Mom is here!

Mom arrived on Oct. 28th for a visit to our home in Mt Isa! She is going to be here for 6 weeks all together including convention AND her 50th birthday!! Woohoo! Rhys is loving having another person to cuddle and play with.

Check out our great shoes!

Playtime before Wed. night meeting
Rhys with his hair all messed up with sunscreen!

More pictures to come.....

A Saturday for Gardening

Eldon's green thumb is back in full force! For those of you who knew us in Papakura, you'll remember the awesome garden we had back then. Well....we aren't going so crazy here as it would take a lot of soil and a rotary hoe to make a difference to the dirt. Eldon has planted everything in pots; carrots, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon, climbing beans, dwarf beans...hmmm what else? It's really fun to watch it grow...the beans have grown so fast! Hopefully if all is well, we'll have a nice little harvest in a few months.

Rhys "helping" put dirt in the pot...he ended up with cow manure and soil all over him...what fun!

Our pet lizard which hangs out by the compost
Finished product!

Instalment #7: Wedding

The happy couple, signing their lives away!

Danny Ellis, Groomsman and me

Mike's parents and grandparents

The view from Mudbrick Vineyard where the wedding was held on Waiheke Island

The two Bruces....must have been a good shot!

Photos by the cellar

Rhys and I waiting for the pictures to be over

The two bouquets
The beautiful vases were on each tableThis is the restaurant at the vineyard where we had the wedding breakfast
Eldon and I

Darryn and Denise looking rather snazzy

Saying goodnight!!

Instalment #6: The morning of the wedding

We woke up on Friday morning to a glorious day! What a surprise! Our houses faced Oneroa Beach and the view was amazing! The wedding wasn't until the evening, so we were able to relax and have a really enjoyable morning.

The view from our balcony

Mum, Dad and Eldon enjoying the beautiful sunshine in their pajamas!

Granddad reading Monkey Puzzle to Rhys

I made a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon

We went to get our hair done about 1pm

Halfway there...looking good

All done...Roz had a beautiful flower decoration in her hair

Me...looking somewhat like Cousin It as the hairdresser ratted my whole head of hair!!

Almost done...an amazing french roll

Instalment #5: Thursday night BBQ

The two families, Pattersons and Ellises got together on Thursday night and had an awesome barbeque. We rented houses on Waiheke and it came equiped with a barbeque. The weather was still pretty awful but the boys managed to cook everything just fine.

Bobby Ellis and Darryn cranking up the barbeque

Roz was not impressed with Mike's shirt!!

Darryn and Denise made us yummy chai tea lattes

It was fairly cold that night....

Bobby and Jessica Ellis...Mike's brother and wife

Danny Ellis...another brother
you know who
night-night kisses