Happy Thanksgiving 2009!

Jason 'Wolverine" McDonald takes on the massive job of carving the Turkey for dinner. We had Thanksgiving on Sunday this year as Jason was still at night classes. So it was a beautiful day! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who visits here!

Jason had the job as always of carving the 10 pound turkey. We tried a new type of turkey this year and will definately be purchasing another one. We also had green bean casserole, yummy corn, mashed potatos, sweet potato, carrots and even a pumpkin pie. We also added the family favourite of chocolate ripple cake and apple strudel for dessert!!! MMMmmmm!

The meal was delicious. Somehow I always seemed to be snapped with my mouth ful so sorry.

This was supposed to be the kid's table, which it was until the children finished and slowly took off to play without be noticed too much by either Dad!!! HEHE!

It was a nice warm day so we set up on Mum's back deck again this year!

Here's the rat pack - Brooklyn, Jacob, cousins Megan, Madison, family friend Tiana and Charlotte! Butter wouldn't melt in their mouths!

Not sure if this was the best way to end the night but you can't help relatives. Here is Lauren (Simon's wife) and Scott having some fun with the kids before sweets! Yeah!

Grandparents Morning at Preschool

Jacob and his cousin Madison had Grandparents Day at kinder today. They had the opportunity to show off their work and their acheivements at kinder!

Nanny Suzie giving Madison a push on the swing.

Jacob at kinder showing off his skills! (3 year old preschool) Jacob and his cousins squish onto the tyre swing.

Jacob and charlotte with cousins Madison and Megan



Cousin Madison and my sister in law Tara

Poppy David builds a sandcastle with Madison and Jacob in the sandpit. Poppy stopped by in between his work commitments.

Our new babies!!!!

These are our new babies! My class at kinder had a hatching program come to the preschool and we watched them hatch over 2 weeks. Then we got to take them home if we wanted! So here they are. I'm cleaning out their little house so Jason is baby sitting. In about 2 seconds they both have little 'accidents' on him so here's the lucky before shot! They're about 2 weeks old now!

They have to stay inside, in the laundry under a warm lamp, for about 6-8 more weeks before they can go be slowly introduced to their other friends outside!

So here's what we got up to before we came home!

Now if you read further down you will find out that my husband and mother were skimming rocks at Lake Eildon when we went to explore! This is the fantastic result. Bit of advice - nobody go within a hundred feet of my mum when she's "skimming rocks"!!!! She accidently forgot to let go of her rock and smacked Jason square in the side of the head!!!!!! No hard feelings though, I know mum you were really worried! She really does love her in-laws, I promise! I knew there was a reason for bringin the first aid kit - just wasn't expecting this scenerio!!!Jason laughs it off and tells people that he now knows what it's like to be stoned. He's officially been stoned! All's good, it healed nicely but I have to say he had a killer headache for about 2 days!!! Not surprised really!

What a pro! Brooklyn has taken to fishing like you wouldn't believe. We had to cast a couple more lines before we went home today! Charlotte and Jacob enjoyed skimming rocks, as did mum and Jason - what great examples they were!

This is Lake Eildon for all of you who don't know. You can see where the water levels have been before but currently are at 34% capacity. They are just about to tighten restrictions here in Melbourne again, no more watering of anything outside! Jason and I are looking into getting a water tank soon! I need to water my roses and he needs to water his veggies! Anywho, We went exploring and found this great lookout. This is where we usually go canoeing.Brooklyn has her first fishing lesson with Jason. She was fantastic, picked it up really easy and has found the perfect pink fishing rod she wants to buy for christmas - we'll see! This river is at the back of the camping group we were staying at!

Now she goes solo.

More Camping antics!

Charlotte takes her ruffled pillow everywhere, even camping. She loves to twirl the ruffle between her fingers. MMmmmm....get those marshmellows a cookin!

Daddy and Brooklyn around the campfire - the hat he's wearing was brought back from Cabelas by my sister in law Tara and he never takes it off. A toss up between the Freeport orange hat and this Cabela's hat! (You know he gets the Cabelas catalogues delivered out here to Australia!)

Poppy David and Cousin Madison have a chat around the campfire!

Jason does his best to light our fire - Go scouts!!!

Camping at Eildon!

We went camping again this year to the place that flooded us out last year and surprisingly the weather was fantastic. The mornings as you can see were freezing but once the sun was out, it was an awsome weekend.

Charlottes smooch face!! I love it!

Manor a la McDonalds! - at least we stayed dry this year!

Campsite number 2 - Mum and Dad's camper and the 'mess tent' - always popular when the foods around!

Jason was suitable impressed when he went to collect the eggs the other day and he compared them to the other eggs. I don't know what happened but this last egg was a mammath one. The lid won't even shut on the container!!

Home grown goodness!!!!