Monday, February 14, 2011

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

Friday, February 4, 2011

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