HoneyBsMemories

I walked to the highest point in Northland

2010-03-30T17:19:00.000-07:00

Well life has been really weird since my last post. Honestly, there's been so many deaths in our family (sudden/unexpected and through sickness) that I would've made a fortune if I were a professional mourner lol - yes I can lol about it now but it wasn't so funny at the time :)
We also had some highlights - like Syd seeing some of his old work mates for the first time in over 10 years - and they even stayed here with us for a while during one of the funerals.

Monday 29th was our wedding anniversary. Yay!!! We celebrated it by doing a 6hr trek. We walked up Mt Misery (which lived up to it's name - ten fold lol) to Te Raupua which is the highest point in Northland here in New Zealand. It was a real buzz to get there and to see everything including breathtaking scenery and one of the Department of Conservation huts.. Framptons hut is so cute :)

Although it took 6hrs to walk from start to finish, the time actually went really fast. My poor unfit body is really paying for it now though. I have re - discovered muscles that I had long forgotten about and they're still making their presence known two days later :)

What a week.....

2010-02-25T02:47:00.000-08:00

We made the 4hr road trip to Auckland last weekend. Went down on Friday, caught up with a few of Syds sisters before heading to my brothers house to settle in for the night.

Saturday was really busy. I had scrapped a page of Te Raupua - emailed it to a cake decorating shop in Auckland and they made it into edible icing for me. I think it turned out priddy cool. I was meant to bake a cake for it but ran out of time so I went to the supermarket, bought four little sponge cake (cheat lol ), put them all together, slapped the icing on, cheated again with a can/tin of whipped cream, sprinkled the little choc filled candies on and stuck some chocolate fingers around it. LOL I took a whole five minutes.... but that's about all the time I could spare because we had to get it to Syds sisters house and in the fridge. By the time we got there which was a 5 minute drive away, the cream had started melting. It was sooooo hot that day.

We had just pulled up into the driveway when another of Syds sisters was pulling out. We quickly put the cake into the fridge then I jumped into her car and off we went to yet another sisters baby shower at the Botanical Garden. We played a couple of games, had some yummy snacks then I got a text from a cousin.

After excusing myself I rushed to the main entrance to meet my cousin Henry as we had planned for him to pick me up so that I could go to our family reunion meeting. It was sooooo awesome to see some of my family members who have just moved back from overseas.

When Henry dropped me off all the girls were just arriving back from the baby shower so that was good timing.

An hour later we were all set and ready for the main reason we were all together in Auckland. My brother in laws 60th birthday. That went really well and thinking of the food is making my mouth water right now. It was DELICIOUS!!!!!! The drinks afterwards was awesome too.... well judging by the time we got back to my brothers house.... it must have been awesome cause even when I drink I'm usually more than ready to go home by 10pm... 11pm at the latest lol but we got home just after 3am. I couldn't believe it.... and I didn't even have a hang over the next day..... everyone still can't believe that either after the different mixers and shots I was gobbling lol.

Anyway.... on Sunday Te Raupua turned 3 and his cousin Te Taiaha turn 5 so we had their cakes together while everyone was together. All of the kids enjoyed singing happy birthday and helping to blow out the candles.

By lunchtime we had to start on our trip home..... boy did it seem like a long one too... but we made it safe and sound and enjoyed the whole weekend with everyone :)

While we were down there we got some sad news.... Syd's cousin/really good mate/hunting mate had been killed in a car crash in Australia. That put a bit of a damper on things and we've sort of been in limbo since first hearing the news. Thank God for Facebook!!!! We've been able to keep updated by friends and family over there and hopefully they'll be bringing him home this weekend.

Syd has spent the whole week contacting all of their old Department of Conservation Hunting mates and at last count it looks like we will be hosting around 9 of them during the weekend until the funeral is over. I'm really looking forward to seeing my darling catching up with his old mates. There's a few that he hasn't seen for over 10 years so I see a photo shoot coming up :)

The news of the accident took my scrapping mojo from me too so I'm really hoping it finds it's way back by tomorrow at the latest because I need to get my LO done for the Capture Life Scrap Off at MLAS. Hmm... the last couple of paragraphs have given me a couple ideas.... so maybe it 'is' on it's way back :)

Here's a few pics of Te Raupua's cake :)

Here's the cake all melted and coming apart at the seems lol

Looking mighty proud of himself on the cake above
Syds mum Isie with her great grandson :)

Hopefully I'll get better at blogging on a regular basis :)

What a slack blogger I am!!!

2010-02-10T12:23:00.000-08:00

I started this blog off with a hiss and a roar, even with big plans of keeping it well and truly up to date.... so.... what happened?... pass!!! lol your guess is as good as mine :)
In the past week I've done all sorts of things including receiving not so good news.... after injecting myself over 100 times, taking 3 pills on a daily basis and traveling the countryside for countless specialist appointments for around 6 weeks during my very last IVF cycle we found out last week that our two little embryos didn't take so that was a bit of a bummer!!!!

It took me a few days to snap myself out of my 'Poor Me' state that I fell into after that news. It was like I was in some sort of black hole. Totally unlike myself to actually feel sorry for 'me' but I believe it really did help me through the 'grieving' process.

I prefer to find the silver lining on every cloud so I'm really happy to say that I'm well and truly back to normal and really loving life again :)

I even got to spend a few hours at the beach the other day while Syd went diving. It was really nice being able to be out in the sun without worrying about getting too hot and risking sweating - when you've had an embryo transfer it's drummed into you not to have a hot spa, bath or get too hot and the biggest no - no is that you've got to go all out to make sure you don't sweat..... so yeah.... it was nice to be at the beach again :)
We have our own vege garden too so it's been nice getting out there. This week I've bottled tomatoes, apples and pears for the winter. Our peaces don't quite make it that far. I always eat them straight away :)

The best part of the past week is that Syd and I have spent a ton of quality time together. That's been a real treat for the both of us :)

Here's a few photos from the past week :)

I took this photo last week at about 10pm a few hours after I decided that I needed to snap out of my 'poor me' state:) Lol Instead of doing it the easy way and putting my camera on the tripod, I had it balanced on books on a shelf in my room.... Doah!!!!!
I'm more than happy to stay behind the camera but I like how this one turned out :)

Th beach we went to for Syds dive - It's about 10 minutes drive from our house.

Syd after his dive - wishing I would just hurry up and take the photo :)

Some of the tomatoes I picked the other day.... and some that had broken off.

And this is what I had on Sunday afternoon.... It was Y-U-M-M :)

Yay.... I have a blog!!!!

2010-01-28T17:54:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the helpful ladies at MLAS I now have my very own blog :)
Well, there nothing much to report today other than the fact that I'm laying low trying to keep my body temperature down as per doctors orders.

Here's my latest LO which can be found HERE Feel free to leave me some love :) (lol I think I like this Blogger thing :)) It was made for the P52 challenge at MLAS