a few NZ pictures & from thanksgiving etc.

These are just a taste of Jett's trip to New Zealand...


At Waitakere Ranges National Park
Uhm...not entirely sure where this one was taken...anyone?

View of Auckland, NZAnd again, well part of I suppose!

These are all out of order sorry!

Here your seeing some of the Bay of Plenty on the right

On the way to Gisborne.

Jett has a whole lot more, but there are just too many to post up here, so I'm just giving a few scenic photos for now. :)

I again did not take very many photos at the Thanksgiving dinner, :( but I did use somebody elses camera which is 100 times better than mine... here the owner sits with 5 of his neices/nephews...L-R Owen, Jenna, Calvin, Amelia and Aaron.

Miss Photogenic J, Sam and Miss Oh-so-not-photogenic A.

Off to heat up leftovers for dinner!

Finally an update...

After 5 busy weeks of visiting family and friends in Canada, and then rushed over to Texas to visit more people, and finally "settle" for a bit...I get an awful flu bug that has left me tired and weak...but, I'm recovering and am thankful for that! But we are here, and together as a family again. It is wonderful having Jett back! I went up with Mom (and Amelia came too) to pick him up. I was excited, and yes I did let out a squeal before fast walking towards Jett...anyways, the kids love having Daddy back with them and I do too!

Daddy brought back lots of gifts from friends in NZ...so many gifts...the kids and myself were spoiled!Isn't this apron lovely?

You can't really tell what this is, but it is Amelia's new and favourite kiwi bird backpack...she loves it!

Oh and the cute kiwi's...Aaron is toddling around with his all the time...very cute.

And there was a whole lot more that people kindly gave, we thank you very much!

We spent a week at James and Hayley's before going to Joe and Care's for a week, here the kids are enjoying a picnic in the beautiful Texan weather at Care's. Care's kids are photogenic...and mine are quite the opposite. :(
Cute eh?

The lizard on the kitchen window (in our "settled" home).

Our current place of abode.

Father and son (Owen).

Thanksgiving is coming up, so hopefully there will be photos to put up from that occasion. But I had best be off and making dinner now. :)

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update to come soon... and no, this is not going to be our "family pic" we decided we didn't like it enough...lol, we'll try some family pics at the beach sometime soon but our photographer (Sam) is off to Colorado right now!! Hope to update about life in general as soon as I can. :)