Melbourne show 2008...

On Wednesday to help Gracie celebrate her 4th birthday, Joanne, Helen and I along with all the kids headed out by train to the Melbourne Show. The weather was perfect, the crowds were huge and thanks to the kids for being so well behaved, a great day was had by all :)

I can't believe that it has been nearly 10yrs since I last went to the show. Not much has really changed except for the prices of the rides. We actually found one ride that was $15 per person per ride and believe it or not had a queue to get on. CRAZY!!!



Bella wasn't too sure on some of the rides and I can't really blame her. My stomach was doing somersaults just looking at them. LOL (I think I am getting too old for this kind of stuff??)



This was the monster truck show that Riley just loved. There was no way you could wipe the smile off his face :)



They even had some stunt bike riders. One had even riden with the "Crusty Demons" which was pretty awesome.



This was the ride that Bella was looking at in the first picture. Now you can understand why she is trying to hide behind her hands. LOL



Declan, Riley, Gracie and Mitchell just loved the little roller coaster. Bella and Piper weren't so keen.



Ahhhhhhhhhhh! On our way home. Considering we caught the 8.22am train and didn't get home till about 4pm, the kids did really well.

Thanks Helen and Jo for a great day. Maybe next year we should leave all the kids at home and all the parents go for a night out to the show????

Caroline xxx

 

Where has the time gone...

Sorry to all for me taking so long to updating my blog, but I just can't seem to find the time to sit down (with out being pestered). Anyway all is good and here we go...

I just love this photo that Helen took of all the kids on father's day. They are looking in different directions, have different expressions on their faces and all the colours seem to blend. Definately one of my favourites :)



We headed to mum and dad's for a Father's Day BBQ which was nice and relaxing, well for the dad's anyway. And couldn't go without taking the kids up to the park to lose some of excess energy. Helen thought that it looked like too much fun and didn't want to miss out, so here is an action shot of her attempting to slide down the pole.



I think I am going to be shot for posting this picture but Oh well :)

 

 



The other week I witnessed a beautiful sunset, but when I took the photo's the colour of the sky just didn't seem to come out on the camera, then I came across this shot and I just love the way the sky starts off light and then slowly darkens to almost black. The Southern Cross pointer stars just finish the photo off nicely :)

 

 



Last week Bella's kinder had the mobile farm pop around which was loads of fun. The kids got to make butter and cuddle all sorts of cute little farm animals. It is so hard to explain to the kids not to squeeze the animals, but I think Bella did a great job for her first time :)  It was a shame that the rain started and the fun was short lived but I think all the kids had loads of fun anyway?

 

 



The other day Bella wanted to wear her shorts, but as the weather wasn't the warmest this was the closest she got. LOL  To top it off they both wanted their "superhero" capes on and as it was blowing a gale outside, had an absolute ball with their capes blowing in the wind. Not too sure what the beanies had to do with it? 



My two beautiful little "SUPERHEROES".

Our QLD holiday...

We're back!

As most of you know we headed off to the Sunshine Coast in QLD last week for a well earned break and had an absolute blast.  We managed to find some apartments which were central to everything and only a 5 minute walk to the beach, and the manager so kindly gave us an upgrade to the rooftop apartment which meant 4 flights of stairs, 4 suitcases, 2 strollers and 2 toddlers. We certainly got our daily workout thats for sure :)

The flight up was interesting as Piper started screaming to go home as we started walking up the stairs to board the plane and didn't stop until about 10 minutes in the air. The stewards were great and tried their best to distract her and then had to repeat the process for landing. Luckily for us she wasn't as bad on the journey home as she knew what to expect.



 

We didn't plan on doing to much while away, just as long as we got to Australia Zoo.  I'm not sure who was more excited, me or the girls?  The place was amazing. We got to feed an elephant, cuddle a koala (and no he didn't pee or poo on me but gee did he stink.), see the tiger cubs play and yes we saw the Irwin's. Even if it was from a distance it was still very exciting.



The remainder of our time was spent on the beach, strolling the streets and doing the touristy things. But most of all we got to spend alot of time as a family ( Yippeeee!!!  :), and neither myself or Brett wanted the holiday to end. 

Till next time

Caroline xxx