Saturday Morning
No time for getting dressed, there are planes, and shields and x-wing fighters to be made! Look at this delicious playlist, so nice. I think we might have to buy tickets to the Wilco show at the Civic……
No time for getting dressed, there are planes, and shields and x-wing fighters to be made! Look at this delicious playlist, so nice. I think we might have to buy tickets to the Wilco show at the Civic……
……..but don’t think for a second that you might catch me complaining, I wait for 8 months of the year for this season. I bitch and moan and detest winter and autumn because they are cold and rainy, I hate spring because it is so …
The Jack’s have splashed out and made a grown-up purchase, check out our sassy new wooden picnic table!

What a Sunday to get some new outdoor furniture! We have just had the most gorgeous weekend after last week finished with three days of rain and heavy flooding in some areas. Crazy weather.
Ethan tore it up at Nippers this weekend and caught some great waves on the club boogey boards whilst Daddy caught some yummy snappers on Saturday night, so our new table was christened in style!
Ethan LOVES taking photos and took these shots with the big camera, he has a good eye;



Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful….“ It has now been raining for about 3 days and I’m not quite sick of it yet as I’m pretty sure I can see my veges growing from where I sit. Yus. BACK …
I can’t remember ever feeling this acutely aware of the change of seasons. Perhaps it was harder to notice in the suburbs, it was more difficult to hear the birds, you never saw the baby animals or noticed the buds on the huge old trees …
It has been a pretty hectic two weeks since we moved house, Ethan has been on holiday with me as we wait for a place to open up for him at his new kindergarten (hopefully the first week of June) and Dave has been working some long hours at the restaurant. So to mix it up Ethan stayed the night at Mum and Dad’s house, Dave was home early from work and we had a nice sleep in this morning sans our 4yo alarm clock!
There is a driving range and golf course five minutes from our new house so I am pretty keen to start playing again, Dave remembered me saying that and suggested that we pack up some clubs and go and hit a few balls. It was so much fun! After a few duds I had the old wood cracking some beautys right down the middle – loved it.
After we finished schwacking all of our balls we went to lunch at The Carriages, an awesome cafe made out of old railway carriages that is right on the river.
It was the best meal out we have had in so long. We ordered the Platter for two which served pretty much every one of our favourite savoury treats; two loaves of hot, fresh baked bread, chorizo, salami, pastrami, smoked sausages, two different chutneys, brie, blue cheese, swiss, salad, pickles, kalamata olives and peppers. OMG, so good paired with a crisp local chardonnay.
It was such a lovely morning made even better when we went to pick Ethan up afterward and saw how happy he was and what a lovely time he had had with his grandparents.
The answer is Molly, Marley, Louie, Ethan, Dave and I. We took the pups out to Muriwai last weekend for lunch on the beach to lament the end of daylight saving and to celebrate the fact that dogs can go on the beach all day …
How cute are they? We finished March with a landslide of birthday parties, I took this pic before the guys left for Josh’s 4th Birthday party. Being Ethan’s social coordinator, driver, gift shopper and gift wrapper does not leave time for normal more mundane things, …
Thanks to the amazing bFM and my uncanny prize-winning abilities, Dave, Ethan and I were given the deluxe treatment on sunny Sunday at the bFM Vodafone Summer Series. I won 2 Nokia Music Xpress cell phones each with $200 credit plus a VIP picnic spot …