Hayley Christmas present

So I have been wanting to make Hayley a Large Barbie dolls house for quite some time now, but could never find the time. So this year since I wasn't working and had time off from school I took the opportunity to get started. I drew the plans and dimensions and took them to the local building supply store and they cut the wood to size for me.  Then I went out to a friends house whose hubby has every power tool under the sun and is very crafty, with his help and tools I was able to build the structure and then move it to Jeffs to work to complete all the finer points of painting and decorating. In all the project took me about 30 hours of which I am very happy with.  Hope you like it.

Hayley's Turn Six - November 3rd 2011

 

Our Birthday Girl

Hayley and her reindeer mask

Hayley with her dance makeup on.... well some of it, this was the first layer.

Hayley as David

Well life is still rather hectic even though I am currently on break from my studies, I have managed to squeeze out a bit of time to out up some pictures.  Hayley turned 6 on November 3rd and we had a small celebration with some of her friends at our place after school.  Thankfully she understood how chaotic things were for me so she was very kind in requesting a very quick and easy cake.
Hayley has been very busy preparing for her dance recital which was 2 weeks ago now, but she did awesome and she loved it, though she has informed us she is not dancing next year.  She also took part in the church Christmas play which she played the character David.
Hayley has also lost her front tooth.... as she is proudly showing off with her mini gingerbread man.

Opps Calebs Birthday pictures March 15th 2011

In my delight of getting somewhere on my blog and getting all up to date I somehow skipped over Caleb birthday pictures.

 My boy turns 7!!!

 His awesome Soccer Cake. everything is edible

 Caleb chose to go rock climbing which was a huge hit

Caleb Lawrence Hassman

Caleb and team mate Kyan with the certificate and Trophy they won for winning their soccer division.

Caleb the super awesome goalie

 Caleb went as a New Zealand rugby player to the school disco.

Caleb feeding Hiccup

Hayley Marie Hassman

 Hayley had her first American Jazz Ballet exam, this is how her hair needed to be, 45 min later and a bottle of hairspray we got it done.

 Complete with makeup

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She got 73% in her exam

 Hayley sitting up front in her school assembly, about to give her presentation.

 Hayley dressed up as a cheerleader for her school disco.

Connor Paul Hassman

 Connor and Hiccup. The new addition to our family

 they love each other so much

 The results of helping mum bake

 Connor starts Kindergarten

 As you can see he is right at home. He asks me every day if today is kindy day.

Mid Winter Xmas Cakes

I was asked to make 2 mid winter Christmas cakes for a church dinner, the colour scheme was pink and white so this it what I came up with, I only had 3 days notice.

 Chocolate Mud cake with Chocolate Ganache

 Banana Cake with Chocolate ganache

Connor turns 2 well back in April 20th he did

 Connor was very happy with his cake. He squealed when he saw it. So sad it gets destroyed so fast.

 Connor very excited when everyone was singing Happy Birthday

 Tractor - he couldn't be more happier. He loves his tractors.

Time for a catch up.

I have found a spare moment or should I say I'm procrastinating from my many assignments to work on our out of date blog. Hope you enjoy the catch up

Church prayer evening

 The Tomb - before the floor was done and the lighting ect....

 The Garden of Eden

 More of the Garden 6 meters x 4 meters

 Calvary - prayer and reflection area.

Garden of Gethsemane.

I was asked by the pastor of our church to create 4 areas in which people could walk into, sit down, reflect and pray.  He wanted the Garden of Eden, Gethsemane, the Tomb and then Calvary. And above is what I came up with. They were 4 individual rooms that you entered, you could not see the other rooms until you walked into that specific area. 3 of the rooms were 4 x 4 meters and 1 room was 6 x meters. It took me about 3 weeks to paint the murals and about 2 day to set it all up. This was more than what my pastor was expecting and the overall event surprised alot of people. It was a very successful event and one that moved and challenged people in there faith. I had a lot of fun but not something I want to do again in suck a short amount of time.

Kids in uniform

Caleb and Hayley started at Hukanui School this year. Its a public school so that will make life a bit easier for us.
They were both excited to start a new school, and so far both have fitted in great and are really enjoying the school.