Been and gone for another year.

Christmas Eve day was hard - it didn't feel at all like Christmas, the kids were fighting and unhelpful and my dh and my sister had to work. It was me....and the kids.... :X
Thankfully Christmas Eve was better. The kidlets opened some little presents - from Kimbo and from their Dad's work, then we picked DH up from work and went to look at the Christmas lights. There was a full moon - it was awesome!

On Christmas morning our wonderful son graced us with his presence somewhere around 3am, but after "just having a look" he went back to bed!

Christmas day was a bit more rushed than we'd have liked - us at home, then over to my folks, then back here to do breakfast with my sister's family. We had to rush off to the caravan park to book in for our "mini holiday" and then Chris took us over to the restaurant for lunch. We spent a really nice afternoon eating and drinking and sitting by the pool whilst the kids swam.
Maybe next year we'll do dinner out instead of lunch - so that the children have more time to play with their new toys.

However, when all is said and done it was a great day! The kids were over the moon with their presents and they were well behaved at lunch (although Tys was more interested in swimming than eating!) It was nice to have a lovely sunny, swimming kind of day after last year's chilly day!

All that's left now is to have the kids write some thank you notes....and take down the tree.

School holiday moments

Christmas is certainly getting closer...by the second.
My countdown says 1 day, 12 hours, 27 minutes..

The Santa sacks are hung, the presents are all bought and I'm slowly clearing up my scrapping spaces..yes spaces! My desk has been covered in school books, photos, dust and cat hair. I have been working at the dining room table...
I have a friend, Oley, coming for afternoon tea, so thought I'd better
get it done today - rather than tomorrow. At least now I have room in my
"yellow room" to scrap at my desk!

I just need to find some time to do some Grocery Shopping for Christmas
Morning and our mini holiday (more on that in another post)

Mel came home from Adelaide yesterday. She was VERY proud of the trophy
she won as Girls 10 Singles winner at the tournament she attended.
(although she did mention - it's VERY plastic! Apparently our tennis
club gives much better trophies) She was the only person from our club to win her division. Others came home with medals for winning their plates. M.Henderson got the best result in the senior tournament.

Bon and Tyson are making their way through the Christmas movies we hired on $1 Cheap Tuesday.
So far we've watched:
Santa Clause 3
A Christmas Carol
I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (twice!)
Chasing Christmas
Deck the Halls
and Firehouse dog - not Christmas related.
We also watched "Christmas at the Kranks" on TV.

We still have "The 12 Dogs of Christmas" to watch - a chance for me to hop on my treadmill!

Last night I watched "Bad Santa" ...interesting...?? extremely vulgar....!! He turned out not so bad, but it's not something I'd watch again, or recommend for kids!!!!! And Mel bought "A series of Unfortunate Events" for the whole family when she was in Adelaide.

My Wine Glass Charms interest has continued - with me making a set for Mel's Tennis Coaches, my friend Julie and another couple of friends, Jackie and Richard (pictured). Unfortunately my creativity hasn't spread to card making. It has however been coming out in my Album Pages, which is just as well because I was feeling really bored with my pages!