Saying all the days of the week and months of the year! What a legend he is!
Huge hail storm in Rolleston and we missed it!
Sarah, Jack and I were in town for a bit of shopping and while we were out, a huge hail storm hit Rolleston! 2-3cm hail – it smashed our Clearlight verandahs. Would have be awesome to watch!
Molly the wonderhorse!
Liz popped over with Molly to say hi. Jack made sure he got a ride.
Needed a new skipole for the boat.
So I took off to the Stainless Tube factory, got a 2M length and then paid a visit to a local engineer who helped me TIG weld it up!
Visit to Animates…
Animates in Tower Junction – Great place to take a kid as essentially it’s a free zoo!
Early Morning Wakeboarding!
We took off this morning at 7:30am through a cold southerly drizzle for a morning wakeboarding at Lake hood. It was Julian, Sarah, Jackson and Ben that went. Sarah’s first time, and she did really well! Here’ a vid of me playing around…
And here’s Ben having a blat!
The Stones and Vivian’s take to the water for the day! To nice to stay home!
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!
Our new pet Magpie!
We were in the paddock the other day and this friendly magpie came up to us. No idea where it came from, but it thinks I’m it’s Mum and keeps knocking at the door for food. It’s really tame and I’ve already taught it to be patted.
To hot to work! I’m off fishing!
I started back at work today. Got bored, looked at the lack of wind and decided to head out fishing. I called Graeme Evans (mate of my dads) and took off with him to Lake Coleridge for the day. It was about 30 degrees and the water was like glass. Plenty of fish in the lake but they weren’t very obliging! However, he caught this nice Salmon…
Oh! and this little one below. He went back though as he was too small.
This is the general condition of the lake…
Glas, glass, and more glass! We had a great day!
Christmas at the Stones!
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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