Super Packed Weekend

We headed into Melbourne early Saturday morning to pick Kayla and Zac up from the airport. Their flight was slightly delayed. After getting them and all their luggage (lots more came home) we headed off to find Calder Park Raceway. For Christmas we gave Chris a voucher for a V8 Supercar Drive. It was icy cold and overcast. We sat outside and froze (the things I do to get some photo's) the two girls had to go back to the car, they were so cold. The boys however, were not letting the cold stop them from watching Dad - GO REALLY FAST!




All suited up and ready for action.

Waiting his turn - it was amazing how many people were there.

If Jarred could of, he would have been a passenger.

Finally in the car



Off and racing............................


Totally awesome was his reply when getting out. "Can you buy that again for me?"

We then headed into Melbourne to find where we were staying. We had an apartment in Brunswick, a few hundred metres from Lygon Street. We put our stuff inside and went for a walk down to Lygon Street to have some dinner. We were all cold and hungry. We found a lovely Italian Place called "Crooners". If you are ever in Melbourne and want a great place to eat, make sure you check this place out. The food was amazing. Everything we ordered was delicious. We all shared our dishes around. We walked back and watched a movie (thanks Uncle Paul) Well we watched 1/2 of it - we were all exhausted.

Sunday: We went on a tram ride



These two were so excited about going on the tram

And after two tram rides and LOTS of walking we found the Museum.



They had a special exhibit called "Hatching the Past" All about dinosaurs for our dinosaur crazy boy. It was fantastic - very hands on. We all loved it.













We had a super quick look around some of the Museum - Kloe in the olden day house

And of course Kayla wanted to see Phar Lap - this horse is huge.

In the afternoon we took the kids to see their first live footy match at the MCG. Sydney Swans V Hawthorn. It was a Hawthorn home game. Heaps of Hawthorn supporters. We had fantastic seats. Kayla was cheering very loudly, unfortunately - it didn't help. The Swans lost.

Another Tram ride around the city. And Lots, and lots and lots of walking. We walked along Lygon Street past all these lovely places to eat....nope the kids wanted to go back to where, we had dinner the night before. We didn't complain. The food was just as good the second night. We were all exhausted by the time we got back. We watched the 2nd half of the movie and went to sleep. Monday it was time, to hit the road and return home.

It was a super, jam packed weekend.

Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday to my Daddy - It's his special day today.
Wishing you a great day xoxoxoxo

More.............

Some very overdue photo's

A very unhappy girl - ready for her 'old fashion' day at school. She looked so cute.

Jarred had a concert to finish the term at Kindy. On Wednesday he was a kangaroo and on Thursday he was a Zebra

Jarred's Birthday present from Oma and Opa.


Jarred's Birthday party

Celebrating the 'June' birthday's together.

Recent pages

All of these pages were created using a kit.

I'm still here

no, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

My scrapbooking and card making, have taken over any, spare minute of time, I have. I had another page accepted by Scrapbook Creations. I also decided to submit some of my cards, to see if I could get them published. I sent four off on Monday and I got a 'Yay' for all four. Three they want, straight away and they have asked me to do a series of dinosaur cards, like I made for Jarred's birthday.

I have also done some creating here http://www.bluebazaar.com.au/index1.php. Got a pack of Chatterbox paper to have a play with. There is another layout I did for them which (fingers crossed) might appear on their portal page tomorrow.

Kids are having a ball in Sydney with Oma and Opa.

The weather has been COLD (nothing new there) but we are loving our fireplace. The house is so warm.

Otherwise all is good.