A busy month

Cuddles with brother, crazy hair day at school, cuddles with Aunty Jo, sucking oranges!

Speers Point park, is soooo much fun!

We all had fun recently at Ten-Pin Bowling.

Park fun and more

'Experts' think we dont let our kids play outside enough.  So these school holidays i have been taking the kids down to the local park for some fun.  We climb trees, play near the water, throw pebbles in the water, play on the slip n slide, the swing and climb all the equipment.  We also run around and have some fun.  That was until Rory found a near empty bottle of beer behind a tree and took a good swig of it! OMG.  All good, my heart stopped beating for a moment but he seems none worse for wear.  Im trying not to be a helicopter parent :)

Jakayla with wild hair and sound asleep.  Ever night Rory asks me to come back into his room and look after him.  I tell him i do go back in but he is always asleep.  He never believes me so i took a photo to prove it!  The little ponytail in his hair is cute, he didnt seem to mind!

I cleaned the courtyard on Saturday morning, it was bitterly cold but i rugged up and swept and cleaned and mopped.  It was a lovely sunny day, but very windy!

Daddy playing cups of tea with the kids, didnt take him long to swap the tea for beer though!

Bits and Bobs...

Rory usually loves shopping, today he wasnt too keen lol.   The last day of the term was Jakayla's sports school carnival.  Unfortunately it rained so most races were called off.  But look at those long legs run!

 

 

What more can I say, Jakayla and her boyfriend Tim.  He had a sleep over and they had a blast!

OK kids, this is a DETERRENT from drinking alcohol.  That night you slept at Nan and Pop's, well this is what Mummy got up to.  Very naughty Mummy. I paid dearly for it the next day, remember when Mummy stayed on the lounge ALL DAY LONG and Daddy had to pull the car over a couple of times so Mummy could oh so elegantly vomit in the grass.  Yeah this is that night. I had a ball with Lulu and Steve but gee not keen to repeat it all those red wines again anytime soon!

Visiting Uncle Steve at his new place.

School reunion

Yes its been 20 years since i was in high school... kill me now.  Where has time gone!!!!  It was a fun night, pity more people didnt turn up but i know a few are living overseas (lucky them!!) and some couldnt make it for personal reasons.  Here are some photos of last night...

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Walking with Dinosaurs!

This morning we saw the spectacular that is Walking with Dinosaurs!  Jakayla was very lucky, she got a day off school and Rory had a day off from Pre-School.  Wayne unfortunately couldn't take a day off work but was able to duck away for a couple of hours to see it.  We had so much fun,I used to love dinosaurs when I was little, so seeing this show was very exciting!

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Why i started this blog

I first started this blog purely to let friends and family catch up on what we were up to and see photos of the kids.  Then i thought, wow this is a great way for the kids to see what we have done too and i hope when they are older they will appreciate it (that reminds me i must do a back up lol).

A huge bonus for me is meeting people on their blogs and interacting with them.  I also love having my favourite blogs listed on my blog so i can see when everyone puts a new blog entry so i can catch up over brekkie.  This is the easiest time for me, eating my porridge and cup of black tea while the kids are having their brekkie at the kitchen table watching ABC kids (great babysitter).  One of my favourite blogs is Carly's blog.  She is such a fantastic writer, very funny, talented, inspirational and a pleasure to read!

We have decided, as a family to travel around Australia in about 3 years time.  We are selling up everything - house, cars, business you name it and buying a caravan and truck and heading around for about a year.  So having a blog will be wonderful to record all our adventures and photos.
 
Here are some of my non-virtual great mates...

Me and Lulu, we did meet virtually about 12 years ago via a penpal site, as Louise is from Northern England.  I visited her there and she come over here and decided that was it, she was moving here.  So after a couple of years of hard slog and lots of money, her and Steve her fiancee first moved to Adelaide and now they live in Gosford, only an hours drive from me YAY!!!!

Me and Sam, we met about 3 years ago, she rang me about a playgroup i was running and we have been mates every since, she lives one street from me and she is very funny and enjoys a good time.

Me and Chewy.  We met in High School and she knows me inside out.  She now lives in Brisvegas so I dont get to see her very often, which is sad but we do love to catch up.  Oh and her real name is Nicole, but to  me and my family she will always be Chewy (long story).  My kids even call her Chewy which just cracks us up!

Photo time!

So here is so photos of our latest adventures... and also some video clips...

Jakayla with Sophie, sitting in a cafe, two adult teeth on the bottom and dressed up for the disco!

Rory fast asleep, baths for my babies, watching a movie with Daddy, in the car with Trixie

Me with Deb, Steve and Jo - my siblings :)

Me with Deb and Jo, Jo being a crack up!

Suzy and me at her wedding.  So nice to have our hair and face all prettied up!