Wonderful Michelle, Caversham and Yanchep

We have just had a great visit from our friend, Michelle.  So nice to see a face from home, in the flesh and looking so happy and relaxed.  It really was a great few weeks which went far to fast!  Lets hope she is back soon :)  The kids and us really miss her, Finley keeps asking when she is coming back (although he is pleased to have his own bed back :p)

Having Michelle here gave us the excuse to do some stuff that we don't always do, so we went to Caversham and fed Kangaroos and to Yanchep National Park which we had not been to before.  So really this blog is going to be a lot of photos for people at home to see some places that we love to go to.

Firstly Cottesloe Beach (we heard as we were going for a walk there that 4m Great White had attacked a surfer up the coast a bit...no swimming for us then!)

We also managed to get out for a few meals with Michelle and Anna and i went to Mosmans for our anniversary meal, which was simply stunning, just what Anna looked like in her new dress.

 We also went to Caversham Wildlife Park to feed the Roos:

We also got Michelle holding a snake for the first time in her life and stroking other Ozzie fluffy animals:

And two tired boys by the end!

But also very cute boys!

We also went to Yanchep, which was lovely and saw turtles in the lake which was pretty cool.  We had great fun running around and generally acting our shoe size :p much fun and so good to let hair down with great friends.

So lots of photos and not a lot of me rambling on, which i;m sure you'll agree is a good thing! Hope you enjoyed the pictures :)

Belated Birthday Blog

Yeah i'm bad at keeping up but it has been a busy few weeks (well month really!).  At various times we have all been ill at some point.  Both boys have had tonsillitis, Marcus has had an ear infection and i've had both.  I got a week of work with being cruck (Ozzie slang for sick! - look at me getting the local lingo!)

Anyway on the 17th June we all went to Whiteman Park for the boys joint birthdays and tree planting :) The park has an area called the Childrens Forest and each year for the last 12 years they plant a new area of saplings with the help of the kids.  So we thought it would be something different for the boys and there friends to do.

Twas a great day all in all.  Everybody loved getting dirty and planting trees and each kid planted at least 3 or 4 trees :) If any one goes to see, Finley's and Marcus' are located 6 rows up and the first four trees in from the gate closest to the village.

As you can see the boys (and Daddy) enjoyed it muchly!

There was also face painting put on by the park so of course Finley got painted...Batman this time, spiderman is currently taking a rest from being the favourite superhero!  Mummy had done a fantastic job of getting a cake for the birthday boys and all enjoyed the eating of said cake.  Daddy cooked sausages and managed not to poison anybody which he considered a success for is first BBQ in Australia...yes it had only taken 8 months to get him on a BBQ!

Can't wait for next years...how do we top this though!!!!

Mangroves, Cuddly animals and Beach combing

Well yet again it's been a while but in general things are going good.  Anna is enjoying her job and is moving to a position with more responsibilty and more chance of a long term career and personal growth so fingers crossed for that.  We have had good news that the LAHFA is staying till October so that is helpful. 

I've been jetsetting around Oz, up to Darwin and Tom Price.  The Darwin work was hard amd hot but fun in the Mangroves.  Saw loads of stuff that stuff and learnt a lot that i never had reason to know to before.  Some photos for those who are not sure what mangroves look like :P

The other weekend we went to a cuddly animal farm where Marcus made friends with a few goats and calf.  Finley convinced Mummy and Marcus to go for a train ride and Finley hot legged it from the scene of a crash...

We also went to Amaze in the northern suburbs which was a lot of fun and letting Finley lead the way was an interesting experience.  Scott of the Antarctic could learn a few things from him i'm sure!

Today, being close to mid-winter we decided as it was such a nice day to go for a walk on the beach and see what we could find on the shore.  The boys had great fun picking things up, and of course Daddy got to carry most of it.  I have new found respect and sympathy for my Dad when I did the same to him :p we found loads of cuttle fish bones, rams horn snail shells and even a lump of natural spong which we are trying to clean and de-salt and slime, so we'll see how that turns out.

Tomorrow we are off to an American Fair, so that should be.