Happy Engagement Shauna and Kevin!

If I had to choose one thing to be thankful for every day....yesterday would have been anaesthetic spray and today would be good friends!

What an interesting week it's been so far...and we are only up to Tuesday night. I guess I'm starting back at Saturday though...the day Eldon had his King Air line check, finally! He aced it of course...I had no doubt. So today was his first flight as captain with a co-pilot...woohoo! Sunday was lovely although we didn't make it down to Cloncurry like we should have due to the amout of rain we've had. We have rescheduled for next Sunday. Monday brought even more interesting-ness....if you can call it that. I underwent a little procedure called a culposcopy. If you don't know what that is, you probably don't want to know and if you do know what that is, you can sympathize with me. Needless to say, the rest of the day was spent mostly resting....
Then today, well, today was just one of those days. It started at 530am with Rhys crying his distressed cry about who knows what and me rocking him for the better part of an hour. Then on to breakfast time when the rental company people arrived to examine the house. And then the roof insulation people showed up and wanted to cut off the power. In between all of this, I decided to make bread dough even though my oven isn't working. Guess I left my brain at the doctor's office yesterday among other things. So a trip to T & D's was in order to cook my bread and give Rhys a nap since he wasn't able to go to sleep amidst all the crashing, banging, and drilling on the roof....I can't think why not. And to top it off, when I got home I found not only did they not end up cutting off the power, but they didn't install the insulation either because the roof space was too small! So I guess we'll get to endure this again someday soon! Hopefully I will remember not to make bread dough!

So, as I was saying, yesterday I was thankful for anaesthetic spray...and today I'm thankful for good friends! Hope the rest of the week proves to be just as interesting!

Just a side note, Rhys and I were actually able to take a walk to town for my chiro appt as the weather today is just fabulous and cool and overcast! I even had to bring a blanket for Rhys because of the chilly wind! Bring on the winter!

Enjoying a cloudy, humid day....

We actually played outside today...the weather has been shocking, both with storms and just plain awful humidity. Apparently this is pretty normal until about April. Anyway, today wasn't too hot and it was drizzling a bit when we went outside so we stayed out for a little while playing ball and collecting seed pods. Rhys loves to be outside but only if you are with him so we kicked the ball and then I sat down to take pictures.

Collecting seed pods is serious business

One shoe on, one shoe off...should be a Dr. Suess book....
Feeling very proud of himself for getting to his ball before Mum

And me...enjoying the "cool" weather...

And, as a side note, this is what happens when you turn around for one second in our household these days....sugar everywhere

Rhys and Eva again

"This is my very special car...see how the wheels turn?"

"If you are very careful, I will let you play with it."
Isn't it cute? I love they way he has his hands folded like he's waiting patiently...

Girls' Night

This past weekend the boys decided they were going fishing....all night. Well, that's ok...we'll just have a girls' night then. So we all met up at Tim and Danielle's and had a bbq and then the boys went on their way. We heard many complaints about the girls having better food than the boys, but what can you expect. ;) While the boys were out proving they are men by staying up all night with coffee and energy drinks (except a short period when they tried to sleep, unsuccessfully, on some concrete), we girls stayed up til the wee hours watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Darcy, sigh). We had a wonderful time (once the kids were asleep) and have to do it again soon. Although next time we've decided the boys are going to have to look after the kids so that we can start earlier! :) Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, I didn't get any pictures of us girls in our pjs eating chocolate and cheese and bread and all sorts of yummy things. The boys staggered in about 7am looking like death warmed up and I don't think any of us girls felt much better. I guess we are getting too old for this kind of thing!

Here we are looking eager to start our night...Wendy and Tyron, Lachlan, Tim, Eldon, Rhys, Karla and Danielle

The boys looked much better when they left than when they arrived home in the morning

Eva and Rhys sharing a pillow...little darlings!
Eva giving Karla cuddles