Introducing Sophie Isabella

A huge congratulations...



to Megan and James who have become parents to baby Sophie.


Sophie Isabella was born 3.20pm on 19 April weighing 6p 10. Both mother and baby are doing just fine.


Meanwhile granny Heather is frantically making arrangements to drive to Te Puke to play grandma for a while.

Congratulations Megan and James. This has been a long time coming and I'm so pleased your precious has arrived.

Shopping spree in Melbourne

In December Mum shouted us girls to Melbourne for a shopping spree. Talk about max the credit card out! I think between the four of us we definitely contributed to Melbourne's economy.



Apart from heaps of shopping we also went on a day wine tour of the Yarra Valley. We visited four wineries which all made delicious wines. We stopped at Rockford for an amazing lunch.

Rockford wines had this amazing view platform. Here is us girls looking a little merry. You can just see to the left of the photo a platform being set up for the Joe Cocker concert which was on the following day.




More wine tasing at Yering Station.
This was a little later in the day and definitely starting to feel the effects of tasting beautiful wine.





The purpose of the trip was to go to the theatre production of the Lion King. What an amazing show. Great costumes, music and fantastic singing. I highly recommend going to see the Lion King. All in all Melbourne is a great city. We had a really good time, apart from the blinkin washing machine dying our clothes. Never mind we just bought new ones. Thanks mum for an awesome trip.

My 30th

Recently I celebrated my 30th birthday with a fantastic dinner in the company of family and friends. We went to Zibibbo restaurant in Wellington and had amazing food and wine.


We started the night with some pre-drinks at Zibibbo bar. Here are some of the girls enjoying some wine before dinner.

I hope you can read the menu? Thanks to Hisami for the photos.

Me blowing out the candles on the cake mum made. The cake was iced by Marianna and it was decorated with a real rose with chocolate leaves and two boxer dogs which you can't see in the photo. Never mind.

Me and my fantastic
husband Brandon.

The family

Hi folks, I've set this blog up so you can see what me and the boys get up to. I've also set this up so you guys can follow our adventures when mum and I travel to Europe.

I've posted some pics already to get things started.

Enjoy.

Kiwi


Introducing Austin and Bruno. These two are my baby dogs, they are pure breed Boxer dogs. Austin is on the right and is 5 years old and Bruno is on the left he is 1 1/2 years old.

These two are the best dogs in the world. I train both of them in obedience and Bruno especially in behavour and obedience. He's just a puppy still so he's very excited about everything. I hope one day to breed from Bruno as he is an amazing dog.


Then there is my mum and dad. Sadly dad passed away in 2004 but we still love and remember him.

Mum and I will be travelling to Europe in July to visit family in Ireland. We will be attending a family reunion in Nenagh, Ireland so watch out for my blogs of our travels.

The trip will be in memory of dad and a huge reward for me since I would have just completed by Bacholor of Administration and Commerce majoring in Commercial Law and Economics after 7 1/2 years of part-time study.

Meet Hisami, my Japanese sister. Hisami and I meet about 15 years ago. I was only 16 years old and travelled to Japan on a school trip. There were about 20 school friends who had been given host families to stay with. Hisami pulled my name out of a hat. She knew nothing about me and I knew nothing about her. I stayed with Hisami's family and was made to feel at home straight away. We have many laughs and memories of my stay with her, which we still talk about now. Hisami has come to New Zealand several times, living, studying and working in Wellington and Auckland. She has become a major part of our family and I'm so pleased that an amazing friendship has lasted so long. Hisami was recently living and working in Auckland where she meet Michal who has swept her off her feet. They got engaged at the end of last year and in April they moved to the Czech Republic where Michal's family are. I wish them all the best for their future together.

Here is the rest of my family: Megan, James, Brandon, me, Amanda, Emily, Shaun, Samuel, Victoria, Dad, Mum, Leigh and Wayne.