Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday we had the Easter egg hunt out at the farm, following by a great lunch in the garden.

Easter

Painting, and working, in the garden at easter. Mum and Dad (and Georgia) did a great job sorting out the garden.

Sailing with Fran and Stewart

When Fran and Poppa Stewart were up for Easter, we took a day out on the boat. It was a beautiful sailing day, with a nice 10-15kt breeze that picked up in the afternoon. Between them, Fran and Stewart did most of the sailing.

Waiheke

Swimming off the back of Finvarra at Waiheke:





Packing...


Unpacking...

Kawau Island

We went away for the first big trip on Finvarra - to Kawau Island. We met up with Hideaway (Murray's boat) and Latitude (George and Hayden's boat). Everything went well, Georgia loved it - especially as there were other toddlers she could run around with - and we had a great few days milling around bon accord harbour, swimming, diving, BBQing, eating scallops, etc.



Hayden, Hayley, Georgia and Andy:



Georgia wanted to swim off the back of the boat. She did pretty well considering the water is much colder than the swimming pool.





On Saturday morning a pod of orca - a mother and 4-5 babies - came into the harbour.





The Soren Larsen anchored near us one night:

Christmas 2009

We had a great Christmas day at the farm. A hot sunny day, with lunch outside under a tree. The kids had a ball.

To the manor born

On Tuesday we bought a boat.

On Wednesday we bought a house (see here).

On Thursday I had to have a wee lie down.

Finvarra

Yahoo! Papa bought a boat! A 2001 Beneteau 331 named Finvarra.

I'll post some decent photos when I get round to taking them...

Christmas is coming

Now we are three

Georgia turned three on 1 December, and we had the whole Auckland community around for a party. Here's a few shots. The stunning cake was made by Emma and decorated by (ahem!) Tony (or should that be Toni). Great effort team!