The Wrights Go West

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas

Sorry for the vanishing act over the last three months, life has been busy and I didn't think I had much to blog about but Ben has told me to get back to it!!!! I'm back now so I'll just start with the current stuff.....

Stockings are hung in anticpaton of Santa!!

Thank you to everyone who sent cards, we really appreciate hearing from home, especially this time of year.

Our homemade garland

This years advent calendar, pinched from Lucy at Attic24

We went to Crafty Wonderland last week and the girls chose these cute reindeers for themselves.
( I really like them so may buy some more next year to creat a whole scene)

And last but not least our 8ft tree!!!

Max chose it and Ben dragged it home :) It's so perfect it almost looks artificial but we are all in love with it and think it's our best tree ever, would hate to think how much one of these would cost back home. I was slightly worried about the lack of decorations but the kids have made up for it with their homemade ones.

We have Nanny and Grandad staying with us for Chrismas so the kids are estatic and Grandad is happy now he's worked out how to download Emmerdale :) We've done the usual round of things, Christmas lights at the race track, rollerskating which I actually had a go at this time and Madeleine is becoming quite the skater (wonder what Santa is bringing her this year).

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

First day back at school.....

Everyone went back to school this morning and it went as well as expected!!!

Poor Olivia sobbed her heart out and couldn't be consoled at all so we had to leave her in the end, Madeleine was a little nervous but went in ok and Jonah of course was happy as Larry just to be back with his friends. Maxi starts back at his speech group this afternoon and then pre-k starts on Monday for him which I think he's looking forward too.

Tuesdays are going to be busy for me though as the girls have ballet after school and Jonah has soccer practice so we will be running around all over the place!!!!

Camping again......

We enjoyed our first camping trip to Bend so much that we had to go again, there is so much to see and do down there that we've hardly scratched the surface and we are already planning next years visit....

I especially enjoyed the Volcanoes and the lava flow, there would've been some spectacular views of all the mountains from the top of the Butte but there were forest fires everywhere.

White River Falls

The largest Ponderosa Pine Tree in Oregon

The Deschutes

Lava Cast Forest

Lava Tubes

Lava Butte

My sister....

My sister Gemma came to stay with us for five days and we all had a lovely time. It was quite lazy week cycling around and eating ice-cream and frozen yogurt, a first for Gem. We also headed down to the coast for a nights camping, unfortunately the weather was awful and we couldn't see a thing.......

Hopefully she'll come back again soon!!

Our second attempt at the BBQ as the first one went out!!!

Cape Lookout in the mist

Yay, we managed to get the tent up by ourselves....

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Dive in Movie

Last night Gem and I went to take the kids to open swim as the weather was so good but ended up watching Gomeo and Juliet in the pool. I wasn't keen to stay at first but Jonah was desperate and actually it turned out to be a good evening. However, I'm not sure health and safety back home would allow such a thing as you can imagine 100 kids in a pool in the dark!!!! They did have scuba divers checking and lots of life guards in the pool so we felt safe.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Slightly drier than Portland.....

We headed East this weekend to Tumalo State Park for a camping trip with friends. It's right on the Deschutes River and the kids had hours of fun floating up and down on inflatables, Jonah made a friend and the pair of them must've been in the water for 4 hours just swimming up and down. He was blue by the time he got out as the water is not that warm. We also stopped of at Smiths Rock State Park which was spectacular and we will be going back for another trip in a couple of weeks.