In Loving Memory...

To our 2 beautiful boys,

We love you, we miss you and we will definately never forget you. xxx

 

Tribute to a Best Friend...

Sunlight streams through window pane
unto a spot on the floor....
then I remember,
it's where you used to lie,
but now you are no more.
Our feet walk down a hall of carpet,
and muted echoes sound....
then I remember,
It's where your paws would joyously abound.
A voice is heard along the road,  
and up beyond the hill,
then I remember it can't be yours....
your golden voice is still.
But I'll take that vacant spot of floor
and empty muted hall
and lay them with the absent voice
and unused dish along the wall.
I'll wrap these treasured memorials
in a blanket of my love
and keep them for my best friend
until we meet above.

Our Beautiful Boys...

Happy Times...

Lots of little things have been happening over the past few weeks like parties, overseas visitors, bbq's etc and decided what better way to reflect on those few weeks then with a collage of my favourite photos :)



My Uncle John arrived out from England last Friday which was very exciting as it has been at least 12 years since I last saw him. Mind you he was only here for 2 days before Mum and Dad whisked him away to Eden for a week. They arrive back tonight and I am looking forward to catching up with him some more before he heads back in a couple of weeks.

This week Brett and I came to a very hard decision to defer Isabella from 4yr old kinder so that next year she can start off with a lot more confidence.  We have been umming and ahhring since last year as to what we should do, but decided to give her the first 2 terms to see how she goes. The thing that made the decision hard was that she absolutely loves going to kinder and has so much fun, but unfortunately she is not quite there socially :(   The hard part now is to decide whether or not we pull her out at the end of term 1 or 2? Luckily she has a place in a deferment kinder group so that she will still be at kinder 2 days a week and with kids her own age rather then heading back to 3yr old kinder with all the young ones.

Hope you all have a great weekend :)

Caroline xxx

"Love the Beast"...

WOW! It's raining again :)  It is so nice to hear the sound of constant rain drops and the cars driving through puddles. lol

We have actually had a pretty slow week this week so far. It started off with a quiet long weekend and other then the usual not too much has been happening.

Last night Brett and I headed out to the Coburg Drive-in to see the Premier of Eric Bana's new movie "Love the Beast".  I saw the trailer for the movie a few months ago and thought that it looked really good, and it was :)  Thanks to a mate of Brett's we managed to get 2 free tickets, so off we trundled in the Hot Rod (my choice in car).  As we were driving down the Highway we could see the storm in the distance and decided that now might be a good time to put on the roof, and what a good idea it was as we caught the tail end of the storm with lightening and loads of rain. We got a little damp but that is all part of the fun :)



If you didn't love Eric Bana before you will after seeing this flick. Definately worth a look. LOL

Well off to kinder duty I go :)

Take care

Caroline xxx

Frightening...

Well Mother Nature striked again last night with a frightening earthquake that measured 4.6 on the richter scale. It doesn't seem like much but when your not use to them it is quite scary.  

Brett and I were sitting in our recliners ready to catch up on some TV when we both found ourselves looking out the back window and watching it rattle. I then realised that my chair was shaking and it was actually an earthquake and not a truck about to come through the back fence. We both headed out onto the front porch were it was very eerily still when all our phones started ringing. I suppose we all just wanted to make sure we weren't going mad and need to confirm that everyone else around us felt the same thing. LOL

Anyway no after shocks were felt and nothing damaged. The only thing we found was one of the coats had fallen off the hook by the front door.  It made a quiet Friday night a little more interesting. LOL

On some happier news, I would just like to congratulate Dean and Caroline on the birth of their beautiful daughter "Samantha Mae" who was born on Thursday afternoon. After many years and lots of heartache their dreams have finally come true :-) 

Take Care

Caroline xxx

Mother Nature...

I know it isn't much but how lovely is this change of weather?  One minute it's 30+ degrees with 100k/h winds and the next it's a chilly 16 and pouring with rain. I know a lot more rain is needed for us to get out of this drought, but lets just hope it's enough to help extinguish these horrible fires that have tormented our state for the past 3.5 weeks, and give our fire fighters, SES and all other volunteers a well earned rest.



It's sad to get excited over 12mm of rain but considering this is our first rainfull for 2009, any amount is worth the excitment :)

Caroline xxx