Things that happened in July & August 2023

Yeah the late blog posts haha. I want to catch up and I'm a whole year late so there's heaps to write on LOL. So here we go:

JULY 

My talented friend did some photos of Laitin and I. We had just been talking about how we never had nice photos together hehe ooop. We were shy but grateful to come out with these.    

I got a fixed term job with the FIFA Women's World Cup- ahhhhhh!!! They had games in Hamilton for a month and so we worked to prep before and during. It was so much fun and it was such a good experience I got to have. 

July 4th celebrations!! These photos freaking crack me up. Kara and I got to go out to dinner with our favorites to celebrate the 4th of July while living in New Zealand and it was so fun. 

U.S.A.

Iykyk.

Laitin and I love escape rooms, he and I went out and did one, one night and that was so fun. 

Celebrated Laitin's birthday. 

He had been wanting to go tufting for ages! We both took the day off and had a nice sleep in. Once Laitin woke up haha, we went to lunch at this new place we hadn't been to before. It was so yummy. Then, we went to duck island for a sweet treat- we have been loving their apple pie ice cream so we had to stop there today. The tufting took a bit of a while, Laitin loved it and I enjoyed watching him to do it hehe. 

We had dinner at Nandos with his family and had a love day celebrating Laits. 

AUGUST

My Aunty Lisa was in town and invited us out to dinner and we went to Shinjuku (a Japanese place were obsessed with!). It was so nice catching up with her, she's one of the loveliest people I know so it was nice to spend some time with her while she was in Hams. 

Laitin went through the temple and it was such a lovely night. Grateful I got to be there with him and excited as we prepare for our next phase in life hehe. Also got to have some of our favorite people along with us on that night. After we finished at the temple, we all went out to dinner at Nandos. Ended the night perfect. 

We did an escape room with our friends! It was their first time doing one so we were excited to do one with them. Got out just in time and were very impressed with the room we got to do!

Not sure if you can tell what decade were in haha, but we went out to a 2000's YSA dance! Had to share cos we had fun putting together these outfits and the Strother's did such a good job putting together this dance and this backdrop. 

Laitin and I did an anniversary date and decided we wanted to make it a tradition to do an escape room around the date of our first ever date. We did an escape room in Auckland and it was Laitin's first time every doing one back then and we've loved them ever since so we thought it would be fun to do that so we went back up to Auckland to the same place but a different room and it was cool to relive where it all started. 

On our first date we needed to come up with a team name so Laitin grabbed books that we were near and said for us to pick a word each and make a name out of it so we did that again and were the shiny villains hehe.

Laitin's brother Jamis, and Bronia had their baby! Last addition to the family and we got to meet her fresh from being born and she is beautiful. 

We went to Tokoroa and on our way we of course needed to stop in at Tirau at our favourite bakery hehe, the Baker. They have the yummiest sausage rolls and pies so it's a must stop. Then, we got to see my cute cousins. So it was a nice day.

Our niece had a wee school show, so we went to support her and that was a really neat thing that we got to attend! She did an amazing job!

Temple dates with Laitin! So nice attending together now that he's endowed. 

Aunty Charlene and I doing a session together!

Spending time with our nieces and nephew!

Laitin and I went out to Raglan and just did some exploring, it was nice to get out of Hamilton for a little bit. 

We got matching spoon rings that a local girl made and they're the cutest things!

Pretty sunset!!