A time to Celebrate!

What a wonderful week! It started with a celebration of sorts and ended with all of us still on a high. Monday the children were celebrating because it was a student free day. No school is always a feel-good day! Tuesday night we attended a Sports Awards Night for the school where Yaz picked up 3 awards for her efforts and achievements in every sport she's been in this year...swimming, cross country, athletics, soccer and touch football. This area of school is her forte for sure!

Wednesday I was cheering as the night class Iam doing at the moment has been SOOOOO boring but this week we got to dissect a heart! This was so fantastic! I had an absolute ball with the scalpel and got into every portion of the heart. Right up my alley...

Friday Dale and Cass arrived in the evening which we have all been waiting for for such a long time now. It has been so great seeing them. It is their anniversary this weekend so they decided not to stay with us but have an apartment in Redcliffe where they could have some 'alone' time...but we will see them everyday they are here, which is only until Tuesday anyway.

Saturday Bailey had cricket in the morning so I took him to that while Ian had a huge sleep in as he was knackered from his previous day at work with total driving time being around 14hours straight! Poor thing! Bailey's game ended up being called off as a flash down-pour came through but it was towards the end of the game anyway so we didn't miss out on much. After we got home, Dale and Cass came over for a while and then we took them down to Scarborough for the famous 'Morgans fish and chips'. It was yummy as usual but as we were sitting there in the open eating, a flash down-pour hit us again and we got soaked! It was quite hilarious actually and we quickly scoffed down our lunch and then made a dash for our cars in the terrential rain and wind. We then drove to their apartment where we dried out and even had the heater on as we were cold. After a cuppa and a long over-due chat, we left them to it and came home for a quiet night in with some hired dvd's.

Today we were up and ready with a picnic packed and headed up to Montville, the little village in the middle of nowhere that is just so quaint and gorgeous! Cass loved it! We wandered around the boutiques/shops for a couple of hours and then decided to head to our fave place...Mooloolabah! It was such a beautiful afternoon and we wandered around the shops...again...had coffee and sat by the waters edge. All this time I have been telling Dale and Cass that they would be very happy up here and how I think they should move. Cass seems a little bit easier to convince than Dale I think. We had a great day out. I took loads of photos for them as they forgot their camera. It is just so lovely to see them again. It just makes you realise how much family mean to you and just how much you miss out on when you're not with them. I wonder if I'll ever get over it?

Tomorrow I will take them to the shops as Cass is a shopaholic and if there is time I will give her a massage at work. They want to check that out also. Then I will make some thai for Dale as he loves that.

I feel on such a high at the moment having them here. I will cherish this weekend for such a long time and look forward to Shane, brother number two and his son Julian who are comiing up in December for 10 days...a time to celebrate again!

Nothing to write about...

I am sitting here looking through my diary wondering what happened this week for me to write about. Mind you I have been in the sun all day and am feeling a bit exhausted plus as Ian will tell you, my memory is very vague! So I ask Ian what has happened this week and he rattles off quite a few things so here they are!
Bailey has started swimming lessons with the school on Tuesdays with the first being this past week. He has also changed his outside school swimming lessons to Tuesday afternoons as they were originally on Saturdays but now that cricket has started up again it would have interfered with the lessons-I'm sure there was an easier way to explain that...oh well! Anyway, what I was getting at was that Bailey ended up having three lessons on the Tuesday as there was the one at school, a catch up one after school followed directly by his normal lesson. Where am I going with this I don't know...

Bailey had his 1st game of cricket yesterday. He was so excited and played quite well. He ended up getting three wickets and his name published in the Queensland Sunday newspaper which came out today. He looked great in his new gear...forgot to take the camera though! He then had a friend stay over the night last night so had a good day overall.
We also got the results back from an annual school test that Bailey had to sit a few months back and he has done extremely well, getting well above the National average in all areas so we were very pleased with that.

Ramses celebrated his 5th birthday on Friday by an early start...3.30am adventure outside, followed by his favourite food for breakfast, a day spent sleeping peacefully, recieved a new collar and a new snail toy in the afternoon, followed by a lovely meal.

Today the school held their annual 'College Carnival' which included rides, stalls, food etc...Yaz had to be there at 7.00am to start making pizzas to sell, then I took Bailey and his friend there for the opening at 10.00am. The first ride that Bailey went on made him feel quite ill, which isn't generally like Bailey as he is one of those kids who can go on rides all day long. He went on a few more after and then after one that went around and around for about 10 minutes non-stop, he got off and nearly collapsed in my arms. I took him somewhere shady and cool to sit down and he guzzled down a big bottle of water and felt just awful. He had to line up for the rides for up to 1/2 hour each in the full on sun which I think is what did it, so I phoned Ian, who had decided not to come up and he picked us up and Bailey then rested on the couch for a while watching wrestling. Not long after Yaz phoned me feeling queazy also so I had to go and pick her up too. She was supposed to be staying at a friends tonight but doesn't feel well enough. She is now asleep on the lounge. Yaz's problem is that she doesn't drink water and just had soft drink all day which I told her not too but children never listen to their parents! It's probably a good thing that they both have tomorrow off school as it is a pupil free day, so they will be all rested and back to their healthy selves again on Tuesday.

I went out to the local tavern on Friday night only for a couple of beverages with some friends. It wasn't a late one as I knew I had to get up bright and early for cricket but it was nice just to sit back and relax with a cider or two.

Only one more week to go before Dale and Cass arrive. We all can't wait. They are here for 3 nights, not staying with us but somewhere in Redcliffe, but we will be taking them to our favourite places over the weekend to persuade them to make the move up here. I will try and make Queensland as irrisistable as possible for them. If they move, then surely Mum and Shane will follow?! That's my plan anyway. Also this coming week Yaz will be awarded a sports award or two at the annual 'Sports awards night' on Tuesday. We are looking forward to this, so there should be a few photos on next weeks entry and in my facebook albums.

Rained Out

The end of this week brought us some well sought after rain. It was beautiful. The only down fall with it though was that it unfortunately rained off Bailey's first cricket match of the season which he was very excited about. He was up early Saturday morning and came in and woke us up, fully dressed in his whites, had his hat on and was all washed and ready to go. Then the phone call came from his coach telling us about it being cancelled and he was disappointed. Yaz on the other hand had a touch football tournament that went over three days, Thursday-Saturday which still went ahead despite the rain, so we had a very soggy Saturday! The tournament was held in Brisbane at a place called 'Whites Hill' and I had to take her there on Thursday and Ian had the duty for Friday. Saturday we all went, plus 1...Yaz's friend Sarah came along too after staying at ours the night before. It was such a wet day so the brolly was out and we ended up escaping to the local shopping centre in between matches. Unfortunately the team never made it through to the finals but they played well and improved each match.

During the week plans were made for myself and two friends whom I used to work with about 16 years ago in a record store, to have a weekend together. We used to have so much fun and went to all of our 'meet and greets' with each other. One was always the designated driver as she was a uni student at the time and the sensible one. Myself and Michelle were always out for fun and ended up becoming the best of friends. Kylie, the sensible one, stayed in Sydney and Michelle moved to Townsville. The last time we saw each other was at Michelles 30th a couple of years back. All of us now Mothers and leading serious lives...to a certain extent...Anyway, Kylie and I had been instant messaging each other on Facebook and we just happened to mention how good it would be to see each other again...next thing you know we had contacted Michelle and flights were booked and we are now having a weekend in Brisbane in November together. It has been so exciting organising it and hearing everyones eagerness to catch up. It should be a fantastic weekend of shopping, a few drinks here and there and no doubt hitting a karaoke bar or two. This will be the first 'girls' weekend I have ever had...well since I went camping with friends when I was 16. Unbelievable huh?!

During the week I have been finishing off an assignment, working and getting my webpage made up for work. Ian has been working, Yaz and Bailey have just had their usual school stuff and sport. Not much to write home about actually. Today was a typical Sunday, a lovely lye-in, Ian mowed the lawn and read the Sunday paper, I stayed in and did an assignment and some grocery shopping, the kids just mulled around bored, playing the wii, doing homework and going on the computer and then we finished the day with a lovely roast beef dinner and this weeks blog entry. It is now time to go as my new favourite show is just about to start, The Mentalist which I'll watch whilst tackling my huge ironing basket :( ... Have a great week xxxx

Birthday Bashes!!!

There have been quite a few birthdays to celebrate this week...Sarah, Hayley, Darren, Nigel and James! Happy birthday to you all! Unfortunately we couldn't celebrate, for obvious reasons, with James and Nigel, but as for the other three a good time was had by all! Sarah and Hayley were a day or two apart so a few of us got together for a b.b.q at Shorncliffe where the children, (not mine as they were still in N.S.W.), but the others just took off and made the most of the park and sea side. It was a really lovely day and such a beautiful spot, although the wind picked up towards the afternoon and I got bit chilly, but we ate our b.b.q and birthday cakes, which we couldn't light candles for because of the wind, but we had a lovely time.
Darren celebrated his 40th birthday with a surprise party in a local hall. It was quite hilarious seeing everyone dress up in their pop/rock themed outfits with some going all out as to wearing coloured contacts to perfect their outfit! Ian went as Sid Viscious, I went as Brittney Spears, Yaz went as Hayley from Paramore and Bailey didn't want to dress up so he was himself! Other 'famous' people that were there were Siouxsie, Bob Marley, Freddie Mercury, Shakespeares Sisters, Boy George, Kiss etc...It was a laugh and we all had a bit to drink and I'm dreading seeing some of the photos.....It was so much fun dressing up though and now we have to organise our outfits for our next dress up event-Halloween at Sharons house!

The children came back from N.S.W. on Thursday evening and both Ian and I were at the airport eagerly awaiting their arrival. They were glad to be home but had a great time. I don't think Mum wanted to say goodbye to them which never makes me feel good. I am still trying so hard to convince her to move here!

Ian went back to work this week and is now feeling very knackered again from the early mornings and long days, although it won't take him long to get back into the swing of things. He is pretty much all healed up now from his operation too which is good. No food limitations anymore!

I went and did something on Wednesday after work which I regretted instantly but now am feeling pretty good about it...I got my nose pierced! A pretty random thing to do I know but it is something I guess I've always wanted. It's a bit big at the moment so I am really looking forward to being able to change it to a teeny tiny stone where you can hardly see it. If I don't like it at least it's reversible and I can take it out.

Today Ian went and took Bailey shopping for his cricket gear for the start of the new season next week, so he got his pads, bat, gloves trousers etc... It was also Grand Final day for the rugby league so we sat in this afternoon and watched Melbourne get smashed by Manly, with the exception fo Yaz who had no interest whatsoever! After the game I then went for a run as I'm trying to get fit. I'm running about 4km each time and can only just make it which is terrible so will have to stay motivated and stick at it so that I can maybe enter the Bridge to Brisbane run next year with Ian which is 10km...that's our goal anyway. Whether we'll achieve it or not who knows! xxxxx