Wow! What a chilly weekend it was. I must say that I do enjoy this kind of weather when you can lock yourself indoors with the heater going and not do too much. But sometimes it is also nice to get outside amongst the cold and wet and have a little fun :) So on Sunday we decided to have a little family outing and headed up to The Dandenongs hoping for a little snow action, and as you can see The Dandenongs did not disappoint.
The girls have never seen snow before and I was a little curious as to how they would handle it, and they LOVED IT! Bella just couldn't wait to get amongst it and all she wanted to do was "throw and catch snowballs." Which I must say she did very well as both Brett and I coped a few from her. LOL! Piper too enjoyed herself, especially when it came to the puddles. At one stage she was ankle deep (thank goodness for gumboots) in the water and ended up with pools of water in the folds of her jeans. She seemed to be having fun and didn't complain so we decided to leave her to it.
Seeing that both girls loved it so much, I now want to take them to Mt Donna Buang where they can enjoy a little more snow and even go tobogganing. Oh well, we will have to wait and see?

The scenery was beautiful and it's amazing how different everything looked when covered in snow.
A few months ago my sister Helen bought me this small cross stitch from Spotlight as it had cherries on it, and I finally decided to give it a go and this is the outcome. I don't think I did too bad, especially being that I have never done a counted cross stitch (blank canvas) before.

(excuse the photo quality. A bit blurry I know)
Bella has now requested that I do one to hang in her room, but only if I can find one small enough as they are very time consuming and I don't have much spare time :(
Stay warm.
Caroline