Life is like a playground!

Friday 7th Novembre the kids and I took the car and drove down to the kids grandparents in Bulls, and of course we had a stop in Whanganui at the big playground! Such a cool playground based on children storys. The big dinosaur slide from ”The Flintstone” was very popular! There is also a train going around in a forest with a big castel and pirat ship.

The main reson we went down to Bulls was Stellas birthday party, Stella is the kids second kusin, she turnd 5. The party was at Inflateble World, a place filled with different type of bounce castels, in Palmerston North. The kids loved it, acually went crazy.. they wanted to bounce on everything at the same time. Sacha was running around with Stella and the other kids, Lauchlan did his own thing so I stayed with him and grandma Marie had an eye on Sacha.

After 2 hours of bouncing, pizza and fizzy drinks it was time to go. The best thing with kids birthday partys, they start 11.00am so we had the whole afternon to do more things. We drove to Shannon, about 20 minutes from Palmerston North, to visit Owlcatraz, a Native bird park. We got a very intresting guided tour and got to pet a Weka and see Morepork owls in the dark. Then we walked up to the farm of Owlcatraz. Ther we saw a big Kune kune pig, donkeys, ostrich, alpackas and deer. All of this animals we got to pet if we wanted to. But the best thing, the kids thought was that they had a big blue Thomas train were we had a ride. Lauchlan loves Thomas!

On Sunday 9th we went to the A&P Show, Agricultural and Pastoral Show, something we all enjoyed a lot! Animals, tractors, shows, tivoli. They had everything even perfect weather! And of course airbrush tattoo! Sacha, Marie and me got one. So no my tattoo f New Zealand on my leg is a fake and starting to fade now. To bad because I kind of liked it. So one day it will be a real one!

 

Ashely and Ash bought a new horse truck, so instead of three horses they can now have six with them. Now they don't have to bring the truck and a horse float to a race! It’s a very nice truck! And it have everything you need. Now the right loggo is on the truck to!

Last week Diva one of our horses had her foal. A beautiful baby boy named Kahuna Bravo ME. Everything went good and now we have to colt foals at the farm. Kahuna Alpha ME is the one to the left and Kahuna Bravo ME is the one to the right. It's going to be so much fun to see them grow. We have Alphas full brother Moon and Bravos aunt Divo here at the farm and they are very nice horses!

Shantalle, the kids and I went to Taupo this weekend to pick up our new puppy Dennis. The smallest and cutest little puppy ever, his not bigger than a kitten. Lauchlan and Sacha loves him and so do I. Before I came here they had a dog called Frank, the same type as Dennis but he passed away. So they renamed Dennis to Frank or Frankie as I call him.   

Is it Fall or Spring? I'm confused..

Raining and more raining, this week it feels more like it is fall then spring here... It's colder again, windy and of course rain every day. But the kids seem to like it, there are many puddles to splash in. One was so deep that when Lauchlan jumped in it he fell over, many thanks to the creator of wet weather gear! We spend most of our days inside playing and baking. We made some gingerbread man yesterday with purple, pink and green frosting and Sacha have this board game with "My little pony's" called trouble (fia med knuff) that she loves to play, she is good, but also a good cheater...

We have many of the "feral" horses in training at the moment. They have all been out in the fields eating and just building muscles of their own walking the hilly fields. The ones we are working with right now is looking so much better now! What a change from this skinny horses without muscles to the horses they are now. Some of them have been ridden before, but we need to start all over with sadel and bridle training to gain their trust. I helped with one of the horses by sitting in the sadel while Ashely just walked around with the horse and me.

In school Sacha is training her writing and reading and she really likes it! the reading is still a little hard so we are working on that at home too. But she gives up a little to easy at home when she is trying to read after me.

Yesterday a very talented guy that make music instrument out of almost everything, and plays on them. He showed us some of them, everything from nose flute, snail shells and whales tooth to big instruments made of rocks and tree. All of them is native instruments and I wished that I could remember all of the Maori names, but I don't. But two of them was Pukaea, a wooden trumpet and Putatara a conch shell trumpet. We all got to make our own Putangitangi made out of clay. It's kind of the same instrument as the swedish "Lerduva". We also had to come up with a design to put on our Putangitangi and a story behind our design. I chose to design mine as the world, because I had to travel across the world to come here. It will be interesting to see on monday if I can play on it..!