I just pilfered photos of my kids off the eldests facebook...so here they are...

 

work it out yourself...lol, Bonnie blew this one up and gave it to me for Xmas framed.

Elijah and Bonnie

Ashtyn and Mum, right before she went out for the first time as an 18 year old.

 goofing around

Xmas...

Better late than never....Mum arrived on the 14th...Kids are loving having her around.

Kamilah with Grandma

Jonas and Grandma

My new laptop, Lenovo, 2gig dual core, 3 gig ram, blah blah blah, love the screen!

The tree on Christmas Eve.

Pippin and Kam, in dresses their Granny bought. I don't know that they have taken them off since.

The best Christmas present ever. I don't think any of the kids have been off it since it was put up. I am still in awe of how Santa carried it to the back door being 100kg in the box....(Chiropractic appointment will be booked as soon as possible)

Charli-bear

Who would have thought a simple hula hoop would be so popular?

Well thats about it for this installment. I have spun up 380g of superwash for Brie in the last few days so I guess my next post will be all about fibre...

GREEN DAY ROCKS!!!

We went to a Green Day concert on the 14th of Dec with the eldest. Green Day with a JET starter!!!...I have loved Jet since they released their first album so it was just great seeing them! They were great in person but their sound mixer wasn't as good as it should be. The vocals weren't quite up to the music.

Then, there was the impromptu appearance of this bunny (I think it was Billy Joe), way funny.

Green Day and Billie Joe on the other hand were just perfect!!! It was hard to take video while dancing. I have never actually seen a Melbourne audience quite so animated at a concert. Thanks Green Day!! I'm definitely coming to see you again!!

Oh, one down side!! THE T-SHIRTS WERE $55.....sooo not paying that for a shitty shirt.

I tried to upload the video, but I think it may be too big as it's not finished in over a day.

The Boys Room MKII

What can I say....TAH DAH!!!!!!!!!!

The Boys Room

As usual my timing is impeccable, my mother arrives on Monday and my sciatic nerve is pinched. I am under orders NOT to do anything to set my progress back by the chiropractor and I am redecorating my boys room. Started out that we got some carpet squares cheap so decided to pull up the carpet in their room which was basically a health hazard. Once it was done, the tongue and groove was in too good a nick to recover it so we decided to varnish it instead.

And of course, since the room was empty and the walls were pretty messed up I thought (in my wisdom) that we may as well paint them as well. Of course I was probably thinking that I could get others to do it (not mentioning any names) but if you want something done properly, do it yourself. I tried to get the boys to prep the walls, fill holes, sand off the plaster etc. But they have done a pretty crap job. Since I give it about, hmmmm, 2 wks till there is a hole "that no one did" I'm not worrying too much. Today I did the roof, got the boys to do the skirting boards, then after seeing what a crap job they did of them, did them again myself. Gave the walls a quick coat with the roof paint..
Before After

I was all set to get the hubster to roll the walls when he got home when I remembered we have a date for dinner with friends..."DOH"...will see how I feel afterwards...The colour is a pale blue....but never fear...I have some other plans up my sleeve before it's done. Watch this space....

Corowa Trip

I took the Fibre Party Bus up to the NEVYL (North Eastern Victoria Yarn Lovers) Groups Xmas gathering on Saturday. Since I do have a bus I took a couple of extra yarn nuts with me. My good friend Michelle, a new immigrant from Canada, Megan and I better not forget my hubby. The trip took 3.5 hrs driving each way which we broke up by stopping at Mich's Mum's place to drop off her daughter and grandson. That was a really nice experience for young Megan as she got to see a fair dinkum Aussie vege garden. Not something often seen in the Arctic Circle(a vege garden that is). We lunched at a pub in Corowa then went around to one of the ladies homes for a SnB. Headed home at about 5.30 and got home about 9.30pm. We had a few stops on the way back due to fatigue. Most of the long road photos are taken on one road called, Three Chain Rd.



Here is the meet up at Shaz's place. Wonderful setting, great company, perfect day.This is the bridge to Victoria, Corowa is on the NSW side of the Murray River.

I have never driven down such straight roads!!! We had a bit of excitement on the freeway going up when some IDIOT did a U turn and traveled the wrong way down the freeway to cross at a service point to the other side of the freeway....

Here is what the back of the bus looked like..