Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Up the block...


I'm about a month behind on my blog so I'm playing a little catch up.  I also lost this whole post once so it's now a much more abbreviated version.

21st June: A beautiful winters afternoon at my most favourite place with my favourite people!




Ethan and I decided to walk around the fence line and using Strava find out how long it was.  We started just outside the house paddock...


and headed to the top left corner...


and then made our way down the fence to the bottom left corner...


past the dam...

then we trekked along the front fence...


to the bottom right corner...


where we have our stockyards (in some need of repair).


 Next, we began making our way up the hill to the top right corner.


 We made it!


To finish off we walked back down to the other corner of the house paddock and we were done.  1.7km in total! 


I love watching the boys run around in all of this space...

In more recent news we have added 8 new mooies to our farm!  We haven't had anything on there for ages so it's nice to have some animals again.  We will be keeping these ones to breed from when they're older.  


As for house developments Michael and his Dad have been busy straightening all of the walls and ceiling ready for plaster.  They have had the awful job of installing the insulation and although we know it will pay off in the long run it is not a fun product for them to work with.  




 So the next step is plaster and I'm so excited to see the transformation!

Monday, July 20, 2015

A much needed day out...

Exactly one month ago today I decided the boys and I needed a fun day out.  We had all been niggly and cranky at one another and in my opinion the only way to fix that is to go out and have some fun!

We loaded up in the car and headed off to Shepparton. 


Just getting in the car was enough to adjust everyone's attitude and lift spirits.  (Ethan's not sad in the photo above, he just has his head buried in a book).

We had driven not even 30 minutes when we saw a koala on the side of the road!  I wasn't able to take a picture, but it was the cutest thing.  The boys were beyond excited to see a Koala in "for real life" and it really made our day.  Although, it was around this time that we already started wishing Dad was with us.  I think over the course of the day it was said about 20 times that we wish Dad could be here.  (Of course, Dad was busy building up at the house).

First stop was lunch at Hungry Jacks...


The boys rarely eat this kind of food so it's always a bit of a treat for them (as you can tell by their faces!)


of course they scoff down their food just so they can get to the playground...

So fun seeing them have so much fun.  One of my most favourite parts of motherhood is seeing their faces light up like that!

Then we were off to Aquamoves!  We had the place basically to ourselves and for a $15.40 family swim price you don't get much better value than that!

I had suggested that Ethan and Jayden have one try of the waterslide just because we "try new things" and they both said that once was enough.  For all of about 30 seconds anyway until they decided to go down again and again and again.  I was rushed off my feet catching those boys at the bottom.  They were so brave and I was so proud of them.

Here's Jayden: 


Ethan: 


Dylan: 


and Louis:





Ethan also attempted his first swim without any floatation aids and feet off the ground...so proud of this guy who used to be so scared of the water!


We dried off and headed home pretty satisfied that we'd had an amazing, simple fun day out as a family!