Dawes Family in New Zealand

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• Grandma & Grandad: Go To Australia (and take us!!) (Pt. 3)

  Penola is such a cute little place, the main road runs right through the middle and it's quite a popular tourist spot which surprised us - probably because people hadn't seen civil...

• Grandma & Grandad: Go To Australia (and take us!!) (Pt. 2)

  The next morning we were refreshed and ready to go and after breakfast we packed up and headed away - on our journey to Penola. The ride was going to be about 5 hours, probably lon...

• Grandma & Grandad: Go To Australia (and take us!!) (Pt. 1)

  We were so lucky and excited to be part of this trip, in 1964 Grandad moved to a little place in Australia called Nangwarry with his parents and his brother. They tried to make lif...

• Grandma & Grandma: Visit Carlucci Land

  Carlucci Land....ah what a place! It's amazing, interesting, strange, odd, scary, and sooo much fun! Before we headed down there we stopped off at The Southern Cross restaurant,...

• Grandma & Grandad: Morepork, Cars, Scones, & Guns!

  Never ones to sit still very long we always find something to do, I think that my parents did relax sometime on their holiday (hopefully) but what fun would it not be if we didn't ...

• Grandma & Grandad: Stay On Somes Island!

  Happy Anniversary time for my parents! We were so pleased that they were going to be with us for this special day, so we planned a little surprise and booked a night away in a lodg...

• Grandma & Grandad: Visit Silver Stream Railway

  We had only just moved into our house when Grandma and Grandad came to visit last time, and so we really hadn't got to grips with what was in the area, and it wasn't until they had...

• Grandma & Grandad: Does Wellington Round The Bays

  Well actually it us ladies that did the Wellington AMI Round The Bays whilst the men went off and did men stuff! A glorious day in Wellington - we were quite excited to ...

• Grandma & Grandad: Sing Happy Birthday

  Another year has flown by - we remember celebrating the last birthday for Denver and Bailey with Grandma Lynn when she was here last time - and we were even more so than pleased th...

• Grandma & Grandad: Are Here!

  As usual the months, weeks and days flew by once we knew they were coming, we hadn't seen them since we went back to the UK in 2010, and it was already too long. Not a single day g...

• Grove Sale 2

  We live in the nicest little street ever, the people here are amazing and we are very lucky. A few years ago after raking through what seemed like more stuff to store in the garage...

• Camping – Paekakariki

  It’s always great revisiting somewhere you have been before and have such lovely memories of, so we were excited when we booked Paekakariki Holiday Park for another round of camp...

• Absolutely Positively Wellington

  We get questioned all the time about what it's like here in Wellington, not just from people that live in different parts of New Zealand but also from our family and friends back i...

• And She’s Off….Finally!

  From a very young age Bethany wasn't really keen on riding anything, it started at 2 years old and as you can see from this photo here her first ever 'bike' was not her favourite!!...

• Camping – Kaitoke

  Oh I know, its been such a long time since the last update but we have just been enjoying the school summer holidays sooo much that it really hasn't left much time for my beloved b...

• Lots of Christmas Singing!

  The lead up to Christmas was busy with Bethany using her gorgeous vocal chords to sing lots of lovely Christmas songs. Earlier in the year Bethany joined the school choir and has b...

• Happy Birthday Bethany!

  Awww our girl is now 8 years old! How the time flies when you are having fun! Every year the night before Bethany's birthday arrives I spend some time sitting by her bed watch...

• Girls Night

  I have probably said this many times before, but Kiwi's should be so proud to live in a place where people actually want to come on holiday (and live like us!). Wellington is the c...

• Celebrating Small Style

  To celebrate November 5th we normally every year we attend a friends place where they have heaps of people, masses of food from the BBQ, and a huge bonfire which is all finished of...

• Halloween!

  Every single year since we moved here to NZ we have been wanting to do a Halloween party....and every year something has happened meaning we couldn't. This year we made sure in ...

• Birthdays

  Michael and I have our birthdays a week apart and this has served well over the years, the best bit is having the birthday celebration decorations up for a whole two weeks! This...

• Spongebeth Squaredawes

  We have had our little moments of 'fame' by appearing in a few magazines since our move here, so it was only right that Bethany got hers too! An absolute mad addicted fan of Spo...

• Sunday Morning Project

  Every now and then you stumble across something on the internet that makes you think "I should do that".  Now for me, most of those moments happen when I'm slightly drunk and I se...