We have a 6 month old.

Yes, i am ashamed to say it has been that long since i have posted anything.. In that time i have planted an entirely new garden, and we've even eaten our first brocolli (again) but this time there was three of us to eat it. Baby girl is all about her food and is joining in on mealtimes with us now. We're doing Baby Led Weaning with her, which pretty much means that she eats with us and we just share our food with her. Pretty fun (in a really messy kinda way!) I'm really loving this being a mum thing a lot, she is rather amazing.

This face.

Being a mumma is such an indescribably wonderful thing. Everyday i love this little girl more and more. What a perfect little person she is x

Home.

It's been nearly five months now since we left Wanaka and moved north to the beautiful Mount Maunganui. Our little one bedroom ground floor abode has been the perfect place for us to start (a fully furnished house is a handy thing when all your worldly belongings are what you fitted into one car!) but sometimes opportunities come up that you just don't want to miss! Our friends have the most wonderful little beach bach just up the road and we have been admiring it for a while now, so we were really excited when they told us they'd bought a house and that their place would be becoming free! We nervously applied... and got it! The best thing about this house, aside from the fact that it overlooks the most stunning part of the ocean, is that it has a room for Coco.. and it is just the most perfect little girls room (I'll post photos). It's a big step for us, the house has no furniture, not even whiteware, but since we decided to take it everything has been falling into place and we've already got most of what we need. In fact we just bought a bed today, eek! It is such a good feeling getting our own things, i'm looking forward to having a blank canvas that we can make totally ours and turning this little house into a home. Here are some images which are giving me some great ideas right now..

Coco

Ok, so the last 5 and a half weeks have been a blog write off... We have a baby now though! Good excuse huh.. She is so wonderful! Coco Milly de Beer was born on May 23rd at 1am, weighing in at 7lbs 11oz, she is a total champ and is keeping us super busy! I am completely obsessed with taking photos of her, she may feature on here a little from now on, maybe less cakes and cookies and more Coco, who has time for baking right now!

x

Tea and scones

On Monday morning we woke up and made tea and scones for breakfast, just to celebrate the day. We ate allll of them. I used the edmonds cookbook recipe and it was lovely!

Best Ever Scones

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

3 cups flour

6 teaspoons Edmonds baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

75g butter

1 - 1½ cups milk, approximately

extra milk for glazing

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 220oC. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Cut butter in until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

2. Add 1 cup milk and mix quickly with a knife to a soft dough, adding more milk if needed. Knead a few times.

3. Lightly dust an oven tray with flour. Press scone mix out on floured bench or tray, cut into 12 even-sized pieces. Place on oven tray, brush tops with milk and place in top half of oven to bake

4. Bake scones for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Once golden brown with crisp crusts, remove from the oven and allow to cool. Cooling on a rack will give you crisp crusts, while covering them with a clean tea towel will give a soft scone.

Enjoy! x

Hi baby

Babies are the best, so far ours is only the size of a spaghetti squash but we already love her and she is beginning to develop her own little personality, we can't wait to meet her! she also really likes to eat nutella and fries lately.

Sydney

On Tuesday i got back from such a lovely week away in Australia with my Dad! We got to see more family over there and i got to do some fun shopping and lots of eating out! I love holidays, and it made home even better when i arrived back. I have such a new appreciation for my wonderful husband and life here! Here are some pictures from my trip.

Let's go somewhere beautiful

We've had some big changes happening lately, our family here in Wanaka are leaving in a month to go an a huge travel adventure... Brandon and i are trying our best to be so happy for them and not think about how sad it is that they're not going to be around anymore! If i was to be selfish i would like them to stay and live here with us for ever...

So Taryn, Dan, and baby Oscar, we've been thinking... maybe we can come and have Christmas with you in Cape Town, we would love that. In fact i think our whole family should meet in Cape Town this summer, that would make our hearts so happy X

ps here are some pictures from my first time in South Africa last year... i miss you Cape Town.