Holiday part 3

Last part of our holiday and I'm sorry it has taken me so long. We went to the beach and found a fairly secluded spot to go swimming.  It was a lot of fun.  

Here we are getting buckled into go home.

I'm still not used to salt water.  

 And as we headed out of the park we found this Mommy pukeko and her two chicks aww.

The last place we went to was the Waitakere Ranges to go for a hike.

 It was a beautiful walk besides getting a little rained on.

 Oh the beautiful trees and ferns!

 A guy from the US took this photo for us.  We get all types of people visiting here.

 Then Daddy splurged and bought ice creams for us all (Jett and I shared one).

 The next day or so I didn't want to do anything else but soak up sun and drink coffee with my best friend.

Holiday part 2

After the weekend we went up to Auckland harbour and took a hour cruise around the harbour through the Maritime Museum (very reasonable).  The kids enjoyed it very much!

 Waiting for our boat ride.

 

 We passed this huge cruise ship.

 One of the crew offered to take a picture of us for us. :D

 Coming towards the harbour bridge.

 Me and Keith.

 Amelia struck up a conversation with one of the crew.  I like how my children are quick to converse with others whether they are young or old.

 Afterwards we stopped at the American Shop and Daddy went and got ice creams from Mcdonalds for the kids

We then went up Mt Wellington since we were in the area andwalked around the crater.

Holiday part 1

I was going to post something a lot sooner than now but life is busy!  I forgot. :D

Anyways, I'll continue where we left off....our holiday!  Which was awhile ago now. We decided on staying in Auckland and do a bit of touring around.  It worked out very well and the kids enjoyed themselves.  Our first stop was Butterfly Creek.  Aaron has been wanting to go to Dinosaur kingdom for awhile now.

Here is Owen in the butterfly house

My crazy children.

They are growing too fast. :(

The children took turns feeding a bearded dragon live wiggly gross worms. They thought it was great!

The alligators were coming up to the glass to get a closer look.

"Mmmmm.....those fingers look yummy."

Aaron is wiggling a tooth here....oops.

Yeah for dino's!

Our paleontologist in the making!

Our children.

Keith practicing his steering skills

I'm not going to even imagine what it will be like when he gets to driving age... :D

The sleepy-wouldn't-move-for-us-or-do-anything-for-us croc.

The other one (I think this is Scar) who was willing to give us a show.

I now understand the story of the five little monkeys swinging in the tree...Croc's do "snap" and make a large popping sound when they do very neat.

Family Photos 2015

Yes!  Finally after how many years since our last family photo?! I'm pretty sureI wasn't even expecting Keith. We've finally updated ours!  

I just can't seem to decide on which one to use  to send to family.

By the way, this coming May we are celebrating our 10th anniversary!  I can't believe it has been that long already!

I really, really like this one of Owen...so natural.

 An everyone seeing this one of Keith probably will start to laugh at what looks like a bunch of mischief and believe me that is exactly what he is!! (We still love him.)

Will give another update with our holiday pictures..we had a nice time just touring and hiking around Auckland...well, not necessarily *in* the city but at the beautiful regional parks. :)

We also received our passports with our resident visa's! :)

Good news!

I would like to announce that our application for residency has been approved!  Weare very thankful!  

Isn't this silver fern pretty?  Surely everybody knows about this national symbol? 

Now onto the next step which is sending in our passports, paying a migrant levy and another detail that I can't remember. All of this sounds easy, except we just realized Jett doesn't have any pages left in his passport for the residency visa.to be placed (and they definitely specify where it cannot be put)..haha!  Ok so we need to renew his passport now but that shouldn't be too much trouble thankfully. :)

So there is our good news. :)