My Easter Bunnies

Hi all,

Hope you all had a great Easter and enjoyed spending time with family and friends. Here are a couple of pictures that I took of the girls on Easter morning. The Easter Bunny delivered bunny ears and toy rabbits to our house as you will see.

We celebrated the Easter Sunday with Mum, Dad, Louise and Michael having a BBQ in the back yard. It was a very enjoyable way to spend a Sunday afternoon. After lunch Nathan swapped the swing set combinations around so that Sabi could also enjoy a swing. As you can see she does enjoy it.





On Easter Monday we packed ourselves off and headed over to Jill and Bruce's for a Webber roast and catch up with Terry and Lyn, Steven and Deepa and their little one Amy, Andrew and Karissa and of course the hosts. It was great to catch up with them all again.

Quick update... Nathan is still super busy at work. Maddie is now up to List 18 in her sight words and is loving school and is getting over her cold. Sabrina now has 2 teeth (if you look carefully on the first picture of Sabi on the swing you can actually see them), is crawling lots, starting to pull things off the furniture and is coming down with a cold. (oh how I love it when they get sick... NOT!!!!) and I am surviving and haven't got the cold yet, touch wood.

Catch up with you again soon.

Love
Annette

Jill and Bruce's 60th Birthday Party

On Friday night we held Jill and Bruce's 60th Birthday Party under our outside entertaining area. It was a really good evening. There was Jill, Bruce, David, Janette, Kathryn, Danielle, Pam, Zoe, Hayley, Andrew, Karissa, Marjie (Karissa's mum), Nathan, Maddie, Sabrina (in spirit as she was already in bed) and myself. Fortunately the weather was relatively kind to us and whilst jackets were required it was not too blowy, cold or wet.

Andrew did a Weber of roast meats whilst Nathan cooked up the baked veg in the oven and on our bbq. We had birthday cake and cheesecakes for dessert.

Here is a pic of the birthday cake that I made for the birthday boy and girl.

And a couple of pics of the birthday boy and girl.

Love
Annette

The Boats!

As you may have read in blogs further down, Nathan and I went out on a B and B sail boat on the weekend of the 23rd February. It was absolutely perfect. We could not have asked for a better couple of days. It was sunny but not hot, breezy but not windy or rough. Nanna and Pop kindly watched our girls while we were away. I think they all had a good time (well they tell me they did). We caught the train in and had lunch with our friends from Melbourne that were up in Sydney to see the Cunard ship - the Queen Victoria. (Oh did I mention that she was in Sydney on the day that we chose to do the B and B. I am taking credit for the day however if the truth be known I didn't know until after we had booked it.) It was great to catch up with Silv, John and Mon. We then caught the light rail around to the fish markets (wasn't as good as what I remembered from years ago when I last went) so that I could get some prawns for the boat. At 4.30pm we got to our boat. A 38 foot cruising yacht called Sha Meduza.

Here is a couple of pics...

Craig, our skipper sailed us around for a little while past Queen Victoria so that I could get some pictures. She is one huge vessel a definite to go and see.

Then he moored us in Balls Head Bay for the night and left us to return again at 9.30am the next morning. It was such a perfect night that we were able to eat our platters (part of the package) up on deck and enjoy the city lights.

The next morning Craig returned to fetch us and then take us back to Darling Harbour for breakfast at a local cafe.


All in all a brilliant weekend. A once in a lifetime, must do experience.

Love Annette

Here is what the girls look like this week.

Hi all,


As it has been a little while since I have put up some pics of the girls here are a couple.


News time...


We survived the week and weekend!!! It was one huge week and weekend for us beginning with the boats (I will do a separate blog for this) and ending with parties galore on the weekend (separate blog for this one too), with all the prep work in the middle. Needless to say I am hoping to get back into my normal week pattern this week and catch up with all my friends.


Maddie now has her home readers happening and so every afternoon we now need to read and journal comments in our home reader manual. (I thought blogging was all the creative writing that I would have to do... ha!)






Sabrina now has a tooth!!!! After a sleepless Tuesday night we cut our first tooth on Wednesday afternoon. When it is fully through I will attempt to get a pic of it to prove that it finally happened. She is also getting bolder every day. She now knows what the word "No" means and chooses to ignore it completely. If you retell her no then she promptly waves at you as if to say "I am going to do it anyway and if you don't want to see me do it then you may wish to turn away now."




Have a great week.

Love
Annette