Ella and her tricks!

My girls love the trampoline! They are out there at every opportunity. They turn the music up and do all sorts of tricks that I used to be able to do, a long time ago. They fight over who had the longest turn. Yesterday while I was out the back, Ella came and and jumped for ages. Kate was busy watching something on tv, so Ella had plenty of time to flip about!

Happy Birthday Littlies!

From this to ...

this!

Happy FIRST BIRTHDAY Happy Feet and Muffin! (Phoebe in the background!)

Easy Chocolate Slice - Perfect for the Lunchbox!

1 cup Vita Brits, crushed
1 cup self-raising flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup coconut
2 Tbsp baking cocoa
150 butter, melted

Preheat oven to 180 deg celcius. Line & grease a 20cm x 30cm baking tray.
Combine vita brits crumbs, flour, sugar, coconut and cocoa in a bowl.
Add butter and combine until all ingredients are moist.
Press into tray and flatten using the back of a spoon.
Bake for 10-15 mins, then cool in tray for 5 mins.

ICING

2 Tbsp baking cocoa
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
Coconut
1tsp softened butter
1-2 Tbsp hot water

To make icing, sift cocoa and icing sugar, add vanilla, butter and enough water to form a spreadable consistency. Beat well until combined. When slice is cool, pour chocolate icing over the top, dust with coconut and leave to set.
Cut into pieces.

Enjoy! 

Mother's Day 2013

Well another Mother's Day is over. It started early for a Sunday with Ella waking us up, which was fine. We went out to the lounge room and had a hot chocolate until Kate got up. I got lots of lovely gifts from my 3 girls - flowers from Amie last night as I wasn't sure I would be seeing her today, from Kate and Ella - two boxes of chocolates, two Kangaroo Paws from the school stall, a new mug, and a gorgeous chicken doorstop! We visited Ikea during the day(and met up with Amie and the kids) and bought a few goodies for the house!

Out the Back!

Ebony-Rose is settling in beautifully. She's so friendly and cuddly, just perfect for the girls to spend time with.

We have finally had some decent rain which the chooks don't really like. But they did love being able to find a warm sunny spot in their run this morning!

On Wednesday during a storm, Phil added some more protection to their coop. We ran out of shade cloth, so the rest will have to wait until next time.

 Got to love Muffin's face! She's nearly grown all her feathers back now, so should be feeling much better soon!

The garden loved all the rain we had! The passionfruit is doing well and the veges I planted nearly 2 weeks ago are thriving!

Back to school!

The holidays are over! They went too quick! Kate is in full winter uniform for Term 2 and 3. Doesn't she look smart! Not the best photos due to the sun, but we didn't have time for better ones this morning!

 

And this is a photo of Amie taken in 2002, notice the blazer logo has changed?

Gosh, don't the years fly by!

Oh and Ella didn't want a photo taken today.

Moulting

Muffin is the first of our chooks to moult. She's only 11 mths old, so quite young still She's not a happy camper at all hiding away from the other chickens and from us!

I've read that picking them up when in moult causes them pain. It's a bit like lying on a bed of nails for them with new feathers poking through.

She's been loving all the extra protein - scrambled eggs, tuna, sunflower seeds and meat scraps. She's stopped laying eggs for now which I'm pleased about as all her energy needs to go into growing new feathers!

Outing with Friends

Today we met up with good friends (the girls dance too!) in Northbridge at a lovely little old fashioned theatre to watch First Position. It was wonderful, something I would highly recommend to all those that love to dance!
There was time to play at a near by playground before and after the movie. All in all it was a lovely day out!