What a beautiful first day of the year and how better to spend it with friends. Brooke and Briar get along so well with our children and they always have so much fun. They came up with some fun game today.
Cuddles with Dad on Thursday morning (2nd Jan). Brendon normally works these public holidays, so it has been wonderful having him home for 2 solid weeks.
He has such a great little helper.
Ruth's creative fun again at lunch time. Hannah just loves the surprise of it.
Friends over to play again today. I love the new games they come up with.
Eventually it was getting a bit wet out there (after 5pm already) but they just moved to the sheltered tree line and continued with another game.
Brendon was thankful for a clear sky on Friday (3rd Jan) so that he could get some sanding work done on the side of the deck. We can't take this paint off but are just roughing it up a bit so that we can paint over it to match the top.
The top looks so good.
It was a lovely dry day but boy was it windy. Brendon and Rachel ran out to put some extra tape on the canopy as it was starting to lift a bit.
The girls found a nice sheltered spot so that they could continue with their outdoor play - only Hannah putting a jacket on because of the wind.
Sunday 4th was the busy day with Asher and I ending up heading into town via Ambulance. You can read about all the details here.
Brendon got different ladies to help out with the children on Monday but there were some issues with the younger ones so he came home early and stayed home with them on Tuesday. I think it was such an adjustment to having had both of us home for 2 weeks to having neither. So a day adjusting to me not being there probably helped.
Brendon managed to organise Lila Love to come and help with the children for Wednesday and Thursday and that worked really well.
The children's new iPad mini arrived (thanks Nana for such a cool Christmas present) and as I had the iPad and the camera with me I suggested they get a few photos with the iPad mini.
Thanks Lila for helping out.
I had suggested the girls make sushi on Wednesday as the wooden bowl I had bought had also arrived. They look rather chuffed with the results. :-)
PS: The sushi photo reminded me to also make the note that Rachel and Dad even managed to keep my Kefir alive (the milk Kefir is that bottle in front of the bread machine) and Rachel made the daily Kefir smoothy for everyone too. What a blessing my big girls are.
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