Queenscliff Dec 2010

The week after school finished we decided to do a 'girls trip' away with the Barnes' (including the little boys). There was no one around and even though we were all a little tired (and grumpy) it was a lovely couple of days away to kick start the holidays.

The kids were very excited to be taking their Aunties boogie boards to the beach for the first time. Abi tried to catch a few waves despite it being freezing cold both in and out of the water. As always, we found a playground to play on and then back at 'the big 4' we all enjoyed playing on the bouncy pillow.

Having a bounce on the bouncy pillow.


Abi's favourite position, upside down or spinning around.

Angus doing the crazy man dance

Emily at the playground

The kids carrying the boogie boards to the beach, perhaps they are a little smaller than Kellie, Lisa and Sarah were when they used them!

Emily making a sand angel.

Abi surfing the big waves!

Christmas tree decorating 2010

We all too turns to decorate the tree, Dad did the lights and kids decorated until they got bored and Mum finished it off. Pretty much the same as last year!

The local wildlife

Here are some photos taken from around our house of some local inhabitants.

Our resident turtle that we then took down to the river and released back into 'the wild'. />A dragon fly down by the vegie garden.
Our kookaburra, a recent regular we can see from our deck.



A praying mantis (?) who we found in a bucket and let go into the garden.

Some monkey's released from the zoo for a while