Our trip to Cairns

We went to Cairns on the 16th Jan and came home on the 21st. It was soooo hot up there, I came home with heat exhaustion - stomach cramps and almost passing out. I put it down to lack of water and feeding Kaleb quite a lot. I think that will be my last visit to Cairns in summer lol
The best part of the trip for me was going to Sugar World. There are 4 large water slides and then a few play pools for the kids. Don't be fooled by this pic of HG. By the end of the day he was sliding down the Flying Fox on his own (it even scared the crapper out of me). Anyway, it was the only day I didn't have cramps and nausea as I felt cool and had a great time with my kids as well as our neice and nephew.

This is Kaleb at Sugar World. He is such a water baby - he thinks he can do just about anything - love him to bits mwah xx

Ethan wasn't too keen on the slides. I took him down once and then once more for good measure but he still wasn't sure, so he was then happy to play in the smaller pools!

One of the days we went into Cairns and along the waterfront they have this massive fountain/playground. It is fantastic. We took our kids and Mikayla and they had a fab time. Also went into Cairns central and had some sushi for lunch - yummy!!

Nathan and Mikayla had just come back from an around the world trip with their parents (lucky ducks) and here are a few of the hats they bought along the way. The kids all got along so well, it's nice to have cousins - pity they live so far away, but I guess it makes it more fun when we all catch up.

Investment

Here is a pic of the kitchen of the house we have bought as an investment. My brother and his family will be moving in after settlement early Feb. We are very excited to be getting into the property market on an investment level and hope this will be the start of things to come for us. Ali took this pic when they were doing the building inspection, so hopefully I will be able to get some more when we get the keys. Yippee!!!

Look What I did!!

I was mucking around with Picasa2 and came up with this cool collage of Kaleb! I am trying to come up with ideas for his first birthday/naming day invitations, so I'm hoping this might work. Fingers crossed.

Boogie Boarding at the Beach

Yesterday we took the kids to Kings Beach for a swim and a ride on Harrison's boogie board he got for Christmas from Scott. Harrison was a natural catching the waves in!
So was Ethan!
Kaleb decided to give it a go too lol

Kaleb was happy playing in the sand with a little friend he made - Emma. Turns out her birthday is the day before Kaleb's so her mum and I reckon they were kindred spirits, drawn to each other. It was very cute!!

My latest LO's

We took this photo ourselves, of ourselves. It's a bit of a 'thing' we do when we are together and there is a camera around. In fact, most of the pics we have together we have taken. The pic was taken at my brothers engagement party in Nov 2006, so I was 5 months pregnant with Kaleb. I finished the LO today. Just love this pp.

Yes, a bit embarrassing, but I am wearing jocks on the outside of my jeans. It was Ethan's superhero party and I decided to go as 'Super Mum'. Oh well, it was fun!

I finished this LO a little while ago, but I really love the shapes, the colours and the stamping. This is my nephew Joshua, born in May. He is a darling!

I did this LO today. Thought I'd better get into the kids albums and get some important milestones scrapped! I LOVE this photo of Harrison holding his new baby brother the day we got out of hospital. It is so precious, and it shows how much he loves him. Priceless to me!

Wild Weather

Since before Christmas we have been having the WORST weather I can ever remember at this time of year! Anyway, on Sunday we got out to have a bit of a looksie at what the damage was to our beaches. Very high seas and a lot of wind. When we were out, this was about the best the weather had been for days, and after this day the weather got worse again. This was Kings and Shelly Beach.

New Years Eve 2007

We went to Nicole's 40th birthday party on New Years Eve. We had to dress up as something starting with a N, I, C, O, L or E. Ali went as Norman Gunston and I was Nicole the netballer. We had such a fun night, and although I drove and it was rainy, I was so glad I didn't have a hangover the next day!

Happy New Year Everyone. I hope you have a fabulous 2008!!!

Christmas Morning

I'm loving this pic of my boys on Christmas morning. They were so excited that Santa had left them a sack full of presents! Harrison was the first one to wake up and then Ethan. It was a sleep in for Kaleb - I guess he wasn't as into it, yet Santa did leave him a few pressies in his sack.

We had a fantastic day with Al's parents, my parents, my brother, Chrissie and Joshua and my friend Kaz with her daughter Brooke. The weather was a bit yuk, but the kids still swam in the pool and had a fab day!

This was the mess the reindeer left of the wormy apples. They even left the plate in the garden - messy things lol

Christmas Eve 2007

Harrison found some great recipes for Santa and the reindeer on claus.com

This was the wormy apples we made for the reindeer - apples, peanut butter and sour worm lollies on top.

Ethan had the task of cooking for Santa and he came up with a can of coke and a caramello koala.