Well, today is the big day! We’re off to the lawyers to sign the final docs to make our house sale and purchase unconditional! A little scary but they that “What doesn’t kill you only makes your stronger”!
So it’s a new chapter for the Stones! Watch this space!
We had a great Easter! Grandad visited us and Jackson has discovered the marvels of chocolate!
We had a lovely surprise with Sarah’s Mum, Uncle Gary and Auntie Judy dropping in with their bus. They just decided to drive down to Christchurch to surprise us! Awesome.
They stayed for a few days and Jackson loved having them here…
One day, before dinner we decided to take the Jet Kayaks down to the Waimakariri Gorge to have a play. Here’s some Photos:
That’s Uncle Gary and us just getting ready…
Taking Jackson for a ride around the river…
The beautiful Sarah and charming Jackson take a moment to smile for the camera!
Sarah’s mum Shirley just relaxing in the sun!
I took the day off today and took my Dad out to Akaroa for a day boating and fishing. Nice and calm and no wind at all. We caught a few cod and a pile of dogfish, but have a nice relaxing day!
Liz popped over with Molly to say hi. Jack made sure he got a ride.
The Stones and the Vivians took off today to Lytleton for a wakeboard session and picnic on the beach. We were in a nice bay behind Quail Island. 18 degree water – nice and warm! We all did a bit a wakeboarding and got in some good jumps!
Here’s some highlights from the day…
* Julian forgot the clamps were on the boat when launching (so was stuck on the trailer)
* Rose got up on the wakeboard for the first time! Did great!
* Ella and Jackson had a cuddle
* Sarah busted the traler light on a rock
* Ben did some supreme jumps
* Julian tried a 360 jump which I spectacularly failed (got to 270)
* Jackson held his first crab!
* Grace was just cute as normal
* Good bit of chop coming back to the ramp
Jack just hanging in the sand!
The kids enjoying the day! They were all very well behaved and had heaps of fun.
Sarah, Ben and Rose chilling! We all work hard so it’s nice to take time to just relax once in a while.
Jackson stealing a kiss from Ella!
We were woken up this morning at 6:30am by a Christmas call from Sarah’s sister Jess. It was great to hear from her. Seeing as we were up, we went and woke up Jackson. He was excited when we gave him a Christmas bag filled with pressies!
All of us sat on the bed and opened them! I think he was overwhelmed!
Here’s the tree with a big pile of pressies under it. Christmas is fun when you have a kid!
Jack checking out the boat Dad built him in the workshop. The trailer attaches to his trike so he can tow it around.
Mum and son hanging out. Jack’s sitting on mum’s new sunlounger. Hopefully we’ll get some sun so she can relax!
Jackson’s backside… 🙂
Another bath toy – yup! it’s the famous BP inflatable boat!
Sarah has been saying that she wants to try some Dressage to music, so I built her a 4WD paddock stereo. This is super rugged, but will be able to blast so loud that both her and the horse will hear it down the paddock. I think Sarah wants to get the horse dancing to trendy modern music 😉
Mum turned on some cool music whilst at the house and Jackson decided to have a groove!
Want a pressie anyone?
Even a horse (Luke) got in on the act!
After feeding horses their ‘Reindeer Nuts’ this is Jack wandering back to the house with Pooh under his arm for a Gingerbread boat (Yes, I built a boat shaped biscuit cutter!)
The crew came over today to celebrate Jackson’s second birthday! Plenty of sugar for all the kids meant that they all had a good time! Jack had a few meltdowns but he got through it! The people that visited were: Liz & Ferg, Jess & Pete (with Tim and Sam), Ben & Rose (with Ella and Grace) and Lesley… 
We had mum’s memorial today for all the Christchurch friends and family. Was a great event and good to catch up…
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