I have been

reading some of my old blog posts while I was searching for some information. It made me realise just how much I use this as a diary and so much of the stuff I had forgotten. Really inspired me to start posting again. Who knows for how long, but we will see.

 First up a couple of pics to share with you. We went down to Piarere for a waterski tournament last weekend. Piarere is on Lake Karapiro just south of Cambridge. We had to take our tent down for onsite accommodation. We were a bit worried about the tent as the last time we had it up was 16years ago. When I got pregnant with Alistair we decided that camping with a baby was going to be too hard and made the step up to a caravan. The tent was great nick and even though we had lost the instructions on how to erect it the memory didn't fail me and we managed to get it up with not even one disagreement. I had forgotten just how much fun it is to go camping. The boys kept laughing at me because I was so excited to be boiling up water so I could wash and dry the dishes!

 This is the view from our tent, the big white thing in the water is the jump which is probably the most exciting event in waterskiing, except when my boys are jumping and then I turn all scardey cat and can't watch them. You have to excuse all the pics of me in my pjs, but Andy couldn't wait until I got dressed to take the pics.

Monday was a big day for us in that we celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary - can't believe how quickly that time has gone. We didn't make a big deal out of things or do anything special, mainly because we forgot what the day was. Better plan something for next year though.

I was so proud of Tommy on Monday. He had decided that he wanted to be a house leader at school. They had the voting on Monday and he couldn't wait to tell me that one friend got 3 votes, another got 4 votes and he got 55 votes and was elected the leader! Woohoo, way to go Tommy, so very proud of you. Very impressed too that even at number 3 in the family he can still do something that no-one else in our family has ever done before.