end of the year

So what have we done for the last few days of 2008...this is the kids having tea at the farm on our last night...And we travelled back from the farm on Sunday...and both girls slept a fair bit of the five hour journey...We have spent a couple of days at home getting cleaned up and unpacked and so on... And we caught up with some friends for a delicious meal the other night...And met baby Charlotte who is ten weeks old....look at all that hair!And some swimming...as it has been 36 - 39 C here...And mum and my SIL are coming over for seafood and salmon on the BBQ tonight...a very relaxing new years here - Lissy

thirty six...

Today Ben is 36...Evangeline made him a card...and sang him some songs...Morganne did some scribbles for him...and we made a birthday cake too...but that is for tea tonight as he has been out doing sheep work today...Happy Birthday Ben...we are heading home tomorrow - Lissy

boxing day...

We all relaxed on Boxing Day...and the kids had fun out in the paddock...climbing on the wheat...And on the header (harvester)E loved going for a ride in one of the road trains...And later on they swam in the pool...Lissy

merry merry christmas...

We had a merry day...hope you did too...Lissy

Merry Christmas Eve from the Farm

Well it is Christmas Eve...All sorts going on around here...
Lots of fun...We are having a BBQ with all the people who work on the farm tonight...so lots of cooking today...Hope you have merry things planned this Christmas Eve! Lissy

in the bush...

We are at the farm...the kids are enjoying it...Morganne loves to have a bath in the laundry sink!She loves scooting around my sisters house after everyone and is standing up holding onto everything...They all love the trampoline....And having fun with Ben!We have been going to swimming lessons each day too...it is 85km each way which is a bit of a trek! It is harvest time at the farmThe weather has been odd..stinking hot, then rain and storms, and dust storms (this was the start of it and it got lots worse...I couldn't see the road in front of me in some places coming back from swimming)...fire bans (when conditions are too dangerous to harvest)...hot nights and cold nights...you name it and it is happening...the harvest is going very slow....and soon it will be Christmas! Lissy

festivities...

My nephews stayed for a week...while my sister was having her gall bladder out...not nice but she is fine now!So the kids were out in the Pirate Ship and walking the plank!E's school finished on Dec 10th with a Christmas Concert...and eggnog and gingerbread for morning tea...my photos were not good...

We have been getting very festive around here! Diana came and helped them make a Ginger Bread House! They loved it...and did a great job! The kids did most of it themselves...We went into the city to see Father Christmas at Myer...and wrote our Christmas Letters...We went out looking at Christmas lights...and went to a local Christmas Carol night... The kids had lots of fun and after a hot day it was a lovely evening...and then we packed up and all headed to the farm...Ben is here too...Lissy