Our Primary!

This is our Primary in Ashburton! They are beautiful and wonderful little Saturday's Warriors! We love them each one. They have enormous energy !! We love you good kids!

46 Years together!

Just wanted to show you my sweetheart and husband for 46 years, with his lawnmower in New Zealand. He bought it at the second hand store for $25 and loves it! Thank goodness our yard is quite small! On P day he mows the lawn and washes the car. He has taken good care of me for all these years. It's hard to imagine that so many years have gone by! We feel very blessed to have each other, and love each other more all the time, and have had joy in our journey!! To celebrate our anniversary, on Saturday night we went to McDonalds with the McDougals, and had a fun time with them. On Sunday we had Branch Conference and a big "bring a plate" dinner afterwards, complete with 2 whole pigs! Sunday evening we went to the Westerbaans and had lovely tea with their family. They didn't even know it was our anniversary, and they served Kenny's favorite desert, and played my favorite music! So we felt very celebrated. At conference on Sunday, they said that it had been approved to build a chapel in Ashburton, (but it will take a couple of years) and also that they would be made a ward soon. It was really a great conference with 192 people, and a lovely and amazing day!

Queenstown, NZ

We met George and Cloe Watson (Miriam's parents) down in Queenstown, and went to dinner. They love NZ so much that they come down every year for a couple of months! They are such lovely people and it was so fun to see them.

Donevan and Christine are here!

We are so excited to have our Donevan and Christine here! We had a fun first day - eating fish and chips and going to the Maori experience, and having lunch with our friends, the Stauffers, and their brother Elder Paul Johnson from the Quorum of the Seventy. Father and son doing the hauka together was fun! Today Donevan and Christine spoke in Sacrament meeting and did a wonderful job, talking about keeping our families safe and strong, and that Heavenly Father loves us just like we love our children. Everyone here was thrilled with them, and so were we. They brought CTR pencils and book marks for all the primary children.

Christine brought Kenny the mother lode of Mr Goodbars!!

Fun times with family

We have had such a fun time with Camille, Nancy and the boys. A fewwere: going to church and making new friends, playing at the Domain, playing in the ocean, visiting a pig and sheep farm, riding on the gondola and the luge at Queenstown, and fishing in the ocean and catching sharks! We packed alot of fun into a few days!

We had a great Maori experience where we

saw how their ancestors lived and learned about their culture. Grandpa got chosen to be the chief of the "visitors", and the boys got to learn to do the haka!

We also got to visit our friend Maurice's sheep and pig farm and hold new born piglets!

Shark fishing in the ocean

Our friend Rommel and his two sons, took us fishing in the ocean and each of us caught a shark! His wife had packed a picnic for us too! It was a fun "last day" in NZ for the boys! Thank you, Rommel!