Saturday, March 31, 2007
New Visitors Arrive to Reynoldbithia
This is Gail, Anna's sister posting to her blog. These are pictures of the landing into Wellington, NZ. The city is at the lower point of the North Island. It was a beautiful sunny day with low winds. The landing was smooth.
Labels: Landing into Wellington NZ
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Night Night Time
I sure love my family....They were all on the couch tonight reading bedtime stories..
Eric usually comes home from work, we eat dinner, pick up toys and then Eric reads the girls bedtime stories and gets them tucked into bed... (Haidyn even reads a few these days)
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Busy Tuesday in Wellington
We had a busy Tuesday in Wellington today.. Athea and Haidyn finally made it to school with only a bit of a hitch due to her parents crazy brains... =) Haidyn had a field trip today and was pretty excited. Athea well was a little less than excited to go to school.. but once she got there she was fine.
Eric came home for lunch and pan fried up his butterfish that he caught over the weekend. It was a really tasty lunch.
Then I went and had afternoon tea with some gals.. (well Lisa and Nicola @ Nicola's house)
After that I had some "weta widow" friends (with their kids) over to my house to pass what I call the "witching hours" away. (the time between 4-7 that seems to drag on for an eternity for me and the girls until Eric gets from work)
It was a lovely time... I especially enjoyed the wine and company.... and the time flew by.. it was awesome! (and the house was not even that messy once the group left!! even better)
Eric came home for a quick dinner and is now back again at work for a couple more hours. (he is pretty busy at the moment)
I have no pictures of my day so I put up some shots up of Athea for your viewing pleasure.
(oh and in one she has a cicada on her head.. the cicada's are out in full "high pitch crying" force here. It kind of reminds me of my trips to Illinois when I was a kid.. they seemed to have a ton of cicadas there too)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Haidyn's very 1st birthday party..
Well L and J are now home in Montana, I got a call from Joanne tonight so I do not have to call the Bozeman police department.. =)
We had Haidyn's first birthday party with friends after school today (we usually only do a small party with family)
I have one photo downloaded but I will put others for you tomorrow (too tired)
We had 16 kids and 11 adults over at our house.. (a few of Haidyn's friends from school and their siblings... it adds up quick)
Grandma Jo made Toll house chocolate chip cookies and Kbars before she left.. they were a hit. (Thanks Gail for the ingrediants =)
My friend Nicola here made a cake for Haidyn.. It was extremely nice on both of them!! I never would have been able to get anything baked in time..
I cleaned the house and thought up games to entertain all the kids... (in one game I had them pull weeds in the rock garden in exchange for gold coin chocolates. =) (ohh and I also had the kids collect different things in a personalized yellow bucket.. the buckets were .75 cents and a bag was $1.99.. you do the math =)
It was fun but when I asked Haidyn the best part of the party she told me "playing kitties with my friends... some things just never change.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
New Zealand Wildlife....
The cook straight WETA
The tuatara (only dinosaur still alive)
The beautiful pink SEEEAFriday, March 02, 2007
Our South Island adventure
Hanging out on the South Island
the dophins stop to say hello
see no snow here...
"which way do we go now?"These are a few photos from our trip to Christchurch on the south island.
It was a quick trip for sure, but we did pack a bunch into our 3 days.
We saw beaches, dolphins, museums and ate at many nice places.
It was a great trip!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
The Magical Cool Birthday Gift
No snow down here in the southern hemi... or *shake* *shake* *shake*..... is there..????(I think that maybe Haidyn got a magic snowglobe from Grandma and Papa.. one that whenever she shakes it.. it makes snow in places like MN, MT or BC =)
