"This festive season"

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Years. It feels so good to be home. Brad & I have been zipping round the lower North Island since Boxing Day.



Here are a few highlights and lowlights of our Holiday period:



           Blingin'

• An easy, virtually stress free Christmas Day, filled with great love, food and presents - The majority of my presents were food related. Score! Kitchen post lovelies to follow. A great mixed family breakfast at our place. A scavenger hunt at Brads parents house. Knowing that next year there will be a brand new little person, Brads cousin and his wife have a bun in the oven. Oh...and food, food and more food. 

• Sunshine  - sweet, sweet sunshine.

• Hawkins-family time in Halcombe - Eating cheesecake and trifle at any time of the day. Pretty Ponies. Shopping, mooching, painting and watching family videos. 

• A nostalgic New Year in Martinborough - Sun, friends, family and amazing accommodation. 

• JENGA the drinking game -  Just when you thought JENGA couldn't get any more heart-attack inducing. You were wrong. 

          Mingin'

• Budget highs and lows - Damned STAT day bank closure. 

• Heavens Doors open - Knowing that people you love are suffering loses, and imminent loses.

• Brad vs. Ditch - Drinking games + a game of Spotlight + a ditch = A broken arm for Brad. 

• Parting with Family and Friends - such sweet sorrow.