Happy Birthday Tiki!

Badmintoning with the cousins and G&G:

B'day jelly-roll cake:

Birthday weekend campout celebration...

Chris and Adrian attempt to keep up with my pure talent when it comes to metchosin-rules-bocci. Meanwhile fans Frankie, Eff and Amy watch on in awe...

Beachy Head

I don't think it was actually that cold:

See!

Soccering...

Assassin's Creeding (aka cousin corrupting):

More Failing

Today, during our easter egg hunt, I was laughing at all the silly conventional people who limit their hunting to the Spring.

Then kiddos opened their eggs on the trampoline and massive chocolate melting/ smearing/ disgustingness ensued.

 Aaaah... easter in July!

Pose Fail

Attempts at getting four cousins in one print-worthy photograph have, for the most part, failed:

More Photobombing

Ten Years On

We have lived almost exactly ten years in our house... which means it has been almost exactly ten years since we vacated the old "shed" and had ye olde single-wide trucked away to pastures green (literally):

This left our former dining/ living room in the state of a three-sided outbuilding currently operating as "that 70's house" ( a playroom for 1870's style olden days; and a pinball machine for that 1970's feel). But now - a mere ten years and one set of grandparents re-roofing project later - we finally have a fourth wall! Early days:

Hoopers: always photo-bombing everything!

Ta Da...

More photo-bombing...

Mainlanders arrive

Cousins are here for a few days of fun and utter mayhem...

Shine On

At Noah's (as Finn from Adventure Time) birthday...

Hooping n' hanging...

The real life Finn doing some firing:

Summer delight for Effie: peas!

Playing Munchkin...