Miscellaneous in May

Josie and friends dressing up for a dance.

Katie and her soccer team.

Dugald's birthday.

Cute kitty.

I was walking the hallways at school one afternoon and saw all the girls represented in various photos they had on the wall. I love this one of Ellie competing in cross country.

And this is Meggie rehearsing for the school production.

And this one had both Katie and her debate team and Josie in the school production.

Not the best photo of me but I love my workout buddies at Crossfit. This is the Karori carpool having an after session recovery coffee.

Mothers Day flowers - some pretty amidst the chaos at home.

Marsden hosted a new event this year called the World Scholar's Cup and I offered to help. I thought I'd be making tea and passing out biscuits but instead they had me adjudicating debates - thank goodness I did the junior division because I felt very unqualified. 

Katie participated and did so well - look at all those medals!!

House Happenings

I think this was when they were starting on the roof . . . 

Stripping the sunroom to make way for the kitchen.

Behind that curtain is my living room

Always lots of people here.

Open ceiling - and just before we found out we needed to replace the roof too.

Josie hiding from the builders

Steel beams - this is the one that was in the wrong place when we got home from Tablelands. It's fixed now, thankfully.

Definitely excited for new insulation - and love the new windows too because they are double glazed.

Skylight going here

See the hole in the ceiling near the skylight? One of the guys fell through - after they had put the ceiling back up too!

The cats on the edge of the moat in the front yard.

Karori Friends at Tablelands

We loved having some of our Karori friends join us at the farm for the last weekend of the school holidays before we were all back to reality! We also threw in a small celebration of Dugald's birthday. 

The kids minus Ellie

And the grown ups

Fun on the lawn despite the drizzle.

Another rousing game of "name in the hat".

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Birthday time!

Breakfast chefs