Family of Five: May 2011

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sydney

My sweet sister celebrated her 40th birthday recently- so my sister Jo, her daughter Alex and I flew to Sydney for the weekend to surprise her. We had a great time raoming around the city, shared morning tea at the Lindt Cafe (yum, yum!) , a spot of shopping and spent time with our gorgeous niece and nephew. The weather was fantastic and it was a real novelty having to layer up the clothing again.

Love this pic of Lily...she has sooooo many funny faces and what a cutie!!

Martin Place

Mr Zac...

Alex outside the studio where they film Sunrise

"Look Aunty Manda, there is a leaf!"

Jo and Alex

Little Eskimo girl

Sharing a chocolate milkshake at the Lindt cafe

Sydeny streetscape- just love the buildings!!

Just before swimming lessons..

Where they film Summer Bay

Some Autumn colour - miss this!!

Zac pretending to bowl so I could take an action shot.

This is what we had sent to Kim for her birthday.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

A busy few weeks..

It has been such a busy few weeks with Easter weekend followed by Bronte's 12th birthday and then to round things up Mother's Day this weekend. We have been enjoying some beautiful weather and with a run of long weekends have had many opportunities to get out as a family. Last Monday we went to Bullocky's Rest on the banks of the Pine Dam with my sisters family and enjoyed a bit of cricket, feeding the ducks and just being out in the fresh air. Mother's Day started off with an invasion of children into our bed, then breakfast and a quick trip out to the shops. Very spoilt!

We had a proper birthday party for Bronte last year - so decided to keep things a little quieter this year. Bronte had a close friend come over for the afternoon and a sleepover and shared cake for afternoon tea. Bronte and the boys wanted to blow up some balloons despite not having a party then proceeded to fill them with water instead and amuse themselves by taking them outside and rupturing on the concrete; leaving all the broken pieces of balloon for us to pick up later.