so sad

BilLiE JeAN

I will miss M.J.

photo 14

ThE 14th of JuNe

(Mr T.)

Well I looked for the 14th photo in the 6th folder of my laptop and to my amusement it was a picture of Mr T. I found this really funny given Crystals comment on Rosie's blog, "At least it wasn't a boring photo of Mr T". Because this was so boring I thought that given that today is the 22nd I would post that photo as well, luckily it is the 22nd today because photo 21 is another photo of Mr T. I don't even like Mr T. that much, I don't know where all these photos of him came from.

(Sam, Lucy, Rose, Pita, Chucky, Carly)

So here is photo number 22 still not as exciting as other peoples but better than Mr T. This was a great canoe trip it was the second time I had been downthe Wanganui river but this time was the best because everyone was there, and this time there were alot more spills which always adds to the excitement, in fact I think everyone ended up in the later at some stage except maybe Liz?

Cinnamon Rolls

Well since cousin Emma was visiting last week, we tried to do some fun and exciting things. Fun and exciting for Rosie meant baking, she made these awesome cinnamon rolls (above) as well as a lemon pie and some baked potatoes, she is becoming quite the baker.

Another 'fun' thing we did was go to the memorial gardens and try to take pictures of us all jumping in the air on self timer...we could have done more interesting things its true but we couldn't really be bothered. For instance Dean spent the day out at Raglan on a 45km bike track with his South African work mate, mostly up hill, he only made 30kms but I was still impressed.

We also went out to a new vegetarian restaurant in town, and I had the most delicious spinach dish, Emma had something with lentils that was very nice and Joe had these really yummy dumpling things, and it was all really cheap...at first I wanted to go to this bento place that Dean and I discovered, but I'm glad Joe convinced us to go Indian because now I know two really good restaurants.

Anzac, Easter, and our Own Special Little Easter Bunny

 

Well Easter and Anzac have now pretty much come and gone and here we are. They are an interesting pair of holidays with both striking similarities and paradoxical contrasts; while both are hallowed memorials to fallen heroes, one underlies peace and the other war. Below is a photo of Deans Grandad who served during WWII in Africa. He spent most of the war in a prison camp. He is 89 now and is mostly blind, hard of hearing and can no longer walk, however, he is the most loved person in the RSA rest home where he receives multiple visits daily from his wife, son (Deans dad) and grand children (deans brother and sisters). And so, as the sun sets on one generation, it rises on another.

Little Asher continues to grow and is now sitting up. He is very playful and enjoys peekaboo, tickles, smiles, and just being with people. The other day little Asher was trying out some new solids - a rice cracker; he was enjoying sucking on it but at one stage the cracker became sufficiently soggy that it developed an adhesive quality and became bound to the tip of his tongue. For some time Asher tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his tongue into his mouth to capture the elusive cracker but every time to no avail resulting in this sticky tip of the tongue cracker that recoiled to and fro from his mouth.