finally have furniture

Hi All

Things are ticking along nicley. We have our furniture now hooray!!! 118 boxes which arrived last week. The house is looking more like a home which is great. Freya's room is good and she loves having her toys and pictures around. Sarah has been busy unpacking boxes and sorting stuff out while i toil away earning a buck or 2. I have started a maori course on a monday evening. This will be useful at school and improve my pronounciation of place names. I am also playing twilight hockey on a tuesday night which is fun. Sarah is now on the pre school commitee and has been doing some supply teaching at the high school which is cool. Freya had her 4th Birthday and loved her party. Sarah worked really hard organising it all and it was great.We hired the swimming pool and had the party there. Freya's friends loved it and Freya loved it . Thank you for all her presents she had a great time opening them all and playing with all her new toys and books and dvds and wearing her new clothes. I made it to the party just in time after being on a 2 day canoe trip with the yr11s from school. I had a good time canoeing down the Whanganui river and camping in the bush overnight. We have also bought a ski chalet in a place called Ohakune you can see Sarah in the photo. Its pretty flash and should bring us in a couple of dollers. Speak to you all soon.

Hi Everyone

We are now settling in to normal work life. Things are going well at the High School and Freya is enjoying pre school and making friends. Sarah has had a bit of supply work and now has a comfortable chair to sit on (our furniture has not arrieved yet so we are still camping out in the house) . Some friends have lent us an arm chair. We have been out and about still at weekends and Gareth has competed as part of a team in the local multisports event the Kururu Krusher. He did the running leg 10 miles it was a good weekend. This weekend we went to the Kiwiana festival in Otrahango which was good fun. Today sunday4/3 we went to childrens day with lots of activities for kids like swimming face painting slip and slide and bouncy castles aswell as story reading and apple bobbing, all good fun.