Bath Time

Thinking he's cool

Checking themselves out in the mirror

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Holiday Time - Day One Inverloch

Maybe this was day one, or maybe day two... the first two days were DREADFUL weather.  Freezing cold and rainy.  The kids mainly played Lego and cars inside, but we eventually ventured out to playground where these photos are taken.

Roy and Ryan on the bee

Roy and Ryan being posers

Ben on the bee

Opening their sandcastle making kits from their grandparents

Rewind a bit.  It's the Saturday before Christmas and we have rented a large 5 bedroom holiday house in Inverloch which is about two and a bit hours out of Melbourne.  The house is lovely, some strange furniture (ie the lounge room) but otherwise comfy with a great kitchen house.  We have come with my sister and her husband and their two children.

Pictures

Park Life

Have I mentioned how I love my new camera.  I take great photos.

Up the big hill to the park

Our seriously cool park - minus a UFO swing (stolen by idiots)

Sliding

Gorgeous Ben, our "assertive wild child"

Playing

Cuz

FINALLY saw my sister again, I don't think we'd seen each other since her birthday, which was a month before - I could be wrong.  Just as they were about to leave, we pulled the "good camera" out for a photo shoot.  We must learn some better poses and a better backdrop.  But we are still learning!  Oh and please don't ask about the band-aid on Ryan's forehead, he obviously needed it earlier in the day and we forgot it was there.

Here is a smattering...

"cheese"

Ok, no more cheese.  Too cool Sheena YOLO

Ben being held hostage, Sheena stealing the show.

That's enough Sheena.

Seriously dude.. move your hand.

Love the height order shot

Ryan

Ben

Roy

Sheena

Easter 2013

Easter Sunday was at our house this year.  Jo, Mark and the kids came over just after 9.30 for our Easter Egg hunt.  

Seeing Jo and I were raised by the same parents, its not surprising we have very similar outlooks on the non-traditional or commercial side of Easter.  Neither of us "get" the Easter Bunny, why has that become a thing recently.  We are all for the chocolate, but getting up early to see if the EB has been and then having the kids hyped up on choc from 5.30 am just does not make sense to us.  Phew.  Finally we agree on something.

The 4 little kids all got a basket each, Sheena and Roy made theirs at school.  Sheena's was very dodgy, Roy's had structure and was actually quite nice.  My little two got pink ones from K-mart.  I'm sure they will be psychologically scarred for life.

There was a decent amount of eggs *hidden* in the grass in the backyard.  To be fair, once they'd all been collected, they went back into the collective container and re-distributed.

It was a good hunt.

Here is a cute action shot.  Ryan is running, tongue is out for added balance and concentration.

Here is our posed one.  Sheena was already inside gobbling up her stash.  Roy looks gorgeous.  

Ben is doing his "cheese" face, which now necessitates a head tilt.

Ryan is showing off his basket, and I believe also "cheesing"

HOLIDAYS

I'm officially on holiday.  I have 23 days off.  The first week, is BUSY.  

 

Tomorrow is cleaning, swimming, last minute shopping.

Friday - Good Friday - the kids, dogs and I drive to my in-laws for the night.  We are dropping the dogs off for a holiday, having a little catch up time and going to the Nathalia Easter Parade.

Back home Saturday, have a quick catch up with the Dunn/Storer family.

Sunday - Easter Sunday - my sister and her kids come over for a visit.  We'll have an Easter Egg hunt and some lunch.

Monday - Easter Monday - packing, generally freaking out and probably several mad dashes to the shops

Tuesday (with no associated Easter attached to it) is fly out day.  Our flight leaves at 10.30, so I'm guessing we get there 8.30 - 9ish.  Then onto Air Asia for our long flight.  8-10 hours for a Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur, then a 4 hour layover then a 2 hour flight to Phuket.  Getting to our hotel at 9.30pm local time, which I believe is 1:30am Melbourne time.  

Can anyone say exhausting?

Challenges

I plan to do a photo a day, actually two if I can.  First is a day by day challenge with a word prompt.  The other is my boys - out of respect for the eldest, its of the little two, but hopefully Mark will join them in more than one throughout the year.  So without further ado, here is the first two days.


01 Jan 2013

Prompt: Today - The boys sitting together having lunch.

The two of them, looking through the bottom of the trampoline at the dogs

02 Jan 2013

Prompt: New - new haircuts.

 The two of them, being cool with their cousin Toby.

a whole bunch of piccies.

A cute one of "the middle child"

 Mum, Dad and Ben

Mum, Mark, Ryan and Ben on the miniature train.

A bit closer of the same, poor Benny is a little squashed.

Action shot of the littlies

A super cool Ryan

Sophisticated Ben (unfortuanately he wouldn't give up the dummy for this photo), but on closer inspection, is this Roy or is it Ben?

Cuties in their toy buckets.

The most gorgeous bub in the whole wide world.