Missing my walks and rides with the kids

Over the holidays I managed to injure myself and needed stitches in the front of my shin.  Not the best spot as it is known to be one of the worst spots to heal... so here I am nearing two weeks after the accident... still with the stitches in and on my second round of antibiotics.... and getting bored of sitting down with my leg up while the rest of the family do things like skiing.

But one of the things I am also missing is walking our littlest to preschool...

And riding with the boys to pick up the littlest from daycare - especially now that the days are getting warmer and longer..

I neglected to mention that it is Ride to Work Day!  Hope you all got on your bikes... I wish I could have..

Finding a use for man made snow

Never thought I would say that it was good to have man made snow on the ski slopes.....  but for the last half of the week Dad and Grandma have been up with the kids playing on the last of the man made snow after the closing of the official ski season last week ... the man made snow was still over a metre deep, well groomed and made an excellent playing area for the kids that was close to the car.

I have injured my leg and are resting off the mountain much to my frustration...... snuck up to take some photos though and to take in the fresh spring alpine air...

Holiday treasure hunt

We have been away from the blog over the last week as we were attending a family wedding in Sydney.   The extended family booked accomodation on Cockatoo Island - with views of the harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge and all sorts of natural historty and other historical things to explore - we all had lots of fun on the island.

By the second day on the island the boys were asking for more activities to do and a treasure hunt was suggested...... so a treasure hunt list was created and the search began.

The list -

• orange leaf
• blue flower
• round small pebble
• feather
• long leaf
• round leaf
• seed pod
• Y shaped stick
• white flower
• smelly leaf
• purple and white leaf
• heart shaped leaf

Getting the treasure hunt list checked off first was our littlest - who had collected things with a little help from Grandma

Dad helped our youngest boy....

And our eldest got to do the treasure hunt all on his own...

It was lots of fun for all involved... including Dad and Grandma...

After we checked the lists off all items had to be returned to where they came from... that was almost as much fun as the initial treasure hunt...