Michael + Crayon = Disaster

He has been told time and time again: "Only draw on the paper!" and yet he wanders off to whichever wall is not out in the open and he scribbles all over it. He knows the consequence, too!

Punishment was sure to follow, but this time we couldn't help laughing (behind his back!)..... "Harold and the Purple Crayon" had turned into "Michael and the Purple Crayon".

Mini Ginger-bread Houses

We now have seven (no, your hearing isn't failing you) ginger-bread houses. Only I have a little secret to tell you... mind that you don't let anyone else know; it's very confidential. Four of them are mini Nice biscuit houses. There, it's out!
However, there is a reason for this: the little children wanted to do their own houses, but it would have been too stressful to make individual batches, so we bought Nice biscuits and lollies and this afternoon they assembled them. Anyway, I had to help Lily and Daniel, but Rob and Jord did their own.
Their results were very cute :)


Daniel icing his lollies to put on his biscuits.

Holding it together; the icing was a bit too runny :(

Lily putting her lollies on.

:)

Lily and Daniel's houses. Jordan's house fell apart and I didn't get a photo of Rob's because he took a long time in making it. It was a Little House on the Prairie cottage.

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 :)

a RaNdoM dAy...

For random photos. There is nothing in-depth behind them, all you need to do is use your imagination and let me know what you think :)

I still can't post my signature... sorry!

A Little Girl, Scenic Shots, and Two Very Good-Looking Gentlemen

Yesterday I had an urge to take photos and thought perhaps you would like to see them. First of all Robert, Daniel and Lily painted their faces. But they didn't paint themselves like tigers or butterflies, as you might think, but with beards and moustaches, and they made themselves into characters out of movies. They changed several times. Rob started with Colonel Brandon, followed up by The Count of Monte Cristo, then Westley from The Princess Bride. Daniel was Willoughby first, then The Dread Pirate Roberts. And Lily was Betty (?) and Dr. Harrison (Cranford).


Cute, hey?


Betty.

Westley.

In the afternoon I took a walk and took some shots in the sepia mode. I love the old, rusty look with some stlye of photos, so sepia was just the thing for this shoot!

Easter Eggs, Activities and Hot Cross Buns

This Easter we decided to do something different from the usual traditions. Mum read out to us Matthew 26- 28, and we were given papers to fill out about the death and Resurrection of Jesus.

One of them was a word search...

...And the other a cross word puzzle.

Then the little children helped Mum dye eggs. The eggs represent new life.

The finished products.


This design was so strange! It looks like a spider web.

The speckled ones were my favourite :)

And we always have Hot Cross Buns! This new type we have never had before, but we've heard that they're nice. I hope so!

20 O'clock on the 34th...

I have a very short story to tell you that passed between Lily and I, just a few weeks ago:

Michael was sitting in his walker, which has dinosaurs and trees on the top and he and Lily were playing with them, and I was sitting by watching. Then Lily suddenly turned to me and said "Rach, this dinosaur lives in a museum!"
I laughed and asked "Who told you that?"
And she replied "You did!"
I said, "Really? I don't remember."
Then she said in a very laid-back sort of way, "Yeah, at 20 O'clock on the 34th!"
It's no wonder I didn't remember!

(this photo was not taken by me)

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~ Burton Hillis #2

Well, we have taken Cath's advice and now have two trees! We were only able to cut down the second one today but it is at last up and finished. It is the 'boy's tree' so they decorated it, with all the little embellishments that they could scavenge out of the box, it actually looks quite good except for when you walk from the family room into the kitchen - Wow! You can't even think about comparing the two...
Anyway, here are the photos:

We put it in a bucket as seen, then put rocks jammed in a round it, so as it wouldn't tip.

We then had the boys fall to, with Bek's help :)

Dan sat on Dad's shoulders to put the star on the top.

Adding the gold star string.

And the angels, baubles and bells. At this stage of the decorating it smelt very strong of pine - just lovely!

The final result!

One Man Band

Outside the back door the boys have developed a Church. It consists of a one man band:

Robert is

...The guitarist,

Drummer,

New instrument- without -a -name player,

Preacher,



And part of the congregation.

A man with great talent, his future looks promising!