Totally Love Tuesdays Blog Posts

in a fwe weeks we have our ILLUMINATE Daughters Conference – so excited!  this week has been busy organising giveaways and goodie bag treats!  i’ve been so impressed by our local community (connected on fb) who have donated goods and se...

yesterday we celebrated Mothers Day with the kids and my MIL at the Auckland Museum… the kids loved the Oceans and Land, Weird and Wonderful (eeek those bugs are soooo gross!) and a Kids in the Past exhibits and i loved the vintage clothing and fur...

    not only was it may the fourth on saturday but i also changed my text tone to reflect the star wars fan-ness that is our family.  it now says “message from the darkside” in a yoda voice.  it used to be “guys where a...

in this digital age i confess i dont buy cds anymore.  i buy itunes.  i use spotify.  so when we packed the car and headed off on holiday i was like eeeek – we need music!  grabbed karanga by Cindy Ruakere and it became the soun...

  we just had an amazing recharging week away in turangi.  we had lots of adventures including fishing at the tongariro national trout centre, rock climbing, maze adventures, mini golf and a trip to the war museum.  we also had down ti...

    totally love these lost images… i love lost, still.  its still my happy place… and funnily the things i watch on tv now are connected to lost.  person of interest.  once upon a time.  its all lost.   and as...

    this is me service leading (MCing) our sunday night service on sunday… i just love the twinkly lights and the fading… i love our church!        on sunday morning i was priv’d to preach – i spoke on jonah –...

on friday tony and caleb went to the blues vs highlanders game at eden park – it was the family celebration for his 11th birthday.  it involved a trip to mcdonalds for dinner and then a ride on the train into the city and changing trains to head o...

*** eleven today     Tagged: birthday, caleb, christianity, family...

    elevation church have amazing creative people on their team… i was incredibly moved by this easter presentation, a wonderful analogy of jesus, the sin remover, the life giver   On a Friday morning, two thousand years ago, Jesus s...

evangeline’s ballet class are learning contemporary ballet.  love that!  whenever i think of CB i think of fix you SYTYCDA… this version always makes me cry. oh i wish i could dance like that!  here is another elevation church inte...

"Your dream and visions are attached to a process."  Banning Liebscher "Leaders are developed in the process."  Zack Curry "What’s the assignment right in front of you and are you giving yourself fully to it?"&...

love this management/leadership video by Scott Williams – i love how it looks (i’m so that way wired!) and i love what it says! people don’t want to be managed, they want to be led – there is a difference b/w a manager and a leader!~ ...

  okay somehow i came across this… perhaps from Jon Acuff’s blog Stuff Christians Like… and it’s seriously funny and clever!   okay a double whammie for Jon Acuff – he wrote this amazing post MAN ON FIRE, with an amazing analogy:...

we have a whole 10 or so weeks with no school and no housegroup aka no people coming round in the evening regularly and the trains stayed away.  caleb used to be mega into his trains until about a year or 2 ago.  but last weekend we had a t...

  i LOVE this movie. seriously its in my top 5 (along with Les Miserables, Ghost Protocol, The Matrix, Ever After and um…)  its got romance, humour, singing, dancing, great huge skirts, funky hair and a barn raising bash up.  brillia...

  i LOVE this movie. seriously its in my top 5 (along with Les Miserables, Ghost Protocol, The Matrix, Ever After and um…)  its got romance, humour, singing, dancing, great huge skirts, funky hair and a barn raising bash up.  brillia...

one man… les mis… love it…         love my spunky kids!  i havent taken photos on the “real” camera for ages so thouht i better as they’re getting bigger!  love evangeline’s sneaky tongue in the bottom phot...

  two of my loves are music and preaching.  so when the TWO are combined.  happy.  impressed.  this is an album of preaching to music, or music to preaching, about Jesus.  the cover caught my eye while i was browsing in...