Yay for holidays

First of all, HAPPY 2009!!! We hope your year has started off as well as ours has and that you had a chance to relax and chat over Christmas. We did - lots of chatting. Secondly, a big thank you to Ro for having us to stay and for the babysitting, meals and love. Thank you also to G'Marg and Pappy for all your help and love. This is starting to sound like an award speech! Another huge thanks to every one who sent cards and gifts and shared their toys with us.

The following photos are a bit scrambled and go back to the start of December but we may as well post them in one chunk and we know it's the photos you all like anyway...

No ordinary ornaments...

A debate about who won the hat from the cracker.

No arguments here, Frank gets the hat.And the magnifying glass, thanks Dad.

Cheers! Pappy, Dougal, Frank, Kate, Emily, Ro, G'Marg and Arfalarfa ('I want the hat.')

Emily and Ro xxx

Arf and Lily.

Arf: She's pretty. I want to be like her.
Lily: Oh honey, you look so much better in that than me...

Mattais: Was that you, Frank?!!

Mattais and Arf: What? We're not doing nothin'.

Frank: I'm Ro-Ro.

Leona's back! Hanging out at Waihi Beach before Shapeshifter.

Frank showing Grandad Macbrayne how he drove Peter's tractor.

Sisters catching up - yep, Milz is wearing a hoodie! She's been sick with glandular fever :(

Arf: Was that you, Frank?

Arf tells Stu what's what.

Finn turned two and Frank really wanted to keep the present we gave him.

Yeeha, what a cake!

Arf: I want to be a big boy.

Canoe trip down the Whanganui for Ginny's 40th.

The Bridge to Nowhere Lodge we stayed at (go there!)