Patio installation and family walks

Dear Matthew, Toby and Josie

In mid-February, the next stage of our backyard renos began with the installation of our new patio. As you can see from the below photos, this has provided a huge amount of shade cover for you guys to play under and for us parents to be protected while watching you in the pool (unfortunately not in the late afternoon due to the sun's positioning). We are so happy to see the picture in our heads coming into reality. Next step is installing soakwells and then paving. Beyond that we also need to get retic put in the front yard and will then lay lawn. After that we need to take a break with home stuff and rebuild our savings, especially because so far there's been ten interest rate rises since May last year, and everyone is in a bit of struggle town financially.

We have also been taking family walks/rides recently in the evenings, just to the end of the road and back. It's lovely to chat to neighbours along the way and get to know poeple in our street. Josie you have especially loved being in charge of Soda's lead, just like your big brothers did at your age. It's so cute to see you walking along together (although often it's Soda walking you rather than the other way around!). 

Love you all, 

Mum xxx