Happy New Year, & December round up

 Hello friends and Happy New year to you - I hope you've had a great start to the year so far.

Glenn and I are both back at work this week after the summer holidays - but we had such wacko crazy weather (lots of rain), some of our holiday plans didn't eventuate and we ended up having a staycation mostly at home. We did get away in the campervan between Christmas and New Year's and that was a heap of fun, more on that to come!  Hannah still has a few weeks left of her break before the new school year starts in early February, this year she is Year 10.

So here's bit of a round up from later in December as I didn't get back here before the Christmas break.

Annual visit to the local Christmas house - two Santas this year!

End of the year dancing concert - Hannah received all her dance exam certificates - passed with distinction so we were super proud of her.

The super cute ornament she received from Miss Deb, her lovely dancing teacher.

Girls lunch out after we finished the last of Christmas shopping.

Continuing our family tradition of Glenn taking us out for lunch on Christmas eve:

Yes, our Christmas tree was attached to the top of the fire so a certain little doggy couldn't get the ornaments off!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas - we certainly did, filled with family and lots of fun and good food together.  This year we had my aunty, uncle and cousin from Melbourne visit and it was wonderful spending time with them to reconnect as we hadn't seen them in person since our trip to Melbourne back in December 2019.  We also had Zoe and Dylan stay with us Christmas eve so that was super fun having the girls together, opening their presents.

Time for the family photos fun!

This year we had brunch at my parents' house and then dinner at our house, finishing with dessert about 9pm! ha ha.

After Christmas we headed to Te Awanga beach, near Havelock North, for a week's stay in the campervan. Our friends were there too for the week so we had a fab time, lots of walks, swimming in the estuary, fishing (no luck sadly), reading and chilling out, our days were easily filled.

We arrived home on 3rd January and it pretty much rained for the rest of our break, asides from the odd day. I did quite a bit of cleaning and sorting out, even the oven got cleaned, and Glenn pottered around finishing a few jobs too. There was plenty of time for catching up with friends, watching Netflix and reading lol.  

Next time I'll have an update about what I've been stitching, new projects, advent swaps and will share the some Christmas stitching, new stash and gifts. Until then, take care and happy, happy stitching xx