Starting the day with doughnuts & rain

Well thankfully we’re not camping! This morning’s rain is torrential. Here’s the Pohutukawa tree in the garden, battling with horizontal rain in windy Wellington.

Pohutukawa tree in the garden in the rain

The perfect tonic to a rainy morning was doughnuts freshly made before breakfast…

Scrumptious doughnuts

and eaten with fresh coffee…

Doughnuts on a rainy morning

Building with lego…

Sophie's Toy Story 3 lego set

Crafts…

Sophie's door hanger

Beading… (Charlotte loves her ‘aqua beads’ from Aunty Sue & Uncle Tony!).

Charlotte's aqua beads

And gazing out the window at the sweet peas growing strong in the rain…

Sweet peas

Sigh! 9.30am and time for a nap with Alice! Dan’s headed out in the rain to take the big girls to our local cinema, the wonderful Empire in Island Bay, and cuddle up on the cosy sofa seats to watch the newly released ‘Gulliver’s Travels’:

Happy holidays!