Hello boatee...

On it's way to our house!  And not soon enough!

Mr A has been dreaming of having a boat for years and after one false start, months of umming and ahhing, information overload requiring significantly reigning back in.... this is it!  Most exciting?... it comes with a biscuit! (inflatable not edible!).

So get ready for some "messing about on the rivers"!

Ski Cardrona - June / July 2010

What a holiday!  Quite the best family holiday we have been on - Energising, beautiful, picturesque, welcoming, embracing Otago...

First real real real snow!  And Pippa just wanted to sit in it!... oh, and lie in it!

Lake Wakatipu

Whanau watching the start of the Queenstown Winterfest.

Cookie time!!

Lake Wanaka and it's omnipresent cloud!

Puzzling World - what a great and hilarious place!

Ski School Ready!!  WAHOO!

Cardrona Archway

And here she goooooooooooes!

.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz .......

Poor Miss Megan was getting rather anxious about the departure of her first tooth.... but don't worry! 

.... IT DIDN'T HURT! xxxx

Pippa the Pizza girl ('pizza' = modern equiv of 'snowplough'!)

The beautiful Carr-roll x

Beautiful Arrowtown, resting beneath the mountains' shadows.

Queenstown

Dad's fortyumph birthday!

The cake maker / licker!

Pint of Tea anyone?

Our special birthday visitor, Uncle Russ x

Pippa's 5th Birthday

Pippa's birthday celebrations started with us three gals watching Shrek 4 in 3d!

After a beautiful birthday party with 12 princesses, Pippa opened some pressies.... it was a Barbie / My little Pony festival! 

Pips enjoying painting some plaster models from some special special friends xxxx

The cake...! (the legs had already been eaten by the time mum remembered to take a photo!)

Post-party sister xxxx