Ladies Gingerbread-House Afternoon

On Saturday our Church ladies hosted a ladies gingerbread-house gathering. We four girls and Amy went. Karli did her own gingerbread-house and Bek and I were to share one (I was in charge of the camera so she ended up doing it on her own), and Jess helped Amy with hers. There were about fifty women there and fifteen children, so the church was quite full! We had afternoon tea, Lynette did her talk and we handed out the kits. Then everyone got to work!

Karli and Amy serving tea.

Filling the icing bags.

Lynette giving the talk on "Home, sweet home".

All the listeners.

The assembling starts!

One of the completed houses.

Everyone marveled at Jess and Amy's pipe work; click the photo to get a better view.

Jane is the gingerbread-house queen... her work was naturally going to be the best of the best, however simple the design!

I really liked this house; you have to see the whole thing though, not just the front or back, which, unfortunately, I couldn't get a picture of :P

When Christmas Comes To Town

Fun Times :)

From Thursday night to Tuesday evening, Mum and Dad were in Kingscliff, leaving us kids to fend for ourselves :) They went up to help Nana sort through Grandad's tools etc. They didn't take the camera, so I have photos of the activities that the kids did while they were away.
There were chocolate baskets with bark, noughts and crosses, piggy-bookmarks, dressing races, play-dough, gingerbread men, fruit smoothies, Risk, water fights, fun, activity bags (Mum bought fun things such as wooden circus toys, pipe-cleaners, books, notepads, textas, etc, and put them in a brown paper bag for Jord, Rob, Dan, and Lily), lessons, and occasionally movies... just to name a few :P We didn't get photos of everything, because we videoed some of the activities rather than taking photos.


I love this photo! The light spilling in; excited faces; you can imagine what they were talking about: whose biscuits were whose; "mine looks better" etc.


Robert got very involved with Risk... which is usually not a good thing :0

Icing gingerbread biscuits.

I love the way Lily holds her biscuit as she ices it :) She's such a little lady!

Saturday we had hash-browns for breakfast; Michael enjoyed them very much!

Dressing races... Jamie was very serious about the whole process and Rob went rather crazy :P

Fruit smoothie (s).

Michael reading with Lily.

Mum and Dad bought all of us a pair of pyjamas; Michael's, as you can see in this picture, says: " Daddy's little apprentice"... it's very cute :)

Bushdancing :) part two

Here are the last few photos of the bushdancing. The first five were taken on Sam's camera.

Jess and Janette.

Mum and Janette.

A few of the on-lookers.

Two happy girls galloping down the set!

And that's all! Hope you had fun looking at them :)

Bushdancing :) part one

...At last! I now have the bushdancing photos from Sam. They weren't the best (probably due to the fact that I had the camera the whole time!) so I also have the photos taken on our camera, which were taken by Jord and Rob. It was immensely fun, the only annoying thing was that the floors were concrete; it's best when they're wooden, because then you can stamp your feet and make heaps of noise :P


'Spin your partner!'

Deb was very excited about the dancing :)

Karli giving instructions.

Deb still happy about dancing :)

That's all for now because the photo downloads were taking too long; I'll try part two tomorrow!