Charny Carny

Yesterday the family and I attended the Charny Carny. It is a fundraiser for my school, the local catholic school and for Guides and Scouts! Everywhere I went I either bumped into kids/parents from school and girls from Guides.

String Bean and I did a stint on the ice cream van. Performing community service is a big part of Guides and String Bean enjoyed collecting the ice creams out of the fridge.

The kids loved getting up close and personal with the reptiles. They got to pet lizards, turtles, a baby crocodile and a snake too.

Soccer Carnival

String Bean played 4 soccer games today at the annual Catholic Schools Soccer Carnival. 1300 players from the local and surrounding districts converged on the Uni of Canberra playing fields for the day.

Given the rainy weather the night before I wasn't sure it would go ahead but we ended up with beautiful sunny weather today.

Our school was the hosting school so alot of organisational effort went into making the carnival the huge success it ended up being. You get this opportunity once in 21 years!

String Bean and her team: Team Awesome! Delia scored 1 goal and the manager said she is a natural soccer player!

Towards the end of the day during game play String heard her name being called... she ended up winning the raffle and scored a pink Nikon Coolpix camera and memory card! A lovely end to a perfect day :)

Pride and Prejudice

Steph aka Lizzie, second from the left. Photo from CT.

Canberra Rep are putting on 'Pride and Prejudice' and my friend Steph is playing Miss Elizabeth Bennett. How exciting!

I'll be going tonight with a gaggle of work friends and Husband Deluxe.

Wordless Wednesday

For Karen

A friend flicked me this today ;)

I didn't really have a blog post but needed to get rid of the hot chips blog post title!

Slushie's and Hot Chips.

Not overly multi-cultural but that's what our girls wanted to eat. We went to the multi-cultural festival on Saturday night with friends and enjoyed ourselves with half of Canberra. So packed it wasn't funny!

The festival has gone from strength and is just huge now compared to how little it was when I went as a child. Nice to see the festival evolving over time.

First Day

Schools started off well this year. The first year when all 3 are at the same school. Oh the joy that brings! All three are happy with their respective teachers and we have quickly settled into the 'at school' routine.

During the holidays Squealy received a letter from his teacher. It was so cute, as it asked him to send her a picture. This is what he drew. Squealy is on the right. His teacher is actually blond :) Loving the smiles!