Hi guys - well its about time I hear you all saying, dissapeared from Facebook and pretty terrible at keeping in touch! Sorry we have been really busy since arriving in NZ nearly a year ago. We have renovated and moved into the house that we bought many years ago.....(it would have been easier, cheaper and less stressful to build one from scratch i think), we have bought and are running a business (Brent is doing all the hard work and I'm doing the bookwork) Josh has doubled in size and has turned into a propper little boy. We have met some really lovely people and Josh and I have made great friends - you can see some of them in our pictures.
We enjoyed our first Christmas is the summer - wierd but enjoyable. Mum and Eddie came out and spent Christmas with us, we had a great time. Eddie played Father Christmas at three different parties the kids (and the mums) loved him! Good Job Ed!!
While you guys in the UK have been (and continue) to freeze hehehe we have been enjoying a great summer temperatures up to 38* some days. Don't worry when its your summer we will be cold and remember we don't have any central heating!
It has been the summer holidays and so all the kids have been off school/kindy etc - we have been doing sme very exciting stuff with our friends, we've been to the beach, to the zoo, to willowbank, on the trams and the gondola, on the steam boat in Lyttleton harbour, over to Quail Island and Diamond harbour and up to Spencer Park. We try to fill our days as much as possible. Josh is very keen to keep on the go, he is very energetic, has dropped his afternoon sleep (unless its in the car) and talks constantly.
We are now in the process of sorting out the garden - having just purchased a new spa pool, we are looking at decking around it, putting in raised beds and relaying the paving at the back of the house. When you all come out to visit you will be able to relax after a hard days sight seeing. The veggie patch is coming on well, we have been enjoying home grown veggies all summer and have just put in our winter crops. I've become quite green fingered! What with that and cutting our own firewood (our only source of heating) I feel a bit like a country bumpkin.
Any hoo enough for this post I will aim to post messages more often and i hope that you enjoy reading them.
Love Lou, Brent and Josh xxxxxxxxxx
