Another Close One

Today we had another cricket match.
We lost the toss and were put in to bat.
I was in first.
Me and my partner scored 42 runs together in the six overs we could bat in.
I scored 26 and my partner scored 16.
In my bowling I got 3 wickets and didn't concede many runs of my bowling.
I took two catches when I was wicket keeping.
I got an edge that just went straight into my gloves.
The other one was also and edge that went up.
I had to dive to reach it and only just got it.
In the end I scored the most runs and I was part of 5 out of the 15 wickets we took

Timothy

Jacques Kallis Beware

Elizabeth Vaughan has just taken up cricket as she is coming to get you!

Also, congratulations to Timothy and Elizabeth who have both been selected into the GATE (Gifted And Talented Education) programme again. This term it's philosophy.

BLACK ICE

Last night 50 000 AC/DC fans crammed into Western Springs ...

We were there,

we have the picture to prove it.

Just in case you care, here is the setlist:

"Rock 'N Roll Train"
"Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be"
"Back in Black"
"Big Jack"
"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
"Thunderstruck"
"Black Ice"
"The Jack"
"Hells Bells"
"Shoot to Thrill"
"War Machine"

"Anything Goes"
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
"T.N.T."
"Whole Lotta Rosie"
"Let There Be Rock"

"Highway to Hell"
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"

The MOM SONG!

This weekend my friend Rhiana came for a sleepover and showed me a song called the mom song. heres the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nem0bkErGVY

Sir Lemons 2

One day I was once again playing cp(Club penguin)When I met sirlemons and went to his iggy for a party.

ALSO SEE PART 1 At http://vaughan-nz.blogspot.com/2008/01/sir-lemons.html

My heads spinning!

Today while going home from KFC i said Timothy was Mr.T (the guy whose hair is the greatest in the world) So he said "SHUT UP FOOL!" And that was the start of me going completely bonkers!
I LAUGHED HARD CORE! He kept on doing or saying funny stuff. when we got home mummy said to go fetch the mail (Like a dog or something :) While walking down the drive I felt my RIGHT armpit. I WAS SWEATING! As a result when back I said "I think I know where my laugh box is"
The replier said"Where?" "In my RIGHT armpit" "Why there?" "BECAUSE I WAS SWEATING"
That totally got me into a Jolly girl again.


And i hope you have a merry jolly Christmas!

Christmas blues

Well there is just 2 sleeps until Christmas but I have had one of the worst things happen to me.
I kind of broke my wrist :(
Yeah I have got it in a sling right now but it will get removed on Christmas eve
YAY! I can still open my presents :D

Movember

It's November again which means it's Movember time again.

Because I'm lazy, I'll just post the email sent by my team organiser.

My donation link: http://nz.movember.com/mospace/124213/

Ladies and Gents,

I would like to introduce you to 2009’s Movember team, The Last of the Mo-Geekans. This year we have a massive turnout, as 26 guys have decided to join the team, in an attempt to grow a stylish moustache in the name of charity.

The next few weeks could become quite challenging, so please do whatever you can to mo-tivate members of the team, preferably by throwing money (via the donation pages detailed below).

It is a very worthwhile event, and if you would like to know more about how your donations get used, please check out details on the Movember web site (www.movember.co.nz ).

If you think that a certain person on the team deserves an individual donation, please use their donation page from the list below.
If you want to donate to the whole team, please use this link, and your donation will be shared amongst all members of the team.

The life of a Year 4 student

I just noticed my life is getting harder being a YEAR 4 student. And being in a class with year 3s makes us year 4s expected to be good roll models. Which a Year 4 named Marcel is not good at. Hes always complaining about hating Mrs Smith(my teacher) Not a good roll model. Last week while doing topic I was sitting near the bookshelf our student teacher(Mrs Leevers) said to get our topic books the next moment I found myself trying to squirm out from under Marcel. This left me bruised badly. Never told on him probably never will. You should pay more attention to Nicole (A female year four student like me) She is always sitting nicely and gets her work done nice and fast with good presentation. Theres also people in the middle like Alex she is a good girl and lets other people take the heat when getting in trouble good role model but could be better. As gotten on the sad face( Something what bad kids go on and spend some morning tea or lunch inside) But has also been on the Super stars (the opposite of the sad face) So yeah I'd say this is a good class to be in ignoring Marcel.

Diary

Today I started a new diary. Called it "Diary of a strange kid" after reading diary of a wimpy kid books. Wrote some stuff not much. I'll be writing in there time to time

Police

Went to fill up my car this morning at the Challenge petrol station on the Milford main drag. When I got there there's 2 police cars with about 6 cops hanging around. A quick survey of the area shows no obvious signs of why they are there. After a while the Cheese Cake Shop next door open, they all pile inside and 2 minutes later they emerge with about 5 cakes, back in their cars and off.

Must be the captain's birthday.

Computer Breakdown

For a month or 2 my computer broke down
I had to share a computer with Elizabeth!
On the bright side my new computer is working better than the other

Horse and Carriage

Timothy today about me and Nadia:

You guys go together like cake and icing

Thanks Timothy, that was lovely

To hold or not to hold

Earlier this week as I was saying goodbye to the kids on their way to school I told them to hold hands when they cross the road.

As they walked down the driveway I heard Timothy saying to Elizabeth: "We are NOT holding hands"

PS3 and a New TV

Early February we bought a new TV and we got a bargain on a PS3 by buying that TV
We sent in a form for the PS3 and waited about 2-3 weeks for it.
We also got a free PS3 game from somewhere and so that came into use
Now we have 2 games
NASCAR 09 and Need for speed Undercover
I'm about 51% through Need for Speed Undercover and I've finished one season in Chase for the NASCAR sprint cup in NASCAR 09
My friend also let me borrow Grand turismo 5 proluge and I got up to class B
The new play station 3 is very fun even Elizabeth plays a bit

Timothy

"Back To Work" blues

I've suffering of some serious back to work blues. Tomorrow is my first day back after 7 weeks off.

A lot has happened since mid-December. Here's a quick rundown - I may (or not) expand in later posts:

11 December: Building consent for our renovations has been granted at last. Boy, that only took about a year.

19 December: Schools close for the holidays. Patrick and Nadia's leave starts.

20 December - 18 January: Holiday in Australia (few days in Sydney) and South Africa. Christmas with the Vaughan family in Port Elizabeth. Also spent some time in Johannesburg and Bela Bela (Warmbad)

19 January: Nadia back to work (Ag shame)

25 January: Patrick and Timothy attends the New Zealand A1 Grand Prix

2 February: Patrick gets a hernia fixed (Ag shame). I am now officially on sick leave.

3 February: Patrick back home from the hospital.

4 February: Kids back to school

9 February (tomorrow): Patrick back to work.

Also, the builders start work on the house tomorrow - we expect the next few months to be rather chaotic. Thanks to Nadia for the hard work in getting everything ready while I have been on my back, recuperating.

School just started

School just started for Elizabeth and I and I had a great first day

Timothy

A close one

We had another cricket games this weekend and it was the last one of the year.(for me that is)

We won the toss and chose to field.

On my last over I bowled my balls of the year and only 2 runs came off the the over(I think)

Coming in at no.3 with Haydon told me 'you have got to get those runs'

I batted quite well too scoring 19 runs in 4 overs (the highest score in the team)

Hitting 2 fours helped a lot as Haydon on the other hand struggled to get runs(or even on strike as we kept running twice)

In the end a patnership of 24 runs as the last 2 batsman came out.

It was down to the last ball. Kumeu still had a chance to win. All they needed was a wicket to win and the batsman(not knowing they were winning) had to avoid getting out.

The ball was fast and went straight past the keeper and the batsman ran.

They could only run one overthrow or in this case byes but they didn't know that so they ran again but the umpire tryed to send them back which left them stranded in the middle of the pitch and the keeper threw it in and mist but a fielder got it and threw it in and ran the batsman out.

We had lost by 2 runs.


In the first innings I hit the stumps and the batsman, well I thought out of his crease but I didn't know and the umpires didn't see it so it could have been out.

So they gave him not out.

If only they were watching sigh

Snow globe (part 2)

After the broken snow globe at the Werehouse a few days latter doing Christmas shopping I saw snow globes. Being very happy about the low price (4.50)I would buy it next week.On the next day of Christmas shopping (Saturday)I was wondering when it was time for me to buy the snow globe.I continued to ask about it . Thinking that mummy was getting anoyed we finally went there. This time I "DID NOT"brake it.

Our blog’s personality type (from typealyzer.com)

ESFP - The Performers

The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves. The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

Lucky 100

I'm the lucky person to post the 100th message on our blog!!!

Snow Globe

Last Friday we went to the Warehouse. I went to the shoe department, Timothy to gaming and Elizabeth to toys. We agreed, I would catch up with them as soon as I’ve looked at ALL the shoes.

Half way through, a very worried looking, Timothy came to me and said Elizabeth broke something. Moments later a crying little girl appeared. Through the sobs she explained something about a snow globe and the toy isle. I said not to worry, we’ll go to the customer service and explain.

The lady at customer service was very nice and told Elizabeth it happens all the time and they will send someone to come clean the mess.

As we were walking away I said: “See I told you they will be nice about it”
A still sobbing Elizabeth replied: “That’s not why I’m crying”
Me: “Then why are you crying?”
Elizabeth: “It was the last one!!”

Thinking ahead

Elizabeth realized that we will be in South Africa for Christmas and we wont have a Christmas tree in the lounge as usual, so she wrote this letter and provided a Christmas tree.

Cricket - Victory at last

Timothy's cricket team this season, the Takapuna Eagles, consists mainly of newbys and as a result is struggling a bit.

So I'm happy to announce they had their first victory today, beating the Birkenhead Panthers by 3 runs. Both teams scored exactly 100 runs, but the Eagles lost 1 less wicket (7 vs 8) than Birkenhead. Since a team gets 3 runs for each wicket they take the final score was 124-121 to the Eagles. The fielding was also much improved.

Well done boys.

Timothy took 2 wickets (both bowled) and the other 6 wickets were all run-outs.

Mashed Potatoes Elizabeth Style

Movember

I registered for Movember. This is a fund raising exercise for charity (prostate cancer and depression under men) and involves me growing a moustache for the month of November.

Please sponser me here.

5 Pokemon books

Finally there're here the 5 pokemon books well sort of you see...
on Monday there was the five pokemon on trade me (which I discovered last Friday) I bided $5 and got out bided after crying my eyes out mummy and daddy said "I can bid my pocket money before I get it.But I have to wait until I've payed them back" So it was a deal! I won the bid and Tomorrow I'll get them!!!!!!

P.S THANKS PATRICK!!!!!!!

The Most Funnest Dad Ever!

According to the lovely Father's Day card I received from Timothy, I am as much fun as a PlayStation 3.

High praise indeed.

PS. Apparently I'm also smarter than a calculator.

The Mystery of the Disappearing Post Box

Today I had to post a letter (to the taxman nogal), so I dashed around the corner to the post box we all know and love and have used for many years.

To my surprise, this is what I found:

Is that allowed? Can they just remove it? I feel cheated! What about all the old people in Milford who now have to walk miles to the next post box?

I shall investigate ... (OK, maybe not)

Nothing lasts forever

A while ago we were outside under the carport enjoying the traditional family braai (bbq).

After a while there was this horrible breaking sound.

On investigation (which did not take long) I found this to be the source:





















This was followed by a lot of crying.

For the time being Elizabeth's mode of transport will be the scooter.