BACK FOR A WEEK AND HEAPS OF CATCHING UP TO DO...

WARNING IT'S A BIT OF A BABBLE...

Hi ladies, how are you all... I've been off on a holiday for the last week to lovely Toowoon Bay at the Central Coast of NSW just fabulous. I did miss my late night travels around the world to everyone's blogs, but I had a fantastic time.

Now to catch up I hope everyone had a great NEW YEARS EVE, mine started out great we had a BBQ/birthday at my sister's place. Yes I turned the big 38 and boy do I feel it, anyway all was great lots of family, food and fun. We actually got the happy birthday in before midnight for the first time in the last few years and the kids all enjoyed the sparklers and party poppers after the big countdown.

I was minding my nephew for the night and returned home at about 1.30am to find my daughters friend who was at a party with Alice and some of her other friends at my house with two boys that I had never seen before, they had come back early as she had Alice's keys, anyway they promptly left and I just had a bad feeling about them and after a quick look around realised that my sons new playstation was not where it usually was. He was staying at my sisters for the night so I quickly rang him to check and as suspected it was gone, we quickly jumped in the car and went looking for the boys, luckily we found them up the street and after a few choice words regarding the police they owned up to taking it and said they would show us where it was. They took us back down the street to a yard and in a little bush they pulled out Max's new playstation, phone, ipod, ipod shuffle, nintendo ds and Alice's ipod and ipod shuffle. I couldn't believe it, I had only noticed the playstation gone, but the little ........... had cleaned out my kid's rooms. Anyway after a HUGE lecture we returned home and I was just in total shock, I couldn't sleep for a couple of nights but now I have come to the conclusion that it has to be my bad and good luck for the year "hopefully". I think we were SOOOOOO LUCKY to get it all back...

Anyway on to the holiday we stayed in a cabin overlooking the beach with a fantastic view and a great verandah to just sit back and relax it even has it's own bbq built in with a sink attached, when you stood at the front door it felt like you were on a boat all you could see was water all around. We went with my sister Sonia and her husband Serg and their son Michael, my other sister Julie and her kids came up for a couple of days and even mum and dad came for a day as it's only about an hour and a half from where we live a great time was had by all, fishing, playing cricket, swimming, sunbaking and just kicking back, mostly kicking back for me....

This is the view from our verandah...

This is the view from my bed...

I even took one of my Gail prints...

This is where I kicked back everyday...

Assorted pics...
Mum having a snooze (she was only resting her eyes) and thats my sister Julie trying not to have her photo taken she's like me I hate having my photo taken, Sonia and Serg cooking a bbq, Alice and Max fighting over the remote, my room, Sonia and Jess kicking back in my spot, Max and Michael box heading, Max playing guitar hero, the boys playing beach cricket and Alice doing what she does best... sleeping. And the last pic is what it looked like the day we arrived YUCKY luckily everyday after was absolutely lovely....

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I'm back for a week and then we go camping for 10 days at Anna Bay which is a lovely spot a bit further up the coast and yes I did say camping, We go with both my sisters and their husbands and all the kids, my daughter is also taking 3 of her girlfriends this year (scary) We are very spoilt campers though; we have ensuite sites which have their own bathroom and we take fridges, electrical appliances and just about everything but the kitchen sink. The kids love the camping it always brings great memories...

I will spend the next few days catching up on everyone's blogs and can't wait to see what all of you creative ladies have been up to, I've still got a list as long as my arm of things I want to get done at home but they will have to wait till the next holidays...

Have a great day.....