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)

ThE ScRuMpTiOuLiCoUs KaRiN PaRtY

Last night we had a little PaRtY to CeLeBrAtE the return of the KaRin to Parkes.

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Nick says it is "The Curse of Parkes" that draws people back here to live. Hmmmm......

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As usual, our game night parties involve NuTriCiOuS and ScRuMpTiOuLiCoUs food.

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We attempted to play trivial pursuit, but we all so utterly hopeless we couldn't get anything right. (After half an hour, only one team had got one peice, so we sheepishly ditched it).

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Had a mad time playing CRANIUM. No need to say which team won, as NICK & I are extremely modest and we know everyone else gave it their best shot. Good on ya guys, you all deserve an Encouragement Award! (he he he).

FBI Sleepover

On Saturday night we had a sleepover for the older students in our FBI Sunday School Class. They are all really cool kats and they were heaps of fun. They ate SO much food!!! We had 5 pizzas and 10 Litres of fizzy and my entire kitchen bench was covered in junk food they brought as nibblies. I wish I had taken a picture!

They munched their way through:

• multipack of Crunchies
• mutipack of Cadbury Boost's
• Block of Cadbury Crunchie chocolate
• packet of clinkers
• 2 x 250g bags of M&M's
• Bag of Cadbury Dairymilk balls
• 20 choc-coated icecreams
• multipack of Sniggles milkytop biscuits
• big bag of Kettles chips
• giant packet of Starburst Joosters
• Big bag full of Redskins
• Packet full of Chupa-Chups
• 8 Cream-filled chocolate cupcakes

That's all I can remember offhand. Did I mention that this was between SIX kids? Well done!!!! (Pete, Nick and I only had a smidgen on the side). Needless to say, they had a GRAND time indulging and watching movies. There was not a scrap of food or drink left over!

The 4 girls and I went out to get the movies and pizza. We got a stack of movies, too many to watch, but that was part of the fun (We got through 5 movies). It was pretty easygoing, 2 chickies fell asleep @ 12:30 and the rest stayed up until 4am. Impressive for primary school kids.

Reuben came out in the morning and put Barney on LOL while they were still sleeping. Here's a few pics:

BTW, FBI stands for Funky Believing Individuals. We have 12 in the class. Our Sunday School is AOK - Agents Of the King. The Infants class are CIA - Christians in Action. And the Creche are COPs Children Of Praise.

Here's a pic of Carissa when she woke up from her nap, just because. She's looking a little on the scruffy side. I have to wake her up everyday now to go and get Samboy from school.

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!