Sunrises from Opio.

Apart from being totally rural and having no shops or any form of a concrete jungle anywhere near us, I like it here. Its really beautiful and one of the most beautiful things about being here is actually getting up and seeing the sun rise! So instead of telling you how amazing they are or look, here are some of the most amazing photos I think I have ever taken! Enjoy....

If your thinking I have done anything to change the image like photoshop.... the answer is no - I just put my camera on 'foliage' setting and that is how the picture was taken! Amazing are'nt they!?

Snow in the deep south

Ok so being in this new beautiful house, only an hour from either west or east coast of the country is great, but I have to say - I have never seen so much snow in my whole life! To date (September) we have had (so far) 4 dumpings of snow and more due to come this weekend (according to the news weather!).

We are definately starting to be able to predict if the weather is going to 'hit' us or go around us and miss us entirely! We are quite a distance from the coast so we actually end up with a lot of sun rays (believe it or not) when the coast (like my brother and family in Riverton who are right next to the coast are getting hail and big rain falls)

We thought this wee snow fall was pretty decent .....

Until we saw this the next morning!

So the kids (big and small) decided to go and play!

and although its a pretty sad looking snowman.... we did it!

We have enjoyed the snow at this year but to be honest we are a bit over it now! Bring on summer I say!

The 'new' farm.

So we had our second beautiful baby boy (Benjamin Roy Knight) in February and my mother and Graham came over from Aussie for 5 weeks to help us (which was fantastic).... with the help of a good friend Ang for the best part of a week (which was also fantastic.... but then we had to move house at the end of May. Not only did we move house but we moved to the center of the end of the South Island to a place called Opio. This is 7k's out of Nightcaps and about 30k's from Winton and approximately 45 mins to an hour from Invercargill (depending on how fast you drive!).

To move it took a 32 cubic meter Truck, a 4 wheel drive truck with a trailer and 3 cars.... as well as a whole day to get to the new place and unpack. It was a real mission! I think next time I will hire removal guys to do the job for us!

This is us unloading the 32 cubic meter truck at the new house. So lucky the weather was good!

Flynn and Nathan on Nathans new farm bike ready for some farm work!

One of the first sunrises at the new house! Amazing views for sunrises, just another "pro" for the new place!

The lounge from one end to another with no furniture in yet... its very spacious! (loving it!).

Hopefully this gives you an idea of what our new place is like! We love it and we love living here too! Its very rural but it works and we couldn't be happier.

Nathan is especially happy that there is a golf course 7k's down the road - Loads of pro's here to consider.... there are a couple of things I still miss though, like friends and family and then of course there is the shopping, but all in all its great here!