Tuesday, June 21, 2011

flower power

Kate took over the camera when we went to the park a few days ago......










Saturday, June 18, 2011

Random pictures

Kate took this picture.....

Who needs Wal-mart when you can go to "woolmart" 


Morning sunrise - unusual clouds caused by the ash from the Chilean volcano.
 lunch at a cafe



 the original "mini" car, still plenty of these driving around in New Zealand

 Nelson's Christ Church cathedral






Happy Father's Day!

Dear Chris / Dad / Daddy,
We miss you but are glad you got home safe.
We hope you have a calm and happy Sunday at home and have some Tex-Mex food and think of us.

Happy Father's Day!  You are the best Dad in the world.
See you in 3 weeks.

Love Anna, Kate and Thomas










Chris had to get back home this weekend.  His flight out of New Zealand was cancelled due to volcanic ash from the volcano eruption in South America.  They put him on another airline to fly to Hong Kong (10 hour flight) and then to Los Angeles (14 hour flight).  So a trip that usually takes 24 hours took 48 hours.
I hope the ash clears away and we don't have any problems when me and the kids head home to Texas.


Saturday, June 11, 2011

Founder's Park


















Give Pizza a Chance

Thomas has this cool shirt with a pizza on it in the shape of a peace sign and it says "give pizza a chance".  My sister Victoria gave it to him, so it was fitting he got to wear it yesterday to eat homemade pizza at her house.



Thursday, June 9, 2011

Confused weather

It is supposed to be the beginning of winter here but they've had a lot of warm weather and rain, so lots of spring flowers around, just 2 months early.......


Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Here we are in NZ

Summer holidays for the kids and me and we are spending 5 weeks of it here in New Zealand.

Kate decorated the chalkboard at home before we left.


On our way we went to Dallas and spent a night and took the kids to this Lego place at the Grapevine mall.  Kids had lots of fun.


24 hours later we arrived to nice temperatures and still a lot of Autumn colors (going into winter here).
Kate is standing under a Ginkgo tree at the park across from my parents' house.



More updates to come!