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Family time in February

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Some of our adventures in February....

For one Family Home Evening we went for a walk about the streets of the complex. It is gated and we feel very safe. Dallas takes the kids out for walks on the golf course to collect stray balls. I don't think he'll need to buy golf balls again for a while!

One night when they got back Dallas made fruit smoothies for everyone. I lost track of what went into them and the kids had great fun throwing fruit in.

Megan, Dallas and Reid Make Smoothies

One of our favourite pastimes at the new house is riding bikes. The streets are flat and we are in a cul-de-sac, so they can ride just around the bottom of our street. Megan has had her training wheels removed, which she was not very impressed with at first but is doing a great job now, considering she has hardly ridden at all before now. Reid had one of those little Fisher Price toddler bikes and after watching his little legs pedalling so fast just to keep up, we got him a new "big boy" bike. He absolutely loves it. Unfortunately he doesn't love it enough that if I threaten to take it away as punishment it makes any difference. There is not much that he cares about enough to use as punishment.



We have also discovered a local restaurant called the Windaroo Tavern. It has a great salad bar, a huge kids playground, and a games room for the kids. Before we left they had a go on the racing game in there. Reid spent most of the night "playing" it but discovered at the end what happens when you actually put money in it :)



We are really enjoying our new house and new neighbourhood!

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  1. The Houston FamilyMarch 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    How did it take me a month to figure out that you have a blog?! Glad you have joined the world of blogging. I like it much better than facebook.

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