The Stone Crew Blog

My girl came out to help dad with the gardening today. She was in charge of lawn mowing, but was too little to ride the mower so ate the grass instead.

She was a perfect angel! I also let her play with the BMX bike chain and she taste tested the tyres! Real country girl!

Ben gave me the opportunity to go out fishing at Tairua. When I turned up, it appeared he had taken the bottom off a wheelbarrow and put it on a trailer. We went for a blat around the estuary but due to the iddy biddy 12v trolling motor, we decided not to cross the bar. Was a total hoot! 

Here’s a few pics of the new office I’ve just setup in Auckland for our software co. Looking pretty swish!

Now how cute is this! What a little darling she is! I took Olivia down to see mum at the horse show. Livvie was happy to sit down on the grass and watch the world go by. She also had her first ice cream!

I took Nick Reekie and Jackson to Akaroa for a blat in the boat. No fish, but I was amazed to see there was still snow on the hills!

Sarah, Jack and I felt energetic so tackled the entrance garden today… Here’s the fruit of our efforts! We’ve just got to find two awesome plants to go in the planters and it’ll look great!

Jackson totally loves his sister…

My wonderful family!

Little miss cheeky – Olivia!

The Vivians. Great mates…

Jack, Ella and Grace…

Here’s Jack doing an awesome jump of the main walkway!

And this is my bike. Prob a bit old to be doing this but who cares, I’m having fun! Reliving my youth!

Here’s some photos from our holiday in Hanmer Springs. We went up there for a few days to have a break from CHCH. Had a great time! We were with Rich, Aimee and Nim Poole. They’re pretty cruisy guys to hang with and we managed to do a few fun things. Played in the snow, café’s, bike riding, walks, Indian food and movies.

My personal hilight was convincing Sarah to take a dip (in the snow) at the Hanmer Springs hot pools one night. We just soaked in 37 degree awesomeness until we turned into prunes.

Here’s Jack thinking about throwing a snowball at Rich!

Livvy in her snow suit looking like a cute pink blob!

The family climbing a wee bank… Jack slipped down soon after the photo was taken. He loved it though.

I took my boy for an adventure on his bmx and my bike down to the local river. There was a track beside the creek which was pretty muddy so we had a blast of a time. Wore him out nicely!

This is the view from the bach.

We had a pretty hairy drive back from Hanmer. The roads were fairly treacherous but we all got back ok. When we got back though, we were greeted with a totally white Christchurch and even our place was covered!

That’s Sarah’s car below under the white stuff!

To end off a great weekend Jack and I made snowmen… Cool eh!