December stuff

Such the laziest bloggers ever!! Mum is too busy playing bejeweled blitz these days lol. Anywho this is the buzz for december even though there is only 1 week left......

5th- Aunty Polly and Uncle Alex's anniversary
11th- Aunty Shona's bday and last day of kura
12th- Uncle Ene and Aunty Kylie got married
19th- Nana Maude arrived from NZ
20th- Aunty Uru and Rion arrived from NZ
21st- Koro Tim's bday
25th-28th- Our whanau is going to the cabin at Moogerah dam with Nana Kim
29th- Back to work for Mum:(
31st- NYE

We are also having a recession xmas. We are so "recessioned" that Mum can't even replace her pakaru camera. So no recent pics guys, sorry. Here's a couple of the wedding that we stole off facebook.

November bdays and Lennox's bday

On Lennox's bday we went to his fave restaurant for dinner. Good old Buffet Gardens at Sunnybank. It's an all you can eat place and I'm not sure why it's his fave cause he always just gets hot chips and gravy. Anywho Uncle Hec and Aunty Sam came and brought beautiful lil Retimana with them. He's getting really big now and is so alert.

                                                         Look at his pretty eyes. Sooooo cute.

Aunty Miss, Uncle Julian and Te Kauri also came but we didn't get many pics of Te Kauri as he was too busy laughing at Dad who was trying to scare him with a prawn. Aunty Tilly came to dinner with miss Kylah - Jane. She's too cute for words too.

Lennox got stacks of prezzies and heaps of cash. He hasn't spent any of it yet but I think he's saving to get a PSP.

On Saturday he had a bowling party with his school bros and cuzzy Que. He had heaps of fun there and Mum was stoked to leave all the mess behind and go home.

Here are the November bdays....
2nd- Tarnz is 41
5th- Mum flies home
7th- Taruia is 13

11th- Izire turns 2 and Mum comes back from NZ

13th- Que turns 8

16th- Neriah(9) and Mya(3)

19th- Big sonny boi Veeks turns 10
22nd- Kelly will be 10

25th- Aunty Lynda May

30th- Aunty Kylie

Not long till Xmas now whanau. No doubt I'll have way better pics in next weeks blog.

October bdays

Here we go whanau, another month closer to xmas.

3rd- Sausage sizzle fundraiser at the plaza and Uncle Alex's 30th at the races.
5th- back to school for the boys
7th- Uncle Boudi will be 26
10th- Peka and Toni
12th- Tina and Dad starts his new job
20th- Uncle Whati
21st- Uncle Mike and Heath
22nd- Jack turns 1( is that right Hapu??)
30th- Big Lennox king turns 6

Not much else doing over here in Brisvegas. Going to the movies tomorrow. Mmmm choc top dipped in popcorn.

Boring school holidays

It's school holiday time again and the boys are so bored. They went to Koro Hec's on the weekend but had to come home cause everyone at his house goes to work and daycare and there would be no one to watch them. At our house it's much the same lol. Today we all went bowling when Mum got home from work. That was fun until Lennox started losing and packed the shits.

Mum has been having all the fun lately. On the weekend she went clubbing twice and went to the Beyonce concert. At the bar at the concert she met Gordon Tallis. Veek and Dad were jealous as. For those who don't know, he's a big footy legend. Used to play for the Broncos, Qld and Aussie.

Just stuff

Well we have another new cuzzy over here. Dad's sister Corrine and her mans Tupuna had a baby girl called Havanah on Monday 14th of september. Weighing in at 6 pound 14 and 48 cms long. So much smaller then Kylah, but that's just how us Te Wake's breed them I suppose. No pics of her yet cause we haven't met her, but I'm sure we'll get some soon.

Veek competed in the met easts and came 5th out of the 40 students competing. He was proud of his achievements and reckons he's gonna bring it harder next year. His best throw of the day was 8.63 metres.

Lennox had a school trip to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary last week. His fave part of the day was hand feeding the kangaroos cause it was ticklish. But then he didn't like it cause "their goobies are smelly". Mum didn't get to go on the trip, so no pics of that one either. But here's another random pic of Lennox because he loves having photos at home.

And for some random reason this pic won't move where I want it to so here is Veek doing his shot put throw.

September bdays

Here's our bdays for september........

1st- Miss Kerihaehae is turning 6

3rd- Aunty Merenia turns 16 and Veek has his Met East athletics finals

4th- Aunty Merenia's sweet 16 party

6th- Uncle Campbell

7th- Uncle Ene (22), Aunty Anne (49) and Aunty Jan (?)

11th- Aunty Marina......i think.....let me know whanau

19th- Kelz is 35

22nd- Lil Alex is 16

24th- Shazza

27th- Mum is 28 and Phoenix will be 4. We love Phoenix.....sorry Hapu

28th- R.I.P Nan Wrigley

30th- Uncle Alex is 30

Lots has been happening over here. 1st of all our new niecey Kylah-Jane Anahera Pomare was born on the 18th of August. Weighing in at 8 pound 11 ounces and 57 cms long. Congrats Uncle AJ and Aunty Hana.

Nivek's footy team participated in the Shane Webke shield comp on the 22nd of August. They made it into the semis but then got knocked out by Redcliffe. I was a hard slog in th 31 degree heat. So good work boys we're all proud of you. Veek got 3 tries which takes his grand total for the year to 33 i think.

Both boys did well in their spellathon and raised $226 for their school. Well done boys.

Next week Nivek is competing in his shotput finals so hopefully he does well and tries his best. Mum and Dad are stoked to have another day off mahi for this day lol.

And here's a pic of Lennox cause he's watching me type and is jealous that there's none of him yet......

August birthdays

A big sorry bout it for not updating the blog sooner. Here are the august bdays.

11th- Uncle Sam
17th- Uncle AJ and Aunty Corrine
19th- Mama and Summer
28th- Papa Willie

And FYI Kylah is still not born yet but was due on the 5th of august. Waiting waiting........

Veek carved up at the Lytton Districts athletics day and made it through to the Metropolitian Easts competition for shot put. That's all happening on the 3rd of september so I'll keep you all posted.

Spellathon this week and I was wondering how Lennox was gonna participate seeming as he can't spelll or read much yet. He has to recognise 10 letters of the alphabet for his spellathon effort. Veek has to spell 100 words. Good luck boys.

Dad is on graveyard shift now 10pm -630 and Mum is on 710- 330. Quite different having Dad home at night.

Anywho more news later........

Big catch up blog

First up we didn't do july bdays so here they are

1st- Uncle Hec and Aunty Sam had a baby boy called Retimana

4th- Hapu

16th- Aunty Ray Ray's bday

27th- Aunty Treez

The boys recently had athletics day.Lennox did long jump, 50 metre sprint and 200 metre sprint. He didn't place in the top 3 but he got 3 participation ribbons. Excellent effort Lennox.

Lennox and Nivek are in gold house and were supposed to wear gold/yellow but Lennox wore green cause that's how he rolls. Mum repped their house by wearing a hurricanes jersey lol.

Veek did real well at athletics day. He placed 2nd in 100 metre sprint, 3rd in long jump, 2nd in high jump and 1st in shot put. In shot put he broke the school record.On august 3rd and 4th he'll represent his school athletics team in the districts comp. If he does well there it's off to Cairns for the state comp. We'll keep you posted
Mum and Uncle Cam also participated in the high jump and sprints.
Here's Uncle Cams successful jump......And here's Mum landing on the bar which resulted in a huge bruise on her back and arse lol.

Uncle AJ and Aunty Hana came to visit last week. Lil Kylah is due any day now and we're so excited. Here's a pic of Aunty at 39 weeks.

We went to Warriors vs Titans last month and then warriors vs Broncos the week after and here is a pic of us repping our jerseys while we wait for the train.

And finally we love having Aunty Miss, Uncle Julian and Te Kauri living up the road from us now. Te Kauri is so cute and funny.

Our trip home

We have been very lazy bloggers lately so here's the june bdays and other stuff from our recent trip home to NZ

1st- Izire's unveiling

12th- Uncle Joe

14th- Aunty Kylie, Uncle Alex, Nana Wrigley, Kereru and Hayden. And we fly back to Brizzy

19th- Uncle Melvin

21st- Nan flies back to Perth

25th- Nana Diane and Aunty Raewyn

26th- Last day of school

28th- Aunty Renee

We had an excellent trip to NZ even though we all got sick. The food was great and seeing all the whanau was even better.

Veek, Uncle Ene, Uncle Joe, Uncle Pat and Uncle Melvin

Up at the gondolas Baby Dylan

Repping our Izire hoodies

The Welly crew on their way to Vegas

The Nicholls

Mum getting out of swiney quarantine

Lennox at the Agrodome

Mum and Melly

Babylon

Aunty Hoppy and Nan

Mum taking a photo of Lennox taking a photo of Aunty Polly lol

Proof that Mum has lived in Oz for too long. Frozen washing on the line.

Mum, Lennox, Uncle Bou and Nan
Nana Diane, Veek, Nan, Mum and Lennox

What's new????

Well we are slack bloggers these days and we haven't even been taking pics. Anyways here's whats doing in Brisvegas......
Lennox and Nivek started karate last week. They really enjoy it even though they are a bit unco. It goes for a hour and so far Lennox has only lasted 45 minutes but sensei Walter said that's really good for a 5 year old.
Veek's team has been carving up every sunday. He's scored 18 tries so far this season. He has a deal with Koro Hec to earn back his footy boots at $5 per try. So far he's earnt $90 worth of his boots and has to score 14 more tries to pay them off.
Still on the footy buzz, Veek scored his first try for his school team last friday. He was pretty stoked to score against them other big boys. Not so out of his league after all.
The boys teachers are having a strike tomorrow so we're going to movie world for the day. We asked Caleb to come along too so it should be a fun day as long as it doesn't rain.
10 more days till we fly home. Can't wait to eat the food but we're not looking forward to the cold. Over here in Brizzy we're still enjoying 25-28 degree days lol.

May bdays and what's happening

1st- Miss Chloe turns 9
2nd- Going to Aunty Christina's for the weekend
4th- Aunty Waiora and day off mahi for Mum and Dad
15th-Deacon turns 2
16th- Katrina's housewarming
25th- R.I.P Izire
26th- Dad and Damo
27th- Aunty Hario
29th- We fly home for 2 weeks
30th- Nan is babysitting the boys
31st- Mum will be hungover lol

And last but not least a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR COUSIN CHLOE!!!! We will ring tomorrow after school. Love you heaps xoxoxox

Easter weekend

It's been awhile since we've blogged so here we go.

The boys went to Koro's for easter weekend cause they don't often get to go there now that the footy season has started. They had heaps of fun swimming and also went to watch that Dragonball movie with Koro and Jessie.

On easter monday it was Thomas' bday. All the whanau was there and here's a few pics.

The boys have been on holiday this week and have been attending the vacation care program. Today they went to the monsters vs aliens movie. On friday they're going to bowling and on friday night Lennox is going to his 1st disco with his school mates.

Lennox lost his 2nd tooth last week and despite the recession he still cleaned up with the tooth fairy. Lucky boy.

The countdown continues to our trip home. 43 days to go. Yay!! Can't wait to eat all that food.

April bdays

3rd- Miss Rion
8th- Thomas turns 1
9th- school holidays begin
17th- Nan's bday and Nana Diane's anniversary
21st- back to kura for the boys
23rd- Caleb
26th- Nana Kim

Veek played Browns Plains this week and wasted them 40-0. Veek scored 2 tries this week. He also played his 1st game for his school on friday arvo. They lost to Wondall Heights 10-8. Mum was nervous on the sideline cause some of the kids had moustaches and were really tall. Veek didn't get a run but he put in some good tackles. Mum isn't used to Veeky being one of the smallest on the field. Hopefully he'll learn some valuable skills playing with older kids.

Lennox had a playdate with Marcello, Michael, Jessie and Jordan on saturday at their Grandma's house. Their Grandma Lynne made rewana bread. It was the bomb. Lennox had a ball and was all tuckered out when he got home. Lennox has dress up day at school on tuesday. He's going as Heatblast from Ben 10. We'll upload pics later.

Wynnum vs Beenleigh

Today Veek played against Beenleigh and had 2 mean games. He came off the bench in the first game for Greg's team and scored 2 tries. In his own team in the second game he scored 3 tries. He got the man of the match medal for playing hard in both games and getting the most tackles and tries in the 2nd and the most tries in the first. The final score for his game was 28-10. Well done Wynnum.
Big ups to Veek's entourage who supports him every week. Dad, Mum, Lennox, Uncle Ene, Aunty Kylie, Uncle AJ, Aunty Hana, Nana Kim and Darren.

Let's go Broncos

On friday night we went to Suncorp Stadium to watch Brisbane Broncos vs Melbourne Storm. The broncos won 16-14. Aunty Christina and Uncle Cam came along with us. We bought some balloon hats and big inflatable hands at the game too.Uncle Cam and Lennox were repping their Mitimiti shirts hoping Adam Blair would spot them in the crowd of 40,000. Unfortunately he didn't lol.
And look at Veeky, he's willingly having a photo lol. He couldn't wear his Mitimiti shirt cause it doesn't fit so we gave it to Que instead.

My sports star

Veek represented his school in the bayside district swimming comp on tuesday and came first in the 50 metre backstroke finals. We're all very proud of him as he hasn't had swimming lessons since he was 5 so it's quite an achievement.
He also got selected for the school league team. Trials were quite hard as he was competing against kids aged 9 to 12. He was the only grade 5 kid to be selected. All the rest of his team are grade 6 and 7 so he has to try really hard to keep up with their skills. The school league season starts in 2 weeks so we'll keep yall posted.
Also we only have 69 days to go till we fly home to NZ.

Tooth fairy's in town

Yesterday Lennox lost his first tooth. The tooth fairy gave him $5 for his efforts. He took his $5 for show and tell as he is the first in his class to lose a tooth. Mum was surprised that he lost his tooth so early cause Veek was 7 and a half.
Speaking of Veek, he played Capalaba again yesterday. I'm not sure of the score but Veek got 4 tries. It was a really hot day so the boys did well to play in the heat. I'm pretty sure they won. Mum is the new manager so we have some fundraising to do now. Any ideas whanau??