flashbacks

i've known fleur for nearly thirty years. we met in skool, and shared our teenage years together. now our kids are teens. this summer, famille fleur ventured to NZ and our two families spent new year's week sleeping marae-styles at our place. even though we see each other only once a year or two, our kiddos have an instant connection, which is pretty amazing, and makes me so happy. these few escapades were captured on fleur's daughter's vintage camera.

these are our kids! and lookit, they're so grown up. their freshness and zest for living make me go all gooey. it's an amazing and wonderful thing to have such beautiful people in our lives, sharing the same sorta antics we used to share. i have that circle of life song from the lion king playing cheesily in my head, but really, i am so blessed.

beautiful bessie

skwoozle did another photo shoot late last year for fabulous margot of the exquisite hair pretties - she sent some pics through today.

the holly holidays

we've actually had

a wonderful

summer hols so far -

with lots of peeps

to stay

and lots of peeps

to visit -

these pics are

from yesterday

in the sunshine -

i confess

i saw

a teensy bit

too much sun -

i'm a bit pinky today -

but we all had a brilliant connection with the cuzzies.

katie has a new camera. it's only a canon point-and-shoot, but katie thinks it beats random pxts. so she spent five mins pointing and shooting.

oooh, lookit. something shiny over there.

i think that my mousey has the most exquisite hair colour in the entire universe.

beautiful raych pulled all sorts of funny faces and then she got the giggles.

this is my view of the world most mornings.