Halloween x 3

Halloween was a really busy time for us this year, with not 1 but 3 Halloween parties to go to!! The 1st one was a halloween disco at the Bayview Early Learning Centre (Spencer's old daycare). They asked us if we wanted to still come seeing as he'd only finished up there a few weeks before, so without really thinking it through I said yes....I forgot that swimming would've started by then though so we had to rush home from swimming, jump into our costumes & then go & pick up Shylah :)

We were in such a rush that I didn't mange to take any photos of them at the disco though, so they had a do a few poses for me when we got home, before I would feed them any dinner haha 

Shy & Spence got their faces painted :) Mac had been wanting to be a ninja & Spence Batman, for the longest time now, so they were super chuffed with their costumes this year...they both actually had masks & headpieces that I haven't got any photos of though so you can't actually see exactly how they looked all dressed up!

And even I wore a costume this year which is pretty much unheard of!! And not even once, but twice - for the trunk n treat again on Friday night...

I fake tanned before Friday though cause I decided I was looking a little too pasty white for Esmerelda in this photo :) 

Our 2nd Halloween party was Aunty Jose & Shylah's afternoon tea on Friday but I didn't get any photos from there as we were rushing to & from that as well with swimming lessons in between....

Then it was onto the trunk n treat. I only got a few photos from the trunk n treat this year cause it was so cold & windy that I just wasn't really feeling it!

Bishop (as Zorro??)

Kezia, one of my beehives (as Dorothy I'm guessing?) & her Grandma, Maleficent

Katie (another one of my beehives whose just about to move up to Miamaids this month), as Medusa?

Our friend Loretta's cute boys :) She brought them along last year too, so it was neat to have them come again!

Shane saw me taking photos & came up & asked for a photo with Stan, haha. Cute....

But not as cute as these 3 - home to watch Hotel Transylvania (their Halloween pick). I couldn't be bothered trying to put them to bed after all the sugar they'd been eating for hours, so I decided to take the easy way out.... Then we just had to carry them into their room once they'd petered out :) It worked a treat!

Hanging out the next morning x

Such a cool few days - but so nice to have the sugar high over...for now....

at least until the next party :)

Saying goodbye to Aunty Natty, Jordy Pie & Kyky

Exactly a week ago last Thursday night, we had our final supper to farewell Aunty Natty, Jordy Pie & Kyky, before they headed off on their big adventure to Australia the very next day. 

We met at Glenfield Maccas & all the kids were super excited about that very fact - all except Dallin it seems....who was probably just bummed that she's not old enough to eat her own Big Mac yet haha

But everyone else was into their burgers & chips & loving it - all except Stan who brought his own stirfry (which he thought was the leftovers from the night before...but when I came home & discovered them still in the fridge we worked out that he'd actually eaten other leftovers from a chicken stirfry almost a week before haha...lucky he didn't get s sore tummy!!

The rugrats all jammed into the slide :)

We had to stage taking a photo of Faithy & Spence to get this pic - cause all we really wanted was a photo of the little girl behind them who'd obviously had a late one the night before haha....still a bit hungover by the looks ;)

Super chuffed with Aunty Natty shouting them all icecreams

They decided to plant themselves on the bottom of the stairs at the main entrance to Maccas here - must've thought they owned the place haha...I'm actually surprised we didn't get asked to leave that night cause this lot were such a rowdy bunch!!

We had to move them to the other set of stairs so people could actually get in & out of the building!

Dilly's mood picked up - around the same time Aunty Natty started feeding her icecream!

 Last pic before the 4 Ormsbys left in NZ dropped down to 3 :( :( There are now officially more of us across the ditch!

Hope you're settling in well Aunty Natty & look forward to coming to visit you & the boys sometime soon xoxo