Dad's 50th

Here's a few grids I made up from some photos at Dad's 50th
People hanging out:

Carissa being cute and Dad and the boys blowing out the candles.
Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Zarna's Baby Shower

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A fab fun night

And, yes, there was Lemon Meringue Pie there

To CeLeBrAtE The reTuRn of KARIN :)

What a Feeling!!!

Colour, Game's, Pea's, Osculating, The Break-in and Graves

Hey Chipmunks and Hippo's

COlOur

Colour was fully awesome and inspirational. The speakers were annointed by God and the worship was phenomenal. There were 17,000 girls in there, packing out Sydneys Acer Arena, all loving God. There were some powerful moments and cool memories.

And I got to see Colleen, Sarah, Josiah and Zoe. They are so cute! (kids and adults).

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Pete did a mad job with the kids for 4 days and did heaps of housework. WHAT A MAN! Leave him a comment to cheer him on and continue to encourage him in the housework department...

OuR GamE NigHt

We had a cool time staying @ Deb and Katie's FunKy FLaT. On Saturday night we played Taboo in honour of Deborah's birthday. We started late and played until 1:30ish. As you can imagine, we all went a bit silly (even my mum and Coralie).

Pea's

Our famous Clairey's "Peas with Corn" became innoncently and accidently morphed into "Peas In Porn" which I yelled @ the top of my lungs (worse than my typos!). We were all in sticthes. (I was trying to says Peas in a Pod, but mixed it up with Peas with Corn).

Osculating

In Taboo, Mum gave us a clue to guess her word: "To Osculate" we went crazy when we heard it meant to kiss. I have lived my entire life not knowing this word! Seriously, can you imagine getting all romantic and saying "Let's Osculate!" or telling your pals about your osculating experience. he he he.

Overall a memorable event, as always. Why are things always much more exciting after midnight???

The BreAk-In

In other news, yesterday I locked myself out of the house, with Carissa stuck inside. The backdoor slammed while I was bringing in the washing. No spare key as we had given it to the carpet drycleaners. The neighbours were out so I ran to the Plumbing Joint, rang pete @ work (who said he had no key and to break in). Was organising the break-in with a largish plumber dude, when a kid of the secretary pulled up, home sick (a student I taught computers to last year). He came back to our house with us.

We contemplated knocking the from door in, but managed to get the bathroom window open and the 9 yr old boy climbed through (thank goodness he was there! It's only a small window and despite my love for MacGyver, I am no Macgyver). Meanwhile Carissa was happily going through my handbag and had been helping herself to biscuits from the fridge. The boy has been boasting of his adventures around the school that he broke into Mrs Rees' House.

Grave'S
NOT so good news @ my speacialist yesterday........ Am trying to stay optimistic though :)

At least Pete can't catch it through Osculating!

The Thyroid (our butterfly gland)

To the Original Gumnut!

To the Spunkerific Totally Awesome Fantabulously Cool KaTiE "LiTtLe GuMnUt" CaRtWriGhT who graduated from Mercy Ministries!!
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We are all pumped, all PROUD and really EXCITED u made it! WhOoOoO HoOoO!!!
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I can't wait to c u in a few weeks a give u (& u know this is BIG coming from me...) a HUG!

Until then, keep Toobing on :)

Jesse and Reuben

I mentioned the coolest Trish Thomas in my 50 Questions post (The ultimate cool chick and awesome friend). We met @ a playgroup in Redcliffe - she was visiting for the first time and I was too. Everyone thought our boys (Reuben and her boy Jesse) were twins. It was pretty funny as we had never met before. Even after we had been going for 6 months, people still couldn't tell them apart (I think they were just lazy with trying...). Here are a few pics of Jesse and Reuben together. (From the archives: April 2005!)

They do look pretty different, but it was cool anyway, because everytime we went out people were always commenting and asking if they were twins (I think it was mainly the hair...) Jesse starts school this year, the same as Sam. Here are all of our kids hanging out together. Sam, Reuben and Jesse, and Bridget and Carissa (November 2005).

Karin - You're my Hero!!!

Thanks Karin for the post dedicated to me. I am feeling very honoured.

These are for you:

Cadbury Chocolates for the New Hero in Town!!

This picture turned out really huge! It's a bit overwhelming!

For BOB

Hi Bob!

Sam has been busy today (friday). He made a book called "My Family". It has 8 pages and 2 of them are about you! The book was about our family hanging out in our home, and there you are in our front and back yard! The pictures don't do it justice. There's your beard in both and a crazy looking turban hairstyle! In the pool one you are relaxing on your back. Maybe you should come over and have a swim with Sam in our blow up pool! he he he! Great swimmers (a smiling sun!)

Caption: This is our front yard and Bob is visiting us

(Click on the pictures to enlarge)

Caption: This is Bob in our backyard pool

And Now: (*drumroll*) To all my Faithful Fans!!!

A Big Thankyou for your awesome messages in the guest book at my artwork blog. It's great to see you guys drop by with your insightful comments! Thanks especially go out to Brad Pitt, William Wallace, Jonah, Papa Smurf, Dorothy the Dinosaur (I'll take a rain check on the dance!) and Ghandi. Keep up the good work!

Oooops, nearly forgot you Paris Hilton - cute little comment you left! Thanks!

What we've been up to

On wednesday (last week) we had a lovely visit from The Hodgson Family (Tony, Karen, Daniel, Amy and Bessie). They came to see us all the way from Beautiful Brisbane. And while they were down, they had a holiday in Sydney and Taree and went to the Dubbo Zoo too! We had a cool time catching up, realxing with a bbq and watching them make a fool of themselves on the Eye Toy ;). Here they are below:


Then, as a suprise pop-in visit Pete's Mum and Dad, John and Colleen dropped in on Sunday, bringing with them food and fun as always. They were having a relaxing holiday touring around the Central West (they went to Dubbo Zoo as well). I think they needed the action, excitement and drama of my 3 kids so they could greater appreciate the peace they have without us. Why are my kids SO noisy!?!!

My sister Deborah has been up for a few weeks holiday. She's a crack up! She came over on Monday and helped us swap the kids rooms. Sam and Roo are now up the back of the house in Carissa's old room, and she has theirs. It looks heaps better. The photo below is Sam and Carissa playing Duplo in the boys old room before we switched it all. Both rooms are heaps bigger now, with different furniture etc.

We had a mad dessert and games night @ Nick's house on Monday night. Refer to Deborah's post (click right here) or Karin's post (click here this time) as I can't be bothered writing anything more about it, even though it is worthy of a mention.

Deborah has now returned to Sydney, (it was so cool having you here Deb!), we will miss her heaps. We hung out a fair bit, playing games, watching movies and bludging around in general.

Pete has returned to work, so it's back to me and the 3 kids at home. Anyway, Ciao!