Christmas

 Christmas Morning when everything was ready

Roxy and Wayne Kingston Nikita and Savannah arrived

Present time was 1st on the list:-)

Story time

I think 1 little girl was a little tired and needed a cuddle from Mum

Papa Lew continued the tradition and made Savannah a Surf Board to go with Kingston's Snow Board and Nikita's Wake Board

 Cuddle time:-)

 Nikita having fun opening her presents

A real little girl :-) Handbag, from Auntie Ruth, over the elbow- pushing her baby:-)

Dad and Son chilling out:-)

Roxy Andrea and Jess meeting up with the new babies Laykn and Savannah

Hi to Janelle

Happy Christmas to the Bassett's

Stronge family Christmas. Granma got the boys a tee-shirt each:-)

We went for a walk down to the beach before Christmas Dinner. This obviously taken on our way back up:-)

Steve's mum and dad and Sharon came over for our delicious dinner:-)

The rest of Dec

We got to meet Baby Laykn

Jess and Lew and a few friends swum from Russel to Piha

Spot the wave:-)

We went out to Bethel's Beach to have a look before Steve and Jess headed South

It has a yummy Kiwiana Cafe

And some amazing Sand dunes

November

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October

Leverne and Liz over for dinner

Graham and Kaylene had their friends over from the States who are presently living in China, Geoff and Bonita

My Hubby built me a new arch for the garden, we've just got to get the roses growing on it again:-)

Jess is discovering her green fingers and planting some herbs and veggies:-)

The end result which they'r now enjoying

In the holidays we put a few plants from Grandma's garden into Jess's front garden:-)

We had a wee re-arrange of furniture in their flat:-) 

And finished with a lovely dinner

Lew making his present for Savannah. He made Kingston a Snowboard, Nikita a Wakeboard and I think this one is a Surf board :-)

This is a happy photo of Rob and Junia at their apartment 

We had a family potluck to farewell Scott before he left for the States in the private Dinning Room at the Retirement  Village

Thalia cutting her delicious Oreo dessert

Lew and I went into the city on the Ferry at Labour Weekend to watch some of the World Triathlon Event

Then we went for a drive out in the country for a ride in the MG

We took Ruth to Little and Friday Cafe when she was on her way over to see Jen

Jess and I went to see Mary Poppins

At our potluck at Jo and Irene's. Joseph had just got an electronic organ so Jo and the boys showed us some of their musical talent :-)

Ross came up to pick Ruth up. We went and did the tourist thing  as Ross doesn't usually have time for such things. We went into the Wynyard Quarter

And had a delicious lunch

At the Viaduct

Ross commented that he'd never been up the Sky Tower so we booked to go up for dinner:-) 

I've never seen a tube dished up on your plate before:-)

The City as the sunset

It was very pleasant as we viewed the city going by:-)