The last few weeks...

A few photos to catch you up on what we've been doing lately.

We've done a few more geocaches and seen some lovely sights like this pair of swans.

AFL season is drawing to a close - 3 more games to go.

Billy has started Scouts officially - here they were making a very wonky tables with knots.

He was invested into his Scout group - now I have to sew his badges on his shirt!

My writer's conference is coming up very quickly for me - in mid-August. It's in Western Australia, so we're making it a family holiday and hiring a motorhome for a couple of weeks afterwards. We've made our itinerary - it'll be a busy holiday but we're looking forward to it.

That time of year again..

Time for footy training to start back...

AFL Presentation Day

Another year of AFL is over for Billy and his club.  The club did quite well this year - they've only been going for 5 years and the Under-12s made it to the Grand Final.

Yesterday was the club's Presentation Day - a final chance to get together, play footy, have fun and eat :)  Thanks to all the coaches and volunteers who did such a great job all season.

Billy with his Under-10s team-mates.

Getting his trophy from his coach

They have a great idea with the plaques - rather than a plastic trophy to clutter up the shelves every year, they have one trophy that the kids keep throughout their time at the club.  Every year they engrave it with their team and year - this is Billy's 4th year at the club (3 years of Auskick and 1 year of Under-10s).

AFL in the mud

Why is it when the ground is muddy, boys will find any reason to roll in it, slide in it and generally get themselves dirty?!

The field where they were playing the actual game was muddy enough, but they decided to run around in the really muddy bits while warming up - they were filthy before the game even began!

 

Exhausted & muddy, after the game.