christmas time in new zealand

ho ho ho. we hope everyone is having an awesome christmas time with their friends and family. we are so blessed to be spending christmas in new zealand visisting sarah's family. it is a little different having christmas during the summer but it is fun spending it with all our family and friends on this side of the world.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, we hope you are all good and feeling blessed like us! We have had a great day helping out with the community meal at our church, where we fed over 300 people who otherwise wouldn't have had all that yummy turkey, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce and stuffing...(on a side note, did you know the average American consumes over 3,000 calories during their thanksgiving meal!!).

Love you loads & God bless you,

Russell, Sarah & Stanley (who is REALLY getting into the Christmas spirit here!)

Stanley in the Fall

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing awesome :) We are all good, working hard and just enjoying our crazy dog. The fall leaves here are amazingly beautiful and thanks to school being closed on election day Stanley got a long walk in the crunchy leaves he just loves!

As you can see, our little boy is an avid recycler and just loves to help his parents sort out the recycling...he is especially good in the cardboard box crushing department ;)

Love you all so much & God bless,

Russell, Sarah & Stanley (who likes to be dressed sharply at meal times!)

2nd Wedding Anniversary! St Louis here we come...

Greetings long lost friends & family! Sorry it's been so long since we've updated this...to be honest we haven't really done anything too exciting until this last weekend in St Louis ;)

So, this is us at the world famous St Louis zoo which totally tops any zoo eva!

Hold on...Stanley Bone! How did you sneak yourself into the zoo pictures?? As you can tell, our little baby is growing up fast...and likes to wear black eyeliner...

Back to St Louis...we had a blast on our complimentary tour of the huge Budweiser factory, Sarah was loving all their recycling bins and Russell...well, he was interested in other things!

We had a great time at the St Louis Cardinals vs Cincinnati Reds (who we saw play on our last anniversary...hmmm) baseball game...which was really close and exciting (for once! according to Sarah). Oh and that's not a rainbow coming out of Sarah's head, that's the 'Gateway to the West' arch which is incredible....St Louis is definately worth a look see!

We also got to meet up with Sarah's old English teacher (Fiona Eason- who's pregga's now- congrats!) from Wellington Girls, who lives in St Louis now with her husband. Oh the pure joy of hanging out with kiwi's again!!

And to my H.M.I friends...I haven't forgotten...E.O.N!

We love you all so much and can't wait for our trip to NZ...2 & 1/2 months to go!!

God bless,

Russell, Sarah & Stanley Bone xx

Brooks & Cade

So...you like our new children??

Of course you know we are not responsible enough for our own off-spring!!


But we just love being Uncle Russell & Aunty Sarah. Last week, we had a fantastic time hanging out with Russell's sisters' family in Richmond, Virginia- Brooks (3 years) & Cade (3 months) and Becca and Christian too.

Then just to make our summer even better than expected, Sarah's sister (Katie Turner) had her little girl this week- Evelyn Grace :) And we can't wait to go and meet our other niece when we travel to NZ for Christmas this year. So, praise God for beautiful families & hoped you liked looking at ours.

Bless ya,
Russell & Sarah xx

Exreme Build Mission Trip, July '08

Hey everyone! We just got back from our church mission trip in central Kentucky, where we helped build a house in just 1 week for this lovely family (Bessie, [next to me], widowed with 2 kids is the proud new home owner). Here you can watch her house take shape....

Morning of Day 1...let the fun begin! Day 2...wow! look at the progress :)

Day 3 & things are moving along. Beautiful sunrise on Day 4

Still smiling on Day 5 Day 6...mission, almost accomplished!

Russell & Tim, and the studs! Look at those muscles!

Yes they trust me with a hammer! Two in fact!

Sarah & her building buddy David (no he's not Amish, Sarah did ask though!)

So love to you all and know we miss you loads.
Russell & Sarah xox