Good to be back...

Visiting aunty Shanz...which was a fun day for us girls.

We took her to see the puppys at a huge pet store in howick...she loved it.

This was cool,ruby playing and saying "brrmm"at the amazing kids section of whitcouls at Botany downs shopping centre....

and playing with blocks..

On the veranda at the maraetai beach house...which was the home of her great-grandparents.

On the flight home to perth...

trying to open the cream that we got with our scones(she did succeed eventually).

Well,it is good to be home.We have been taking it easy and just enjoying being a family.Yesterday we took a drive to Cottesloe beach,near fremantle.Cotts was one of our first early glimpses of our future home when we would look at perth on the net and so it was lovely to go see it for real.It is quieter than the bigger city beaches like scarborough and in my opinion much nicer.It is where all the surfers hang out and they were there in droves yesterday as the water was choppy enough.We had lunch at a cafe on the beach.Perfect way to unwind after an eventful past week...

NZ was beautiful.The first day the weather was perfect so ruby+I took a walk around Omana point in maraetai and the views of rangatoetoe island were awesome!,i instantly felt at home.It was great to spend a relaxing day out with shanz and show ruby off to her.Mum's birthday party/mid-winter dinner was fun and in true linley-style was like a winter fairytale...she even had fake snow!,everyone thoroughly enjoyed it and I enjoyed catching up with my brother Gerard and his very sweet and witty wife,jessica.Ruby amused and charmed everyone at the party and refused to go to sleep!,there was too much happening but she was very good and sat in the highchair with her party hat on.It was also fitting that this was our last goodbye to my grandmothers home as it will soon be occupied by new owners.

Now i am home...well,my home AWAY from home, for now anyway.

I managed to wipe all the photos of the party and stuff on my camera so the above are photos i managed not to wipe.