Welcome to the New Year!
Danielle will be 27
Joe will turn the big 3-0
Hinalei will turn 6 and start year 2
Joe will turn 4
Rawiri will turn 3 and start preschool
and Lennie will turn 1!
We look forward to a year filled with growing, happiness and striving to live the gospel and keep the commandments of Heavenly Father.
We hope:
To see Joe go to Hawaii
To see Hinalei continue with ballet
To see Danielle not get pregnant (true story)
To see Joseph start Sunbeams
To welcome a niece!
We love:
Our family all around the world
Our friends who care for us and give us good times
Our savior Jesus Christ
Our Heavenly Father who blesses us
Wishing everyone a prosperous new year!
Christmas 2014
After a busy November preparing for our Thanksgiving Dinner we host and a busy December helping out with a ward Christmas party I was looking forward to a nice low key Christmas. In November Joe and I discovered a website called Aliexpress which is different business that sell different goods. We found a lot of toys on the site that normally cost close to 3 times the amount here in NZ. Therefore we decided to use the site to help us out with a couple of Santa items. Ordering in November was the best as it can take up to 30 days for the things to arrive but I am very happy to say that the items arrived on time and in a better condition than I had expected. Also Joe and I work had to put away money onto different cards at certain shops here in NZ especially for Christmas. We do about 12 a fortnight and come out with just about $300 which at Christmas time is a really blessing. We use it to buy food, items for the home, gifts for friends or families and this year we also had the children purchase a gift for a less fortunate child their age. It was one of the best moments of my Christmas seeing the gifts wrapped by the kids for another kid and they didn't fuss once that it wasn't going to be for them. In return Heavenly Father blessed them with presents from many other family members for which we were most grateful.
Christmas morning was spent opening presents, eating a wonderful breakfast at my parents house and then going over to Joes Uncle Johns house as Aunty Yvonne from Hawaii was visiting. It made my heart sore to think of Joes parents and how it has been 3 years since we have seen all of his family (except his dad). We are saving this year for him to go over in May for his sister graduation. If possible we would all love to go but it is Joe who is the priority. This year I tried hard to hold fast to keeping the CHRIST in Christmas. My children are all at the age of Santa and the excitement of what he will bring them but Joe and I tried really hard to do things daily to teach them about Jesus and his role in Christmas and that he is the reason for the season. I was very proud when the missionaries asked Hinalei why we celebrate Christmas and she said it was because that is when Jesus is born.
Christmas morning was spent opening presents, eating a wonderful breakfast at my parents house and then going over to Joes Uncle Johns house as Aunty Yvonne from Hawaii was visiting. It made my heart sore to think of Joes parents and how it has been 3 years since we have seen all of his family (except his dad). We are saving this year for him to go over in May for his sister graduation. If possible we would all love to go but it is Joe who is the priority. This year I tried hard to hold fast to keeping the CHRIST in Christmas. My children are all at the age of Santa and the excitement of what he will bring them but Joe and I tried really hard to do things daily to teach them about Jesus and his role in Christmas and that he is the reason for the season. I was very proud when the missionaries asked Hinalei why we celebrate Christmas and she said it was because that is when Jesus is born.
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