Archie is 2

cake time

bed time !!!

Happy Birthday lttle man

Today Archie is two
Happy Birthday
Thank you for bringing so much joy and laughter into our lives.
you are a unique individual. you love your food, you are independent, stubbon, strong willed but you have a great sense of humor and are lots of fun
i love you

christmas drinks and Archies 2nd birthday party

CFA Santa

every year the local CFA have santa on the back of their firetrucks. they PA christmas carols out and the children can here it for miles. its exciting wondering when santa will come down our street, young or old we are all out on the street waiting for santa and his bag of lollies!! merry christmas to the speacial CFA volunteers that keep us safe especially in summer.

Archies 2nd Birthday

today we celebrated Archies 2nd birthday. we had a party for him and we also had Christmas drinks. it was a great afternoon/ night with lots of fun, food, friends, laughter and wine.
Archie had a special day. the party went on around him and he spent most of the time in the sandpit playing happily with his toys.
He had a tractor cake, as he LOVES tractors, and instead of lolly bags there was an Archie tree, everyone took home a reindeer cupcake inspired from here as well as some magic reindeer food and reindeer decoration for Christmas next week.

family christmas

family christmas

i am very blessed that i get to spend Christmas with my family every year. john only has his mum and we usually spent Christmas night with her, so i am free to spend Christmas lunch with my family. this year is the alternate year when other members of the family go off to their respective partners for lunch. i am an only child but my mum and her sister are very close and i have 4 cousins that are like my brothers. growing up we spent all birthdays, Christmas, Easter, mothers day, fathers day together and we had a family beach house at sorrento so all holidays as well especially Christmas. so really its like having 4 brothers and now its great as they refer to themselves as my boys uncles. it warms my heart to know that i have got a great extended family.
the sat before Christmas we all get together. this year my cousin Stephen had it at his place. we had a really relaxed casually afternoon full of good food, laughs and family.
Archie even had a birthday cake.

Santa

as a family we always go and see snata in myer in the city. it seems strange that i was in here yesterday to look at the windows and again today to visit snata but thats just how it worked out. the queue was small which was great and as per usual all 4 of us are in the photo !!
talking about traditions yesterday, johns family was similar and his mum and dad always took him to a wonderful chocolate shop in the Block archade called Haighs, so now thats another tradition of ours that we all love.

melbourne

after looking at the myer windows we walked back to catch the train from flinders street. we stopped at the city square to look at the big christmas tree as well as have a coffee from brunettis. we admired the decorations in australia on collins.

Myer windows

In melbourne where we live there is a large department store called MYer. every year they decorate the windows of their city store, depicting a christmas, book/theme/ story.
each year we go and have a look. my mum used to take me in evry year, we would catch the tram int the city "town" in iur good clothes and go and look at the myer windows and see santa and then we would go and visit dad at work. i loved this day as a kid and i hope my boys do too.
we had a great day we went into the city by train looked at the windows and then walked around alittle.

happy Birthday

this time of year is crazy. all of hugos mothers group friends are born around this time and then there are christmas parties as well.
today we celebrated Sammy's 5th birthday party.

KInder Christmas Concert

Thank you to the amazing staff at our kinder for providing us with a night like no other. a kinder Christmas concert. the children act and sung the story of Christmas with the 10 little angels poem speckled through it and many beautiful Christmas carols. i cried and laughed and smiled. i was so proud of my little boy who has grown sooo much this year. i remember him performing for me at mothers day and he didn't open his mouth tonight he sung and laughed and did all the actions.
what a night
i am now truly filled with the spirit of Christmas.

there is a god

finally a new oven.
i have been without an oven for about 6 months and its like part of me was gone.
we picked this up on Tuesday and a friend that is an electrician installed it for me today.
where do i start..............
cakes
slices
biscuits
roasts
dessert...................
Hugo and i will be cooking up a storm tomorrow.