Sunday, November 20, 2011

The week or two that was


We had a great week last week in Sydney as Aaron was back at Royal Far West again (everything went really well). Shane only stayed with us till Tue as he had to come home and look after the pup. We managed to fit in a bit of everything and I even started my Chrissy shopping... Don't you find it amazing that some people (mum) are so easy to buy for and others (mum-in-law) are so hard?!!?


sooo... I got a new tattoo (Ill post propper pics when it stops peeling), we ate way too much icecream (phishfood was my fav), drank lots of coffee and spent time at the beach...


on Thur night the kids and I went into the city on the ferry.... it was raining.... to check out the chrissy windows at David Jones... the city has changed so much since I was last there, it's all looking very up market..... i even found out the full words to the 12 Days of Christmas.



Regan had a couple of surf lessons with the guys from Manly Surf School (they were great) she had good times and not so good times and was determined not to let her Dad help get her and that huge board back over the waves... she spent a good deal of time getting pumbled and at one stage got up and said
"I thought it would be more glamourous than this"

but overall she had a ball......


and moments like this made it all worth while....


Before Sydney we were down at Kangaroo Valley for Marks 40th... it was great to catch up with everyone... some we hadn't seen for 9 years.....


Mark tried the rope swing to start of his early morning swim.... you should of seen the look on his face when he realised how shallow the water was..... they never grow up..


And in other news......
Regan had her school camp week before where she made it to the top of a rather large climbing wall - a feat not managed before.....


I had my hair died red....


and what is a post lately without a pic or two of the boys...


they are now sleeping together but at the rate that Talos is growing it wont last long...

Till later

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Halloween?

Halloweens not really done here but this year Regan dressed up for a party at Girl Guides....



and then joined up with her brother and the kids next door for a quick lap of the people we know in our area on Halloween night..... I was quite suprised that everyone they visited had lollies ready although only a few groups of kids ventured out.....


Last week Yr 5 at the kids school had to organise a day for charity with all sorts of stalls.... Regan dobbed me in for her cake stall.... all I can say is lucky Shane was working away that night ... he just doesn't understand how I can get the kitchen in such a state.....


After batch of toffees then batch of lamingtons etc etc we ended up with 72 toffees ( made in a small muffin pan with half a paddlepop stick put in just before they set) and ...

32 lamingtons....


the girls did really well and made $121 dollars for charity....

More pics of the dogs of course ... how cute are these two...


can you see it???? Talos has a heart on his arse...



It took about 30 goes to get these shots .. it's very hard to get behind a pup that wants to play and the camera keep focusing on the grass because his fur is so fluffy...

and lastly, I have scrapped again.... these are pics of the girls over for Regans b'day back in Jul


Till next time....