What we did today....

A picture is worth a thousand words...
This is Rhys's friend Cameron who helped us decorate gingerbread men today!

New Meeting picture

Well, we are getting sparse around here...this picture was taken on Wendy and Tyron's last Sunday and we are losing another family at the end of this month! So...such is life. We will miss them!

Major yard work

While Mum was here I dragged her out into the yard to help me clean up our "gardens". I wish I had taken a before picture. The grass was about 3 feet tall and let me tell you, it was hard work getting it out! It took us two days and as you can tell by the huge pile, we are still putting a little bit in the rubbish bin each week. It's almost gone...I'll have to take another picture because I have planted some flowers and made a little picnic area under the tree. Thanks for all your help, Mum!!!

This is Rhys getting caught playing with the broken lightbulb.....
...and this is Rhys yelling at Mommy because he "WANTS IT!!!" Love the face!

Trains, trains, and more trains

Did I mention Rhys got trains for his birthday? Well...here is the proof! When Mum was here we must have set the train tracks up everyday in a different configuration. As you can tell by the first picture, the adults had as much or more fun than Rhys!

Rhys's Second 3rd Birthday...

We had our meeting over the Sunday after Rhys's birthday and I made another cake (this one was much less time consuming!!) and found a cute No. 3 sparkler for the candle. Rhys wasn't so sure about the sparkler...he was kind of afraid of it!

Sunday pictures

These pictures are pretty self-explanatory....first we tried to get all three of us, which Rhys wasn't very impressed about...so we settled for just Eldon and I :)

Catching up!!!

Well I have a fair bit of catching up to do! Life has been going along quite busily for a while now. I can't believe it's August already! Convention is just around the corner for us. Here are some random pictures of Rhys (mostly) from the past few weeks.

Reading with Rhys before the meeting

Rhys chasing bubbles

Reading Hairy McClary to Rhys, Kyana, and Lila...love my face in this one...not sure which part of the story that was...
Daddy blowing big bubbles for Rhys

Rhys's new hat...Paddington Bear anyone?

I love this one! Rhys really wanted to hold my friend's baby!

Rhys helping Daddy "fix" the car

Rhys's 3rd Birthday!!!

Rhys's train cake

Making animal faces out of paper plates

getting ready to eat cake!

Rhys having some cake

Animal faces hanging in a row!

Eldon blowing bubbles for the kids

the chief clapper

Just one example of the openning-presents faces

Rhys got lots of train stuff...and we adults have been enjoying playing with it when he's in bed!

Time with Nana P

We are having a great time with Mum P here! It was very nice that she could come over and share Rhys's and her own birthday with us!

Mum with a candle in her vanilla slice!

Taking advantage of the cool benches in the restaurant
Best photo we could get of Rhys and Nana together on her birthday

At the big day out, which we accidentally went to (didn't even know it was on!)

Having lunch in the park

Ni-nite in the laundry basket

Love swinging!!

With Nana here we have another pusher!

4 weeks to go...will we make it?

4 weeks until Rhys's 3rd birthday....wow time flies! I was checking up on my blog...hoping someone had posted for me....and I saw my ticker about Rhys's birthday. Still have no idea what we are going to do for his birthday this year cake-wise. It just so happens that I have hidden Rhys's birthday presents in my closet which also just so happens to be his current "hiding" place (Rhys-speak for "I'm going to fill my pants now")...guess I should rethink that. Anyway, today he brought me a truck we got him and wanted me to open it. I told him No, that it was for his birthday and he would have to wait. (Yeah, like he understood that) So tonight at dinner, he told me he wanted birthday...smart kid. Hopefully by tomorrow he'll have forgotten again. Need to find a better hiding place for the presents. At least until he works out that the toilet is a much better area to stink out!

Speaking of forgetting, or rather, not forgetting, I told Rhys last time we were down watching the Qantas plane take off that Nana is going to come on the big plane. Well, that wasn't very smart because now every time we hear or see the Qantas plane (every day) he asks me about Nana coming. It's really quite cute. We are really looking forward to Nana coming to spend some time with us...wish GrandDad was coming too.

Sorry about the lack of photos...here is one photo of us from special meeting last month. Rhys was none too pleased to have to sit still for a photo. This was after a day of no napping also. Hope everyone is having a good week!

Welcome back to our world.....

Days turn into weeks and weeks into months....and its about time I updated this blog!!!! So much has happened since I blogged last that I can't even remember it all. Rhys and I have been away to Townsville for a weekend to see Tim, Danielle and Eva. We've had our special meetings. And just to make things interesting, our toilet is blocked again. (It was this time last year that our toilet blocked up just before the workers came and the plumbers ended up taking a sledgehammer to our toilet) We are getting closer to Rhys's birthday and Eldon's Mum coming out, which we are looking forward to. Shauna's had her baby, Emma Jane, and Arlen's getting married! Anyway, I'm sure all of you knew all those things already but I thought I'd better make sure! :) I'll try to steal some pictures of Emma to put up on my blog if I can. And I'm sure I'll be provided with pictures from Arlen and Heather's wedding from Mom and Dad. Wish we could be there!
It's hard to believe that Rhys is almost 3....he really is a wonderful little boy....not biased or anything! :) He is right into playing meetings now, especially the giving thanks for the bread and wine. We've been trying to capture it on video with no luck so far. Toilet training is not going well as every time we've managed to get him to sit on the toilet he thinks it's a great time to play meetings, and the standing up and sitting down all the time isn't conducive to actually producing wee-wees.
Anyway....oh yeah I also turned 30! Eldon got me an hour massage which I haven't managed to use yet. Things are going just fine here...and I hope all is going well with all of you.

In Loving Memory

Our good friend from Kununurra, Louise, passed away this afternoon. She has been battling a brain tumor for 4 years or so and has gone down hill quickly over the past few months. Some of you have met her and know what a kind, compassionate person she was. She was a good friend to me over the years we lived in Kununurra. She retained a wonderful spirit and more wisdom and grace than I could ever hope to have even in the face of her physical suffering. Our thoughts go out to Donny and James, who no doubt will be missing her enormously.

Here's a picture of the four of us: the fishermen and the long-suffering wives!

We will miss you, Louise!

New Meeting Toy

Just wanted to share this new meeting toy for Rhys! My friend Danielle is a great seamstress and she got this idea from someone at convention. It's basically a bean bag with toys inside and a vinyl window. Going to try it out for the first time tonight!

And of course I couldn't go without putting up a picture of Rhys! He is outside getting absolutely soaked in a rainstorm!

Meeting Photos February 2011

We had a meeting photo taken a couple weekends ago so I thought I'd share it with you. One of our friends is leaving town so another friend made the collage at the bottom and framed it for them. I love the way it turned out!

Feeling restless...

Well, I rearranged the house last night (Eldon says I am nesting, but I am not!) so I guess it's time to rearrange the blog too!

Best Friends!

Just hangin' out in Rhys's tent with our snack cups!