The Countdown

The girls are pumped. Concert time is nearly upon us. Two stage rehearsals are out of the way. Tonight is dress rehearsal, yay, finally a chance to wear these beautiful costumes on stage! Concert nights next Tues and Wed, can't wait to see our beautiful girls shine and doing what they love best!
Six costumes for Kate, Five for Ella and Two for Ruby!

In the Backyard

It's a busy time of the year around here leading up to the end of year concert for the girls' dancing school. Extra practices, stage and dress rehearsals, bits of sewing to be done, accessories to buy, naming to be done. Lots of naming. So it's nice to be able to take a breather and get out the back. While I was picking from the garden for a salad, the girls played nearby on the trampoline, the chooks wandered and had a dust bath, even Gordon the Cat came out to join us. Happy times!

Let's Go Fly A Kite!

 The girls had a 'kite maker' come to school today, talking and demonstrating different kites from around the World. The kids then got to make their own kites, and parents were invited to come and watch them fly them! The weather was perfect for it!

Kate with her kite

Ella and her kite

More Eggs!

 Our biggest egg yet! We thought the 79g one a few weeks ago was big, they just keep getting bigger! Which chook will top this?

Cheap!

Ruby at School

Ruby with her classes work

Tonight the girls and I headed down to Rubys school to check out their Italian Exhibition. There was lots of beautiful artwork to see from each classroom. Every year level also put on a singing item, all in Italian of course! Very beautiful. We then shared pizza which was made by WA fastest pizza maker! A very enjoyable time!

Rubys lovely drawing!

Waiting patiently ...

Some of the Year Twos sing!

The kids play on the beautiful oval with Rubys friends while waiting for the pizza to cook!

Out in the garden!

pretty pansies

red geraniums

tall tomatoes

pretty chook

awesome nesting box

huge snow peas

lots of tomatoes

first limes appearing

strawberries

more pretty chooks

School Disco

The girls (and Ellas friend Karri) loved dressing up for the schools Halloween disco last night. Lots of fun was had by all! Plus a headache after all the music!

Cute boy, Cute chicken

I found these on my camera today that Kate took of Jonah on Sunday! Cute!!!

Power-Less Day!

We knew a few weeks ago that today our power would be off between 8am and 4pm while poles were upgraded in the next street.
The girls are fortunately at dancing for a good chunk of Saturdays so I only wanted to find a couple of extra things to do instead of sitting inside when the temperature outside was expected to reach 35 deg.

So before dancing, we checked out the opening of a local primary school (not the one our girls attend) community garden. It was pretty busy when we arrived just after 9am. I managed to pick up a few things but not as much fresh produce as I would have liked, However we all had a good time.

Most of the primary schools here now have vegetable gardens and chickens. The classes all spend time working outside which I think is fantastic. I would have loved this when I was at school!

While the girls were at dancing, I came home and packed a picnic. We headed to Churchman Brook up in the hills. The heat was pretty fierce though, even with a breeze and the flies ... oh boy!

By the time we got home just before 4:30pm the power had been restored! Hooray!!! Hope you all had a happy Saturday too!!!