First Day of Spring!

Only one way to celebrate the first day of Spring... A walk in Cornwall Park amongst the daffodils and baby lambs. Gorgeous sunny weather after so much rain. Em and I even celebrated by having an icecream for morning tea! I love the promise of Spring...

Percy Ticehurst!

Once again it's been a wee while since I blogged... And so much of life has changed for the better! Everyone knows by now (I think...) that I'm 15 weeks pregnant with no. 2! Very delighted and thankful and still blown away daily at the reality that I will be holding a new babe in early 2011. I'm finding I'm having to slow down a little bit and nausea is still there when I'm hungry which I can handle cos I just keep on eating!! Emma is delighted too she has nicknamed the baby Percy which is kinda cute but not a name we would choose... We have however brought a Percy Bear - which the babe (I keep thinking boy) will be able to have from day one. Here's the first official photo and Percy Bear. Hope life is all good with you - have a grand weekend! X

We're also up to our eyeballs in bathroom renovations which is all going well. Can't enter the bathroom today cos of some under floor heating stuff that's gone down... Maybe a good excuse to stay in my PJ's all day!! Especially seem Em's sick and staying home from kindy today.

Black Tie Dinner

We had a great night Saturday night at the Pharmacy Awards Dinner at Sky City. Rob had tickets because he was a finalist and then he won his catergory too! Very proud of him and an award seems like a good token for all the hard work he does! The dinner was yum and it was fun dressing up! Em had a sleep-over at Grandma's and had fun applying her make-up (yes I wish I had a photo of that!)

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day (for yesterday..) to all those lovely, caring, beautiful, self-sacrificing, tender, gentle, fun, cool, wonderful mummys out there. I hope you were all treated to something special and if not maybe treat yourself for a change this week... XX (Emma loves being let loose with facepaint - she loves painting my face and then me doing hers yesterday we even had fairy dust too for the occassion...)

Church Camp!

Em & I ventured to Matamata for the bi-yearly church camp at Totara Springs this past weekend. Rob had a conference in Wellington. It was my first long distance driving but I actually really liked it... I have wonderful memories of Totara Springs and so much of the weekend was like going on a time walk - remembering past camps there. We had a blast at camp. The photo above is of some of Em's dearest friends - photographed with High5 who ran the concert and were delightful! Not sure if Em looks a little star struck!

But Em's favourite thing at camp was the Hot Pool - I wish I had counted just how many hours we had spent in that pool! Wonderful weekend - I've decided we need more weekends away it's so refreshing! Hope everyone had a good weekend too. X

Goodbye Beautiful Simba!

Last week was a crazy week with lots of really dramatic things happening in some peoples lives! One of those weeks I just wanted to end... Anyway one thing I will share is that darling Simba was put to sleep on Thursday night. He was 15 years old and a treasure to the end. But illness and old age meant that it was his time. Mum (actually her cat) and I were with him when he had his injection and it was very peaceful. Here's a few random memories that I don't want to forget about this precious cat...

*Firstly he was known as wobbly cat. They think he had an inner ear infection when he was a kitten that affected his balance for the rest of his life. He walked like a bendy bus - but after being very sick he adapted beautifully.

* When he was sick and we weren't sure he would survive I used to carry him round in a sling - I was doing my nurse training at the time so I remember studying and nursing Simba at the same time!

*The softness of his fur - he used to pee in the pots on the deck and never went outside much so his fur was beautifully soft.

* Jonty Mum's other cat and Simba were great friends - and watching them play was always amusing. Jonty protected Simba from the neighbourhood bullies.

*And lastly his wonderul meow... He was the most chatty cat that I've ever known. I'll miss our conversations...

Emma says Simba is now hanging out with Rocco (neighbours cat) & Pop. She also mentioned that he may become human when he gets to heaven thanks to the fairies... Interesting idea!

You'll be missed wobbly cat... XX

Girls Craft Weekend!

Had a wonerful weekend last week. Rhyanne, Mel, Kelly and me headed off to Orua Bay for our annual girls craft weekend. We had a great time - achieving mostly scrapbooking pages and for me a couple of wooden trees (post to come in the future...). What made it great was not only the craft but also the quality uninterupted conversation, food, chocolate, wine and I would like to say the beach but this weekend we hardly ventured outside cos we were so craft focused! Here's the lovely ladies minus Kelly who managed to avoid my camera - Kelly made heaps of awesome cards which I'm hoping there's a pink flower one left for February!

Rhyanne who managed to achieve the most pages... We should've had a prize for her! Thinking & praying for this special gal today as she starts another round of chemo.

Mel showing her favourite page - love it Mel you're sooo clever!
And of course not forgetting the guest of honour this year 6 month old Chelsea-May (Mel's baby). I won't ever forget those gorgeous raspberries sweetie!...