Busy Weekend

Well, what a weekend we had! It's almost Thursday and I'm still getting over it! :) Our local fishing competition was on this weekend so the boys were busy with that. So, of course, that's our cue to have a girls night! We made a scrumptious asian meal, put the kids to bed, and had a foot spa! It was a great start to the weekend. Saturday Danielle had a stall at the Arts and Crafts Fair selling her hand made breastfeeding covers, fabric boxes, burp rags, handbags, etc....very talented!! Wendy and I watched the kids for the first half of the day and then we all met up again at the lake in the evening for dinner and fireworks. A storm had come up overnight and made the boys' slumber party in the boat rather rocky...so they were ready for a good nights sleep! :) The boys didn't win anything...but they had a lot of fun doing it!

Danielle and the kids playing on the futon

Crispy Orange Beef...yummy!
Our meal...Shallot Chicken, Crispy Orange Beef, Fried Rice and Prawn crackers! And chocolate cheesecake for dessert! Truly spoiled!

Danielle at her stall

All of us at the lake ready for fireworks

Pictures from Pink Party Night

I had a "pink party" last Friday for Breast Cancer Awareness Month for my business, The Chefs Toolbox. It was a great night...lots of pink food and prizes too!

Rhys wearing my feather boa...unfortunately I forgot to get a picture of myself!

The pretty arrangement I made from several different bouquets to get all the pink!
food table

Chicken and Strawberry Salad

Beetroot and goats cheese pizza

Beetroot soup

Wendy and her pink outfit!

Nesta, Desley and Lorraine

My product display table

Little update...

Just the smallest of updates...we are doing well. Summer is fast approaching, although we have had an odd few days of cool weather and rain which is just fine with me. Rhys is talking like a champ although everything is No right now which can be quite annoying.
His favorite sayings: "Oh No Bro!" some of our friends taught him that one
"Amazing" out of the Gruffalo
"I'ceam? Oh, No, Ok" which is his lines and my lines all in one. :) He often has a whole conversation with himself saying both sides.
He loves to sing the ABCs and he's getting clearer all the time. Also loves The Wheels on the Bus, and you can't get away without doing allllll the verses!

Our camera is not working too well so sorry these pictures aren't too good of quality. Best I could do! :) Rhys sure enjoys his watermelon!

"Helping with the washing"

Potty Training 101

Please excuse the nudity....we are potty training in our household. Rhys did 2 pees the other day...which apparently were a mixture of good luck and sitting long enough on the potty as he hasn't repeated that yet. Mom and Dad R sent him a new toy, Fridge Phonics, which it is the current favorite closely followed by the caterpillar which sings 26 different songs. He is becoming quite the singer....hopefully I'll be able to show you if my video uploads!
Sorry this photo has lines in it...our camera is playing up. Reading to him so that he'll stay sitting down!

Singing the ABCs!

Car trouble...again....

No pictures sorry, I mean, who wants to see pictures of our old car anyway... :) Last night after work I climbed into my car (with a co-worker, mind you, who was hitching a ride home), started the ignition, and then there was a popping sound under the hood and then it was dead. So I'm sure if you're a mechanic you're probably cringing at my spectacular description...my husband was when I called him at 10:45pm to try and "explain" what I heard. "What kind of a pop was it, like a small explosion or thud or....and was it under the car or in the engine....and was it metalic or plastic sounding..." I mean, who knows??? I didn't really want to turn the car on again to find out. Anyway, after I decided that the car wasn't going to blow up on me, I found the courage to open the hood. What we eventually found after much humming and hawing was that the battery had completely fried itself and there was a build up of hydrogen in the battery which was ignited when I turned the car on, blowing one of the caps off the battery which hit the hood causing the popping sound. So....our car spent the night in the parking lot and a large part of me was hoping someone would steal it! :) (Guess they wouldn't get very far...) This morning one of Eldon's work mates came around to get the keys and put a new battery in it for me. Thank you!

Oh, but the story isn't over yet! Happy to have a car, I decided to go see my friend Danielle. I jump in the car and realise that Eldon's mate has put the hand brake on...which normally wouldn't be a problem except in our lovely car...the hand brake sticks on! So I try to release it a few times and it seems to be working, but when I go to reverse out, it's very sluggish which tells me the brake is still on. So, I call Eldon again. (Did I forget to mention that he is away for two nights?...just my luck) He tells me how to check to see if it's still on blah blah blah....I'm still fairly ignorant when it comes to mechanical things. So...I think it's fixed so I start down the road to Danielle's...only to feel it being sluggish again. I can't do the speed limit and I'm starting to smell burning brakes...yikes! So I creep the rest of the way to Danielle's and when I get out, the tires are smoking! Another call to Eldon who then calls his mate who then comes round the fix it again! Luckily the brakes release for him and I'm free to drive it again. Danielle and I have a cuppa and discuss how we are going to drive the car into the lake or use it for a bonfire...we haven't decided yet...guess we'll have to have another cuppa.