Saturday Sports

 
 
 
Wow, did we have an excited Tommy this morning about to play his first game of rugby. We bought some boots for him during the week and since then we have the boots on, off, sprigs off and then on again, running up and down on the grass, cleaning the boots inside on the carpet in the lounge (he won't be doing that again) and even sleeping with them right next to his bed. He played pretty much the whole game today and was so excited when the team won by 6 tries to 5. I need to improve my rugby photo taking skills, I was too busy watching him having fun!

Nick played a great game of hockey too and even scored one of the 9 goals. A very good little team and I just love their uniform colours. Unfortunately Andy and Alistair were working in Hamilton again today so they missed seeing both boys play. They weren't too worried though because Nana came along and helped me cheer them on. Nick reckons Nana is his good luck charm now.

Headlines

I have recently changed my homepage to Stuff and when I logged on this morning I saw this headline "Girl calls for police help over messy room". How funny and what a great way to start my day. I wonder if that would encourage my boys to clean their rooms any more.

Ruth came round for coffee this morning, it was great to catch up and get the low down on what to do in Pukekohe. I have been trying to get the boys all into sports teams and Nick back into his guitar lessons. It is so hard trying to get into teams that are already full, but we have managed with Alistair and Nick who are both playing hockey.

Tommy had decided that he wanted to play rugby this year so we went last week for a weigh in. Tonight I rang the lady and found out what team he is in. Our Wednesdays are about to get very busy! Alistair finishes school at 2pm every Wednesday and we usually pick him up, then back in to get Nick at 3pm. Tommy will be practising at 5pm until 6.30. Nick starts his hockey practice at 7pm until 8.30. I guess we will eat in there somewhere!

Teacher Only Afternoon

 The primary and intermediate teachers had a stop work meeting one afternoon so I figured I would be a good mum and take the boys to the swimming pool so they had something interesting to do. I decided to take my camera with me and see what pics I could get. You can see how peeved Nick was with this idea. Tommy was just too excited to even notice the camera.

Later that afternoon I sat them down for a chat when I had finally had enough of the continual fighting that was going on. They were so grumpy with each other. Fortunately this didn't last too long especially when I pulled out the camera so I could get a pic of what a loving set of brothers they were. Huh, out of 35 pics I didn't get one decent one. Too bad, I will scrap the silly ones then :-)

Bernie & JP's Wedding

 We managed to get Mum and my sister to watch the boys overnight and run away up north for this wedding. So much fun to catch up with all our Lakes friends again after all that had been happening. We let our hair down big time, talked a whole lot, drank a whole lot, danced a whole lot and ate a whole lot. The next morning I was very much wishing that I hadn't imbibed quite so much in one of those things! We left the beautiful Hokianga Harbour and headed back to our house in Whangarei to do the lawns and have a catch up with Ruth. So nice to just be Andy and I with no children fighting in the back seat.

V8 Weekend

 Figured I would make a few posts just showing you what we have been up to since our shift to Pukekohe. The highlight of our first 2weeks was definitely the V8s being here. We trooped along on Friday for a real fun day with the kids and then again on Sunday. I got up all early and Andy dropped me at the track at 6.30 so we could be one of the first in and get a decent posse to view the racing. Got a great spot inside the track along the entry to pit lane. Certainly made for a much more enjoyable day having a really good view and our own little roped off area. Loved the pics of the kids on the fence especially the one of Jade and Georgia talking to each other.

Home Alone

Andy has taken the boys out to the boat show for the morning and left me at home - yay! I know I have been such a bad blogger - lots of reasons all of which are incredibly boring so I won't tell you any of them :-)

We are loving our new house and everyone has settled in really well at their new schools and jobs. Alistair and Nick have both signed up for hockey teams and both played their first games this last week - they both won so that was a good confidence boost for them. We took Tommy along for a weigh in at the local rugby club on Thursday and are just waiting to find out which team he will be in.