Celebrating Lukey's 3rd & Julie's 5th birthdays!!!!

Boy am I so grateful that the Stoners chose to move back to NZ in Jan 2019 & that we get to have birthdays with these 2 little critters now!!

They are both such cutie patooties & having their birthdays only a week apart means a combined party with double the birthday fun!!! 

This was their cool day back in Jan complete with good old fashioned party food & an awesome slip n slide!!....

Mac serves the sacrament for the 1st time & Kyah's 9th birthday (& Kel Jnr's 40th birthday!)

Today was such a proud Mummy moment for me as I watched my handsome firstborn son serve the sacrament for the 1st time!!!! He was so nervous & excited all at the same time & had a boggle the whole time, but he did such a great job!

I wish I could've filmed it to be able to remember it forever & ever - but of course it's not appropriate to film a sacred ordinance like the sacrament, so I'll just have to try & remember it in my mind's eye for as long as I can. He was number 4 (out of 4) so he served the people on the right hand side of the congregation at our West Harbour Chapel & I beamed every second watching him perform his priesthood duties for the very first time. 

After that he had his first Sunday in Young Men's (where Stan was teaching) & he was also called as the President of the Deacon's quorum, so that was special. 

After church he got to go with Stan to serve the sacrament to a 92 year old lady from our ward who lives in a rest home just up the road, so he got to do it twice in one day!

Here are a few pics from church & then at our special birthday lunch/kids movie session for Kyah's 9th birthday afterwards, at the Hekes. 

Just on a side note, it's also our big bro Kel Jnr's 40th birthday today! I CAN'T WAIT to meet him & our other 2 brothers one day. What a joyful reunion that will be!!! 

Ella's Baptism Day!!! 27/05/18

Ella's been baptised for over a year now!! Almost a year & a half! But looking back on all these special photos, makes me remember the day as though it was just yesterday! 

(Side note - If you see Mell in the kitchen wearing her apron, then you know there's always gonna be yummy food around & Ella's baptism was no exception!!)

Man look how much Faify and Spence have grown since this pic!!

Getting ready to follow in her older brother's footsteps xx

With her little school friend, Chelsea

Excited & ready to do this!!

 

Dallin's 4th birthday party - April 2018

Pics from Princess Dallin's 4th birthday - April 4th 2018

Aunty Mell organized heaps of cool minute to win it games for us to play!

Get a close up of Dad's concentration hand lol

When it came to Dad's turn to sort the pencils, Mell & I started to get really worried coz he was sorting them into the wrong coloured cup & we thought maybe he was colour blind!!! Scary!!!

But then we realised that he was just separating the colours into any cup. He didn't realise there was a colour on the front of the cup to match them into haha...Phew!!