Congratulations

Welcome to the world little Logan, very cute. Well done to mum Emma and congratulations to the rest of the family. Exciting time for all.

News

Yes I know, it has been an age since I have done anything on the blog. So here goes, a short recap. I will go backwards in time.

This week tried to buy a block of land, didn't work. We found the perfect block, made an offer. Got told it was 15 thousand more, made another offer only to find out that the land was not for sale in the first place. Alas developers have brought most of it, driving the prices from the reasonable, 90 to 120 thousand to around 180 so we are going to wait for a bit, save up some more and also look at stuff already build.

Mad birthday month, mine, sister's, sister in laws and and father in laws, not to mention loads of friends birthdays too. So lots of cake, below is a pic of mine, made by my awesome husband. It also means lots of babysiting by my lovely next door girl Laura. We are going to a medievil bawdy balads this evening for Ben's dad's 60th's. Next Friday we are bowling with Ben's sister, and next Saturday Ben and I are going out to a nice restaurant for our 9 year shackled together, or 11 if you don't go by the actually wedding event.

Other news, having lovely time exploring and making friends in our new place here in Bathurst. Lovely to have the family so close though miss all my amigo's in the uk, that's the other thing, learning spanish. We have picked spanish and french to teach the children as we have family and friends that speak both. Timothy is kicking ass with it as we listen to it in the car every day.

this will be chapter one of catch up, expecting breakfast guests any minute as Ben's brother Dan is here and the rest of the fam are coming over for waffles.

Timothy Guitar and Matthew drumming

Pick&Stomp

Storm in Bathurst

Clips from Timothy and Matthew's playing

Christmas adventures

We had a wonderful time over the Christmas Break. First heading to Sydney, where we caught up with friends and family there. We managed to squeeze in a swim at a harbour-side pool in Cremorne. Fantastic views. Had a great dinner with my Sister and her family and then got on a plane to the Gold Coast to spent a week at my mum's place. We had a fab time there too, going to the beach at least once a day. We got to go shopping by ourselves, and a night out with dinner and a movie while the wonderful big sister looked after the foozles along with the super Nonna. We had a magical night on Christmas Eve, with champane, prawns and wonderful thai salads, turkey and all the trimmings of the season. For dessert my auntie made a gorgeous lemon meringue pie. Timothy and Matthew played with their second cousin James, who is about a year younger than Timothy. And then it was back to Bathurst boxing day for a gourmet lunch done by Dan, Ben's brother. Yummo, now we just have to stop eating. Phew.

here's a few pics from the events...

Ginger bread house

Christmas film of foozles

Here are a few films of what we get up to while we are getting into the Christmas spirit...





Merry Christmas All

Loonies

There's a wee park with swings and what not up at the top of Mount Panorama, so we thought we'd take the kids up for a bit on Saturday morning.



When we got to the top though, we found that the second half of the race track was closed. I went down and had a look as to why this may be.



Oh dear. They're not are they?



Holy &*@#. They are.

Those that have been around this circuit will understand what complete loonies these folks are. The descent is *very* steep, the Esses are treacherous and I can't for the life of me think how they could get through the Dipper at speed (and they most certainly be at speed - I don't see any brakes on those things, besides their feet).

I hung around for a bit thinking I could get a better shot or too. Alas, I ran out of time before the next run. I guess it must have taken a while to hose the blood off the track.

Here are a few more shots from around the mountain. We've had some rain since, but things had become quite a bit browner after a week or two of high temperatures. Pretty though.

Merry Christmas To All

The Cappers would like to wish everybody a joy filled season. Hope you all get to enjoy this festive time with health, love and laughter and may your new year be Fantastical.



some people just don't like silly hats :P

Our day

Another lovely hot day, we had around 34 degrees. The type of nice dry heat that soaks into your bones. The kids are enjoying it, we play in the yard in the morning when its cool, around 15 to 20 degrees. We fill our paddling pool and leave it in the sun to warm. We dig in the sand and water the plants and drive around the trucks. This morning we then went shopping, Matthew had his midday snooze and Timothy and I did some Christmas crafty stuff. After the snooze we had a late lunch and went to the library. So cool in there, and got some great books which we sorted through on our return. The car actually said it was 36 at one point on the drive home but I am not sure how acurate that would be. In the late afternoon we paddle in the pool and turn on the sprinklers, Matthew loves running or toddling in and out of the spray. Timothy likes spending his time emptying the pool on the veranda floor and splash up and down in the puddles, he misses the puddles from his old home. We eat ice blocks outside and watermelon. And that is pretty much our day. Here are some pics from the weekend....