time

All is well here down under, the kids are growing, Greg is working, and I am slowly getting a life outside of the kids! Yay! It isn't a big life, still pretty small, but it is something. The kids are starting to play independently, and I especially like it when they take time to go upstairs and play! This all adds up to give me time... time to do what? It has been awhile since I had time to myself and it has taken me a little bit of time to realize what I want to do with this new found time. I can now scrapbook again, and organize pieces of my life again... boy that sounds a little boring, but it is not at all, I am so excited! I think that most surprising to me is that I want to tae the time to bake and cook. This last week I successfully made home made eclairs for the first time, cookies, and most impressively I made bread. The very first loaf of bread that I have ever made that turned out! And boy it tasted great. It was so rewarding to see it turn out.

In kid news, Lily and Oliver are doing great in swimming lessons, and we are working on them being okay in day care. They are busy little kids, and Oliver is catching on quickly to things that he sees Lily doing. They are always together, it is great that for the most part they get along so well. We do have our moments though, and Lily hits or pushes Oliver and he goes strait for her hair! Oh the fighting has began and life here will never be the same.

a picture of one of my yummy eclairs!

Our quick trip to Sydney

This is Jaffa and Lily, it was mutual love all around with this little dog!

Greg and Oliver on rocks at the beach

I think she looks so old here

Where in the world is Lily?

Ah there is a family shot... at last!

Happy Valentines Day!

To all we hope that you had a nice valentines day. We did here down under! Lily made Valentine cards, and decorated cup cakes with her friend Hugh. Greg and I had a nice quiet evening after the kids went to bed. He bought me some beautiful orchids, so he did really well. I really love having flowers in the house, it surprises me how much.

We had a pretty uneventful week this last week, except for getting back from Sydney, which was nice. We took Lily and Oliver bowling with friends on Sunday, and that was a lot of fun. They had a great time rolling the balls down the ally. We then went out to lunch, and that could have been smoother, we have a few things to work on there, but it wasn't only the kids, it took forever to get the food!

One of Oliver's little friends broke his arm falling off a coffee table last week, poor baby. He has a cast now and it will stay that way for a month! Then I turn around and see my kids on the kitchen table! They are such little monkeys and it drives me crazy!

Hopefully later I will post some Sydney pics, Happy Valentines Day to all

Feb starts

It is the start of Feb. and I can hardly get my head around the fact that we are already this far into the new year. It seems to have taken off with a bang and hasn't slowed down any. We started swimming lessons this last week, Oliver isn't quite sure about the lessons, and Lily doesn't like to be left in day care by herself (without her brother). But when Lily has lessons it goes pretty well, she loves the water and is fearless in it, and Oliver has no problem being in day care by himself! Go figure...

We went camping last weekend at 90 mile beach, which is about three hours away from us. It was hot and we only went for one night, so it was a lot of work@! not to mention very dirty. But we had fun, and the kids did pretty good all things considering. The beach was cool, Lily and Greg had a great time playing in the surf, you can't go too far out past where the water breaks because there are sharks in the water! We didn't see any thankfully. Oliver got nocked down by the surf, swallowed a little salt water and got a bit upset, poor baby. So for his temper tantrum he decided to throw himself face down in the sand, he was totally covered! He had sand everywhere, but he wasn't the only one, I don't think my car will ever be the same again.

Tomorrow we are headed up to Sydney to visit friends and have a little vacation, we are looking forward to it, Greg is going on to New Zealand from there, which means I get to come home by myself with the kids. I just bought a framed baby carrier at a market that I am going to use on this trip, I hope it works as well as I imagine it to. Wish us luck and I will blog when we get back