to pay more attention to what is going on around me.
Right now my amazing cousin Georgia is running a marathon!
Jessica will get to enjoy Keeks all day long.
Dad is at home just enjoying the sun.  No fighting fires today!
We have Gen Conf to enjoy and then at 4pm we are gong to head over to our friend's house for a Nepalese Diwali celebration.  I can't wait!  The Dhakals are awesome... and we love learning more about their culture.  With any luck I'll even take some photos - but I make no promises since there will be aloo ghobi and Yadu to talk to, so I'll be somewhat distracted  :)