Tallebudgera Camping Trip - Easter 2014...

We went to the Gold Coast this Easter, to Tallebudgera Creek Tourist Park.  We had a great week and you can read all about it on the travel blog HERE!

So much going on...

Wow! I can't believe where that month has gone.  We have had heaps going on, especially with the end of the school year and Christmas racing towards us.  I thought I would check in with a quick recap of what we have been up to this last month.  

We recognised World Teacher's Day at the end of October.  Being a teacher myself I know how hard my kids teachers work so I always make sure they know they are appreciated by sending along a little gift for them.

Emma's teacher got some hand cream and hand soap with chocolate and a lavender scented heart that I made.

And Nathan's teacher got a selection of Lindt chocolates and packets of lollies.  Nathan's teacher is a male and we have never had a male teacher before so I do find it challenging to pick up small things for him.

I have been so lucky to spend some time with this gorgeous little girl.  She is growing so so quickly it is already hard to believe that she was small so very long ago.  She concentrates really hard noon the toys on her bouncer and grabs them.  So cute xx

Our vegetable garden is well and truly under way now and all the crops are blooming.  We actually pulled out our first lettuce and cucumber of the season yesterday. 

And our fruit trees are going awesomely well too.  For the first time our mango tree has fruit all over it, they are still small and I hope they are delicious.

We have avocados for the first time too.

We had an extra special outing this month as well to pick up this baby, our new caravan! It seemed like we waiting ages for this to be ready for us to pick up.  I have to say that we LOVE it!

We had our first camping trip away in it last weekend.  It was awesome, camping was so much easier in this van with all the mod cons that make life easier... love, loved it.

This is what our camp looked like.  And below are some photos of the kids.  Emma spent her whole weekend swimming and sliding down that slide!  We hardly ever saw her! 

 And the go carts you could hire were a hit too.

I also got a new camera this month so I have been learning a bit more about it and how to use it properly.  Here are some pics of the kids just for good measure.

Now with November almost behind us my head is full of Christmas.  I am busy thinking of advent ideas right now and will post when I come up with my list.  I also have lots of sewing and creating planned so hopefully I'll be back to share those too! 

Camping...

We've just spent our final week of school holidays away camping.  We spent lots of time sitting around reading books, playing the ipod, drinking refreshments (the adults did anyway), they children spent their time riding their bikes at the bike track, swimming in the creek and just having lots of outside fun.  We did venture out one day for a drive...we saw lots of this.

Until we finally came to this swimming hole.

The kids had a great time swimming and looking for different kinds of rocks.

At camp there was a lot of action at this water hole.

Someone had put a swing up and so there was lots of swinging and jumping.

Billy came along on all our adventures, some he liked and some he did not like so much (he wasn't really fond of being put into the creek).  I had to include this photo.

At Platypus Pond the kids had fun paddling around in the boat too, Emma was very brave being in here with Nathan because he could not paddle that thing to save himself, they could of ended up anywhere!

All in all we had a good week away, the caravan is clean and repacked for next time.  

Quick Update

We have really enjoyed our first week of school holidays in this house.  The weather has been so nice and sunny and warm that Emma had her first run around with the sprinkler on the weekend.

We celebrated Nathan's end of season of soccer with his trophy presentation and then an evening at Aussie World.  They hired Aussie World out for the soccer club and the kids had an absolute ball!  Anthony took Emma on the dodgem cars.

We caught up with friends with a picnic and swim at Bribie Island on Tuesday.  Another gorgeous day weather wise.

And today this little guy had a haircut.  This photo is what he looked like yesterday.

And these photos are what he looks like now.  He doesn't look very happy does he?  He really hates having those bows in his hair but he is so cute!  We actually had a scare with Billy this morning, when we woke up he had a tick on his ear.  He seems OK but we are keeping a close eye on him.

I think Emma could turn out to be quite a good photographer, she took this photo.

And now, we are getting ready to go away camping in our little van.  In fact I should be stocking it with supplies right now.  

We've also been to the movies and shopping etc etc.  I hope the next week of holidays is just as good.  I am sure it will be camping is always fun.


I'll be back after camping.  I'm sure there'll be plenty of photos and stories to share.