The Reynoldz

Well, it's almost Halloween, which means it's Anna's big day! She spent most of it hauling the kids about and helping Breaker Bay Community Hall get ready for Halloween. It's 11:00 pm and I am finally getting around to getting this blog out! Still lots to do tomorrow to get it all ready. Well, the girls and I took her out to breakfast this morning and we had some cupcakes to celebrate. Anna made us sing very quietly. And that's about all I managed to do for her. Luckily, Anna has many very good friends here who all gave her really cool presents. And also, some very good family back home who did the same.

Anyways, I would post a picture, but I've gone back 5 months worth, and she is clearly camera shy. We have more pictures of our dining room rug than we do of her. (I don't know why we have pictures of the dining room rug. I deleted them now.)

Haidyn, Athea, and I sure do love her. She questions it somedays, but what can I say,.. we are a needy family.

Happy Birthday Anna!

I think it was about this time last year that we demolished the bathroom.. Now we start the kitchen.....

After Eric got home from work yesterday we took the kids out front and had a little bonfire.
We are enjoying our longer days.. now that we had daylight savings time and did a little spring forward for spring...

On Wednesday this school term the girls have swimming lessons with our good pals.
After the lesson we all meet in the cafe and have a "Chicken Nugget and Fries" party.

Ta Da!! Our friends!!

Genevieve, Piper and Athea - These gals are all in a pre-school 3 lesson together.

Haidyn, Wiley and Gwendolyn - Wiley and Haidyn are in a Stroking lesson and Gwendolyn has moved up a level and is taking an Improvers lesson. (but the lessons are at the same time)

We sure have a good time!!

Today we got a really cool Halloween and birthday package in the mail. It was full of cool things from Aunty Chris, Uncle Jim, Jeb and Finn.... It is hard to find cute halloween things in this town and it turns out that the girls have inherited my love for the holiday... so we were all super dooper excited about our gifts..


My Dad and Mom sent me a pix of the leaves that have changed colors and have fallen in their back yard pool... =)

We sure love our DAD! Happy Birthday!







The Fox Family, Daddy Fox... Athea Fox jumping off the rock, Haidyn Fox in Reynolds world using her imagination and Mommy Fox in the cave cleaning. =)

Haidyn's gift to her Daddy.. She had a painting class during school holidays. It is one of her first paintings on canvas, her art teacher told us that for a detail girl like Haidyn, who is used to pen and pencil drawings... using brushes and painting on canvas was a bit frustrating.......

It is the 2nd week of school holidays here in NZ. Last week we had a couple of sunny days so we decided to hit the beach and have a picnic. It was still a bit too cold for a picnic and we did not last long... but I am so ready for some warm weather!

Athea can now be our beaching mermaid in her new costume she got.

The girls and I have been pretty busy this school holiday break. We have been catching up with friends, having sleepovers, playing, not packing lunches and doing all the great things one should do when school is out.