September Summation (before our trip to D Town)

September 2012 started with Fathers Day. Riley came up with a great gift idea of good quality earphones for David. David is hard to buy for so this was  a brilliant move on Bears part. Of course now David has to practically keep his uber expensive headphones locked away as the kids think they own them!





According to my iphone pics Riley and I went out to Lunch.

These are my Managers (yes it takes two to keep me under control). Bron and Brian are seriously the best bosses on earth. I am learning so much from them. Here we are about to head off to a meeting.  

 

 

 

All of a sudden it was Snipper Time! This is Lucy doing the timed pool swim to pass competency for her age group at Nippers. It wasn't pretty (she is the first to tell you her swimming 'sucks'). She has a great Nipper Coach this year and has met some really sweet nice girls, its not always the way so I am really appreciating it.

This is what happens when you ask them to smile for a first day at Nippers pic.


Riley went on a week long retreat for school. This involved hiking and camping (without tents) at the North Shore, as well as taking and carrying all his food for the week in his pack. The above pic is Dave trying to make his pack easier to carry. Bear was so amped that morning (nervous and slightly worried he was going to starve) that getting a pic of him was impossible. I think I did say ... "if you do starve or get eaten by a Dingo I wont have one last picture of you" apparently that wasn't helpful. We picked him up a week later very tired and very hungry but full of funny stories about his mates and the things 15 year old boys find funny (like the night they had to sit in the beach alone in darkness and contemplate their place in the world. Of course instead of doing that the boys made animal noises to communicate with each other on different sections of the beach-who would be a teacher?).


After dropping Riley at school at stupid o'clock for the retreat, Lucy and I killed time before school started by having a hot chocolate and contemplating our place in the world :-)


We also took her out to tea on her own and the meal was much yummier than it looks.

That was September before we packed up the circus and headed north.

Sprung

Oh its finally Spring. Thank goodness as it was starting to turn into the Winter of my discontent. I'm so please to see some more sun (even if it rained for most of the weekend), have more time to exercise outdoors and wear other things besides jeans, jeans and ballet flats.

I'm also getting excited like an old person at the sight of colour in my garden.

To make it the best start of Spring evah my brothers band new Mrs came for a quick visit over the weekend. We took part in such cerebral activities like shopping and eating and a bit more shopping. Of course we found time to get some Hollywood toes done (well I did Cath and Krys got their plastic finger nails replasticfied).

Saturday night we lived large at the local Thai and ate our way through some very yummy food.

Sunday was Fathers Day.

The kids and I got Dave a new hedger, with which he proceeded to hack/hedge the poor lillypillies up the driveway. I have never seen someone so excited about a gift... boys are lame when it comes to wants. Who knew a hedger was that great.

Seems like this is saying hacked rather than manicured.

We hosted a Fathers Day breaky and Lulu cooked up some pancakes (focus on the cute kid with the pancakes not the craptastic kitchen). David doesn't really eat pancakes so its lucky that they are sone of Lulu's favourite food group.

As it was Dadda's Day, after the Breakfast guests left (at 2pm!!!) the kids and I let Dave partake in his most favourite pastime of all. Ripping up more of the house.

The demolishing part of the reno is coming along a treat... we cough ME cough cant wait to see some of the actual renovating completed.