Friday, 28 December 2007
Random shots....
the other beauty about going to my dad's place...is I can get distracted...and still know that the kids are running...and running...and running...and eventually they will come back....once again compare this to a shopping centre....they just simply DO NOT come back - you actually have to physically go searching for them...and what's more is the anxiety levels are MUCH higher!...
CHRISTMAS MORNING
My purpose behind this gift was purely selfish really....I don't particularly like cooking dinner...my passion is more the baking side of things...I'm hoping somewhere within the next two years she'll be ready to start cooking dinners for the family, she's caught on quite quickly already...she even uses her little teatowel to shield herself from being burnt as she takes things out of the oven!!
And this...was a purely selfish gift as well....this is as close to Daddy is to getting a REAL one!
Christmas Eve
A Gingerbread house...
....bad tornado....ok so maybe it wasn't the tornado.....I like to think it was...
(note: Jake was quite distraught and told Daddy to fix the house with nails because mummy's icing just didnt' do the job!....needless to say we laughed for hours over that one!)
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Friday, 30 November 2007
The Rainforest
Our Queensland Holiday
Last month we went on a holiday to Queensland....we stayed on the Gold coast for most of the holiday and went to Whitewater World and Dreamworld...we voted that Whitewater world was the best!!! :)
But the highlight of this trip was being able to travel up to the Sunshine Coast and stay with our friend Catherine. Mike baptised Catherine and her son Dominic on his mission while in Malaysia and now she is living here in Australia!! Her and her husband Neal showed us around Noosa Heads and took us 4wd on the sand and up the sand dunes...so here are some photos - yes we climbed the highest sand dune we could find and had to pull ourselves up by a tree root at the top...Jake was a trooper and was prepared to follow daddy no matter how hard the terrain...Layne well she stopped a couple of times along the way to let herself emotionally cope with how high she was...and every time I asked her if she wanted to go back down she refused...showing daddy and jake that she could make it to the top was much more important to her!! Then we all had fun sliding down again!!!...Mike was bummed he didn't bring anything with him to go sandboarding...