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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 been enjoying singing as much as she can, and with Christmas coming the school had planned for her choir group to join a ...
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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 watching her sleep, remembering the years as they have flown by, from the days of being that little bundle of baby, to the w...
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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 capital of New Zealand and is a stunning place, so diverse in its weather yet always looking stunning no matter what the ...
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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 off by heaps and heaps of fireworks that everyone brings. Sadly this year Bethany just wasn't up to it and so we stayed ho...
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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 advance everyone was going to be around and we started planning...we love having parties, even more so when they are th...
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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 year was a bit quieter than normal, mainly because of the Rugby World Cup and the fact we had already been partying lik...
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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 Spongebob Squarepants, Bethany started loving him right from our very first trip over on holiday to New Zealand in 2005. At...
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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 see something crazy and think I could do it, but not this time. I saw something recently someone had posted, and unfortu...
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Days With The Rays: Part 2
The next morning we were woken by the most crazy sounding dinosaur noises! We had been warned about the nest of Herons in the trees next to the house - I have never heard such a noise - likened it to a Pterodactyl (I'm sure they would have sounded like that!). It was raining again, but not lettin...
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Days With The Rays: Part 1
We had been planning a trip to see our gorgeous friends Rachel, Craig and Myles since the day they moved from Wellington to Auckland recently. We first became friends in 2008 when we met through our blog, they found us through another blog we were reading of someone else we made great friends with.....
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BFF’s
I remember finding my best friend at the age Bethany is now, someone who I was completely obsessed with and who, almost like your first true love, adored so very much. You would go everywhere together, do everything together and just know the other was always there for you. Back 'in the day' when...
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Meet Enzed!
So like most things we possibly thought the idea of a rabbit was going to be a passing phase with Bethany. Easter this year sparked her interest in rabbits and she has literally been going on and on about it since then. We honestly thought we would wait and she would no longer be interested, but tha...
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Queen Of Beaches
Right now we are having a lot of wet weather, but when the sun comes out it does it magnificently! Summer is just around the corner and you can feel it. The trip to the beach this time was one of those 'coats on / coats off every five minutes' scenarios! We adore going to the beach, and by fa...
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5 Years in New Zealand!
When I was first faced with the task of writing a blog post about our five years here in New Zealand I really didn't know what to write. So much has happened in those years, yet at the same time life has flashed before our eyes. We started this blog when we moved here in 2006, at that time the blog ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Days With The Rays: Part 2
The next morning we were woken by the most crazy sounding dinosaur noises! We had been warned about the nest of Herons in the trees next to the house - I have never heard such a no...
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Days With The Rays: Part 1
We had been planning a trip to see our gorgeous friends Rachel, Craig and Myles since the day they moved from Wellington to Auckland recently. We first became friends in 2008 when ...
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BFF’s
I remember finding my best friend at the age Bethany is now, someone who I was completely obsessed with and who, almost like your first true love, adored so very much. You would...
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Meet Enzed!
So like most things we possibly thought the idea of a rabbit was going to be a passing phase with Bethany. Easter this year sparked her interest in rabbits and she has literally be...
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Queen Of Beaches
Right now we are having a lot of wet weather, but when the sun comes out it does it magnificently! Summer is just around the corner and you can feel it. The trip to the beach t...
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5 Years in New Zealand!
When I was first faced with the task of writing a blog post about our five years here in New Zealand I really didn't know what to write. So much has happened in those years, yet at...
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Nga Manu Reserve
How is it we have never been here before?! For years we have either seen it advertised, or driven past yet never once actually gone in. So how pleased were we after our day out at ...
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Zoopered
Following on the themes of my few previous posts about the Zoo (Zooper Day! and Another Zooper Day) I thought another bad, yet correct title was appropriate! Bethany has been do...
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Te Puna Wai Ora (Spring of Life)
The Winter weather right now is that typical crisp air with the blue skies and wisps of clouds scattered, the type that reminds you very much of a summery day, yet confuses you whe...
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The 50 Year Snow
A few weeks earlier we were buzzing about the fact some snow had fallen and we could for the first time since we moved here see it settled on the hills around us, and because of th...
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Snow!
Like something from our childhood memory bank, we awoke one crisp blue skied morning to see the hills coated in the most stunning white icing. There was no way in the world we were...
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In Memory of Nana
In a perfect world, death would never be. Love would be forever, and last eternally. In a perfect world, you’d still be by our side, lighting up our happy lives. You never w...
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Hardest Moment Yet…
Normally, writing about positive events is pretty easy. "We went here..." or "Then we did this..." usually suffices. However when its about a negative experience, it's not so e...
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Princess Bethany
Why does it have to happen? The growing up thing? Although still extremely innocent, so many things have changed in the last year for Bethany. It seems there is no end to the grow...
