My babies are gone:-(:-(:-(

Yesterday we had a low key xmas munch at Uncle Ene's and Aunty Kylie's. Then while they rested their puku's Mum took Lennox and Veek for a swim. No pics of the whole day as the camera batteries were flat. The boys got some choice prezzies and some cash for their holiday.
Today my boys flew out for their exciting holiday in Perth. This is their first time flying alone but thry were very excited. Mum started crying at the airport and then the boys did. They were punching each other one minute then holding hands walking towards the plane crying the next. Mum's ok now but it is very quiet in our whare.......

Guess who came to our house today??

Today Uncle Justin and Deacon came to visit on their way from Perth to Wellington. Deacon is so cute. He wasn't shy at all and made himself at home straight away. He got very excited when we went to pick the boys up from school.These were the best pics we could get of him cause he slept all the way from Perth and he had a lot of energy when he got to Brizzy. It was hard enough getting these photos.
These tired old fullas were happy to stand still for a photo lol.

December stuff

Well we haven't been doing much lately cause it's too friggin hot. 35 degrees = stay home under the fan.

But anyways Aunty Christina arrived this morning. She's gonna be living in Brizzy now with her Mum in Ipswich. It's mega hot there. They will probably be moving closer to our place in the next month or so. It was the last day of school on friday. Veek is very excited about the holidays as the boys will be going to Nan's on boxing day for a few weeks. The boys are counting down to that, more then xmas!! Xmas is gonna be a low key affair this year. Soooo poor lol.

We went to visit Loy the other day. She has lost all her hair from the radiation treatment but she is still in high spirits. Fingers crossed she makes it to xmas. That's her personal goal cause she's bought a big massive xmas tree and has decked her house out with all the xmas lights ever. She's at home on the weekend then back to hospital monday to friday. Here's a pic of her and Livi.

Mum has lost 2.4 kilos so far doing the shred workout. No dieting yet just strictly excercising. Got a bit more work to do yet.

Snake encounter

After 8 years in Oz we have finally had our 1st encounter with a real snake. It was slithering around the front yard when Mum got home from work, then it took off into the bushes on the side of the house. Mum was shitting her daks hard lol. Needless to say, the kids aren't allowed outside until further notice:-)

Day one

Today is day one of Mum's new excercise buzz. If it's blogged about then it can't be ignored and Mum will have to act now!! Shred is the best and worst thing so far. Shred dvd owns Mum lol. Weekly updates to follow.....

December bdays

Here we go whanau. Last month of 2008. Here's who's celebrating this month.

11th- Aunty Shona

21st- Koro Tim

26th- Uncle Vance

27th- Uncle Tom

What else have we been up to?? Lennox had his xmas party on the weekend. He got to meet santa and got a prezzy from him. He got a book from santa then called santa a liar because he wanted a chocolate and santa should have known that lol. But then he came to the conclusion that he must've been naughty and that's why he didn't get what he wanted.

Veek managed to score nearly $500 for his bday!! He bought a psp and some games. Not sure what he's gonna do with the rest of his cash yet. He's been refusing all attempts for me to take photos of him lately so here's an old one instead.

Mum has been doing the same old stuff. Mum's friend Tarnz had her 40th on the weekend. We all wore matching naughty 40 singlets. Here's a few pics....

No pics of anything

This weekend was pretty full on. On friday Veek went to Koro Hector's place because he was taking him fishing. Veek caught 3 fish. No pics though cause Veek forgot the camera.
On saturday Mum, Dad and Lennox went bowling. Lennox won the first game. Then Dad won the second game. Mum was the best at playing the arcade games afterwards lol. Again no pics as we thought Veek had the camera.
After bowling Lennox went shopping with Dad and got 2 new power ranger dvd's. This was supposed to be purchased outta Lennox's bday money but somehow he conned Dad into paying for them.
On Sunday Mum had her work xmas party. Hooray all the fundraising is over!! It's hard to hussle cash outta tight ass people. Anyways the party was a huge success. Lots of mean food and heaps of fun for Lennox running around with the kids and swimming all day. Lennox paticipated in the under 10's running race and came 2nd. Too good aye. Even smoked some big kids. Veek turned up to the party at 3pm and him and bubba kept swimming till 5. When we got home they crashed out hard and Mum got to have the night off from cooking. Yay.
Anyways that was our weekend. Back to the daily grind again. Looking forward to this weekend. Lennox has a bday party to go to, it's tuwharetoa day on saturday so we're gonna get our feed on then off to the footy semi finals of the world cup on saturday night.

Lennox's bday & November bdays

On Thursday our boi Lennox turned the big 5. Nana Kim came over and had dinner and cake with us. YummyOn Saturday we had a kids party at home. Lennox invited 4 friends from daycare, 2 friends from footy, all his cuzzies, Kin's kids, Katrina's kids, Melly's son and Aunty Christina's brother Que. Plus heaps of adults too. Mum was very busy making all the food. We had party pies, sausage rolls, cheerios, chop suey, potato salad, fried bread, seafood mornay and a gangsta bbq. Not to mention craploads of chippies and lollies. The theme for the party was supposed to be halloween but the kids just rocked up as super heroes mostly. Lennox was a blue power ranger, there were 3 spidermen, fairies, princesses and a pirate. We were supposed to play games but we ended up just playing pass the parcel because the kids all went outside and played on the tramp instead. All Lennox's cuzzies on his dad's side were there except for Alex. Here they are......

In other news Mum went to Stevie Wonder last saturday night. That was an awesome as concert. Here's a pic of us at the bar.

Then on Wednesday Mum went to watch Snoop Dogg, Bone Thugs and Westside Connection. Even better night. So many great songs from my prime years when I thought I was a gangsta lol.

Hmm what else??? Oh yes here's our november birthdays.

2nd- Tarnz

7th- Taruia and daryl

11th- Izire

16th- Mya and Neriah

19th- Big sonny boi Nivek!!

22nd- Kelly

25th- Aunty Lynda May

30th- Kylie

That's all our news I think. Better get off here and clean up the mess from the party.

Stuff

Veek started his touch season last night. His team won 3-2 and he scored 2 tries. Dad waggedmahi to watch him play and he was very impressed. He's also started an after school sports program on wednesdays. On top of all that he has an assignment on frogs so that is keeping him busy too. And of course the obvious which is annoying Lennox which is a full time job all by itself.

Lennox is busy organising his own party. Apparantly Mum and Dad aren't allowed to know anything because it's a secret. He's drawn his invitations and reckons he's got it all sorted. On a serious note we are still having a halloween party at home but we're gonna let him think he created everything.

Mum has been busy fundraising for the xmas party. She organised a social on the weekend and it was very successful. Now that the social is outta the way we have more choccies to sell. Mum has had some time off mahi cause this clown at work run her foot over with a pallet jack then hit her again and dropped heaps of stuff on her. Poor mum:(

Dad is enjoying his new job. He still hasn't bought a new car but we might get one before xmas.

And last but not least good luck to Hapu who is due to have baby Jack any day now. Let us know when he arrives Hapu.

October bdays and other stuff

Here we go whanau another month of bdays to celebrate......

7th- Everyones fave Uncle Bou

10th- Peka

12th- Tina

20th- Uncle Whati

21st- Uncle Mike

30th- Lennox and Aunty Christina

Very good school holidays so far. Both boys have been attending King of the castle daycare on wednesdays and thursdays. So far Veek has been to the movies, south bank and chandler pools. Lennox hasn't been to the excursions as he is in the pre school group who has to stay behind:( Next year he'll be up there with the big kids.

Here's a pic of Lennox on a ride at the school fete. While this ride was in full swing Lennox stood up to wave at Mum and Dad and Mum nearly s*%t her daks. Then the rude attendant had the cheek to tell us we need to control our son better. OMG some people!!

Mum had her bday at the XXXX brewery on saturday. It was an excellent night.........apparantly. Mum has sketchy memories at best lol

Mum has no pics of herself but here's one of Kel before, carefully balancing 4 beers while walking back to our table.

And after, trying to wear the outside cover of the duty free bottle as a hat lmao.

Lennox is planning his bday already. He's having a halloween party on the 1st of november. He's thinking of dressing up as power ranger or a space ranger. We aren't sure what a space ranger is so hopefully we can find a power ranger outfit. Veek and dad are too cool to dress up but Mum is gonna be something awesome. Not sure what yet??

This pic is purely for Aunty Ray Ray so she can see how stupid we get at the Wynnum. Hope you like it my bro:)

School holidays again

Once again it's school holiday time. Veek will be attending Lennox's daycare 3 days a week during the holidays. He used to go to his own vacation care at his school, but carindale PCYC bought it and now we have to drive all the way there if he's gonna attend that one. Carindale is about 15 minutes away and Mum and Dad can't be bothered driving that far in peak hour traffic to drop him off and pick him up. Lennox is excited to have his brother at his daycare. Veek isn't impressed but once he's sees that there's other school aged children there we're sure he'll like it.
Today we went to the Brisbane museum and science centre. That was so cool. Heaps of interactive things to do and lots of interesting stuff to see and learn about. We caught the bus there cause we didn't wanna pay for parking. The bus cost $22 return and there was lots of smelly people on it. Next time we go to southbank we will pay the $15 parking fee just so we can have air con and no smelly people with us. It was 33 degrees today so I don't really blame some peeps for being extra smellier then usual.
It's Mums bday next weekend. Yay!! She's doing the XXXX brewery tour, then dinner at a local thai restaurant, then watch the warriors in the semi finals, then drink at her friend Melly's, then go clubbing. Should be a great night.

September birthdays

This is a big birthday month. Must be all that festive season drunkeness lol.
1st- Kerihaehae
3rd- Aunty Merenia
6th- Campbell
7th- Uncle Ene, Aunty Anne & Aunty Jan
19th- Kelz
22nd- Lil Alex & Antoinette
27th- Mum & Phoenix
28th- R.I.P Nana Wrigley
30th- Uncle Alex

What else is the news??? Uncle Pat, Lisa and Tait arrived on Sunday. They've come over for Uncle Ene's 21st. We're most probably gonna do some tourist activities with them while they're here but we have to wait till the weekend. No more MDO's for Mum and Veek.
Lennox has learnt to write his name this week. He's quite excited about that. He's also learnt his phone number and address too.
Veek's also been on a roll at kura. He scored top marks in his assignment on Mexico so now Dad has to reward him.
We've been looking for some summer sports for the boys. Veek wants to do trampolining so we're looking for a club close to home and bubba wants to play playstation, so we're working on that. Maybe we could get him a wii fit for his bday, lil game freak.
Dad's been looking for another job and is still looking for a new car. Until then he'll keep on keeping on at Inghams and will rock the mangi mobile till it blows up lol.
Mum's a big fatty who needs to check herself and get in shape for summer. Nan and Aunty Polly are very encouraging but Mum needs more willpower.

Nan's trip to Brizzy

Well after a bit of nagging from our regular readers here is our update.....

Nana Diane flew in on Friday 15th of August. She came over to attend the convention and we convinced her to stay a little longer and spend time with us. Nan is the bomb!!She has been cooking all our faves since she's been here. Rhubarb and apple crumble mmmmm yummy.Nan even bought her own apron cause she knew we would want her to cook it up when she got here. Tomorrow she is making rock cakes for Uncle Ene.

Speaking of Uncle he got a tattoo on Tuesday. We think it's awesome.

Here's Aunty Kylie's new tatt that she got last month.

Veek played his last game of footy vs Beenleigh. They lost 26-28. Was a mean game though. Veek scored 2 tries. Nana Kim came to watch too. We haven't seen her for months so that was cool.

We taped Lennox's swimming but forgot to take pics. Instead you all can look at this pic that Lennox took of himself.

And 1 more pic of Nan cause she's the best.

Veeky's return to the game

Nivek was back in action today after a long break from footy. His team were expecting greatness and that's what they got. Veek scored 3 tries. Got 1 conversion and did heaps of tackling. But the best of all were the 2 mammoth hits that he put on. 1 resulting in a boy getting carried off the field never to return. The final score was Carina 28- Wynnum 14. 14 of those points were scored by Nivek alone. Congaratulations Nivek.

Not much is going on in Lennox's world. He got a haircut last week and drove Mum crazy the rest of the time. He's back to swimming next week so that might burn up some of his energy. Veek is attending after school care on Lennox's swimming day so it'll give Lennox and Mum some time alone.

Last month Mums work had a dayshift vs arvo sports day. Mum didn't participate in the netball or touch but did participate in the drinking comp. Mum's theory is that you should stick to the sports you're good at.

Here's Mum drinking out of the team trophy.

This is Mum in the team uniform. Dayshift was called the Brofessionals and arvo were the arvo allstars.

Last but not least the highlight of Mums week was making then eating this lovely fried bread. Sounds like a boring life........and it is!!! But the food is great. Mahi mahi mahi and not much else for Mum.

August birthdays

3rd- Aunty Shelley AKA Sexy Shelley
11th- Uncle Sammy Boi
16th- Livi
19th- Mama and Summer
28th- Papa Willie
29th- Aunty Annie

That's all I think. Leave a message if I forgot someone.

Veek takes the field on sunday. Full game report after that. Game on Wynnum!!

Comeback kings

After 17 long weeks on the sideline Veek will be back on the field on the 3rd of August. He's been cleared of his head injury that he got when he fell off the balcony in March. He's very excited. Mum isn't cause now she has to taxi him to training again twice a week.
Lennox will also be back in the pool on the 8th of August after a 6 week winter break. He's not very excited about that, but we have to put those big feet to use I reckon.
Watch this spot for pics in the coming weeks.......

Update

Well we haven't been blogging much because our life is boring and we haven't been taking much pictures of anything.
Veek's just gone back to school this week. After last terms slack report card Dad has offered him an incentive to try harder at school. He only got 1 A on his last report and surprise surprise it was for PE. Not only that but he apparantly has a rotten attitude towards his work and hasn't been handing in his assignments even though Mum and Dad spend hours on the weekend helping him with them. So this term he can earn $200 from Dad if he tries harder and has a better report card to show at the end of it. We do feel a bit sorry for him because he had time off when he fractured his skull and time off to go to NZ. This term no MDO's and more help at home is hopefully the key to better results.
Lennox had no time off during the holidays. He loves going to day care and has made lots of friends. He even got invited to his first bday party so that should be exciting. No more tagging along with Veeks friends, he's finally got his own. Awwww so cute. Next week at day care they getting 10 chicken eggs that will hatch over the 2 weeks that they will be there. The anticipation is killing Lennox. He wants to keep one of them at the end of it but unfortunately they'll probably end up at work with Mum lol.
Both the boys got haircuts today. Veek got a mohawk and tracks and bubba got spikey hair. no pics though......flat batteries:(:(
Both boys also got new shoes this week too. Mum's not sure what they do at school but somehow they need new shoes all the time. Bloody wreckers ggrrrr.
Mum and Dad are losers who go to work and that's it. Life is boring so hopefully we crack the 50 million on Tuesday. Wishful thinking. Dreams are free though peeps.

July birthdays

Here's who's having a birthday this month

2nd- Helen
4th- Hapu
14th- Gael
16th- Aunty Ray Ray
27th- Aunty Treez

Happy birthday everyone we'll be thinking of ya wherever you are in the world.

What else is happening in our hood?? The boys have been at Koro Hector's this week. It's school holidays over here and they're just having some time out cause Mum and Dad are boring lol. They're coming home on wednesday because they are booked into vacation care for 2 days each week during the holidays. Should be lots more fun then hanging out at home with Dad.
All the adults in the house are mahi freaks this week. Mum's guessing that between the 4 of us we have done nearly 30 hours OT this week. Cashed up next week people.

Quick catch up on the goss

Well we haven't blogged for ages aye!! What have we been doing????........

Well this is the photo of Aunty Polly taking a photo of Lennox taking a photo of her lol.....

Nivek recently had his athletics day and carved up again. He came 2nd in 80m sprint and 1st in 200m sprint and 3rd in high jump. Next year he will be old enough to go to the senior district comp if he qualifies, so that is something he's really looking forward to. The school term is nearly over again and Nivek is going to vacation care 2 days a week during the holidays to keep busy. Nivek has also been learning some songs on the guitar. So far he can do the beginning of Nothing else matters and One both songs by Metallica. Dad's very proud lol.

My lil champ Lennox is settling back into school well after our recent trip back home. He had a gardening show at school and came home with a tomato plant or "Plaaant" if you wanna say it like him. He has to water it every second day and put it in the sun. He's a bit upset that it hasn't grown any tomatoes yet but it's still early days. Maybe if he stopped drowning it then it might grow.

Mum is very busy at the mo selling choccies and raffles to help her mate Peka who made the QLD womans rugby side. Mum has also registered to be a red nose day volunteer. She has a crap load of red nose stuff to sell to raise money for SIDS kids and their families. A very good cause as we all know since the loss of our handsome boy Izire. So get behind it whanau, 27th of june buy some red nose stuff okay.

Dad is still the same. Working and looking for a new car. So far no luck. He's not sure whether to get the big car that he wants or a more economical car that's cheaper on gas. Big decisions.

Aunty Kylie has applied for a job with Mum and Dad and should be starting sometime this week. Uncle Ene has gone back to work now too. They're living at our place at the moment and the boys couldn't be happier. Lots of attention for the both of them.

I think that's all our news. So here's some pics from our trip back home

June birthdays

We are a bit late with our june birthdays due to our unexpected trip to NZ. Anyways this is how it goes this month.

12th- Uncle Joe
14th- Aunty Kylie, Uncle Alex, Nana Wrigley, Kereru, Hayden
19th- Uncle Melvin
24th- Gianni
25th- Aunty Raewyn and Nana Diane
26th- Te Kura
28th- Aunty Renee

Kia ora everyone "Families are forever"

Izire baby

What can I say............worst day of my life. Love you forever Izire. Lots of love aunty, uncle and cuzzies.

Dad's birthday continued.

So here he is. Dad's big surprise was Uncle Vance coming over for his bday. It's no secret that Dad is very anti social and didn't want to have a big 30th. So Mum thought about it and figured that Dad would just like to hang out with his best mate, jam on the gat, eat kfc and have a smoke. So that's exactly what she organised. We've all been carrying on this lie for months and dad had no idea. He was shocked when he opened his eyes and saw Uncle Vance standing in our house. We were all nervous because Uncle didn't get his passport til the last minute. And we never thought he'd make it past the sniffer dogs. But at the end of the day it was all goodies. They're all having a boys weekend and cruising down the coast to hit the theme parks.Mum had even (sly one) applied for annual leave for Dad that he didn't know about. So even his boss was in on it. So anways no more blackmails from Veek and no more lying for Mum.
In other whanau news Uncle Hector got stabbed last saturday at his 22nd birthday party. He was in a coma and had to have surgery. But were pleased to let everyone know that he's out of ICU now and is expected to make a full recovery. He'll be in hospital for ages though. But we're glad that he's all good.

Dad's birthday

It's Dad's birthday om monday the 26th but we've been amping him up for months now about his present. So far all the clues he has is that it's big and it'll be delivered on thursday. 1 day to go and the suspense is killing him. He thinks it' a drum kit or a motorbike. We've told him it's not but he doesn't believe us. The other day he tried to bribe Veek into telling him what it was. Veek stayed strong but later blackmailed Mum into getting the money anyways. He reckons "gimme $5 or I'm gonna tell Dad what it is". Mum can't wait for it all to be over. Veek's costing a fortune with his daily sly antics. Surprise pics and full update tomorrow when it's all over.:)

Happy Mother's Day

This weekend just gone was mother's day weekend. Unfortunately Mum had to work on saturday:(:( After work we went to Wynnum to pick up miss Mya. We babysat her for the night while Aunty Lynda May went to Enid's 21st. Lennox loved having someone smaller to boss around. After bath time Lennox dressed up as a power ranger. We thought it was cute but Mya was scared of him.

Mya had a big cry but then Lennox took off the mask and she was laughing again.

On Sunday we dropped Mya off to her mama and headed to the Gold Coast. Mum wanted emu oil for her mother's day prezzy so we went to cararra market to look for some. We found it and we also came across some yummy island food. Mmmmm heart attack in a bowl.

Eating that food was the highlight of Mum's day lol. After the markets we headed home to watch the footy.

This friday we are supposed to be going to watch the bulldogs vs titans game. 10 more days till Dad's surprise. Watch this spot.......