what we've been up to....

Since its been soooo long since a proper update, I thought I should take the "one story at a time" approach. Noesheen and I get up to alot of baking.....mostly choc cakes with a few cookies and cheesecake slices sprinkled in there now and then. Noesheen once thought we should move away from our signature choc cake and make a sponge cake...she found the recipe on her on and I just assisted. When the cake came out she was so disappointed that she proclaimed we stick to our normal choc cakes ONLY. We do have banana cakes occassionally but as little miss is not very fond of banana cakes, we don't make these very often.

Here is Noesheen's idea brought to life

cupcakes

a bday cake for a friend at work

Our fave cookies- Choc Chip oatmeal cookies with  dash of cinnamon

We made this a few months ago.....my family loves whipped cream!

cupcake version of fetish with whipped cream/choc cake and choc chunks

Nadims B-day cake we make early december

our version of black forrest cake

A year in summary

We are now fully settled in New Zealand. Noesheen has had a fun year at school and is growing so fast. We have had many interesting stories and experiences together. She is growing up to be an interesting character for sure.

Her only complaint was that she didn't have a brother or sister to play with..... and so she prayed about it. Its true that Heavenly Father does really answer prayers, esp those of little children. Noesheen will now be a big sister officially in February. As expected she was the most thrilled of us all and has been leading the discussion on what to name her brother.

I have had a busy year at work and am now in a role I more fully enjoy.

More to come....this was just a little update for now :)