Mt Taranaki's Majesty

I am sure Jessie will blog or write in more detail but I will stick to the photos. How awesome is this?!? We wake up to this and the mountain is just so beautiful. 

We have had a week here and Jessie has slowly turned the house into her home - she is so good at it (like she could do it professionally). 

Here is just a few photos. As you can see the school is across the road. Obviously as most photos, they don't capture the real essence of it. More to follow... Enjoy!

Happy Easter!

What a great Easter we had. Credit needs to go to Jessie for organising and making it entertaining for the kids. Check out how massive this egg is. One of my students gave it to me (1kg!), choice aye.

As you can see the kids enjoyed it and we had to stop them from eating it all in one sitting. Gracie shared every egg with Joshie, which was quite surprising. 

But let us not forget the real reason for the season. I really like this video, I thought it was an excellent reminder... Well Enjoy!

Blast from the past! haha 

Love ya backyard Cricket?

If I was to think back to my childhood and in the realm sport there are a few thoughts that come to mind. Our 3 hole golf course in our backyard (yes it was big enough), our american gridiron games (especially the move cords), and backyard cricket. We loved it with a passion and were always out there playing games.

It looked like this

In the garden on the full was out. Over the fence was 6 and out. Kill mutts had the wickets painted on it. The two black circles were barrels that would freeze over in the winter.

I used this story to my benefit and went in a competition explaining what I wanted and why. And whaddayaknow who is getting a free cricket set? I was stoked as. You know what though every time you buy one from the warehouse or K-mart the wickets are as high as your knees, the ball is rubbish, and the bat will break in a day. Not this one though it's the real deal.

I just wanted to celebrate this and thought it was a good memory to remember. 

Plus with all these Journal posts about Dad I thought it was only fit that I continue in my own journal records.

4 Years in the making

Well... as explained in the title we have been trying to win this comp for years. We had made every semi previous only to loose. And like most sport it still haunts me to this day. But yesterday was our moment in the sun. We had been playing mean as touch footy. In the last 4 weeks no-one scored more than 2 tries against us. Our intensity went up a gear and our minds became strong. We versed all our rivals in a final series a won last night 6 -2. 

 The boys

 As you can see 'Noah' is off the Ark and refereeing our touch

 And makes another solid appearance here haha.

 My nickname was 'the razzle' as this guy is about it find out why.

 I was also know for making hard yards and pumping up the team that way.

It was a great night. We won our fees paid for next year and $150 of beer, which we quickly changed to a bar tab. We pretty much brought all there non alcoholic beverages and chips and were mad lapping it up. Even game some lemon, line and bitters and chips to the referees. 

Sweet, a moment in time!!!

The 'Wright' Incredibles

As you can see it was dress up time in the Wright house hold. There was controversy in what to where as each organisation had a theme. For example RS = skittle colours, EQ = Where's Wally, Primary = Disney. I thought I came under primary as that was my calling at the time. It was quite cool how we decided to go all out and it all came from google "blonde disney characters'. You guessed it Dash appeared and that when the excitement began. I need to say thanks heaps to mum she brought me the red pants and motivated me to go hard or go home haha. It was a church activity and the real star was Joshie. I thought he pulled it off brilliantly. As you can see it didn't take long for him to rub it off. Gracie was also super cute being tinkerbell. Jessie through her creative flair designed the logos in no time and off we went. Just another day in the Wrightee Bunch...