Term 4 has begun...

Wow, the school holidays have finished and we are into term 4...it will be Christmas before we know it!

The holidays were fairly quiet but still flew by so fast...at least it seemed that way for me. Briar had the busiest holiday of all as she had it all organised from day one. She was off to Aunty Lacreice and Uncle Vaughan's for a few days then to Nana and Gramps before heading over to the beach for a holiday with Nana and Grandad! Whew...welcome back home Briar...nice of you to join us again! :)

Olivia spent a fun-filled week with Nana and Gramps at the farm with Caitlin and I going over for a weekend to catch up with them too. It was wonderful to spend some time with them while they are home.

Caitlin's holiday highlight was right at the end when she got to go to her first ever concert! Yep, 1D was playing in Auckland and her roommate from hostel had invited her to go with her...cue lots of squealing and hugging and laughing etc! :) Of course it was the busiest weekend we had in a long time but luckily for her Aunty Lacreice and Uncle Vaughan came to the rescue and took them up to the concert and by all accounts EVERYONE had a great night! (Glad you enjoyed the Italian dinner Creise!!)  :) A HUGE thank you for helping the girls out as they would not have been able to get there otherwise.

Jeff and I had a Sportsworld conference to attend and it was great-I hadn't been able to get to the last couple so it was great to catch up with familiar faces and meet new members to the group. Jeff stood down as chairman of the Board and a presentation was made to him-he is now the owner of a spiffy new dress watch! We stayed at the Ibis Hotel and had wonderful meals there with great views of the Waikato River just out the window.
On the Saturday night before conference Jeff and I took the opportunity to find a Turkish restaurant as it is our favourite type of food. After walking half the length of Victoria Street we turned into Hood Street almost ready to give up when we stumbled upon "Paasha"...OMG...SERIOUSLY good Turkish food!! Do check it out if you are in Hamilton and like Turkish food-it was absolutely divine and we will most certainly be back.

The other BIG news for us all is the fact that Jeff is now a councillor!! Yep, local body politics...here he comes. The voting closed on Saturday 12th Oct at 12 noon and by 2pm he had the phone call he was waiting for ...elected onto council AND...the highest polling candidate! WOW, huge support from locals which was very humbling. Now the hard work begin which he is looking forward to.  Straight after the phone call we headed up to Hamilton for the conference so didn't talk much about it with the girls but they obviously decided it was a big deal (which it is!) and we came home on Monday afternoon to this welcome...

 

Thanks girls-we both laughed out loud when we saw it!

So...that is what we have been up to lately...hope you enjoyed the update!