Clean-Up Thursday

Ella was in desperate need of a small bookcase to put some bit and pieces on beside her bed. Since she moved bedrooms, she really hasn't had anywhere in her room. Most of the books and toys are in the spare room on our huge bookcase, but she has a few special things that had just been dumped on her dressing table making it very untidy, so we set off this morning in search of a six cube one. We found the perfect one at Officeworks for a great price. I didn't have fun putting it together as the electric drill was flat so I did it the old fashioned way and I am now sporting a huge blister :(
Anyway it's all done and Ella had fun putting all her treasures on it.

A favourite Christmas present was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Doc even whistles as he goes off to work :) So cute! She just needs a Prince Charming now.

Ella with her most loved Christmas present - A Barbie Campervan! Complete with Barbie, Ken, Skipper, Staci and Kelly! She plays with it everyday for hours!

I went to see where Kate was as she was very quiet. I found her playing with the lego house and other bits and pieces she got for Christmas. It's great for some quiet play time. I love the concentration on her face!

A Day at the Pools

Seeing it was another hot day, we headed out to the pools today for some relief. The place was packed though, meaning we could hardly move. The girls saw some of their school friends there, so had a wonderful time with them.

Happy (early) Birthday Phil!

We celebrated Phil's birthday a couple of weeks early as he heads back away tomorrow morning after 3 weeks at home. His birthday is on the 18th but he'll be away until early Feb so today the girls made him a chocolate cake. They made homemade cards and gave him $21 worth of scratchies each which he won a few dollars back on.

The gilrs enjoyed the cake and ate 2 big pieces each!



I think Jonah had the best seat in the house!

Happy 4 months Jonah

Meet Oscar

He was Ruby's birthday present a couple of weeks ago. He may look cute but underneath lies a ratbag! So don't be fooled.

Amie was sitting quietly on the couch minding her own business but Oscar had other ideas!

Busselton, Western Australia Dec 09 - Jan 2010

fun in the sand!

We had a wonderful time camping in Busselton, all coming back a bit weary. Days were spent at the beach which was walking distance from the camp, the pool and hanging around the camp with the many friends we made. Lots of books got read, but apart from that the kids played all day every day outside. It was our first visit to Busselton, and a place we will definitely go back to. It's very clean and the folk are so friendly.

the big slide was alot of fun - they were on it for an hour and truly exhausted by the end!

enjoying an ice cream

Off to walk along the jetty

Ella clinging on for dear life at the bottom of the jetty

both girls jumped many times off this little bridge

Ella spent many happy days digging in the sand

We had a day trip to Pemberton to have a look around. It's a lovely old quaint town about 1.5hrs south east of Busselton. Lots of forests with trees you can climb. We went to the bicentenial tree . Kate wanted to go up to the first platform but it was too dangerous. She was pretty disappointed as she loves nothing better than to climb! They were allowed to go up a few steps each. You have to come back down backwards so I can't imagine them going any higher. Phil went right to the top though. Me? I like my feet firmly on the ground.

After the climb we visited the Lavender Berry Farm where we had a delicious lunch outside. The girls then got to feed the Alpaccas.

Ella before we walked into see the tree


Kate & Ella went up a few steps




Phil standing on the ground looking at how high up the tree is

The girls waited for Dad to come back down

Phil climbed right to the top of this tree. It was 25 metres to the first platform and another 50metres to the top. He said it was pretty scary going up! He came back puffing a bit :)

Ella took this gorgeous photo of Kate in the garden

The girls loved feeding the Alpaccas

Our caravan

Ella, Emma, Abbie and Kate
a final farewell