Wednesday Update

Hi all,

Yes I know... I missed doing the blog on Monday. Sorry! So here is the next installment.

We had another busy weekend. I think Nath is just about ready to drop as between work and home he hasn't had a break in weeks. We bought another bookcase on Saturday. (Any of you that had seen our study would understand why we needed to do this) So after staining the big back room's skirting boards (tell us why we built such a big room) we built said bookcase and started to move some of the books off the old bookcase so that Nath can find what books he is looking for and they are not stacked 3 deep. Nath finished off the back room staining on Sunday and then we rearranged the study. It is amazing how swapping bits of furniture around a room you can get more floor space.

My cold has developed over the past couple of days so that we should have bought shares in Kleenex with the amount of tissues I have gone through. I am looking forward to the day that I have a cold and can actually take something besides panadol for it. What with last year being pregnant and this year feeding. Sabrina is also suffering with a cold. Maddie is getting over hers and Nath hasn't got it and hopefully doesn't.

Here are a couple of pics to keep you all happy. I know I promised in the last blog to take pics of the girls carpet however, it doesn't photo well so you will just have to visit to see it.

Sabi is now paging me so I better go.

Love

Annette

Love

Annette

PS We went to the clinic on Thursday last week and she was 6.2Kg and 60 cm long definitely getting bigger!

Well its Monday again

Hi all,

Well its Monday again! They are coming around way to quick. I finally have my voice back. It didn't really make an appearance till Friday last week so this made for interesting times with Maddie who can't read hand written notes yet so there was alot of charading going on. As we were all sick over the last week we didn't really do anything of interest during the week and saved it all for the weekend.

On Saturday Nath and I went to one of his work mates wedding. It was a gorgeous day bit windy but that was OK. They had the service on Shark Island and the reception at Pier One. Very Flash!!! So we had to be at the wharf at 1.45pm to get on our boat to go out to the island. Kim looked stunning. Just after the vows and while they were signing the register a pod of dolphins decided to come and frolic in the waters around the island. This made it very special as not everyone could say that they had dolphins at their wedding. Kim said afterwards that the dolphins had actually joined her when she got in the water taxi to go out to the island and had followed them out. Maddie and Sabrina had a Nanna day. Big thankyou to Mum!!! Even though I called a couple of times to check on them it meant that we could enjoy our day out as well.

On Sunday Maddie had a birthday party for one of the boys in her preschool. It was held up at a play centre in Penrith. She had an absolute hoot as you can see from the pics below.

Sabrina has started gripping onto and "playing" with her toys. Note the outfit is actually the one that we took photos in whilst we were still in hospital (see blog on 14th May) we have grown just a little.

Here is another pic of someone playing with her Dad.

Today we are getting the new carpet laid in the girls rooms. I will show you pics next week.

Have a great week.

Love

Annette

It had to happen

Hi all,

Thought I had better update the blog as it has been a while.

The Mackay's are unwell! Maddie got a cold last week and had to miss a day of school (one very UNHAPPY CAMPER!) She kindly shared it with Sabrina and me, with Nath coming down with it by the end of the weekend. Today has been an interesting day as the cold has caused me to lose my voice. Maddie and I are getting better at charades whilst Sabrina can't understand why I won't talk to her. She has been exceptionally cute trying the get a reaction. She is starting to roll from her front to back ie. if you put her down on her front she can flip herself over. This one is not as scary as the other way. So I am please she is learning this one first so that when it comes time for the other she can get herself out of trouble.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been busy catching up for meals with some of the relos. On Friday 27th July we hosted a dinner party for the parents and parents-in-laws to help us celebrate our 10th Wedding Anniversary. (Can't believe it has been that long... doesn't feel it some days). We have also managed to finally catch up with David, Janette, Kathryn and Danielle. Was great to see them. It had been a bit of a saga finding a date that 1. we could do and 2. all were well enough to do. And yesterday we caught up with Andrew and Karissa for lunch. There was also a chance that Nath was having to go back to NZ for work this week but fortunately he didn't need to.

We have been busy once again around the house. Seems like this is what we do around this time of year. On the weekend we went and choose our carpet for the back rooms and the girls rooms. Hopefully the girls one goes down this week. As for the back room we need to finish staining the woodwork. (Much to Nathan's horror that we are not painting it but my argument is that the rest of the house is stained and so the new section should be too). He has filled in all the holes in the back room and so now only has to do our room and the robe. We also need for the weather to be just a little bit warmer so that the stain will go off. Then we will be able to tell the guys to come and lay the carpet.

Besides this we have just been surviving. Will write soon.

Love

Annette