Random events

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. This post will mainly be photos of all the things we've been up to lately! I won't do too much writing though!

So we've been going to the river lately! It has been delicious!

Caitlyn

Joey and Caleb having fun posing! =P

French Toast! It was the first time we'd tasted them, and they were SSOO yummy. Can't wait to make them again! =)

The cooks!

The cheeky monkeys! =P

Soo, thats what we've been doing lately!! Hopefully I'll get around to writing another post soon!

Of brothers and bunnies

Here are a few photos I took the other day of Joseph and Caleb playing with our newest rabbit. He is the only rabbit we kept from the last 2 litters, but I'm very pleased with how he's turning out. He's part of my Silky Lop development project and judging from him the overall progress has been excellent. I'm really excited about the progress and I hope to do a blog post about the whole project when I have more time and photos.

For now, photos alone will have to suffice:

The 'marbled' effect of the colours on his coat comes as a result of his coat growing back in patches after being shorn (I shaved his coat off a couple of weeks ago to keep him more comfortable in the summer weather and to make his long, soft coat more manageable and matt-free.) I think the marbling effect looks quite nice, but it is inclined to look a little untidy at times.

I regret to say that I somehow forgot, over the business of last weekend, to post a blog on Joshua's Birthday! I feel terrible. Anyway, I'm going to do a late one, since doing one later is better than doing none at all. =)

So Happy 19th Birthday Joshua!!! Our family hopes you had the nicest day possible! May God bless you for the blessing you've been to our family. We hope you have another good year at Newcastle Uni.

Fun events!

So lately things have been pretty busy! Fun busy though! ;) On Saturday the 8th, we went to Canberra for a homeschoolers Sports Day organised by the Roberts Family which we all thoroughly enjoyed! We got there at 3:00 p.m., and started the games soon after, which we all enjoyed! I'm really annoyed because I hardly got any photos, and the photos I did get were all really blury or bad quality because it was too dark, so I'll post my best ones up! =) Our family had a wonderful time though! It was soo good to see everyone again! =D So, here are the photos!

Caitlyn and Sophie

Doing Poison Ball
Charis and I

So those are all the photos from the Sports Day!

Yesterday Caitlyn and Myself went to my Friend, Maggie's house for a "Craft and Baking Day" which we both thoroughly enjoyed! Some other girls also came so we were 9 people all up! We had fun doing craft from 9:00 a.m. till 12:00 a.m., where we all just did whatever craft we had brought. Caitlyn and I had brought Card-making equipment so we did that the whole morning. Some other girls did Crosstiching, others did Scrapbooking, while others did Card making! It was a lovely atmosphere!! =) After lunch we cooked the afternoon tea, so we split up into 'teams' of 2. One team made Butterfly Cup-Cakes, and the other team made Chocolate Ripple Biscuits! Both turned our fantastic, and beautiful, but since we had to cut off the tops of our cup cakes for the wings, they sort of fell apart, if you can imagine that! You'll understand when you see the photos below!! Anyway, here are the photos!

Lucy

Maggie and Lucy looking through a scrapbook

Emily, Larissa, and Lucy

Maggie and Hymne

Cate, Larissa, Lucy, Maggie, Hymne, and Abby

Indy

Hymne working on her Beanie

The lovely Magdelene

Emily, hard at work! ;)

The best of the Butterfly Cup-Cakes all finished! =)

The Chocolate Ripple Biscuits
Having fun playing piano

Emily with the cap she'd been putting patterns on!

Ready to eat afternoon tea! =)

All the delicious food!

Some of my finished cards

So that concludes this post! I'll be posting again soon! =)

Christmas

Hey everyone, this is Emma here! This post will be about our Christmas in Sydney with Mum and Dads families. We traveled up to Sydney on Thursday the 23rd of December and arrived home on Monday the 27th. We all had a great time catching up with our Grandparents and relatives! =) Some of the photo's are pretty bad quality though, so sorry about that. I also actually only have one photo of mums family on here, and thats the one of Ken and Brayden, so they're all mostly of Dads family... =) We spent Christmas Eve with Dads side and Christmas Day on Mums side. Cricket is a tradition that we do each year with Dads family, but unfortunetely I didn't get any photo's... =( Oh well! I hope you enjoy looking at these photo's anyway! =)

Caleb doing his crazily energetic smile and myself Joey, very excited to start bowling! =P

Brayden and Ken playing cards

Part of all the food at Grandma's house Judging the Reindeer masks! =)

Tim and Joey!

Well thats all of them! I'll be doing another post of our visitors soon! =)

Happy Birthday Caleb!

Happy 3rd Birthday Caleb! I hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks for being such a cute, sweet, little brother and wonderful blessing to our family! =)

Relatives

Hey there! This is Emma posting again! =) So on Sunday night our Cousins family and wifes sister arrived here to stay till Thursday morning! So this will be about them and what we did with them! We had a great time! Their two kids, Mia (3) and Timmy (4) were SO cute, so we enjoyed playing with them!

Mia and Joey

Joey playing with his 'plastic war men' ready to attack! ;)

Timmy

Ok, on Tuesday morning we went to Thredbo for a BBQ, so here we are at the Thredbo River, and Josh is obviously being himself, having fun, and making a dam! =P

Getting there!

Joey and Caleb decide Josh needs help! =P

Bradley

Checking out the water!

The water was very iccyy, but so beautiful and clear!

Mum and Katherine

Little kids having fun! =)

Time for photos!

Checking to see the other wasn't doing rabbit ears! =P

Mia and Joseph

And of course... Soccer....

The Cooks! Hard at work! =)
Everyone eating lunch

Thredbo Village

Cricket!

Timmy

Caleb and Joseph

Mia and Timothy

All together! =P
At Thredbo there are bobsleds, so we went on them, and they were ssoo much fun! =P A couple of my brothers (no names) went mad on them, and decided to scream the whole way down! It was so funny! =P Anyway, this picture is of Matthew,
Brad, Joey, Matt, Josh, and Myself being towed up! =)

Well! Thats what we've been up to! I hope you're all having great holidays!