Hopscotch for beginners.

Two

Taking a good photo of a small child is difficult enough but it's even harder to get a good photo of two!

A week at Benalong

Eli, Molly and I went to Glen Innes for a week.  Zoe and Liam came too.  We had so much fun!

 Lucas from next door loaned us some awesome costumes!

 GFK took the boys for a ride in the fire truck!

 A lovely moment of playing together that the boys set up themselves.  Made a nice contrast to the sharing difficulties!

 Molly was a big hit with Gail!

 First horse ride.

 GFK had a stash of chocolate biscuits in his shed and would take the boys out there for morning tea each day.  Apparently it was secret but they came back with a lot of chocolate on their faces!

Another new old chair!

Here is the before and after of the chair I just reupholstered. The sad thing is that there is nowhere for it to go in this house. We'll just have to move soon to accommodate my chair!

 And a picture of Molly and Trick man!

Bouncy basket

We went to the McClelland sculpture park this morning and found that they had a special family day for their visiting Aboriginal exhibit.  This bouncy castle is made from a photo taken of one of the baskets in the exhibit.  They had amazing art and music and demonstrations.

This girl still has her crazy hair!

And she's started eating a bit but is not really too keen on it.

Eli and I made this cool robot costume this week.

Another one of the crazy hair!

Eli is really into dress ups.  We were out doing a spot of shopping last week!

Port Douglas

We had an amazing week in Port Douglas at the beginning of July.  Although these pictures capture the goings on they made me think that I really need to stop taking pictures on my phone and go back to carrying my SLR around again.  We got a new movie and new headphones for Eli for the trip and we thought we were in for a peaceful flight with Molly asleep.  Well the movie lasted about 8 mintues before he decided he wanted to read a book, go to the toilet, look at the safety manual, play a game, watch a movie again for 2 mins etc.  I never knew how easy I really had it before I started traveling with kids!                     

8 of the 9 kids.

Happy 40th Shane!

Maddie, Eli, Charlie and Louis.

Playground with a view.

Jake and Eli.

Imogen and Molly.

Eli in Imogen's hat.

Molly out for lunch with the girls.

Susie, Lou, me, Anna, Tracey.

Molly got a lot of love!  Maddie and Imogen.

My 38th birthday.

Skyrail to Kuranda.

Woops, a bit out of order.  Our 'pool house'.  Eli keeps asking when we are going back to our pool house again!

10 adults and 9 kids!

The skyrail again.

On the train back from Kuranda Eli sat with Peto almost the whole way.

Eli's holiday crush, Imogen.

Milly on the train.

Green Island take 2.  The first day we tried to go our boat broke down half way out to the reef and we had to go back.

Glass bottom boat.

The Lucas family at Green Island.