Samuel & Kim Blight

Notices

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Hi there, everyone. We've had an eventful January. If you are looking at Marijke's wedding photos below, please click "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page to see more of them.

If you click on a photo, Blogger will bring up a nicer and enlarged version of it.

Also, our computer crashed. Please email us so we have your email address.

Baby is due sometime in the next four weeks, so watch this space!

Samuel & Kim

The Hokitika Gorge with Tante Gerry

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We've had Tante Gerry and Tante Liennie, her friend, visiting from Holland. We've had a wonderful time with them.

Jake and Marijke's Wedding

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We are extremely and entirely indebted to the Gainford and Perrett families for the following photos. Thank you very much! It was a wonderful day for Jake and Marijke, and they had a tremendously supportive team of friends and family who made the preceding week go smoothly and made the wedding day such a success. Thank you heartily to you all.

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Saturday Morning 8am

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Enoch is worried about his hair...

The Blight wedding wardrobe

Saturday Morning 6am-8am

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All this began shortly after 6am

Friday Evening - The Rehearsal

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John Harrison - officiating minister

Samuel Baron holding the laptop playing the music for the rehearsal

Walking down the aisle

Samuel Blight - MC, Ira - page boy, Talitha, Rissie, Kadesh - flower girls

Discussion, discussion, discussion

Matt Smith - best man, Marijke - bride, Rodney Bagrie - photographer

Sargia - Jake's sister

Friday's Preparations

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The woolshed - the reception hall

Jum - Jake's father

Magdala - bridesmaid, Marijke - bride, Sarah - decorations supervisor

The bridal procession comes from this door

Tipapa

The bridal table at the reception

Dinner together before the rehearsal

Flower Decorations

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We went to Jake's house today to drop off some gifts and pick some flowers for the wedding.

This is an earthquake traumatised house, but here it is:

The sand in the bottom right hand corner is liquefaction.

The flowers we picked

Tante Gerry looking at the liquefaction.

Liquefaction - it came up through the broken concrete floor of the garage.

Jake's (and Marijke's) kitchen

The lounge

On the back door step

Having lunch after the flower picking - a girls' outing.

Making up the decorations

The Bridal Shower

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Magdala kindly organised Marijke a bridal shower (party). It was a pizza party, and everyone brought ingredients for a pizza, and we made them up together.

Lila and Harmony Love, Tante Gerry and Lienny, and Mum

Lennie Harrison (Jake's Mum) chats to Marijke while Helen Blight industriously cuts ingredients.

Bride to be!

Great aunty of bride to be

Helen and Marijke take turns at whipping cream for 'sweet pizza' for dessert.

B'Ethel - Magdala's cousin and the maker of the bridesmaids' dresses

Sitting in a circle, chatting, sharing advice, giving gifts, and praying.

Salad and pizza

Advice from the aunties!

Greta Valley!

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We are in Greta Valley for Marijke's wedding. With us are Tante Gerry and her friend. As soon as we arrived, Tante Gerry unpacked her suitcase!

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There have been some changes to Blogger. Clicking on a picture now gives you a quicker, nicer enlargement of a photo.

Also, my computer has crashed, and has taken to its grave our email address book. Sam will do his utmost to retrieve this, but if you could send us an email, we could ensure you were back in our address book.

The Portico

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See http://ebenezerhomestead.blogspot.com/ for details!

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Enoch deciding that, with his new Christmas present from Uncle Peter and Aunty Helen, and a lot of encouragement from Rissie, walking might not be too bad after all.

Enoch's Introduction to Olives

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Mmmm.

Aren't these meant to be grapes?

Just a minute...

That's better!

Christmas Day at Lake Kaniere

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The Blights' new boat

We borrowed this for the day.

Enoch in eclipse

Talitha Reading 'Greedy Cat'

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Ira's Introduction to Relighting Candles

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The encouragements came verbally from most of the family and in the form of some hearty blowing from two year old Cousin Joshua at the other end of the table. From what you can hear of him, you can imagine we were thankful he wasn't anywhere near the cake!

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A stop on Can't-Remember-Which-River on our way home from a wedding in Motueka

Rissie

Kadesh

Ira

Talitha

Progress on the garden the children call "Aunty Cecile's garden" because she helped to make it. Thank you, Cecile, and Boudewijn and Nguyet for your help and contributions!

Daffodils under the feijoa trees

Our blow up armchair - thank you Uncle Sam!!! The only problem we've had with it is its popularity - they can't all sit on it at once!

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For Labour Weekend the Baron family and Jake came to Hokitika for Kim's birthday.

Jake, trying to keep 'seagulls' from blighting his car.

Kadesh

Enoch

Ira

Talitha

Mum and Dad Baron

Jake, Marijke, and Li'l Sam, who isn't so little any longer

Jake

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The truck that lifted the beams into place.

The truck that poured the concrete for the beams and the new step.

The new step - thank you, Pete!

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Home improvements! Putting in the posts for the portico.

Baby chicks!

Rissie and Cousin Kristen

Ira is four!

Blowing out candles - Kadesh decked him out in all his finery...

A happy four year old

Should I be worried about this?

Rithie ith mithing her teeth.

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The photo doesn't do them justice...

The Marching Band

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Enoch talking to his card from Opa

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Enoch on the Piano

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The marching band

What they'll do when you let 'em lose in the back yard with play dough

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Below are Marijke and Jake's photos of their engagement party. Please click on 'older posts' as you get to the bottom of the page to continue looking at the series.

Jake and Marijke's Engagement Party

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Barbeque blokes

Jake's father, Jum (centre), and uncle (right) frying hard.

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Jake's sisters - Sargia and Jasmine

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James, Jake's younger brother

Ruth and Leigh Love

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David Love, Enoch Blight, and Heath Perrett. These three party-goers were all born June/July last year.

Opening gifts

Done!

Thank you, everyone!

Snow in Greta Valley

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Nearly 30cm of snow in Greta Valley the week before Marijke's Engagement Party. That the Pass was open and the weather fine for the party was an answer to much prayer!

Mark and Phebe's Wedding

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We went to Motueka for this very special wedding

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Trip to Palmerston North

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Waiting for the Picton ferry.

Our trip was to surprise Anne, Samuel's aunt, for her 70th birthday

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Riding the train at the Esplanade in Palmerston North between lunch and afternoon tea at Aunty Anne's party.

Aunty Anne and her cake.

Waiting for the tour to start at Owlcatraz in Shannon. It was very child friendly and the kids and adults enjoyed it.

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The train ride at Owlcatraz

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Nana and Grandad took all the kids on the train from Lower Hutt to Wellington Central.

And they made it!

Enoch's First Birthday

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One!

The traditional first birthday initiation to ice-cream

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Tiffany

Kadesh's Big Holiday

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Visiting Aunty Marijke in Blenheim

Watching the rhinos at Orana Park

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Kadesh's favourite

The holiday was all about the parks we went to.

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Our Castle has a moat when it rains

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Sam's birthday cake, courtesy of the girls and Ira.

A Moonset in the Sunrise

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Easter with Jake and Marijke

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Talitha Can Read

Talitha is presented her Bible

Mum! Look at Enoch!

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With the cat

With the culprits

With the feijoa trees. See a close up of the fruit here.

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Five!

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His Royal Highness

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Visiting Greta Valley

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The crowd that gathered for Mum and Dad's 30th wedding anniversary in December

Ira waiting for dinner.

Jake and Marijke

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Teaching the kids about weaving.

Enoch attempts to save himself after falling over by pulling himself up on his shirt.

Dinner was a long time coming.

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We knew we were home again when it rained.

Childhood joys...

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See Sam's new fence at Ebenezer

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Counting the one in the pram, this photo has all the Blight cousins in it.

Uncles on wheels

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Thank you, Uncle Tom! Hours of water fun.

Kadesh wivvout any teef.

Rissie - six!

Tahunanui, Nelson

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A spider's web in the early morning mist

The evil eye from two cats determined to be comfortable

Long John Silver and Pirate

Another act of piracy...

Feeding the Cows

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Mopsy, the cow we haven't named, and Rosie. We're hoping one of these will oblige us with some milk next season.

Rosie- Kadesh's personal favourite

Jamin and Magdala's Wedding

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Making sushi with Tante Nguyet

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At Lake Kaniere with Tante Cecile

At the glacier

Sharing a milkshake at Punakaiki

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Pig on a spit for Mum and Dad's 30th Wedding anniversary

Talitha's hair is FINALLY long enough to tie up.

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Updates

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Peter and Helen's blog has been updated. Click here to see it. Our house blog has also been updated. Click here to see it.

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Like father....

...like son.

We are three!

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Trains!

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He truly is like this all the time.

Winsley wonder - how to make a four month old walk.

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Spring Frolics with Tante Hetty

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Tante Hetty visited us from Holland. The following photos are in higgle-de-piggledy order, suffice it to say that we were in Hanmer for Labour weekend (the pools and the animal farm), Greta Valley for Kadesh's birthday, and Hokitika afterwards (the Hokitika gorge, Lake Kaniere, and other family shots).

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Thank You, Opa!

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