Well sorry we have not posted much on the blog as we have had a very busy couple of weeks. As you can see sam was not content with a broken arm and decided to put his hand in the way of his friend playing with an axe. He nearly ended up with 6 fingers on one hand as his little finger was sliced down the middle. After surgery everything should now be back as was , we just have to wait for the healing to happen. We now have several hospital appointments over the next few weeks to get him better. He has been warned not to leave our side but he is managing to still argue and fight with Joe.


Other news - The boys had their sports day ( joe only). They had the whole day competing with 4 other local schools. Joe did well and got to the final of the high jump - thats him actually doing his jump in the red tshirt. His lazy bum streak came out though in the running and quickly worked out that if he ran slow enough he would only have to run one race! Jess has her sports day tomorrow.

Last week was the annual family christmas festival in Omokoroa. It was a lovely day with loads for the kids to do .

Jess had her first ride on a horse and loved it. She now wants riding lessons so we are going to look at her joining the pony club. Only thing with that is they have to look after the horses completely. Mums is not helping with mucking out!!
We also had a ride around the village on the old fire engine which was fun. Sam managed to win at the football competition (yes with one arm). It was just kicking cans off of stands and scoring goals, no one else was involved so we let him have a go.

Today we are off to the Mount as its the big christmas festival there. The town is closed to cars and the streets are lined with xmas stalls and games for the kids with a big xmas parade. There is also a big 'flip flop' event or jandels as they are know here. $20 for charity gets you a giant blow up flip flop and at 12pm everyone is going out into the sea on them to try and make a giant flip flop in the sea. Think this will be an event we will just watch! You never know what sam could do to himself if we let him have a go!

Kids of got a lot going on at school over next few weeks and we have our first visitors so will keep the blog up to date.
Love to all
the millards xxx