KIWI VALLEY FARM WITH THE BICKFORDS.

A few weeks ago,  our family and The Bickfords went out to Kiwi Valley Farm for the day.  We scored 2 family passes for free so that was a bonus and we had such a fun time.  It was lovely to take all the kids and Rasivich Parker who loved his day with us all.  The kids loved feeding the animals,  holding rats,  going through mazes,  riding on tractors and Horse riding to name a few things.  It was neat to have the Daddies with us too,  Keith often works on Saturday so it was so cool to do something as a family together for once.    Afterwards we all went to BK for a feed together too.  Here are some of the photos of the fun below.

Arama and Terina holding Chicks below.

 

Terina above with the Guinea Pig and Niwa below with the Rabbit.

Terina with Cute Maimai below.

Rasivich,  Maia and Arama laughing at their Daddys on the seat together.

Tractor riding fun.  They took us up the hill on the trailer being towed by the tractor.

Silly Uncle Donovan on the way back down the hill on the Tractor,  when the drive wasn't looking.  He was teaching the kids how to 'Tractor Surf' as he called it!  He is such a hypo crazy with the kids its so funny!

Arama and Keith inside the cave.

Terina,  Keith  and Donovan all holding the rat below.  They were the only ones brave enough to hold them.  YUCK!!

OUR KELLY TARLTONS FAMILY TRIP

Last week our family went on a Holiday trip to Kelly Tarltons.  Here are some photos of us all there.  Terina and Niwa had never been there before and they were fascinated by all that they saw.  We haven’t done  many family things lately as Keith works many Saturdays and is always working in the Holidays,  he took the first two days of these holidays off so we had a chance to do a few things together which was really nice.

When Keith gets a camera,  he goes crazy,  so crazy in fact that he doesn't seem to realise that there are any people or family members around him,  you know men, they find it hard to multi-task,  well you put an artist in with the male mix and he is so zoned out also by the amazing colours and creative scenes everywhere around him.  But to tell you the truth some of the sea life here was amazing!  Here are some of Keiths shots below.  We long for a cool camera,  these are i pad photos!

MORE PHOTOS OF UP NORTH

We did lots of things when we were up north so I will just include a few photos below. 

Daddy and Niwa at the Park at Badleys Beach.

The kids on the swings at Badleys.

Below was our family trip to Goat Island.  I 

was a bit bummed because as soon as I had taken this photo my camera

went flat so this is the only photo of us there that day.

It was such an amazing day (Easter Monday)

Terina and Niwa ended up swimming in the rock pools in their

clothes and we saw some amazing snapper swimming 

in between the rocks.  I love Goat Island,  I often think that

If I were a tourist overseas and discovered this place,  I would

remember it forever,  it really is a little bit of Paradise right

here on our back door step!

The kids having a sausage on a stick.  Poppa was tired of waiting for the dinner and more

tired of the kids moaning etc, so he quickly hopped up and made them hot dogs etc so they

would perhaps go to bed early but his plan didn't work and they thought this was just an entree 

and then had a second course when dinner was ready  LOL!

AUNTY NIKKI ARRIVES!

On Tuesday Keith went back to Auckland to work and 

Nix, Carl, Ash and Nikau came up to join us for a few days.

Nix and I couldn't believe how fast and efficient life

can be when you have two women in the house.  

Both nights we had the kids fed, bathed and in Bed by 

7pm no problem and then we got to hang and have a 

good Koorero for the rest of the night together.  What a treat!

These 3 photos below are of Aunty Nix reading Hairy

Maclary to the kids,  I love their faces as they watch and 

listen to the story together.

He he,  we went to Goat Island for a little picnic this day. Nix stopped at the shop and bought 

these cashew nuts for a lot of money so her and I could hold out on them. Then a seagull came and 

grabbed the packet in his beak and took off with them.  Nix chased the Seagull and grabbed the packet

but it was too late he had bitten a huge hole in the packet. I guess our intentions got the better of us.
 We were not happy foodies!

The next few photos are of the kids playing at Matakana Country Park.

I have a confession to make!

Every time we go up North, we have to make regular

stops to 'BLUE'.   'BLUE' is an ice cream shop in Matakana

which has the most yummy Berry blend ice creams as well

as organic ice creams and many other amazing treats.

Below, Ash and Terina enjoying their icecream.

TOTALLY IN HEAVEN!

 Not a bad photo this one considering 

Nix stretched out her hand in front of us both

and took it herself.

THE COOLEST WEEK IN AGES!