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Oooo, Christmas Day! Did the reindeer eat the carrots?

December 25, 2008November 27, 2009 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Life in action - Videos, Special Days

What a day! Phew – it’s been magic and just as we’re thinking about retiring to bed our thoughts are far away with all our dear folks and friends in the Northern Hemisphere just tucking into a day of festive frolics! Thank you so much to our dear family and friends who have blessed us […]

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Merry Christmas Eve from Family Lee!

December 24, 2008November 27, 2009 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Life in action - Videos, Special Days

It’s been raining all day, but we’ve felt right at home (in a Northern Hemisphere kinda way!) and had a great day of baking and singing with our neighbours. Dan and I have just finished the final wrap up and are leaving little signs of Father Christmas. Just posting a quick one before heading back […]

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Guy Fawkes in New Zealand?

November 5, 2008 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Blasts from the past, Life in action - Videos, Special Days

Home grown fun! Safety first of course (only four day’s of the year when we can actually buy fireworks here – and there’s talk that this will be the last year ever of retail sales)! Fireworks in a plant pot – what more can one ask for – and a bucket of water close at […]

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Happy Wedding Anniversary to Us!

May 29, 2008May 29, 2012 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Blasts from the past, Dan, Sarah, Special Days

The memories of nine year’s ago are still as strong as ever. It was a magic day, greeted by sunshine. A little rainfall came just as we were about to retreat inside for dinner at the idyllic New Mill. It was one of those humid, summer days when the feeling of a storm was heavy […]

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Going to regret this in the morning!

January 1, 2008November 28, 2009 BritMumInNZ 1 Comment Charlotte, Dan, Sarah, Sophie, Special Days

Happy New Year!!!!!! It is officially 2008 here in New Zealand. Current time is 2:03am and we’ve sunk a bottle of French champagne and a bottle of Kiwi bubbly… the children will, no doubt, wake far too early and we’ll be seriously groucho parents in the morning (oops, tis already the morning). But here’s hopping […]

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Sophie’s 2nd Birthday: Boxing Day 2007!

December 26, 2007November 28, 2009 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Life in action - Videos, Sophie, Special Days

Sophie was SO excited that she was finally turning two! She had been waiting for weeks to eat cake and blow out candles. After unwrapping her pressies (in record time!) she kept asking, ‘Sausie rolls ready now?’ – she LOVES sausage rolls and was very keen to have them for her Birthday! The children enjoyed […]

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Christmas Day at Chez Lee

December 25, 2007November 27, 2009 BritMumInNZ Leave a comment Charlotte, Life in action - Videos, Sophie, Special Days

6.30am and the day started with a rush as the girls jumped onto our beds with shouts of excitement and stockings loaded with presents. We try to insist on breakfast before opening the pressies under the tree; but Sophie ensured it wasn’t a leisurely one! She couldn’t WAIT to rip into the presents. She wasn’t […]

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Christmas Eve at Chez Lee

December 24, 2007November 27, 2009 Dan 1 Comment Charlotte, Life in action - Videos, Sophie, Special Days

Charli and Sophie revving up for the big day…

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Charlotte’s Fourth Birthday Party

July 1, 2007September 11, 2010 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Charlotte, Special Days

Charlotte wondered into our bedroom around 2am this morning holding a helium balloon in her hand. I was feeling thick with cold and struggling to sleep and couldn’t quite believe my eyes. I told her it wasn’t morning and to be a good girl and go back to bed. An hour later Simba wakes us […]

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I’m Four, I’m Four, I’m Four, I’m Four

June 28, 2007November 28, 2009 Dan 1 Comment Charlotte, Dan, Special Days

Charlotte turned four years old today. Awaking to a smorgasboard of presents she was remarkably calm. Until the first present was opened that is. After which she simply wanted to get her hands on everything all the kind people had got her for her birthday. Sophie was dead keen to get a piece of the […]

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Around the Clock

January 9, 2007November 27, 2009 BritMumInNZ Leave a comment Special Days

Charlotte: Mummy and Daddy have got a little fed up of New Year’s Eve being a non-event, since my arrival, so this year we decided to do things a little differently: We celebrated at midday with our own little countdown! We popped balloons filled with home-made confetti, rice and jelly-beans, played ‘Around the Clock’ (a […]

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Sophie is 1 year old!

December 26, 2006December 14, 2009 BritMumInNZ Leave a comment Life in action - Videos, Sophie, Special Days

Sophie turned 1 today! She took her first steps on Christmas Eve and is practicing at every opportunity. She got a trike (just like her big sister’s one) for her Birthday (as she’s been trying to get at Charli’s for a month or two!).

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A First Christmas for Sophie Jade

December 26, 2006November 27, 2009 BritMumInNZ Leave a comment Sarah, Sophie, Special Days

It was a very beautiful Christmas in our new home, made all the more special by having our gorgeous girls to share it with.

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Fathers’ Day

September 3, 2006November 28, 2009 Dan 1 Comment Dan, Special Days

Fathers’ Day started with a rude 5.00am awakening courtesy of Charli, who happened to be out on the tiles the previous night till a near-record 10pm! I should have sensed the omens were going to be good though

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