Beautiful Beau

10 months on and Beau is one energetic little man! Crawling flat out and now starting to pull himself up  on things - I fear my baby is growing up.......

 Hanging out with Charlie Cat

My little hillbilly

Too clever! 

Smiles soon turn to cries as he hasn't quite worked out how to get down from such heights!

Meeting Miss Lucy

As luck would have it, I scored the best birthday present an Aunty could ask for - a beautiful niece all wrapped in pink!!  

The Grown and the New

 Nath & Julz and the kids were home for a weekend for a wedding and to meet Miss Lucy, Sunday Lunch was on at our house

time for some drawing

 Beau has been knocked off the Baby Podium 

such a monkey! But a beautiful one at that 

Cluck Cluck Julz.....

Gorgeous xx

Nath doing what he does best- sleeping amongst the crowds!

Mundulla Show 2013

It was that time of year again- Show Time! 

Toby & I decided to enter some things into the baking section, so we we're a couple of busy beavers on Friday getting ready!

Lets see how many grannies I can upset!

My Entries - Plum Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Apricot Jam, Mayonaise.

Toby's Entries - Honey crackles, Decorated cupcakes & an Internationally decorated Cake

Our blown up cat.

For a bit of fun we entered the hay bale decorating, Steve was the convenor. 

For a few years now, there has been a gravel shovelling competition run. Last year Steve was crowned Champion Gravel Shoveller, and this year he went Back to Back!

 Watching Dad flex his muscles

 Lexie, Toby & Kida found something a bit more entertaining than gravel - Hay!

A household of winners!

Birthday!

With the month of February busy with teaching school swimming, its always nice to know that my birthday signifies the end of it all, so its kinda like a double celebration, one of getting older and the other to say 'YAY' back to home life once again.  

Toby, adamant that he was making my cake, was on the case early and had gotten the Birthday book out for me to choose from, Dad on the other hand redirected this enthusiasm to a cake I had already prepared earlier......

Ta Da!

Dad was impressed that Toby knew where all the cooking stuff was..... 

perhaps i should start baking with ALL the boys.......

We were lucky to have some visitors over for tea - and a bath - while they waiting patiently for the phone call to go see another day of birth girl......

My cherubs 

xx

Toby's First Day of Kindy

We had one very excited little man as the day had finally come for Toby to start Kindy.

All grown up 

After a big day the walk home from the bus stop was ...l...o....n...g....

Fun Times

With just a few days until school & kindy start up, we headed down to Kingston to catch the last few rays of holidays

Mr Helpful Toby

Cheeky monkeys

With a bit of determination Toby has successfully done away with his training wheels on his big bike.

There is no stopping him now, hours have been spent out the front of our house on the harder ground perfecting the start, ride & turns. No longer can I just walk with him riding - I need to be on my bike as well!

Toby wanted to practise his riding with a ride to the lighthouse, we are very lucky to have such a nice smooth path to ride on

Off he goes

Made it!

Only a couple times did I have to run to catch up! And Toby was very courteous to other path users - he would quickly pull over and stop in the side to wait for them to go past.

Holiday Fun!

With the January holidays on for young and old, it was time to make the most of our family time together!

Down to the farm boat lake for a quick dip

Beau munging on a strap - mmm tasty.....

Leyla has a better option - juicy pear.......mmmm

Shark!?! Where??

Uncle Matt the Captain of his 'ship'

Down to Kingston to help cool down away from the heat at home

Ready for a dip in the ocean

Cake time for Matt's birthday

Just something we whipped up for the occasion....

As we have for the last couple years, we get together and celebrate Matt's, Relle's and Old Pa's birthday with a family tea. Last year the cake was centred around Relle, this year it was Matt's turn - so what better thing than his trusty truck. Although we were a few short in the celebrations due to a bug of a gastric kind, we still enjoyed the company of the few healthy ones....

Even loaded with the odd bale of hay and a few sheep. 

(The licorice slice is for Relle.)

Sisterly love......

Narelle had organised to have a catchup morning with Aunty Merri, knowing Leyla isnt forgiving in missing her sleep, Relle decided to set Leyla up at my house for this. But as poor Kara came down with the dreaded gastro, Relle thought it would be best to take the boys for the day -and also set them up at my house......so 6 kids later my morning was set.

Beau over looking the proceedings....

Felt like I was back at work once again - but give me 6 kids over 30 any day!

LOVE my sandpit!

Nonetheless I was given my reprieve when Relle had the boys while I worked at the pool a few days later. xxxx