While I Blogged Last Night

Dave did some more of this



and it followed on today, they all played with it several times today.



Also making the worlds longest Thomas Set Train ;)



There was some of this



Yep that is Elizabeth and here is Dave



Today I received this amazing card from my Online pal Linda, thanks I LOVED it!



Picked all of these today, our biggest crop yet!

and they were yum ;)

And speaking of yum, here is OUR tradition for New Years Eve. We have a Yum Cha style dinner, with finger food, then the girls get to watch a movie, this year it was Barn Yard, which is what Megan had received from Santa, we ate popcorn, cheezels and M&Ms.

Sometimes we play board games as well but this year they were all tired and ready for bed after the movie, so bed it was :)

I hope 2009 is a fantastic year for you, with lots of learning, lots of growth and lots of laughter.

From me and my lot to you and your lot, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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From The House Of Thomas

the tank engine that is...

For Christmas each of the girls received, from Santa, some Thomas Train track, to add to their stash of Thomas stuff. Today the pulled the whole lot out.

Trains

and track

and built a track that went around the whole house, yes they had that much and then some!

The narrow stretch down the hallway

past the kitchen, over what I call Fridge Mountain

and then right back through the lounge room.

They all had a ball, some more than others RIGHT DAVE??!!!

Today I spent 2 hours at the hairdressers, my goodness 2 hours! I had my hair cut and coloured as well as an eyebrow shape and lash tint. Here are the results

So now I am all ready for the wedding on Saturday ;)

While I was gone Dave took the girls to the Dr's as we think Lucy has whopping cough too. She has had a hacky cough from time to time for the last day or so and we are guessing that it's whopping cough like my sisters kidlets. Lucy is now on antibiotics so hopefully the cough will soon be gone.

While I remember here is a sneak peek at the goodies I created for Scrap-n-Crop with their January kit which goes on sale on the 1st

you can see more in their gallery.

and it is with sadness that I read just now that my online blog buddy Beverley has passed away after a suspected bleed on the brain. Such a shock, will miss her and am thinking of her family and friends.

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Christmas and Birthday Round Up, Plus A Bit More...

Thank you for all the well wishes, I had a lovely birthday :)
For my Birthday we took chicken and chips to Mum and Dad's for lunch, easier on them as they were busy picking raspberries. In the afternoon Allison and her mum dropped in for a visit with this gorgeous bunch of flowers.

a phone call from Bron later in the day, which made me cry, and that made my day. Miss her lots and it was nice to hear from her all the way from London.

Christmas Eve...

Last minute grocery shopping

Making Reindeer food, rolled oats and glitter.

Secret Santa-ing our friends

Putting out sacks

Leaving some food, a drink and some notes for Mr Claus

Christmas morning...

Started a little after 5am with Megan coming into our room, we told her to go back to bed lol 5.45am we were up to find this...

which was attacked with glee

and by 6am it was all over the lounge room floor ;)

after breakfast Dave dragged this outside, Megan thinks Santa dumped it on the lounge room floor cos it had a dent in the box ;)

then the setting up began

this is what some little people found to do while they waited

Almost there...

can you tell they were excited and eager to have a go??!!

then it was assembled and ready for use.

Youngest went first

Lucy knew exactly what to do and loved it



Mentally Insert Photo of Elizabeth here... she didn't want to get on, then gingerly did only to turn around and get off again. Since then she has been on again and again, as they all have, so still to get a photo of her...

Jessica

and Megan

Lunch was an interesting time... my sisters two little girls have whopping cough so I had rang around on Christmas Eve Day to book Opa and Dave's Aunty in somewhere for lunch. I found somewhere so that meant we could still have Mum, Dad, my sister and her littlies here for lunch. After lunch we attacked the presents under the tree.

We then attacked it again for round two with Uncle Samuel (Dave's youngest Brother), his girlfriend, Opa and Dave's Aunt.

Boxing Day...

We took Dave's Dad, Aunt and the girls and headed out on a road trip so that his Aunt could see more of Tasmania. We went to visit Tarraleah, which is about 90 minutes from here.

27th...

Just before Christmas our dishwasher decided to start leaking, so while Dave's Dad and Aunt were off visiting other people we took the girls to buy a new one,

we have since discovered the old one was a 1976 model so it's little wonder it was tired after all our Christmas dish washing request!!
We also took the girls to spend their gift vouchers that Uncle Samuel had given them. This excited Megan because we gave her this for Christmas

so she bought this

and has spent much time doing this

28th we spent the day around home and said goodbye to our overseas visitor, as she was heading home to Holland

29th, today, we said goodbye to Opa, before he drove home, and then spent the rest of the day playing with more of the Christmas gifts.

My sister gave the girls Elefun, butterfly catching game

Santa gave each of the girls a game too. Elizabeth was given Tumbling Monkeys

I gave Dave a waffle maker

and tonight he made us some, they were very yummy!

I have been making some of the pages in my December Daily album, slowly but surely!

So will leave you with these

Pulled apart my Gloria Jeans paper cup and cut it up for this page

Used parts of my December Sweet Spuds kit for this page, thankful I finally had some Christmas themed odds and ends to play with

Hoping that things quiet down a little for the rest of the week before Mum, Dad and I fly out to Western Australia on Friday. My youngest brother is getting married over there on Saturday. It's hot hot hot over there right now so I am praying for a cool change lol a MUCH cooler change!

Ok this has taken me almost two hours to put together and now I'm outta here :)

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