Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy.....(John Denver)

Spring is definitely coming and the last two weeks the sun has finally started to spend a lot more time in the sky making us all feel good.

Two weeks worth this week so I'll start with last week. Saturday we spent doing lots of jobs around the house before Saturday movie night was the absolutely brilliant "Cars" which we all loved and was *********/10, the boys have been car made since and that fab garage from Aunty Kaz and Uncle Paul has been worn out this week! Sunday morning (pic left) the boys and I got up early to watch the All Black’s brilliant defeat over Italy in the world cup and the got really excited and yelled at the TV nearly as much as mummy (great game but I really missed my call from Grandad to dissect the game afterward). We then had a great brunch with a group of families at a café/bar that has entertainment for children while you relax and eat…fabulous idea!!

This week has been full of running around outside in the sunshine and it was such a glorious day on Saturday that we headed to the the harbour front to eat icecream in the sun and playing in he park before coming home to spend hours in the garden tidying everything up while the boys played rugby and doing "helping" - they are quite helpful really. Saturday movie night was the not so brilliant “Valiant” *****/10, even Jack said “next time can we get a movie with not so many birds in it and other animals instead”…ditto

Sunday we headed into Capital E for the "Grumble Rumble Mumbler” which the boys loved (we did too because it was free!), it was a show about Taniwha’s (Maori Monsters) and at the end the boys got to go up on stage and try on the masks and talk to the actors and they loved it, they decided they want to be actors now! We spent the afternoon finishing off the garden and then all fell into bed seriously exhausted.

The boys are really fascinated by weddings and marriage at the moment and we have hysterical conversations like these:

Tom “mummy where did you get married?”
Mum “in England”
Tom “Oh, was it at the marriage shop there?”

Jack “will I get married one day daddy?”
Dad “if you want to yes”
Jack “will I have babies too?
Dad “if you wanted to”
Jack “mummy, can you have a baby so I can have it”……..aaahhh no!!

Pic below is the boys discovering that polystyrene packing makes great snow......that was a hell of a clean -up!!