Outside Completed

After 4 weekends Dave and I finally finished the outside of our house.  All gardens are in and grass is in place and now we watch them grow and blossom.  Dave made a beautiful fence and now the outside of the house looks awesome.  The funniest thing is at the beginning Dave was totally against having any roses, however we have gone with 3 white standard roses out the front garden complemented with icing sugar Hebe's.  Amazingly all went well with nil arguments and fighting (that's so not normal for us, very strange indeed).  Our summer will be all about relaxing and enjoy the outside living just as much as the inside living.  Great team work.

Ready lawn is layed

Fences are built

Roses & Hebe's planted

Finished!!!

Montessori Xmas Party

Last Wednesday all the Montessori children, teachers and parents hopped on the bus and headed to Charnacle Farm for a Christmas Party.  It was a lovely day and we all had fun looking and feeding the animals.  It was so nice Dave could come too and watch his little girl particpate in her centres activity.  Nicholas was not so well so he tagged along and totally played the big brother role making sure his little sister and her friend were safe.

Off to feed the animals

Here donkey eat my bread!

Scream!!!! not my finger

Kate's favourite animal

Cute poaka

Riding on the carriage

Santa came

Present even for Nicholas

Kate not to sure???

My Little Helper

The advantage of having a spare room is that when visitors come and stay they can have their own room.  The disadvantage is when kind and thoughtful hubby brings in the washing and decides to put it in the spare room (unlike me who folds them and put them away the same day).  I wonder where certain clothes are and discover 2-3days worth in the spare room, grrrrrrrhhhh. 

Luckily for me I have a great little helper who loves to help me with everything.  Today when I discovered the unfolded washing I went about folding them when I hear a little voice say "I'll help you mum" I told Kate its ok mum will do it (I really just wanted it done and I do have a particular way I like to fold things).  Unfortunately Kate was insisting and so I had to grit my teeth and let her help me.

She was a busy wee girl trying her best to fold the clothes, telling me "daddys shirt, Nicholas socks,  mums shorts etc.  She was very proud of herself and I was too despite my OCD behaviour.   

Well done Kate

HELLO CD!!!!!!

I am the music leader in primary and for the last 4years I have taught the children hymns/primary songs through visual pictures.  The first time I used pictures I would photocopy the pictures and coloured them in, cut them and laminate them.  It was time consuming and my colouring skills were not the best.  Then I discovered the CD version and now all I do is print off the pictures already beautifully coloured, cut them and laminate.  This CD is sent over from the USA and it takes about 3 weeks to get to me.  So I was rather excited today when it arrived in the mail.  Now I'm soughted for next years primary presentation. YIPPEE!

The Garden

So after much patients and some nagging, Dave finally decided to get someone into make us a decent lawn.  Mr Ready Lawn (YEAH!!!!!)  Building is something Dave is great at but landscaping is not his forte.  He threw some grass seed out not long after we moved and some bits grew but overall a bit of a disaster.

So Thursday came and Nevin arrived with truck loads of top soil, then he got his cool little digger and moved the soil into the places he needed.

You can see Dave's lawn

Man screeds and levels out the top soil and then lays the lawn

Finish Product

AWESOME!!

Now because the lawn looked so nice it helped us to get our flower garden in order and so in 2 days we created our garden

Chocolate is not aloud on the new lawn so her home is now in the corner.

With the back completed we venture to the front.  That will be fun..