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

January

I feel like I should start this post off with a Happy New Year, even though it is VERY late!

I have been feeling very anti computer lately, I just haven't had the drive to get on to even check my email! How horrible is that. I am back now, so hopefully the posts will start coming again! The month of January seemed to go by so fast, a very busy month.

We started off the new year with a trip up to Adelaide and the wineries there. We drove up in two cars (my mum and dad and sister were here for the holidays) and flew back- thankfully. It was a lovely trip beautiful country, and the kids were surprising well behaved at the vineyard tasting rooms-well for the most part. Jordyn left when we got back, and Mum and Dad stayed on for a few more days before Dad left to go back to Africa. Mum stayed on for a few more weeks, which was terrific, It was easier on us all to have everyone sort of trickle out instead of a mass exodus. I know that Lily and Oliver miss all the attention from all of the visits in the last few months. Lily's vocabulary has jumped from all the extra people talking, and Oliver... well he is a little copy cat of his sister right now, it is cute to watch him follow and copy Lily.

Last weekend we had our first family camping trip, down on 90 mile beach. What a beautiful beach, lots of waves, with a pretty big undertow. Greg and Lily had a great time, Oliver got knocked over and that was it for him!

Well that was it in a nutshell for January, we are now on to Feb. I can't believe it! Where is the time going?

I really will try to do better at updating.