School Holidays

I'm not sure where this year has gone, and it's hard to believe that it's already the middle of October.  We've all had a really good year at school and Jay is working pretty much full time.  Harri has had a busy year at school being Vice Junior House Captain for Allen house, playing lots of sport and going on a Grade 8 trip to Melbourne. 

Harri has played footy for Thursday afternoon sport this year.  He has been so excited to be able to play at Kings Meadows High on Aaron's memorial oval.  Whenever he has played there they have been lovely in letting him be the captain for the day, and his teacher took a photo of the whole team there.   Aaron would absolutely love it. 

Harri has just started to do Parkrun again and is keen to improve his time. He gets frustrated with his knee which is often sore, because he's grown so fast.  Hopefully it'll continue to settle down with the stretches he is doing for it. 

I've had a good year at school so far.  It's exhausting working full time, but I'm very grateful to have full time work and to have a job which I absolutely love. The start of the year was pretty quiet, but last term we had a lot of 'new arrivals' come and it has become very busy over the last month or so.    My colleagues and I had fun dressing up for Book Week as Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma and the wolf.  We've also had Footy Colours Day and Wacky Wednesday in the last term. The kids love it when we get dressed up.  

 Harri and Kobe loved playing club basketball again this year.  Kobe's team were a very young team in U12s (Kobe is only 10 so they played against kids who were second year in that age group) and they didn't win many games, but they improved a lot and Kobe loved it.

Harri's team didn't make the finals but they had a pretty good year.  Harri struggled at the beginning of the season as it was his first year in U16s and he didn't have a lot of confidence, but he soon found it again and improved so much as the season went on.  So much so, that he won the award for Most Valuable Player on his team again this year.

We were all very tired at the end of term 3 and were really looking forward to school holidays.  We headed out to Mum's the first weekend to watch the AFL grand final, but Jay had to work so he stayed in town. 

 We watched the second half of the game at my cousin Toni's house, and at half time everyone played 'knock out' on their new basketball court.  It was lots of fun.

Working full time means it is impossible to fit in certain appointments like the dentist for the boys, so our first week we caught up with things that we never have time to do.

It was lovely to catch up with my friend Rachelle who grew up in Tassie, but now lives in Melbourne with her family. 

 My sister in law Becky brought the kids up for a week, so we went back out to Mums and caught up with them and my brother Eden and his family. 

One day we went with my sisters in law and the cousins to Bakers Beach.  Ezra was so cute and hung out with Harri all day and chatted away to him.

 It was such a beautiful day.

 Someone had built a little shelter before we arrived and the kids had a great time adding to it.

 There's always so many kangaroos there.

 Kobe was really excited to spend some time with his cousin Eamon.

 We loved staying at Mums and had some lovely walks down to the jetty near her house.

Jay had a day off work, so it meant we all got to go back out to my Mums for tea one night, while my brother Jared was up visiting.  It was so lovely to spend some time with Bridey who is now 6 months old.

 The kids had fun toasting marshmallows.

 Our last week of holidays have been spent catching up with friends for lunch and walks.

These holidays have been so nice as we've had some lovely weather, and it's been a good mix of catching up with family and friends and also having time to relax before school goes back next week.