Easter weekend

A busy and yet relaxing five day weekend.

Good Friday was followed by a very packed day of visiting on Saturday. Evening dessert party with many people from church.

Easter Sunday was our farewell at church. 

On Monday we drove to Cambridge to visit Clyde and Caren and pick up our stunning artwork by Caren and give them the gorgeous bowl made for them by Mark. 

Tuesday was a day of rest and recovering from our busy weekend and the cold that found me, including pedis and manis with Paige and a sunset walk with Kevin. 

Surprise farewell

Today the students and staff surprised me with a farewell in school assembly. It was wonderful and I felt extremely blessed. I can't believe they pulled off such a great surprise!!  I must be losing my 'spidey sense'! Kevin even knew about it!!  However, I did get a bit suspicious when I was on junior school duty and two students were talking to me and one asked if I was leaving today and the other said no we are just farewelling her. Very cute. It was lovely and I'll the the videos to this post too along with the screen shot above. 

Memories video link http://youtu.be/gdFEek29cZE

Assembly link https://youtu.be/Ow8AAxkMNRE 

25!!

On Saturday CACC celebrated 25 years as a church. A great evening of celebration!!  

Kauri keepsakes

Kaitai kauri from northland.

A few months ago I saw the work of a wood sculptor, Mark Jones, at the Howick village market. I loved it!!! There was a mirror he had that I came back to purchase but he didn't have it any longer so he showed me a piece of wood he'd had in his shop for a few years that he had yet to carve. I agreed to purchase it as a finished product to take back to Canada with us. 

In thinking of a special thank you gift for friends of ours who helped us with the process of purchasing our home here, I decided to see if Mark had anything that might suit. He had three roughly hewn out bowls in process. I chose two for a good price. One for us and one for a gift.  

Tonight Mark delivered all of my commissions and I'm in love! The craftsmanship is outstanding and the pieces are gorgeous!! I can't wait to display them in our new home in Canada. 

Takanini kauri from near Papakura

Trunk of treasures

Packed up a trunk load of treasures. xo

Sunday

Kevin's last sermon at CACC followed later in the day with a walk around the summit at Mt Wellington. I'm looking forward to more time with just the two of us hanging out relaxing!! 

It's the small things

The sale and removal of our couch pushed me over the emotional edge with our move! It just happened so fast!!!! But now that it's gone we are enjoying practicing small space living with our mini couch and single armchair - getting ready to live in our travel trailer for the summer! 

Special places

Special places in the place we've called home. 

Birthday in NZ

Swim sports and birthday cakes. That's how I spent my day. Awesome. 😊

Little fingers

Today I spent the whole day teaching 5 year olds how to use google drive, docs and drawing. Such fun!! Working with the youngest students in our school makes one realise just how basic you have to make things to help them understand and yet how incredibly capable they truly are! Fun day!!

Visiting

The past two evenings we've been blessed with lovely dinners and visits with wonderful people from our church. It's so nice to catch up with people before moving. 

Bakeries and coffees

Stopped on the way to work for a cinnamon mocha half chocolate at this great little bakery in Howick. 

Blog break

Seems like it's been awhile since I posted in my photo a day blog. Just feeling rather tired. I'm currently very focussed on trying to get my last university paper completed so my mind is a tad preoccupied with that. However I'll try to get some pictures to add to my blog as I truly do want to keep this as a memory of our last few months here. 

I did make this instaquote last night using a very meaningful scripture. Psalm 121. I want to memorise it and pray it for our kids. 

Kids

I had so much fun taking care of these kids. Can't wait to be able to spend quality time with our nieces and nephews!

Teaching ICT

Teaching year two students how to use Google docs and Google drawings. 

Teaching year four students how to use Booktrackclassroom.com

The Civic

One of my favourite places in Auckland is the Civic theatre. The first show we ever saw there when we moved to Auckland was Phantom of the Opera and I was very excited when I saw it was coming back before we moved. So it was very appropriate that it's our last show there before we move. We loved it! We were just missing Danae. Kevin wasn't keen to see it again....his loss. Lol

Babysitting.

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Thursday. Survived day one!!

Fun day Friday!! 

Too many moose

I seem to have collected a few spare moose along the way. 

March

This month. So much.