Sarah looks very pleased with herself here. Dan the wonderhorse must have been a good boy! This is down at the local horse hangout.
Below, Jack takes a ride on Dan. They’re both groovers!
My clever lad can now read this book from cover to cover – pretty awesome eh! Have to get him groomed for the office soon!
I took a day off work and took the family to Lake Tekapo for a cruisy day. Lovely weather, and was just nice to hang out. We went to the salmon farm as well, fed the fish and bought some for friends. A lovely day!
We had a lovely surprise with Sarah’s Mum, Uncle Gary and Auntie Judy dropping in with their bus. They just decided to drive down to Christchurch to surprise us! Awesome.
They stayed for a few days and Jackson loved having them here…
One day, before dinner we decided to take the Jet Kayaks down to the Waimakariri Gorge to have a play. Here’s some Photos:
That’s Uncle Gary and us just getting ready…
Taking Jackson for a ride around the river…
The beautiful Sarah and charming Jackson take a moment to smile for the camera!
Sarah’s mum Shirley just relaxing in the sun!
Sarah with Dan (the man) feeling very proud of themselves after cleaning up at the Methven A&P show. They won all these ribbons!
Apparently Dan gets really excited when he’s in the ring waiting for a ribbon – he loves all the attention!
The Stones and the Vivians took off today to Lytleton for a wakeboard session and picnic on the beach. We were in a nice bay behind Quail Island. 18 degree water – nice and warm! We all did a bit a wakeboarding and got in some good jumps!
Here’s some highlights from the day…
* Julian forgot the clamps were on the boat when launching (so was stuck on the trailer)
* Rose got up on the wakeboard for the first time! Did great!
* Ella and Jackson had a cuddle
* Sarah busted the traler light on a rock
* Ben did some supreme jumps
* Julian tried a 360 jump which I spectacularly failed (got to 270)
* Jackson held his first crab!
* Grace was just cute as normal
* Good bit of chop coming back to the ramp
Jack just hanging in the sand!
The kids enjoying the day! They were all very well behaved and had heaps of fun.
Sarah, Ben and Rose chilling! We all work hard so it’s nice to take time to just relax once in a while.
Jackson stealing a kiss from Ella!
We were woken up this morning at 6:30am by a Christmas call from Sarah’s sister Jess. It was great to hear from her. Seeing as we were up, we went and woke up Jackson. He was excited when we gave him a Christmas bag filled with pressies!
All of us sat on the bed and opened them! I think he was overwhelmed!
Here’s the tree with a big pile of pressies under it. Christmas is fun when you have a kid!
Jack checking out the boat Dad built him in the workshop. The trailer attaches to his trike so he can tow it around.
Mum and son hanging out. Jack’s sitting on mum’s new sunlounger. Hopefully we’ll get some sun so she can relax!
Jackson’s backside… 
Another bath toy – yup! it’s the famous BP inflatable boat!
Sarah has been saying that she wants to try some Dressage to music, so I built her a 4WD paddock stereo. This is super rugged, but will be able to blast so loud that both her and the horse will hear it down the paddock. I think Sarah wants to get the horse dancing to trendy modern music 
Mum turned on some cool music whilst at the house and Jackson decided to have a groove!
Want a pressie anyone?
Even a horse (Luke) got in on the act!
After feeding horses their ‘Reindeer Nuts’ this is Jack wandering back to the house with Pooh under his arm for a Gingerbread boat (Yes, I built a boat shaped biscuit cutter!)
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