Christmas Day 2009

We all had a lovely quiet Christmas yesterday. The girls woke around 6am which is actually a sleep-in for them, especially on this day! Opened their stockings first and were very happy with their loot. Then we opened the presents under the tree. Amie, Brendan Ruby & Jonah arrived late morning for lunch, which this year we cheated and had Woolworths make us up some platters. They were very yummy and hassel-free. Might do that again next year. Especially seeing it was a 36deg day. Too hot for cooking and eating hot food. Kate's favourite present was the lego. She spent all day and well into the night assembling a house! Ella loved her Barbie Campervan, that and he dress-up Tinkerbell shoes. The girls finally fell into bed around 10pm!

We are off camping for a week today, so Happy New Year to you all! Stay safe!

Ruby turns the BIG five!!!!!

Where did the time go? Five years has flown by. She had a lovely day celebrating her 5th birthday, with lots of gorgeous presents including the doll house you can see in the background.
It doesn't feel like 5 years on one hand, on the other she is wise beyond her years and it feels like she's been around forever!

Happy Birthday beautiful girl.
We love you!

Chocolate Cupcakes

I made these easy peasy reindeer cupcakes for the girls to take to school for their class parties. We only managed to fit eight on each plate, so there was a few left at home for us! They were quite delicious!

What's been happening?

In no particular order ...

• Four more days of school for 2009. They have both had a great year making lots of new friends and learning plenty of new things. We don't know which teachers they will get next year yet, but I'm secretly hoping Ella will get the Year Two teacher Kate had last year. Fingers crossed.

• Five more sleeps until Phil gets home for a well deserved break. Seven weeks away seems like an eternity.

• The girls are excited about Christmas. They have lists a mile long, I'm hoping they will be happy with what they get.
  

• We are off to Busselton on Boxing Day for a week camping. We are so looking forward to regrouping as a family before no doubt, another hectic year.

• Ruby turns FIVE on the 21st. Fulltime school for her next year!

• School Christmas Concert this Wednesday night. I'm looking forward to seeing what the girls have been working so hard on the last few weeks.
  

The new look Ella

This sweet little girl has been wanting a fringe like forever. Well about a year anyway. I'm not a fan of fringes on girls - they constantly require trimming and it's hard enough to get to the hairdressers for a haircut a few times a year without going every six weeks for a fringe trim. Plus with doing dancing, especially ballet, all their hair needs to be off the face. far easier when it's all one length. Anyway after much begging and lots of being good, I gave in. So here she is looking very proud!

Concert 2009

The girls had a wonderful time at their end of year concert last Wednesday night! Here they both are in their tap costumes, looking very bright and colourful. They both had four costumes each which was a mission in itself keeping track of all the bits and pieces! They were both very tired wee things by the end of the second night (they had a full dress rehearsal the night before) the collapsed into bed. Now a break until classes start up again at the beginning of February!