The last month or so.....

hey people,
sorry I haven't posted any photos lately....am finally getting round to it today.
There are some photos of Brook's trip to the Every Nation International Conference in the Phillipines in July, our clearning out of the front garden with Dad, our friends Jani(he is Finnish) and Jenna's wedding and most recently, Cam and Marie's engagement party last night. Had lots of fun there, danced for about two hours in Uncle Si and Aunty Shelli's lounge. The girls in the photo from left are Marie, Katie (Marie's sister), Hannah (Ben's girlfriend), Bex and I.
Hope you enjoy the photos:)

4th July celebrations!

Hey there! Just came back from Palmerston North where we had a birthday party for Phoebe in the theme of 4th July. Sarah and Russell sent all these cool decorations which we had fun putting up. We even had tatoos! Am on holiday at the moment for a couple of weeks which is just lovely. Is pretty cold outside but am managing to do some gardening as well reading two really good books: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom and The Cross and the switchblade by David Wilkerson; would thoroughly recommend them both. Blessings to you all:)

Keenan turns 1!

Hey people. Sorry I haven't updated our blog for a few weeks. My laptop wasn't connecting to the internet at home and that's the only way I can put photos on our blog. So, the update, Keenan's birthday party, doesn't he look gorgeous! We played pass the parcel, Renee made a beautiful teddy bear cake and Keenan sucked on Graham's beer bottle because his gums were sore!! By the way Sarah, Dad wants to know what "Yule" means!!

Cam & Marie are engaged!

hey various family members,
here are a few photos to update you on what we have been up to lately. Brook's cousin, Cam, and Marie (who lives with us) got engaged last weekend! Very exciting. They are planning on getting married feb/march '08.
The other day brook surprised me and came to work with a bunch of flowers and then took me out for dinner and a movie.... such a lovely husband. Everyone at work thinks he is just amazing:)
we have had lots of birthdays lately also. brook turned 27 on april 25th, i turned 26 on may 5th then ben (brook's brother who lives with us) turned 28 on may 9th.
we've got brook's parents (mary & jono) visiting us at the moment for a few days,
so here are a couple of photos of them.
love you all lots:)

brook's birthday

Hey awesome family members! Hope you are enjoying our blogs. I've made it a goal to update it every week. It'll be an incentive to take more photots, sorry they won't always be interesting. This most recent collection includes photos from brook's birthday and dinner with my old next door neighbour Jen and her boyfriend Matt (jen made this awesome pavlova. There is also an example of ben's coffee art: "the silver fern"!! There is also me holding one of our neighbour's kittens, daisy or sally, i get them confused

Weekend away

My wonderful hubby took me away for a romantic weekend up the coast at this amazing beach house belonging to a mentor of his. We had such a chilled time together...long walks along the beach, watching the sun set, cooking fancy meals and just enjoying some time alone together. The weather was fantastic for april. We tried to be arty with our photography! Hope you like the sand message sarah & russell

Welcome to our blog!

Hey everyone!
Brook and Katie have officially opened a blog. This is quite a big deal since both of us are not really into computers, but when your family lives around the world, this is a great method of sharing our lives.
The photos you can hopefully see are those of our "summer" project (still not finished):painting the exterior of our house! Big, big job but really needed doing. Sorry about a couple of the photos being the wrong way round, not sure how to turn them round properly!
lots of love and blessings,
brook and katie