Well here we are another year seem to have missed last year completly it was a pretty full on year with Dylan starting a new School we were worried how he would cope and well we didnt need to worry at all he went ahead in leaps and bounds, loved the way he got to use the science labs and all the electives he got to do like woodwork textiles claymation and visual arts he just loved it.  He made some good friends and had lots of sleepovers throughout the year. 

July was a very sad month with the passing of Tony's Dad Allan it was and still hard to believe he has gone.

November saw us head over to Bali for a family holiday with a few friends all up there were 24 of us it was a very busy time was good but was a great time away and it was Dylans first overseas trip.

December and Mum and Dad came for Christmas it all started with her BIrthday on the 21st and then party after party after party.  Tony's beloved Hilux got written off on Christmas Eve which was just terrible luckily he was OK just a bit shaken. But left us with only one car.  Mum and Dad took DYlan back to Adelaide with them on the 29th of January for him to have a holiday with them and his cousins.  They spent a week on the Normanville caravan park that is the 4th year in a row Dylan has been down and has told up he is going again this year.  Tony joined Dylan on the 10th of January and spent 9 days with his Mum helping her do bits and pieces they had a great time and I was very pleased to see them come home Dylan after 3 weeks and TOny just over a week, yes a few tears at the airport (gee im a sook).

So now we look forward to a good 2013 one month down already and we still only have one car ahhhhhhhhhh .

Only a couple of weeks until Dylans birthday he is having a laser tag party something he has wanted for a few years now so hope it lives up to his expectations.

May will see me head to New Zealand for scrapbooking with Heidi Swapp Teresa Collins and Donna Downey OMG im so excited 3 legends in one place (and one place close enough for me to get to)

Next week's Thursday Class

Im Back

Well after nearly a year im back time fly's too quickly im sure, we had a great 2009 and now 2010 is flying past very quickly. Dylan got his new quad bike this week and doesnt he think he is it and a bit thats for sure.

Busy Busy Busy

Well we have had a very busy couple of weeks, lots of work around the house painting and cleaning out we will have to have a garage sale to get rid of all the extra items.
Dylan has been on school camp his first one and he had a ball, they all looked exhausted when they got off the bus, and his eyes were soooooo tired and he was starving hungry and hasnt stopped eating since.

We went out on the weekend and purchased a new lounge suite which is very comfy and very large it looks huge in the house will take a bit of getting used to but it is lovely to have a new one. The old one is heading to Dundee.

The other purchase from the weekend was a car for me woo hoo we bought a Honda Jazz it is very roomy and has 4 doors Dylan looks tiny in the back, Dylan and I picked it up yesterday and went driving around and when it got dark we were sitting in it opening and closing doors watching the interior light go out by itself (sad isnt it) but we had a good time.

Cooking up a storm

Friday night Linda Bev and myself went along to a healthy cooking with no fuss class, run by Activate NT it was free all part of the 10 week programme we had a ball i was red as from being at the athletics carnival all day but we wipped up a lovely pork stir fry the other dishes were lamb curry fish cakes frittata and chicken stir fry. Once we had all finished we all got to try them all and we even got a glass of wine. It was a great night hopefully we can get into the next one as well. linda summed the night up as "Gordon Ramsey meets Iron chef meets Ladetts to Lady.

Athletics carnival

Dylan had his Athletics carnival on Friday and i went along as a helper.

He started the day with 800mtrs and didnt stop running at all on the 2nd lap he started overtaking people. He followed this up with 400mtrs 200mtrs and 100mtrs, he also did the long jump high jump shot put and discus. It was a hot day but the day went quite quickly, luckily as i got quite burnt.

Easter

we went camping for Easter down to Dundee Beach it was a hot and sticky weekend but we had a ball. The kids really enjoyed playing at the beach in the rock pools and building sand castles.

We roasted marshmallows in the fire that i had to light as TOny said it was too hot for a fire so put all my fire lighting skills into action and had enough flame to roast a bag full.

We even had an easter egg hunt the easter bunny had found us and left some eggs in the esky for me to hide so after putting them into plastic bags to keep the bugs ants and dogs away from them the kids hid in the bathroom whilst i hid them everywhere they had a ball looking for them.