Family Adventure @ Staglands

Holy Guacamole! This place is awesome! It was a bit of a queasy drive to get there but so worth it!

 

FAMILY ADVENTURES: Mini Golf

Good ol' GrabOne! I bought a family pass for mini golf for $12! Bargain! I was a bit weary on how Miss A was going to go, she can get quite frustrated fairly easily! I was suprised she lasted more then halfway before loosing concentration! And I think she will be more of a hockey player then golf!
Master K was quite happy watching for a while then decided he wanted to explore and eat stones! Yummy!

FAMILY ADVENTURES: MUSEUM & MEMORIAL PARK

This week has been another busy week! We have had more family come to stay, Miss A has loved loving her cousins, Aunty and Uncle staying with us!

Today, Aunty M and I took our 5 kids and their cousin K to Exsite at the Waikato Museum followed by a picnic at the newly rebuilt Memorial Park. Exsite is a hands-on area perfect for the kids to learn and have fun at the same time, so many different activities to keep them occupied for hours!

 

There is another part downstairs that has an earthquake booth that gives you an idea of what it would be like, it looked quite scary! And you can learn all about the Waikato River, it's natural inhabitants and surrounding factors. The kids each got a bat mask to color and cut out and coloring in posters!


Next stop, Memorial Park. Such a beautiful day for a picnic and a play in the new park! Next time I will make sure we have a change of clothes and towels, today we didn't even think of that so the kids had to only paddle thru the water. But there are plenty of other little gardens for them to explore and the aviary is again full of beautiful birds. So much fun for the kids!

Family Adventure: Animates

Miss A has been begging me to take her to the pet shop everytime we head out to the Base. And something always prevents us from going, either we've spent more time at the mall then planned or Master K has fallen asleep or I have to get ready for work! So Sunday we had nothing planned and checked out the new pet shop in town, not as big as the Te Rapa one but still fun!

They had a great time watching the animals being fed, I think it made Master K hungry, he was chewing on the glass!

I really want a turtle or two as well! But the setup and looks really expensive, and I really suck at cleaning fish tanks out so doubt I would be any better with the turtles.  The rabbits are so cute too! I wouldn't mind a couple of them but I don't think our Mookie would be too keen! 

Miss A thought the rodents were super cute! Eeewww! No thank you!!!! She is a huge animal lover, anything and everything is cute! Master K would just squish or pull hair off the animals or even try to taste them.

Te Ra o Nga Tamariki

Today is Childrens Day, and a beautiful day it is!
This morning we took Master K and Miss A with the dog to the Hamilton Gardens, instead of the usual route down by the river we found a new path that took us to a Russian bell tower that has an amazing view over the gardens!

We've walked around the gardens so many times yet I'd never been up here! It will be great for wedding photos (another little thing I enjoy doing), especially if it is a rainy day!

We spent a good hour or so down there then came home to make Wheat-free Pancakes for breakfast. I used Cafe Style Pancake recipe from Destitute Gourmet Sophie Grays book ENJOY! They were gobbled up before I could take a pic of these light, fluffy, delish pancakes but will post the recipe later.

After putting Master K down for a sleep and doing the housework, Miss A and I whipped up some cupcakes for our lunch time treat....

Then lunch out on the deck in the beautiful Autumn sunshine. Master K must have known it was lunch time, woke up just as we finished setting the table!

My babies mean the world to me, I can't imagine life without them now. Even with all the frustrations that come with raising a very strong minded little girl and a baby that just loves to make sure Mumma can hear him during the night, sometimes several times a night, we have so much fun, enjoy laughing and dancing and just being together. 

I love you my babies. You will always be my babies even when you are all growed up. Thank you for bringing me laughter and happiness and so much love. You make my heart skip a beat. I look forward to creating many memories with you both.

Forever yours, Mumma.