Wishing everyone a.....

A Jolly Ball-y Christmas for Lane

Thanks to Nana and Granddad, Lane has a new favorite toy.

Christmas Trimmings

We had Christmas at our house this year, which means it was time to put on the matching sweaters and take a family picture. I found some real Christmas crackers at the British market in town, and Andrew made sure we all wore our party hats and told our jokes. So, "What did the beaver say to the tree?"

Christmas

We have had a great Christmas and we have all been spoiled rotten. I (Andrew) have been in cheese heaven. We had a nice sharp cheddar, apricot stilton, a strong stilton, and the favourite of Wallace and Gromit, some Wensleydale. Samantha also found me some crumpets, pastilles from Rowntrees, and some english turkish delights. IT has been a real treat. Hana and Lane made out like bandits and are currently benefiting from being only grand children on one side of the family. Hana has been running around with her sheepskin boots on thinking she is pretty special. Lane has an infatuation with balls and so she got at least 3 different toys involving balls including the one Nanna and Grandad got her which we will post a video of shortly. Anyway we will post photos over then next day or two.

Christmas Lights

Our neighbours up the street have 10000+ lights and they all move to the music. We asked if we could put together (i.e. put lights to a piece of music I like) so they sent us the software and we arranged this video.

talofa lava butterworths

malo soifua its christmas morning here in brisssie and its pretty cool actually. we have just opened presents from the family. thanks to all those sent gifts. we are preparing to have the missionaries over for breakfast this morning which will be great. our extended family gathering is at uncle brendy's house - lots of swimming and food and doing nothing. we are also visiting a few samoan families that live close by in the arvo. i am looking forward to this so i can eat some samoan food. manaia tele mea ai samoa!!! so this is what our christmas day will be like... tell us about yours too. as you may know i just got back of my mission in the SAMOA APIA MISSION. i will have to post something up about it another time with some pics. sending out our love to all our family all over the world. God bless and MERRY CHRISTMAS.

fa soifua matthew "pata" Butterworth

Happy Birthday Dad

Dad coming around the corner, to meet everyone with party poppers (you can see one going off) and everyone yelling "SURPRISE". He had no idea that we had planned a party for him, even though the cake shop had called during the week and was asking about the cake. Dad said this was the first real birthday party he had ever had.
Rebecca, Jonathan and Shane did the banner,which looked fantastic.

Dip in the pool

Saturday was quite a warm day, so I put Damian into his swimmers, which he is about to grow out of, and dangled his little feet into the pool. Our pool is still freezing, and I don't think he was very impressed because afterwards he kept rubbing his feet together.