Some of the l-i-v-i-n-g I've been enjoying...

A wonderfully delicious fruit growing in our garden: Feijoas - I haven't seen them in any other country besides New Zealand - the season is just starting and Kylie is the only one in the family who's had them - she gets them as soon as they are ripe and devours them before anybody else gets a chance at them ... I can't wait to have a taste, too!
We are also blessed with 3 apple trees! They're not very good for eating and full of worms (we were gone on our trip when they should have gotten treated), but they're great for baking - once all the yucky stuff has been removed, 'course!

Beautiful flowers Rich picked for me from our garden! I just HAD to add the pink gift bag with the "baby" on it - - - it was for a baby shower I went to yesterday. There are 4 ladies from the Tauranga House of Prayer who are expecting babies in June/July - and those baby showers are "raining down" :) - FUN!

An outing to the beach a couple of weeks ago with 3 friends from Tahiti that came to visit us for a week

Is that chocolate apple cake yummy or what?!
Jeremie and Leilani playing volleyball with our visitors

Princess posing

Now that it's getting colder, I insist she wears tights to school with her skirt.
She had a hard time with them this morning - she really doesn't like wearing those things at all and would rather be bare-legged and barefoot (is she becoming Kiwi or what?!!).

In her exasperation she exclaimed, "Oh, they're so sluffy!"

Thinking that I hadn't heard right, I asked her to repeat the word.

And yes, I HAD heard right, sluffy, sluffy, sluffy, she kept repeating with the tone of her voice getting ever more intense.

When I questioned her about the meaning of the word sluffy, this was her definition:

"They are hard to put on!"

There you go! Now you know! Ya never stop learning, I tell ya.