Well its now spring in sunny Omokoroa, the sun is shining and that summer feeling is with us. The barbie is back on regularly and we are enjoying the longer days. We had a bbq at a friends house a last weekend and chilled out whilst our 3 and their 2 boys had a water fight with the water guns.

We have been seeing lots of Parakeets in the garden recently

Jess being a bird lover made sure we caught it on camera.

So just to annoy Jess we caught her on camera too!!

Not sure if I have already posted that one or not!

The boys have been on a visit to another school to play the marimbas (think that is how you spell it!)

They loved it and play really well, somthing to do with hitting things as hard as possible with a big stick that makes it so much fun. The school was a lovely little school which has year 1 to year 8 with a roll of 86 - how small is that.

Here they both are playing away. Yes they do look miserable but they did enjoy it honestly!
We have athletics for the boys next week where they all compete against all the other local schools and then Jess does the same the week after, so we should have some action shots for the next blog.

Then its all go for the weeks leading up to christmas at school. It will be a busy time for them with all the christmas activities, summer sports and the finish of this school year. Jess will move into year 3 and Sam and Joe into year 7 in January. Jess will have an new teacher who is apparently very bossy so we will look forward to that battle of wills!! The boys will probably stay with the same teacher as he teaches year 6 and 7, there is only small numbers of kids at the school so most classes have pupils from 2 years in.

Martin has 3 weeks off at christmas so we can do some chilling out with hopefully some good walks and nice coffees. The kids finish on the 18th Dec and then go back at the beginning of Feb, very carefully timed with my parents visit, who arrive the week after the terrors are back at school. They will probably find me rocking in a straight jacket somewhere by then!

The photos I have posted on here today with the views of Omokoroa have been taking by a lovely friend Stephanie who is a professional photographer and has been out and about capturing Omokoroa in the spring.

The photos she has taken are amazing, hope she doesnt charge me for using them on our blog!
Will report again soon
love to you allxxx