So, its been a wee while since I’ve posted about the happenings of life. The last month and a bit have been hectic to say the least. I’m going to blame the lack of blogging on moving house (even though it really only took two solid weeks to pack, move and get most things sorted). Whoever said moving house was one of the most stressful things was not lying by the way, so we were glad to have enlisted the help of Rob’s family especially with all the heavy lifting. I had no idea we had acquired so much stuff in one year.

Anyway, we are almost all sorted now and very well settled in our new home and with the internet reconnected, I now have no excuse with this wee bit of the blogging world I own.

So here is a recap on the rest of 2011…

We went to the Auckland Art Gallery
Had a lovely lunch with the Robb family at Umi
Put up the Christmas tree :)
Made more food (Nigella’s Chocolate and Pear Pudding, strudels, bangers and mash with caramelized onions - recipes to come)
Discovered a new cafe - TASCA; thanks Tom!
Celebrated an anniversary at Bowmans
Went to a work Christmas do at Da Vinci’s
Had a Christmas do with the girls
Had a beach dinner with the girls
Had romantic date night on Franklin Road
Had Christmas food and opened epic Christmas presents all of Christmas day
Got a new stand mixer boxing day :) Yes, this was worthy of it’s own post
Then made peach cupcakes
Went out to brunch a handful of times at one of our favourite cafes (Vista)
Had an awesome family BBQ
Got treated to a beautiful roast dinner by Tom and Tony
Before ending the year with my amazing man and co. :)