Camping

We are trying our hand again at camping with foozles. Last year was very hard as Matthew would normally sleep in a cot. When faced with the tent, had a melt down and screamed for two nights. Now Matthew has been moved to a big bed when we moved to our new house. We are feeling confident as this trip is just the one night and the drive to Dubbo is a little over two hours. We have our bikes and the trailer for the foozles. We will pack lots of lovely things for picnic's, bbq dinner and of course the most essential marshmellows. So watch this space as we will return in two weeks with lots of lovely pics around the zoo. If you want to check out the zoo from a distances http://taronga.org.au/taronga-western-plains-zoo/visitor-information/plan-your-visit-taronga-western-plains-zoo-dubbo

We are still settling into our new place. I can't wait to have fun with the garden. We are also looking forward to Easter. We are hosting an egg hunt in the back yard in the afternoon. This May we are having a party for Timothy on the Sunday, it is also Mother's day but we will do mummy things in the morning. The party's theme this year is fireman and fire trucks. I truelly believe I will need some wood in the constuction this year. As I don't think I can build a fire truck just out of cardboard that would survive. The foozles are too heavy. This year we have Nonna coming for the birthday so that will be loads of fun.

Then at the end of May we are off to Sydney for Ben's brothers wedding. Should be great fun, as it is in Manly, near the beach. Auntie Jane is watching the foozles. We are also hoping to come to the UK just after the wedding. We are still waiting for Ben's work to give the ok. Should be soon though as it has been put off three times now.

We also had an awesome time recently with my big sisters coming to Bathurst for a visit and the foozles cousin Felix too. It was lots of fun, showing them around all the tasty and beautiful things we have here. We took them to annies ice cream parlour that has been here since my mother was a little girl. We went to the fancy country fruit, who even stocks stilton, yum. And had a look at the lovely gardens.


foozles frolicking


Auntie and cousin visit


And here is the lovely Rachel, soon to be Mrs Daniel Capper

Playing in our new in park

Yes we have finished moving. It went swimmingly smooth with all the great help from friends and family, so thank you one and all. It took two truck loads across town and about five days to unpack the boxes. We got the keys on the Wednesday before the move on the Saturday, so I got in bright and early and painted the two bedrooms we were going to be using. We have lots of exciting plans for our garden and of course we are now getting use to having a kitten. Ben's mum and sister rescued five kittens from the lane near their house. Three went to other homes and we kept Asher and Chelsea kept Bella. So six week old cat is very funny in the morning running around like a loony bin. The boys love it. We have had a bit of a hard start to the week this week though, probable mostly to do with the move but Ben and I went out also on Saturday and Sunday so Timothy and Matthew are very clingy and a bit teary today. Ben and I celebrated 10 years of marriage on Sunday. Taking ourselves off to a lovely restaurant in Orange. We went to Lolli Redini olliredini.com.au/ which has a chef hat. Very yummy. Saturday night we went out to listen to lovely singing by a local group, of who, Ben's mum is a member.(Singing group Cantora) It was at Abercrobie House, a local historical home very beautiful.

Here are some pics I took of the foozles playing in our near by park. House pics to follow soon, well when i find my card reader :P

Do something wonderful for Lent this year

The Capper Clan are joining forces with Relay for Life. We are raising money for cancer council research. We are to continue around our local oval for 24 hrs. We start Saturday 2 April @ 3.45pm The foozles will be going around on their dinkies for the first hour and the rest of us will do the other hours. It would mean so much if all our friends out there could show support for this great cause and donate online at

http://relay.cancercouncil.com.au/2011/bathurst_2011/Perpetual-Motion

cheers, e

Squish

Pick and stomp at the hunter

Yes we went back again with the foozles but it was quite good. We had lots of fun with the grape picking, Timothy and Matthew took their own trailers and so were really good helpers. Later the foozles both got to try squishing the grapes, Matthew was quite unimpressed with getting his feet all sticky but thought it was fun washing it all off.



We got to take the boys out for dinner at the restaurant they have at the winery. It was almost perfect, it was a good start at least, they ate their dinner and only had to play outside with Daddy twice :)



Foozles loved the breaky the next morning as I had brought along blue jelly as a treat. Best of all Matthew didn't throw up in the car on the way there or back so we won both ways.

First day at preschool

Timothy loved it. I have been told I can't go inside anymore. I can pick up and drop off but otherwise I am not need. He is such a big boy now. He loved the painting and the little toilets the best. The teacher reported that he interacted will and was very chatty. Kid after my mine heart. He will be going Monday and Tuesday afternoons. I also put in his forms for school, kindy next year.

Foozles in Christmas action 2010

Happy New Year everybody. Wishing you a good 2011

Much fun with Nonna

Weather

Yes it is the Bathurst weather report again. Oct 16 we saw snow, Nov we had an earth treme. Now not the heat wave you would expect but rain and lots of it. The bridge into town has been closed four times.

Foozles having fun

super yum Ben made coffee

The mini foozle is two

Yes we made it through the day and it was great. Lots of fun and laughter and very few tears so super success. We had a wonderful party. Everybody came and lots of lovely presents. Thank you to everybody both near and far for making this special event a wonderful thing to remember. Here a few pics of the event...