Our daily lives...

Tuesday 26th January 2010

What a day it was as well.. The 4 of us had an awesome day, but a day that almost didn't happen.

Richard has been pretty sick over the past few days, he had a bad case of gastro. He was still a little iffy this morning, but made the call to go out with us, and I'm so glad that he did.

We went to the Zoo, and then to a friends place for a BBQ in the afternoon. While we were at the Zoo we got to see the Panda's, Wang Wang and Funi. OMG it was completely AMAZING to stand there and watch them in the real. The exhibit it amazing as well, such a HUGE open area for them, and what really made if for me, was there was no glass wall in front of you. Out in the enclosure, you could actually see them as if you were looking at a person dead in front of you. Ooopppssss I think I'm rambling, if you get the chance, GO AND SEE THEM!!!! You won't be disappointed I promise.

Then as I said, after the Zoo we went to Lauren and Peter's for an Australia Day BBQ. We were only going to go for an hour, as we had to come home and get things ready for back to Kindy tomorrow, but I think we ended up leaving about 4 hours later. For once Richard was enjoying himself, and had a GREAT time, the boys were the most well behaved I've seen them in a LONG TIME, and Mum and I had fun talking and laughing. Now we can't wait for Lauren and Peter to come here this weekend for Richard's birthday dinner.

Here are a few pics of our day at the Zoo...

Saturday 23rd Jan 2010

Yep, you read right, my family curse has struck again. It seems that everytime any of the females in my family buy something brand new, it stuffs up on us.

I was making some cakes today and my brand new Mix master (this one here)

What do you think?? I quite like it. I've been searching for a new template for quite sometime now, but haven't found anything that was quite me... Well I think this one deffinately is... I really really like it.

A few months ago, my crappy little hand held mixer started making funny noises on me, and then last week it completely went caput on me, to the extent that the actual beaters broke. It was quite a funny experience to see these two metal beaters break at the seams. So with the money that I'd gotten for my birthday, I decided to go out and buy a new mixer, but not just a handheld one.. I wanted the whole kit and kaboodle. Unfortuantely where I live is pretty small and they don't have anything like what I want. So while Mum was in Adelaide yesterday she picked me up a "Sunbeam Mixmaster Pro" and OMG can I just say I'm completely in love with it.

I've just finished making a batch of cakes in it, and it was soooo easy. Just to stand there and watch it do all the work. I could leave it, walk to the fridge, grab the egss, and know that it wouldn't fall off the bench like mine would do. I can see me making HEAPS more cakes now...

Unfortunately I can't put any pics up at the moment coz we are STILL on Dial Up, but as of Saturday next week, our new month starts, so I'll have pics up then.

The other day we went for a drive out to Melba's Chocolate factory. On the way into Adelaide, I said that I was getting hungy, and then out of the back pipes up this little 5 year old's voice

"Well what do you think I can do about that then. Hey.. You'll just have to wait."

Everyone in the car almost pee'd themselves laughing. Mum often says that to James if she's out or busy, so we thought it was really funny that he remembered what she said to him and copied it.

Harry has not let go of his Baa (baby) since he got it for his birthday a month ago.. He sleeps with it every night. This is how I found him tonight.

..don't go together..

We had an awfully HOT day here today, it got to 39 degrees, with hotter to come over the next few days. My boys and heat don't go together at the best of times, but now that their sisters have gone home after being here for 3.5 weeks, I think they really noticed it today.. Either that or I really noticed it today. All I seemed to do was yell at the boys.

"Don't touch that.."
"Harry leave that alone.."
"James go away.."
"Harry, don't throw that at your brother..."
and the best one
"Stop throwing the cards everywhere.." - That one was while we were in Ned's buying birthday cards for this month....

I don't think it's going to get any better either. I went out to the shed this afternoon and got out our paddling pool, I thought they can cool off in there tomorrow while it's hot. At least where I'm putting it it completely undercover, and there is no way they can get burnt. Maybe I can get in as well, might help me cool down.

Well I'm a little late in wishing everyone a happpy new year, but I guess better late than never hey!!!!

I really want to try and keep on top of my blogging this year, I know I said the same thing last year, but I think I bit off a bit more than I can chew in saying that I wanted to do as much as I said. I'm going to aim for 2 posts a week on this blog and my Craft blog. I want to try and spend more time sewing this year, and less time on the computer.

We had an awesome end to 2009!!! December as usual was busy busy busy for us. Phoebe's birthday on the 8th, and Harrison's on the 9th. Although we celebrated Harrison's birthday on the 8th as we were going to be in Adelaide all day on the 9th. He thought that was great. Mum had a small party for him at her place with another little girl that she has in her care. It was a Pirate Party, so all 3 kids dressed up as pirates, and they had a pirate treasure hunt, and I made a pirate ship cake for him, although I have to admit it looked a lot more like a pile of mess than a ship. Then the girls arrived a few days later for our share of the Christmas holidays...

The following weekend was my birthday party. After spending yet another full day in Adelaide on the Friday buying all the food and drinks and everything else, we had a great night on the Saturday. A few people came early and left early, but the majority of people came and stayed well into the night. I got some awesome presents, and got to spend time with some awesome people.

Christmas Day was great. As expected the kids all got spoilt rotten, and I even managed to score some presents this year. Which was great. After opening all our presents here, we headed off to Mum's to do the same there. When the kids had finished Mum and my brother took everyone outside, and told Richard and I that the big present outside was for us. So we opened it, and were completely blown away. We got a brand new BBQ!!!!!!! We were so thrilled with that. We have been complaining for so long that we needed a new one, as we had been using Mum's which was like 28 years old. We couldn't wait to get home, put it together and try it out. So I guess we will be having BBQ's a lot more this coming year, as it's soooo easy to turn on and start.

After Christmas, we went out and did a few things, on the 29th Mum took all of us shopping for the day. The girls wanted to buy my birthday present, but while we were out and about, we had a minor car accident. Luckily the kids were all ok, but Mum and I have ended up with some minorish aches and pains. We're looking into Physio to try and get on top of them all.

The 30th was my 30th birthday, I can't believe how quickly that came around, it seemed like only yesterday that I was beginning to plan for my birthday. And now it's been and gone. I had a great day, despite being in pain. Mum and Paul came over for yet another BBQ dinner, and we had a great night.

New Years Eve, was spent at home as Rich had to work. And now we're at the end of our time with the girls. They go home tomorrow, I can't fathom how quickly the last 3 and a bit weeks have gone. We now have to wait 6 months before we will get to see them again, as they are going to spend Easter with their Aunt and Uncle up north.