A Fun Week

What a busy but fun week. We attended the Annual Scouts and Guides Trivia Quiz.

The theme was the Olympics and Husband Deluxe was the MC.

Fuzzy Wuzzy won 'Player of the Week' for his amazing soccer skills on field.

He played goalie and didn't let anything get past him.

What a star!

Squealy has also been enjoying soccer but invariably he ends up absolutely shattered and freezing after his early morning game.

Poor little guy just crashes out wherever he can!

Deck Reno #3

 

 Rob and the boys got busy digging footings for the slab late last week. On the left are the footings for the stairs off the deck and on the right the trench for the footing on the long side of the deck.

Cool shot of the digger (again) lol.

Left: hole/footings.

The backyard is a total bombsite. The kids can't go out there at the moment. The builder said not to let them onto the digger. hmmmm major temptation but so far, so good. They've stayed away!

Deck Reno #2

 The first day on site Rob and the boys removed the small concrete deck that was original to the house and totally useless. It was so small you couldn't fit an outdoor setting out there.

 The slab gave them alot of trouble. In the end they had to cut it to remove it. Our home is built tough!!!

You can see where the existing deck used to be and they have also removed the footpath leading up to it!

Exciting stuff!

Kiama Family Holiday #2

 The dinosaur show at the Illwarra Fly by Erth was awesome. A show with huge puppets and audience participation. Our family got lots of audience participation. Here are some photos. Excuse the crappy photos, light levels were low!


String Bean patting one of the baby dinosaurs at the start of the show.

 Squealy had a giant dragon fly land on his hand (I was too slow with the camera).

Husband Deluxe had to stand up and dance :)







 

 Shep (the presenter) selected Fuzzy Wuzzy because he was 'brave'. He didn't even have to talk him into it, he was all over it.


He did look pretty confident to begin with.






 

Triumphant at the end of the head biting!

Kiama Family Holiday #1

 This is the view from our cabin while staying at Kiama, just a short walk straight onto the beach!
 

 L: Fuzzy and Squealy at Christmas in July at the Fountaindale Grand Manor.    

R: String Bean and Squealy checking out the lighthouse at the Kiama headland.

 
 L: Fuzzy at the blowhole.                                  R: the 'Little Blowhole' puts on a show.
 

 The Bombo Headland, which looks like something from a sci-fi movie.

 

 

 Here are some photos from our recent Kiama holiday.

Fuzzy Wuzzy get close to the python at the Minnamurra Rainforest.

Long Weekend = New Quilt

 Here is my latest quilt top that I completed recently.

The fabric used in this quilt was a real bargain: $5 charm packs x 3.

I'll be getting my friend Fran at Willow Patch Quilting to finish this little baby off for me.

Deck Reno #1

Ant and Petra + sledgehammer = noice!

Long time no blog. Master of Education sure takes up alot of my non existent spare time :) Anyways the revolting backyard is about to received a major overhaul worthy of a series of blog posts.

  L: Action shot of Squealy.  R: The old deck which is going to a new home at Alistair's place :)

 

 Husband Deluxe and Ant + splinter = poor princess!

 Our builder is starting so the massive job of demolishing our old wooden deck has commenced in such a flurry of activity, that I only got the chance to start taking photos after the boys had started... opps. Oh well not to worry.

Will def. be posting regular updates as the reno take shape. Can't wait to finally revamp our 'interesting' garden lol.