Hey.
Well, this December was amazing.
Here in NZ, December means summer and for me Christmas means family. Every second year my extended family of around 70 people get together and spend it at one of the great aunts/uncles farms. This year was up north at Hikurangi, we had a few troubles getting up there towing a caravan however.. About three hours into our journey the caravan jolted, and we pulled over to see the wheel had blown.
We got mucked around by some guy who had no idea what he was doing and our spirits were getting pretty low. We managed Taupo and after a swim in Lake Taupo, I felt incredible. After a little walk around the Botancial Gardens, I found a silver fern. I picked it off, and carried it back to the car; Dad was wearing a black jersey and I stuck the silver fern on his chest like how the All Blacks have their jerseys. Immediately Dad got a phonecall, from a man who took us in and fed us fresh fruit and vegetables and let us stay at his house. He fixed up the caravan and within two days we were back on track; feeling refreshed and ready. Moral of our caravan fiasco is; always keep your spirits up and never forget to believe in the magic of the lucky silver fern.
Without further ado, here is the long list of everything that has made me happy in the last month of 2014.
- Getting chased by ducks
- Drawing with Zoe
- Luna learning how to jump onto the couch
- Playsuit
- New summer clothes
- Summer fruits - berries
- Pamper spa day
- Snuggly bunny
- MoreZoella - Vlogmas
- Unpredictable NZ weather
- Seeing family
- Sleepovers and late night early morning deep chats
- Babysitting little cousins
- Jessie falling asleep on me
- Luna and Louis
- Gingerbread men baking with friends
- Birthday parties
- Walking around the corner to friends house
- Seeing friends after forever!
- Adding more blonde to the ends of my hair
- Caravan ( 50/50 )
- Reading kids picture books to baby cousins
- Riding a quadbike
- Spraydying Jess' hair purple then Spraydying Sarah's hair orange
- Riding in the trailer of the Ranger
- Farm house and eating freshly picked homegrown raspberries and strawbs
- Really nice people taking us in and fixing the caravan
- Real Mud face mask
- Lucky Silver Fern
- Family christmas plays
- Jemma-Rose (My closest girl cousin to my age, shes fun to hang out with)
- Sylvia (My youngest first cousin! The cutest little thing ever.)
- Lanterns from my aunt
- Freckles from the summer sun
- Singing along to Thomas' guitar
- New Years with the Family
Movies/TV
- Joe Dirt
- Tangled
- Home Alone
- Back to the Future
- Big Brother Australia
- Bend it like Beckham
- Original Annie
- Bring it on
Books
- Girl Online - Zoe Sugg
- Wreck this journal - Kerri Smith
- Art Therapy book
- Lake Taupo swim and Botancial Gardens
- Whananaki beach
- Longest footbridge in the southern hemisphere
- Maurices Beach
- Waiotapu hot and cold creek
- Whananaki North campground
- Walks to the Manawatu River
- Walks to the Lagoon
- Port Albert
- Wellsford
- Products
- Vitamin E body cream
- Trilogy night cream
- Quay Sunglasses
- Active sunscreen (sunscreen sensitive skin struggle :-( I used Nivea spray on sunscreen and it made my skin feel like it was covered in mosquito bites, and when I used the Banana Boat spray on sunscreen my skin felt like it was on fire! So, surprise surprise when I used the Active stuff [see my review here.] my skin felt completely fine!)
- Pink coke
- Mindy Gledhill - Whole Wide World
- Annie soundtrack
- Thats Christmas to me - Pentatonix
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| Chamomile tea after I put up the christmas tree. It did have decorations the next day ! |
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| Manawatu River! |
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| Zoe taking a photo of our drawings. |
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| Mine and Zoes. Zoe is a seriously amazing artist! |
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| At the Lagoon, Mama Swan and her fluffy babies came over to see if we had food ! |
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| The Lagoon again! It's a really special place to me, and I really love it at sunset. |
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| Lagoon with the sun setting. |
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| Pink coloured coke cans! It's your typical coke summer advertisement, but I couldn't resist! |
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| Wellington! |
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| Really cool mini golf place in Wellington! |
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| Heaps of metal scraps and bits made into sculptures all over the course. |
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| The entry fees. |
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| Luna!! I feel like she will be in all of my TTHMMH, because she really does make me happy! This is her just after a brush. |
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| My brother, during the caravan fiasco he took it pretty badly, and was over it and over everything. Which is definitely understandable! |
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| The lucky silver fern. |
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| Dad's looking at getting a tattoo of this, so it will be interesting to see where that goes! |
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| It's not perfect, and I think thats what I like about this fern. |
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| Botancial Gardens, with a tree that my grandfather will be disappointed I don't know the name of! He has a degree in forresty! |
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| Taupo is an awesome place when there's good weather. |
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| Reporoa sunset. |
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| Trilogy is a NZ brand, and I hear so much good stuff about them, This night cream makes you sleepy and when you wake up you wake up feeling fresh. Because I'm not a morning person, in the slightest... this is great! |
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| Wreck this journal - Keri Smith It was given to me by a friend, and it's been heaps of fun to destroy! You tear out pages, stick dead bugs in, scribble and deface it completely. It's basically a librarians worst nightmare. |
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| One of the pages from inside. |
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| Reindeers we did with my younger cousins. So cute! |
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| Girl Online - Zoe Sugg aka Zoella This book is more for tweens - early teens, and I did find the writing a little young for me, but what I really loved about it was how it wrote about anxiety and panic attacks. Being a sufferer and a blogger too I could relate heaps to Penny. I partically loved that there were techniques to help with anxiety too, and because at the start of 2014 I was feeling incredibly alone; it's nice to know that I'm not and seemingly perfect people like Zoe go through it too. |
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| Art Therapy is the most gorgeous book. It can work for children to teens to adults, it's so intricate and beautiful. It actually is incredibly calming too, you just relax and do your thing, quietly. |
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| My gumboots! Mum bought the black gumboots I was dying for, and I have worn them for a week without wearing any other shoes... (also shoutout to James in the background!) |
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| At our family christmases, one year little me decided I wanted to do a play. The play was called 'A Christmas Wish' and it was very cute. Every year since the young kids have done plays, because I'm the oldest girl in their generation I'm usually helping out, this year was relaxed because I was really not in the mood for stressing out little ones! |
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| Whananaki Beach. Probably my ultimate favourite beach. |
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| Swirly shell, my cousin tried to eat. |
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| Whananaki camping, feat the dreaded Caravan. |
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| A massive blueberry! |
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| Our Christmas 'Pea' We had no christmas tree at my grandparents, so I improvised with the sweet peas. |
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| And finally, lemonade and raspberries. Perfectly summer! My December was definitely the perfect sendoff to 2014. I am so excited to see what 2015 brings, and I hope you are too! Thanks for reading ! XX |
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