Fathers Day...

So last week seemed to fly in! It is only 1 week and a bit until Reuben and Katie go to New York. Its very exciting!

This weekend was the Regatta Day at the sailing club. Rick was entered into the GP14 race as crew member with stephen. I think he quite enjoyed himself although he was pushed hard, only falling in twice!! Afterwards we all went to the boat club for a BBQ and Reuben made a friend!

His name was Sam and he was born on 11th January (2 weeks before Reuben and Katie's birthday). Sam was visiting from Canada.

Sunday was fathers day. Lindsay had got his pressies on Friday night so Sunday we headed up to Ballymena. There we celebrated with 3 generations of fathers. It was a good day. Here are wee pics of the fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers in our house!





Monday Reuben and Katie went back up to Carrick and spent the day with granny lilian and grannie Winnie. There were guys over from Macedonia and we had fun talking to them. Monday night rick and Lindsay went and played golf with carrick baptist men (in the rain!). I don't think rick had a good game.

Now we are pretty much up to date. Wonder what this week has in store for us?

Getting over the cold

I am afraid there hasn't been much news in teh Allen household lately because we have all had variations of the cold. Reuben has a teething cold, katie just has the usual cold and Rick has a sore throat plus sore gums (wisdom teeth) so we haven't been much fun.

On Thursday night Rick and I went to see Casting Crowns. It was an excellent concert although we got the impression they had never really played in a concert environment before...less talking more songs would have been perfect but it was still very enjoyable!

On Friday Lindsay and Lilian came over and helped us to clear the garden for stage 2 of the "garden project". Basically we are extending the decking and grass area and creating a peaceful rockery type thing down the stupid bit of garden at the very back. Rick and Lindsay had lots of fun burning stuff!


Lindsay even decided to play dress up!!!


Saturday was spent relaxing around the house and enjoying the good weather while Sunday Rick was sailing so the three of us spent the day at the boat club...totally beautiful and would have been relaxing if Reuben hadn't been too warm (and so screamed the place down!).
Unfortunately the good weather has come to an end...but I hope it will return soon!


By the way rick and I watched a great movie this week...Bobby. It is about Robert Kennedy. Was a bit slow to start with but got really good. Worth a watch!