My kids, the people who make me smile from ear to ear............and scream at the top of my lungs

My gorgeous boy falling asleep whilst playing.......this NEVER happens, he was so peaceful

Cheeky Joshie just waking up from a sleep on our bed.........a regular occurrence of late. What have I DONE?!

Joshie is not a fan of Sunday mornings LOL there is no point putting him down for a nap so we just keep him up for half an hour and he sleeps at church.

These two love eachother and are starting to play together occasionally, I love it!

I LOVE this little guy, all rugged up for a trip to the playground with Gracie and Caleb

Gracie's first time Rock Climbing, no photos of her on the wall cause she was clinging to me for dear life!

Gracie and Joshie's first bath together! It went better than we expected.

Elise had her final surgery YAAAAAAAYYYY! So we went to visit everyone at the Ronald MacDonald house, here are the girls adoring Joshie.

KNOX! Isn't he just gorgeous! All he does is eat and sleep, he is an Angel!

  

Joshie finally started eating food! Obviously his father was feeding him, this kind of mess gives me heart palpitations!

His sleeping has actually gotten WORSE since, I am one tired Mummy. Guessing he has some kind of intolerance to something but I am clueless! AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Me and Gracie invented a rainy day activity Crocodiles in the Water. She is really starting to learn her letters so that's exciting. If she touched the 'water' she got tickled to death, so she was pretty much constantly being tickled. She loved it though.

FHE Success - Burying Our Weapons of War

Haydn is the new gospel doctrine teacher and two weeks ago he taught Alma: 24 about the Anti-Nephi-Lehies burying their weapons of war. He challenged us to find something that was causing contention and a lack of peace in our lives and burying it.

I didn't really think much about it, but the very next day I was planning Family Home Evening (click on the link if you would like to know what Family Home Evening is) and I found this lady's blog whilst searching my pinterest boards.

The 'Burying Weapons' lesson was the most recent post and I couldn't believe my luck. Perfect!

I just used cereal boxes and tinfoil, a vivid and a pot from outside.

Our house has been very busy and crazy and out of routine lately and we have all been very moody and sleep deprived, so the timing couldn't have been better.

We each thought of one thing we could bury to get rid of the contention and bad feelings in our house.

I hope Gracie picked up the general idea of it.

We had 

"Shouting"

 "Putting Family first until Kids are in bed" (I guess you have to reverse this to make it a weapon) and

"Not Sharing my toys"

Can you guess who's is who's? lol

We haven't been doing too well the last few days and we need to try harder but writing them down has made us accountable to each other.

Maybe we should have buried them a little deeper......

It was a fun lesson anyway and Gracie stayed focussed the WHOLE time.

Emma and Dingo

For the second week of the School Holidays I had my mate Emma from England come and stay with her boyfriend. They are travelling the world and needed somewhere to stay while they sorted out a campervan to tour NZ in (very jealous). Below, are the only photos that were taken! GAH!
It was just so mental all week that I didn't even think about it.
Gracie was in Love with the both of them, especially Neil, Gracie called him Dingo (or Dingle) we aren't quite sure why but it was pretty funny. She was a nutcase ALL WEEK and Neil was loving it, he  never got sick of her! Which was fine by me cause even though she was sleep deprived it meant she was entertained and didn't have any meltdowns all week.
We dropped them off in the city one day and Gracie was asleep when they got out, then when we pulled onto our drive she woke up and shouted (with a quivering chin) "Where's Dingo! Ooooohhh Nooooo!" and started crying! Mummy obviously just doesn't cut it.
Anyway it was a great week, and great afterwards to get back into routine, including NAP TIME! Phew!
Here are the photo's I DO have of the week.......

Can you even believe this (North Head) is 15 mins down the road from us and we NEVER go, when the weather gets warmer we are going for a picnic.

We were spewing that we hadn't thought about getting the boat out once during the week, it's winter but the weather was stunning all week!

Fun with Dingo in the backseat!

Kiwi Valley Farm

Please excuse me while I catch up on this blog, there will be lots of photos and very little writing. We have had a VERY busy couple of weeks and I want to make sure I record it all.

Kiwi Valley Farm

Me and Haydn had heard about this place but it was too expensive, then a deal came up on Groupon and we were on it like a fly on cow pat!

 This is Gracie taking her first ride on a Pony! She loved it! We tried in Christchurch and she was TERRIFIED so I was very proud of her.

Holding the baby rabbits, they were only 5 weeks old! Gracie held this one once and it tried to move and it's claw dug into Gracie's leg, needless to say that was the end of this part of the farm.

Joshie taking a look at the bunny.........I love him, he is just so sweet and gorgeous x

One of Gracie's best buddy's Laela ended up being able to come on the same day as us too. 

Laela was the main reason Gracie got on the Pony, Leala had set the example.

These photos were taken on my Iphone! Seriously! Who needs a camera these days?

I wish NZ had more places like this for families to go and I wish that the ones they do have were cheaper, seriously we can't afford to do anything as a family.

It was a great family day out. I wish I had gotten more photos of gracie feeding the chickens and goats but I never got the timing right her hand was out of there so fast!

Our Joshie

How can you not love him, seriously?  This kid does nothing but wobble his head like crazy, smile every time you make eye contact with him and laughs when you try to eat his tummy.  We love our Joshie.  Gotta give props to Jeremy though. Such a good shot.  This is really just a memorabilia post. Enjoy!

New Sofa!

I am in LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE with my new sofa! It is so pretty and comfortable!

Now I just need to figure out a colour scheme and make some new cushions.

I think it may be a bit too crowded with cushions though so I may just make a quilt or something, what do you think?