October - oi veh !

the next couple weeks are going to be crazy, so i thought i would post a blog about the upcoming events as i know i will not have time to report back on them. so here's whats happening:

• wednesday - my sister natalie and her family arrive for a visit from Australia
• saturday - david's 3rd birthday party (his bday is on sunday)
• sunday - we move house
• friday - the noodle and I go to South Africa

so it's going to be hectic, between packing boxes (ok, nearly done), having visitors (ok, only family), baking cakes (ok, kathryn is actually doing that), packing suitcases (ok, only 1 and it's going empty - to be filled by grannies). As Deon said, no half measures with me, always full on - yup only i would arrange to move house in the same week as getting guests and travelling overseas, but really, we had no choice - long stories, not worth repeating, so here we are, a hectic couple weeks ahead but then a nice relaxing holiday in SA !

we are moving to a really nice house, in the same suburb as where we are now but closer to the shops, school, library. the house itself is not much bigger than what we have, but it has a gorgeous modern open-plan kitchen and a lovely deck and garden opening on from the lounge (our deck now is off our bedroom, not too good for entertaining !) but the best part is that the whole underneath of the house has been made into a store-room/rumpus room with a toilet - so deon has loads of space for all his stuff - his fishing stuff, his hunting stuff, his diving stuff, his tool stuff, his, you-know, boy stuff !! so he will have a whole month, while we are in SA to sort his stuff !

david's birthday is going to be a low key affair - just a kid's birthday party on saturday afternoon, just too much else to do with the move the next day - kathryn is making him a cake he chose himself, a race track, which he is super excited about ! quite unbelievable that its a whole year since his last birthday - the last weekend we spent in Cape Town before leaving for new zealand !
so very excited about Nat, Stix & Zoe arriving tomorrow - they have not met David yet and its so great that they are so close and able to just pop over from Melbourne - and that we can just pop over to them once we have residency !

our trip to SA is most exciting - david and i had return tickets valid for a year so after a stressful and expensive last minute application to New Zealand Immigration - they granted us multiple entry visas - which just means that we can now come BACK to NZ and still hold valid papers - it's all a bulls**t, money-making racket but one we had to go through - so a couple weeks in joberg with granny patsi, granny joyce (thank you), grampa moi, etc etc etc, then onto CT to see granny deanna, gen&bo, etc etc etc !!

here are some pictures of the noodle with his new haircut - as he says "I'm a real boy now" and of KD Dog !

see some of you real soon
lots of love