Monday, May 30, 2011

More fun things on the weekend...

...a new swing in a gum tree.

...very happy!

a beautiful evening for a stroll! ...looking at the mountains and then ....

...the sea!

and also the sky, of course ...it kept changing every second!

night, night!

A relaxing weekend.

...it is almost finished!!! will try to take more photos when the sun shines and we get the last bits of timber needed to finish!

the four girls we have been looking after this month!...thanks hens for all your yummy eggs!

...I got my eye on you!

...trying Vietnamese coffee Mmmmmm yum!
Thanks I & SJ. :)

...and special lollies all the way home from Vietnam!!!

...the cream layer at the bottom IS condensed milk!!!!!
mixed all together...yum!

hope you all had a lovely weekend
M and I are off to Sports day at School tomorrow, I think I will be wearing my gumboots!
have a good week :)
Arohanui x

Monday, May 23, 2011

More Baking...

Mission accomplished!!!...cake tins filled.

....with dream kisses!!! mmmmmmmmmmmm
recipe from "A Treasury of NZ Baking"

...and flowers (from our next door neighbours garden...thanks J. :)) on the table.

hope the sun is shining in your part of the world!

Arohanui for a grand week :)

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Amaretti! ...

This was actually last weeks baking effort... Amaretti!
but not by me by Mr R. yum yum!
This week to fill the tins M. and I made Ginger crunch..(no photos sorry).

a small stack in one of my mums new bowls ...cute aye!

jar semi fulled!!...sorry about the blur its hard to take glass shots??


...and of course some flowers for the table!

Enjoy the week hope this weather isn't too awful!!!

Arohanui x

Monday, May 2, 2011

Glaciers,Rocks,kayaks and flying machines

...on our walk to 3 mile Mum and I found a whole bank of all these amazing spider webs catching the dew?

... very cool rock up the Fox Glacier Valley

...guess where we went on our day off???


...yay a day off!! we biked on the newish trail from Fox up to the glacier ...it is excellent YOU must do it!!!

.... nobody was kayaking and it was so amazing, the water was flat and blue, loads of birds and warm!! we just had to do it ourselves!!!!

this amazing machine came in for a look around!

Hope you are all having a grand week!
Arohanui x
p.s. Happy B.day Mr R.