Visitors: The Ueki Family

A couple from our ward in Mississippi came and visited for a week.  Sabrina and I went to the botanical gardens with them, and visited Old St Paul's.  Both activities were enjoyable.  It was also great to have people here to play games with in the evenings.

 Tulips at the Botanical Gardens, Sabrina with the ducks, and Sabrina on the seat of an old cable car at the Cable Car Museum.

 Old St. Paul Cathedral

Athletics Day

Zachary, Eric, and Wendy had fun at their Athletics Day.  They each participated in long jump, high jump, sprints and the throwing events.  Sabrina and I had a fun time trying to get everywhere on the field to see 3 children participating in different events simultaneously.

Below are videos of Eric finishing a sprint, he is in the middle blue shirt, Wendy's first attempt at the high jump, and Zachary doing a massive jump at the long jump pit.  Enjoy!

 

Staglands

On Labor Day, October 24th, we visited Staglands Wildlife Reserve.  It was a fun outing.  The drive there was a bit twisty, but we made it.

We all got a good chuckle at how this pig ate the food we had.

Halloween

Halloween is a much more subtle holiday in New Zealand.  We did attend a trunk-or-treat at the Wellington Chapel the Saturday before.  The 4 younger kids dressed up for Halloween on Monday and enjoyed going to a few houses.  Sabrina could not decide what costume she wanted so she was numerous things before we finally got out the door, here she is a princess.  Hyrum was a box troll/robot at the trunk-or-treat, but just like Sabrina got fickle on Halloween and ended up a King.  Eric was always going to be a Ninja and Wendy was a princess although she wore different princess outfits.

Halloween night outside our spooky house and then outside one of the best decorated in the neighborhood.