Pics of Puffing Billy arriving!!! More Australia Day Pics....

A Mammoth School Holiday Sleepover!!!!!

It was time for a giant sleepover these school holidays. Megan and Madison came for a sleepover that ended up being a fantastic night. Not the greatest shot but this is the mass cleaning of teeth before settling down for a movie.

Here are our angels. We got all the pillows and blankets we could find and lined the loungeroom floor with bodies.
Madison and Jacob

Megan and Charlotte - butter wouldn't melt in their mouthes.

And my first born Angel, Brooklyn! bags a couch!

Time to settle into sleep now......yeah right!!! You know we have a set of bunks in the other room that are empty right now? We all prefer to bunk in together wherever we can fit.

Goodnight everyone....see you next school holidays!!!!

Our Amazing Australia Day Adventures........Part1

Happy Australia Day everyone. A day where we celebrate the founding of Australia in 1788. Or basically a day off work where everyone gets together for a BBQ.

This year we decided to bunch together and have a picnic at Emerald lake. We arrived at about 10am and lets just say that within about 1 hour there were another 1000 people at the lake, all fighting for the perfect location.

But boy was it exciting. There were playgrounds, BBQs, paddleboats, swimming areas, historic Puffing Billy puffed into the station closeby. There were reptile animals, ice-creams and ball games. It was like a theme park!!!!!!

So here was our camp. Our huge picnic rug came in handy again - room for everyone. We brought camp chairs, books to read, balls to throw. It was great.
Me showing my patriotic spirit! There were Australian flags all over the park, even some T-shirts, thongs and Aussie tattoos!

Cannot get more patriotic than an Australian shaped hambuger, not sure what happened to Tasmainia though.

Jacob and Poppy David play Grip Ball.

Then it was time for the paddleboats.....

Jacob and Uncle Steven have a go at the paddleboats

One way to get around after all the walking, swimming and paddling we did.

More photos to come of swimming, retiles, model trains and Puffing Billy!

It was a fantastic Day!!!!

Jacob's Spiffy new boys room

Jason set to work last wee and totally revamped Jacob's room to create his own little 'manland' kind of thing! It looks fantastic and Jason worked so hard - giving me the easy jobs cause he wanted to do it himself.

We even painted bookcases, chest of drawers and windowsills.
Jacob loves it. The colours were very bold going onto the walls, but they dried in beautiful shades.

Brooklyn's Baptism.....Some pics

I've just realised that I never actually put up pictures from Brooklyn's baptism I know most of you have seen pictures on Facebook but here are some more that Charloote, our budding 3 year old photographer decided to take whilst holding the camera.

Me driving to the chapel. Lanor and Lauren pose for Charlotte.
Grandma smiles for Charlotte as we wait to start.

Poppy Jack

This what we look like when we're all in one place - thankyou so much for everyone's support on this special day!

How's this for a perfect picture - now tell me who had the camera Charlotte!

Preisthood representation on the Adams and McDonald sides of things! Impressive I thought! Brooklyn will never be able to date.......hahahaha!

Boys trip 4WDriving....

Jacob was allowed to go on his first boys adventure this time. Jason, Robert and Sarah's family of boys headed out in search of Craig's Hut from the man from Snowy river country. However they couln't get through as the area was flooded in the last few weeks. Dissapointed they still went insearch of some great 4WD areas that they usually head out to when shooting or driving. They came across a historical railway tunnel that was an important part of country/ regional Victoria many moons ago!

Uncle Simon makes sure that Jacob makes it to the top okay!

Jason and Robert enjoy some exploring together

From Jason's truck looking through to Sarah's dad's car infront. The group decided to take Robert to an area where they go shooting alot, about 30 mins from home. Robert gets to see how close the bushfires came and how the area is still trying to recover.

Jacob exploring ...it's kind of like Where's Wally? (Jacob is in there somewhere - wearing a camo jacket just like Dad!)

Daddy and his boy! A great time was had by all and it was a great oportunity to see some beautiful countryside right around the corner.

Beautiful waterfalls in a secluded place recovering from the bushfires from last summer!