July 2017

Its winter and right now its raining just lightly. I feel like we've done so much and then hardly anything at all...

 We've had some pretty heavy rain over the last few months and our little town has been really flooded. Our road went under water in 3 places and the new subdivision behind us had most of their new road washed out causing my poor little car some big issues in even getting home.

 We had a bit of a family maintenance work on the deck...we did really well for a while then we lost the kids then Dave was doing it by himself in the end while I moved onto another job.

 We had cyclone Cook come through for a few days. I lost the kids there for an hour or so and found them in the garden totally muddy and having soooo much fun.

My best mate from school finally got married in April. It was a big thing for everyone over Easter. Dave and I flew to Queenstown to stay at Blanket Bay...OH my goodness just soooo beautiful. I really missed my tramping boots and pack.

Circus school has been amazing for the kids. Here we are at the park. DD11 is now old enough to move onto the bigger kids group but she's hanging back to wait for some friends to move on next year. DS8 is enjoying being with the bigger kids as normal.
We've been looking on Youtube to inspire some more practice.

Our new property is AMAZING we are totally in love it it. Dave is working really hard on a little cabin. Its truly tiny living and we're going to do it.

My Dad has been helping Dave get some big pines down...we're worried if they get too much bigger we'll not be able to get them down ourselves and then the cost eeek. Both guys worked really hard and we've only got 3-4 left to get down now...one of the biggest ones but phew. Dad climbs up and ties a rope to the top of the tree then Dave cuts while Dad pulls...everything ended up where we wanted but it was pretty scary.

While these 2 cleared pine trees I cleared the walking track which was such an amazing experience for me. I had so much energy and I felt really comfortable working alone in the bush.