9 Kids Christmas Party 2011

As always we had a great time at the Chanel 9 kids Christmas party.

Diego came to visit us while we were lined up to see Santa.

Next we said hello to Rudolph and Christmas Bear.

Then we headed to the face painting table.

Of course Sophie wanted to be a Yellow butterfly.



Next we headed out to the big slide.

We had so much fun on the pony rides.

Sophie even got to fly a space ship.

Next we headed inside the studio for the go Diego go show.

Sophie quickly made a new friend and they had so much fun singing, dancing and screaming at the top of their lungs. Well what else are you supposed to do when Diego asks you the same silly question  3 times over?

All in all it was a great day.

Well that's all folks

cheers Donna.

Not Long Now - Australia Day

          Oh how I love Australia Day. A great day to celebrate what it means to be a fair dinkum Aussie.

                                         I have been pondering what we will do this year???

Last year we went to Australia Day Live in Canberra for the Wiggles concert.

The year before we had a picnic down by the lake.

Maybe if the weather improves we can go fishing on Daddy's new boat and then have a BBQ?

What do you do to celebrate Australia Day?

well that's all folks

cheers Donna.



Fun at Lake Burley Griffin - Canberra

I'm playing catch up.

I'm sooooo.... behind with my blog it's not funny.

I'll post all about the quilt I made for my Mum and Dad for Christmas which took up every moment of my time for 6 months!

But back to the topic at hand.

Lake Burley Griffin. We had a great day out whilst in Queanbeyan for Easter.

On arrival we were greeted by some beautiful swans.

We headed onto the wharf and strait onto the boat for a guided tour of Lake Burley Griffin. Our tour guide was hilarious we laughed our socks off and learnt so much. It's great having a local guide the tour. He knew all sorts of interesting tid bits.

I was surprised how entertained Soph was. I expected the novelty to wear off in the first 5 minutes, only to hear the inevitable "I'M BOARD". But I was wrong she had a great time and asked loads of questions. She giggled and giggled at all the jokes our tour guide told (even though I think most of them went strait over her head!) 

"Look look everyone. Nana your not looking LOOOOK"

A quick pic of mummy and Sophie.

We passed the fountain at just the right time.

As we headed back under the bridge we passed lots of these pedal boats and knew we had to have a go on these.

We pedled all the way down the lake under the bridge and down to the fountain. Thankfully the fountain was not going at the time or we would have been drenched.

We took turns pedalling and although our legs felt like they were going to drop off towards the end we powered on and made it back to the wharf.

What a great day out

Well that's all folks

cheers Donna.



Easter Adventure In The Capital

I was looking through some photo's and came across photos from our Easter trip to Queanbeyan to see my family.

We had so much fun on our friends Clem and Carolyn's farm.

Clem took Steve, Sophie and Dad out on his tractor to collect wood.

Sophie loved going for a ride on George. George was a circus pony and there fore is extremely affectionate and just loves the company of people and the other ponies.

What a character Soph was giving George hugs and he was blowing horse raspberries and laughing.

Sophie loved pretending to drive the tractor. Especially with Nandad's cow boy hat on.

This one is a bit squinty, the wind was howling so we decided to take a walk and explore the property.

The dam was a breath taking oasis in the beautiful bushland. Surrounded by native trees and shrubs. The water was still and native flowers were blossoming. "Hows the serenity?"

This is the new farmhouse. I just love it and as I wondered around I dreamed of a farm house of my own. "Sigh".

Sophie insisted I take a picture of the water tank. When I explained how the water tank uses gravity to feed the water down to the house she was so impressed she ran strait to Daddy and told him "I need you to build a water tank for our house, then we can have special gravity water."

We headed into the farm house to warm up in front of the fireplace and enjoy the fresh scones I had baked that morning. Needless to say they didn't last long.

We all piled into the 4x4s and headed out along the track to the road. We had to park our sedan out near the road as the track leading into the farm is dirt, bumpy and full of wombat holes.

What a great day we all had. We can't wait to go back and visit again.

Well that's all folks

Cheers, Donna



Coco Comes Back

Sophie was so excited when I arrived at school to pick her up on Friday because. "Coco's coming to our place mummy, Coco's coming to our place"

Yep

This is the weekend that Coco came back to visit the Reay Family.

We had lots of fun even though we didn't go anywhere particularly special this time.

No Cheerios in the cupboard, but Coco did enjoy some healthy porridge with yummy honey. 

Then it was off to one our favourite stores. Bunnings Warehouse. As usual the moment we walked in all the Bunnings girls flocked towards us with a "Hi Sophie, Hello sweetheart, We missed you Sophie we haven't seen you for at least 3 days." It goes on and on.

If you haven't guessed yet we love Bunnings and they love Sophie, and were all in love with Coco the camel.

After picking up shelving set number 3 and some other bits and bobs we headed over to the Mega Market to the bulk butcher. Sophie had to stop for another picture.

And then she spotted this one.

We headed home for lunch and Coco got to try a chicken and cheese toastie for lunch. Yum yum yum.

We finally got around to putting the mini trampoline together that mum and dad gave us, it's only been stashed away for a year or so. 

Well Soph must have fallen over, tipped it over and bounced right off that thing a hundred times and every time she jumped up looking like a stunned mullet and exclaimed "I'm OK I'm OK" and scrambled back on and kept on jumping. 

Well that's all folks

cheers

Mini Master Cheff

What a great day we have had today.

Why?

Because today was Jemima's Birthday, and Jemima had a Master Chef Party

Sophie and I have been looking forward to seeing just what a Master Chef Birthday Party was ever since we received the invitation a couple of weeks ago.

Well It was quite simple to do as far as the party went and soooooooo.... much fun.

On arrival we were handed a little paper bag with Sophie's name on it.

I took this picture towards the end of the party. As you can see the apron did it's job keeping all that coloured icing off of their clothing.

Inside was a little chef's apron with Sophie's initial on it (Master Chef symbol style), a paper chef's hat and a small piece of timber dowel (rolling pin) along with some lollies and nick nacks as there party bag.

Everyone put on their apron and hat and made their way over to the tables where they were given a ball of pizza dough to roll out.

They then popped their rolled out dough onto a paper plate which already had their name on it and went to the next table which had lots of toppings all layed out in bowls for the kids to put on their pizza's.

Next they took them to the kitchen where Auntie took them off the kids and started putting them on trays to cook in the oven.

Meanwhile the kids played pass the parcel and pin the cherry on the cupcake.

Before you knew it their little pizza's were ready and they all sat down at the tables for their lunch.

After lunch they ran around wild giggling, screeching and generally having a great time with balloons flying everywhere.

Then everyone was asked to make their way back over to the big tables where their were towers of cupcakes, bowls of different coloured icing and bowls of lollies and decorations.

The kids then decorated 3 cupcakes each, 1 to eat as the birthday cake and 2 to take home.

Their were so many cupcakes left over the mothers were asked to go ahead and decorate and take a couple home too. We were all happy to oblige and had lots of fun doing so.

whilst everyone sat down and ate their cupcakes we all watched on as Jemima opened her presents.

Everyone thanked the birthday girl and her family for a wonderful day and headed home.

We made it home just before a big storm hit, so I'm typing quickly, trying to get this post up before we loose power.

Well that's all folks

Cheers

Horray It's Time For The Kids To Go Back To School

We were very excited in our house Tuesday morning. School holidays had flown by, my plan for the 1st week was to get some painting done.

Sophie and I ended up playing board games, doing find a words, making fabric flower hair clips, sewing a few experimental clothes, watching movies etc.

We made use of every opportunity when the rain would stop and the sun would break through the grey clouds. Strait out the door we dashed, running around the backyard playing soccer, swinging on the swings and monkey bars and giggling ourselves silly.

We also planted some new lettuce seeds and rainbow spinach seedlings.