Overseas Trip!

We went overseas last weekend! Well.........sort of! We went to Rottnest Island which is 19 Kilometres off the coast of Fremantle. It takes about 40 - 45 mins by Ferry. Here's our Ferry. Neil, Ana & Sarah all ready to go. We went to a group from my work - which was lovely. It was great to get together outside of work. It was a fantastic work function. Thank you for taking us. The Island is 11 kilometres long and 4.5 kilometers at it's widest point. You can hire a bike and ride around (it's a 24km ride). When we got there we took the local bus around the Island, to have a look around. As you can see from the pic's Rottnest has beautiful beaches, flora and fauna and these little guys......they are Quokka's. They hop around the place and are quite cute. This one walked across in front of us when we got off the Ferry......he was off to get a drink from a drain.

Here is Jo-ann and Diane on their Bikes.

After a free morning - looking round R0ttnest - we met everyone for a lovely Lunch at the Rottnest Hotel.

Here is Ana sitting with the Girls - Sarah, Nicole & Natasha.

Rod, Darcy, Jack (who's hiding behind Darcy) Kathleen and Graham.

Matthew, Jacinta & Melissa.

Diane, Vincent, Jo-ann & Graham

A Quokka came to lunch too!

After lunch we did various things, some biked, some relaxed with a few beers or wines, some played cricket or Frisbee on the beach. Sarah and I played in the water at the beach.

What a fantastic day we had. We definitely want to go back to Rottnest. It's laid back, beachy and perfect for a day trip or short getaway.

It's Party Time!

Today we had a big Birthday Party at our house! Sarah is turning 5.

I can't believe it - where has all that time gone? It's time for us to Celebrate. We had a Pink / Princess themed Party.

The Invites went out a few weeks ago........

Sarah had 9 friends come to help her party, squeal and eat loads of lollies.

She was very excited and received some lovely gifts - which she ripped into as soon as her friends arrived. Here she is below opening a gift.


We played a few games - Musical Statues, a Lolly Scramble and a Treasure Hunt we ate heaps

of yummy food like Tiny Cups and Saucers, Jelly Oranges, Mini Pin wheels and Fairy Bread.

And then there was Cake!

It was beautiful. All pink, with fluffy feathers and her name in big Pink letters round the side. On the top was a Princess Tiara (that had flashing lights on it) and the number 5. It was Chocolate inside - it was very Yummy.

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And this says......Thank you for coming, and have a lovely Christmas.

Sarah loved it when everyone sang Happy Birthday to her.

Sarah played with her new things until bedtime.

One of the New Barbie's - it has 2 x Heads that you can change!

This is Sarah and her little friend Violet. Sarah was given a cooking set which included an Apron, Chef's Hat and some Pot Mitts. She loves them and wore them round most of the afternoon. With the Cooking things were a lovely cook book full of great Cooking ideas and recipes for Kids.

What a great day we had.

Certainly!

Certainly.....that's Sarahs new word. One morning during the week the knocked really loudly on Ana's bedroom door and then marched in as said......."Grrr - turn ya music down - ya woke me up"!

"Did not" - said Ana. And Sarah stomped back to her room.

Then she came out to me and said "Mum, Ana certainly did wake me up"

Later Ana said - she didn't know if I was talking to a 4 year old or a 16 year old.

We laughed more later especially when Sarah and I were out walking this morning and I said to her what a lovely walk we were having. Sarah then said to me - "Yes, well I'll write it up in my diary when I get home"!! WHAT!! Firstly - I didn't know she had a diary and secondly she doesn't know how to write yet! Hee Hee

Anyway the reason for my post today is to share a few pic's of Sarah because we picked up her Glasses this morning. PINK of course! They are really cute. She loves them and has not taken them off yet - except to clean them about a million times!

Doing her craft!

End of School Picnic

At the end of the School Term (last year) we were invited to the Kindy Room Picnic. It was a fun couple of hours.

Firstly Sarah's class did some songs and dances for us.

And then they were all given their portfolio's.

Don't ask me why Sarah has to wear thick winter tights - in the middle of Summer! But she does have her very own unique dress sense.

Then we all headed outside to play some games before we had our picnic.

First we played the Egg and Spoon game (which was really golf ball and spoon).

Then we had to race with a balloon between our legs.

Yes - I had to play too!!

Tell me.......what do you think Sarah is thinking in this pic??

Here is Sarah - sharing her picnic with her friend Beau.

25 Dec 2010 - Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I thought I would share a bit of our Christmas Day with you.....although they are mainly Sarah pics!

To describe the day in one word I would have to say....."HOT"! It was a scorcher - I'm not sure how hot - the forecast was for 38 - but some reports were saying 40. Thank goodness we were at Nana & Pop's place so were able to take advantage of the swimming pool. And I don't think I would have survived without it. We were swimming right up till 7pm - when I took Sarah home cause she was exhausted.

Santa came, sometime during the night - and we were up ripping into things by 5.30am.

Sarah got some Zhu Zhu pets - which are cute little Guinea pigs that make lots of little noises and zoom around everywhere. She even has a little carry bag for them to go in.

Ana gave Sarah a dance video thingy that you can learn dance moves to via the TV from Ana.

As you can see from the state of my lounge room - Sarah was spoilt with lots of things from lots of people.

New Barbie meets old Barbie!

Then we went to Nana & Pop's to eat, drink and swim

Sarah jumps in the pool and swims around on her board.

Here Sarah is showing me how here new Scooter works. She's got it going pretty good too.