A Cherry Merry Christmas!

The girls' woke us early today - 4:50am.I am guessing there won't be many more years of early wakings from excited kids, so I am happy to indulge in them for now. It's been a quiet relaxing day, just the four of us until lunchtime then Amie, Brendan, Ruby and Jonah joined us for lunch and the afternoon. As you can see from the photos, the kids got some great gifts and had a fabulous day!

Happy Birthday Ruby!!!

Happy Birthday to our beautiful granddaughter Ruby! NINE years old :)

Keeping Cool!

What do you do when it is 41 deg C? You hit the pools with friends!

More Christmas Decorations

A few more bits and pieces added around the house. I love the reindeer on the table, and the coloured baubles in the candle jar. The Christmas cards are starting to come home from school friends. Yummy treats are out to share. Fourteen days to go.

More shopping ...

We had to go to the Apple store today, so continued with our Christmas shopping while we were there. The girls bought miniature Christmas trees for their bedrooms, but so far they haven't made it there :) I sat down in various places and people watched. My feet were sore from all the walking yesterday, so I was happy to sit a few times and let the girls wander. It was pretty packed (as you could imagine) but everyone was so happy and no pushing which made it a very pleasant trip!