Spring has Sprung

Look at these little cuties.We went on a visit to Southbridge over the weekend and the Tuffnells have 5 pet lambs...the kids loved them and really want one or is that two!!! We shall see...need a bit more time to think about it....

have I told you how much I love tins!!!

My latest find!! Couldn't really afford it but also couldn't leave it behind...thanks credit card

My New Cupboard.......

Latest score off trademe, you can never have enough storage!!! Well our house has a real lack of it in the kitchen department  so as you can imagine everything has its place...well I put it all in its right place and I have a few in the house who complain that they don't know where it goes or worse still where to find it....

Time for an update

Whats been going on this week...well where do I start, we have finally had our new fire installed thanks to EQC but no thanks to the installer, we have had a supervisor over and he is appalled with the job and it sounds like the whole lot may have to come out!!! SOB SOB I think the nicest part of the whole job is the tiling on the hearth!!! Only because we did it ourselves and now by the sounds of it the whole lot has to get taken apart....there goes my nice tiles I found at paddys market for $2!!!! They look so good.I think we need stress compensation over this one!!! especially cause it has taken them a year to get this part of the job done!!!Really we can not believe it....nice one earthquake!! the stress goes on, we haven't even had the house inspected yet and god knows what they will find is wrong with the piles a year later,our floor shakes in areas when our dogs walk over it, and you know how small our dogs are!!!
Whats worse is that we had a big shake again last night that woke the whole house up!!! Just stop now PLEASE!!!!

Zoe found the black and white setting on the camera.....

Little Tessie Bear had entertained us all so much that she tired herself out and had a snooze in the back pack

Miss photogenic

John and Jade on the motorbike...check it out they have the same grin

as for this grin hard to get a sensible photo

and the sepia setting....

I think our kids have it damn good!

Over the weekend  Carmen and the kids came over to stay at Allies, and as these photos show you the kids all had such a lovely time together. Mum was sent off to Nelson to Angela and Andrews for a pre birthday holiday,so we took Pa on an outing to one of his favorite places in Le Bons Bay with most but not all of his favourite grandies...We missed the Vakapunas over the weekend but I guess with a family this size we can't expect to all get together every time...sound like they had a good weekend too.

Little Tessas 2nd birthday

We had a fantastic weekend with the Tuffnells a couple of weekends ago and I hadn't got around to showing the family fun we had...