Yesterday as I was hanging out the washing, Nathan asked if he could make his own little herb garden. So he set to work filling an annoying hole in the front garden. He lugged up a bag of compost from the lower garden, found some soil to mix into it, planted out some tiny herb seedlings I had on the go along with a few vegetable seedlings and a sunflower seed in the centre.

Meanwhile, Danielle was inside keeping herself busy with some lego.

The afternoon was spent with friends we haven't seen in about a year. Was cool to see the kids just pick up where they left off!

Today started out with no plans.

At 9.30am I decided to surprise the kids with a visit to the movies to see Where the Wild Things Are. A few scary bits for Danielle, but they otherwise they really enjoyed it.

After lunch a friend called to see if we wanted to go swimming, so after chucking some dinner into the oven to start on auto-timer we were off for the afternoon and got home in time for dinner (Simon had just arrived home from work before us and was pulling it out to serve up!).

We then headed out to a BBQ this evening that was at a farm and the kids had a ball. We started off doing a treasure hunt to get to see their property. The kids then raced off to play with other kids there as we caught up with old friends and met new ones.

Horses seem to appear in our lives quite a lot! The cheeky wee calf then grabbed the piece of paper on the ground (our next clue!), so Simon had to retrieve that from him.