Christmas eve we made the most of the sunny weather knowing the next day was supposed to rain...
Celia doing her bit on the mower... before we took Matt back to his boy scout days and cooked our tea round a campfire in the paddock...with some lovely bottles of local wine they had picked up during their visits to the vineyards earlier....
Christmas day, the boys were up at a civilised 6.30am...and were rather amazed that Santa managed to fit such a huge trampoline into his santa sack...Dad and Uncle Matt were rather suprised at the size of it too as they were putting it up in the garage the night before...it just kept getting bigger and bigger....took all four of us to cart it round to the garden and heave it over the fence lol! For now it has pride of place in the middle of the lawn....hmm not exactly what I had in mind as a feature in the garden but will put up with it over the holidays and then maybe shift it into the paddock! Saying that everybody has been enjoying bouncing around on it...even the grown ups!Some other pressies that were hits...Samuels fire engine....even comes to to the dinner table with him!!
and lots of games...always a favourite in our house...Aunty Celia teaches Patrick and Joseph how to play battleships..
Boxing day we headed for the beach at Matauri bay, the boys tested their boogie boards and I tested me new swimmers and went for a dip (sorry pics were banned rofl!!)...and it was fantastic...the water was warm but the wind was a bit fresh!! The plan was to walk up the hill to the Rainbow warrior monument but the track was closed for repairs so we headed back in to Keri Keri and walked the path to Rainbow Falls instead....
Ok I'm not quite sure how I managed to get them all looking at the camera at the same time without someone pulling a weird or funny face...but I did!! Yayyyy!! One for the scrapbook!
and into the new Year we go.......
5 comments:
Sounds like a lovely relaxed family Christmas!! The pics are great, especially the one of all your boys!
Yep, would have to agree that to go with the flow is the best - not worth getting stressed. Glad you had a great relaxing day and got some fabulous pictures.
Happy Holidays Darges!!!!
Love the waterfall pic with all testosterone.
Better go - someones needs me to be Jack Sparrow and play pirate ships. Am getting a litlle tierd of being shot by cannon balls.
Just having a giggle at how much Celia looks like Jim (on the mower). We looked at the pics before we read the blog and had to go back for another look.
Mr Bum Bum is living up to his name as usual.
Santa did the BIG trampoline thing at our place too. He totally underestimated its size so its sitting in the driveway - thank goodness he gave the boys a safety net otherwise we'd probably see chunks of boys flesh on the tarmac.
Fun Christmas at your house!
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