festival

a weekend of :: great weather :: parades :: wildlife exhibitions :: friends :: craft :: food :: markets :: good times :: memories ::community :: music the festival really sums up our little town. it was big, busy and fun and when we finally got home Sunday night about 8pm we were exhausted. it was a weekend of fun, music, entertainment family and friends. our little town rocks !!!!

5th Place

every year there is an annual duck race. all the schools and kindergartens and childcare centres have yellow plastic ducks for sale. $2 a duck and you take it home and decorate it. once decorated it is returned to the kinder, school etc. on the festival Sunday at 2pm, the ducks are all dropped into the river and float down stream..... Archie's duck got a place this year... 5th place very exciting considering there are 100's of ducks !!! well done Arch

the water slide

the highlight of sunday. i think the boys spent 3-4 hours on this....

the first time

This year Arch is able to participate in our towns, annual festival street parade. The whole town stops as the main street is blocked off for all the community groups, organisations, schools and kindergartens to process along the street which is lined with 100's of residents and family members. there was a buzz in the air this morning as Archie is now in 4 year old kinder and able to ride on the kinder truck. A little unsure at first but once he was on the truck with his Friends and teachers he ad a great time.

another year

Grade 2 and all the confidence in the world.......... laughing and chatting with his friends, waving to people he knew, happily part of the parade. the theme of the festival this year is carnivale.... hugo's school created masks to wear in the parade and they did a great job.

a mix of things

gardening club tonight. this children harvested cherry tomatoes and green beans.

Archie had a Teddy Bears picnic at Kinder today. he came home with a special teddy bear hat that he had made.

Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday. yummy pancakes for dinner. Ham and mushroom crepes for John and I. Pigs in blanket for the boys ( a crepe with ham and a hot dog!) These pancakes (crepes) are what my mum used to make for us every year.

count down

the banners up up in town, there is an excitement growing. our annual festival is coming ....

pottery

we headed down along the banks of the Yarra river today, to the annual pottery and ceramics expo in Warrandyte.
the boys loved the clay last year and this time it was just as rewarding. as well as creating their own masterpieces from clay, both boys painted a ready made clay tile, which will be used in a permanent sculpture along the walking track of the river.

Gardening Club :: week 2

this week was spent harvesting corn, creating corn dolls, with the husks , picking grape tomatoes and tending to the chooks.

community

wow, it seems to be the week of school and kinder functions...
last night was Hugo's school's family BBQ - a great night catching up with new and familiar parents, grooving along to a very talented band, formed by 5 school parents, we all rocked on till the wee hours   bed time on a school night!!
tonight was Archie's turn, the welcome BBQ at Kinder. a sausage sizzle, face painting and a sandpit filled with water, what could be better !!
i am blessed to live in a community that gets it, that has great people in it, and is a special place fro my children to feel part of and grow up in.

digging

it was like an Easter egg hunt, with cries of "I've got another one" and squeals of delight as more were un earthed.
Hugo went to his schools Gardening Club tonight. A program that runs after school on a Tuesday night. The school has a "sustainable" garden, which is managed by the children. Last year the gardening group planted potatoes, and tonight we got to share their hard work and un earth all the potatoes. there were 3-4 different varieties. all the children collected them, we sorted them and then got to take them home.
a parent, who is a landscape Gardener, runs the program along with the Principal. it was such a great way to spent time at the school, making it feel more like an extension of home, a community rather than just a learning institution. Hugo (and Arch) loved it, and we will be back next week.