History Fair!

The last day of Term 2 we went to our local annual homeschool history fair.  Last year A&A did a joint project but this year they did projects separately. Aaron was all into dinosaurs until wbout a week or so before the history fair....sigh.  But anyways he did really well. 

Of course when you go with friends, you need to take photos of their children and projects too. ;) Here is Mr Lincoln, really like his hat!

 Aaron's dinosaur display.

 Mrs. Washington....er Amelia.

 Amelia being judged on her knowledge of Mr. Washington.

 Aaron being judged.

 Another friend's project on the US flag (they like America btw) she got a prize for this, well done!

 Another friend's...she also got a prize; not surprising really as she knew her stuff and enjoyed studying the Queen.

 Her sister did Queen Victoria. :)

 The Great Fire of London.  I'm sure a lot of people know who this wee man is (at least some Scots will).

Amelia's group - was quite large, actually the three younger groups seemed to be quite large!  This year they had double the participants which meant a full room.

We went to Mcdonalds as a treat afterwards.  I had two crying children because Mcdonalds makes junk food...(I thought this was going to be a treat) Anyways they calmed down when I said it is okay because we only eat here very rarely! I guess I have been talking too much about how bad junk food is...!

 

  Unfortunately this MCd's willbe moving to a new building which si being built next door (Keith is watching the machines in the pic). This most likely means a noiser Mcd's....the newer ones all seem to have tv's and some have loud music. I guess we'll have to eat outside if we want peace... :)

Anyways the next post should be of Amelia's birthday party.  She had such a good time with her friends and they gave lovely thoughtful gifts.  Very sweet. :)

Owen's 6th Birthday and a few random photos.

Not sure why I haven't posted about Owen's birthday yet not that we did anything overly exciting. Cake,a few presents and thats about it. :)  I filmed lots of it but I didn't take pictures except this one, of the cake. Silly me.

He enjoyed it though, and even blew the candles out which was nice.  He got a ukelele but it already needs to be restrung...right, my fault for buying cheap. :(  I should probably get something better but not right now.  Why does this seem to happen every year with him?

We went to the Museum sometime in May I think?  Before Jett headed off to the faraway land of Scotland.

I like the architecture...must be in my blood. ;)

I'm not into selfies but I am into taking pictures (occasionally that is) of us together.

I'll need to post pictures of the history fair next....but for now this will have to do.  Struggling just now with some flu bug and next week is the communion here so lots going on.

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.