Double Digits & Teenager....

It has been a very full week with Logan turning 13!! & Summer turning 10!!. So I now officially enter the ranks of raising a teenage boy, and after the teenage girl, I think it's going to be a smooth ride!!. We had a lovely family dinner for Logan during the week, and this weekend they got to have 3 friends over each. The boys camped up in the cabin, and generally kept themselves amused with movies and x box, only returning to eat, and the girls had fun just playing, and building cubbies. We watched Mama Mia on Friday night and it was fun to hang out with the girls and dance and sing (like only girls can do!).

He LOVES his Jam!

Grandma made him a divine Black Forest Cake

Summer with more Littlest Pets!

Playing the M&M game....for those of you who aren't aware of this game...it is a classic!.  Put out a plate of about 10 M&Ms per person, (we play in heats of two at a time), and they have to suck an M&M on to their straw and walk to another plate or bowl and drop them in, the one with the most wins, or you can set a time limit.....good fun!.

And then there's passing the balloon between the legs game...also a classic!

Poor Jeremy suffering the screaming girls!.

It was bound to happen that someone would end up in the freezing water!

Finally....10

Finns wink....pure classic!

Cleo, Summer, Tuskani & Ellie

Happy Birthday Logan & Summer xx

Holidays are over....

Hello everyone, I hope this finds you all well & happy....and not too cold!. It has been a very busy month around here with lots of illnesses before the holidays started, and during! So now the kids are back at school I am feeling just a little bit exhausted, but very grateful for a holiday well spent just hanging out with each other. Shane had two weeks off, and although I was getting frantic about having nothing planned for the time, we decided to just go with the flow and take a few day trips here and there if we wanted. We started our first weekend with Troy & Bec in Ballina for two nights. It was SO GREAT to see the beach again!. The kids enjoyed themselves even though the weather was shite. I have never really explored Ballina but I was quite impressed with the beaches and access to them and it was great to explore the rock pools. This is Summers idea of heaven, she would spend hours there if she could, exploring all the pools and identifying little creatures. We went to the Tea Tree Plantation and enjoyed the rainforest walk and some sculptures and a maze.

I loved these booby towers!

And the door into the forest

Marni, Nita & and the kids came down for a couple of nights, and of course we had a wonderful time, so much so that Summer &  I returned the visit and spent a couple of days in Brisvegas.  Lots of fun!

And then we finished the holidays off by driving to Tamworth & picking up our new car!.  I don't know what universe I was in when I thought it was possible to live out here with one car.  NOT Possible!!