Our baby shower message for B xoxo

Just this past Saturday B had her baby shower over in Oz & a couple of months ago her sister n law, Sarah (who was organizing it for her), contacted us & asked if we'd like to put together a slideshow with some photos of her & Mum & maybe a message from us - just so that we could feel like we were a part of it. So sweet :)

Anyways, Mell & I were super excited to be able to be a part of the celebrations in some small way, so planned to get onto it a.s.a.p!

However, as is often the case with me, I procrastinated - all the while still excited to do something special....& I have to say Mell, who isn't usually a procrastinator, was equally as bad too....meaning that we only got it filmed at our family dinner last Sunday. So for a few days after that I was editing the clips trying to get the slideshow sorted so it'd be all ready to send....& I have to say, I think it came out really good!! At least B said she loved it, so mission accomplished :) Yay!  

Can't wait to see our new little Miss just after Christmas!! Unless she decides to surprise us all & come early ;) x

Guy Fawkes

We weren't really planning to get any fireworks this year, but as we were driving home from swimming last Wednesday, Mac saw a picture of them on the side of a bus stop & started whinging saying 'oh, we don't get to do any fireworks!! :( ' .....so I decided to do a quick detour past the mall before we headed home. 

I told the boys as we were walking into the Warehouse, that we'd only be getting a small box & tried to explain to them that people that get the $200 boxes may as well just go out & burn their money haha....so they were pretty happy with their $7.50 sparkler box :) And I was really excited too cause I've been waiting since last year to have a go at taking some sparkler pics!! The ones on the net always look so cool so we got the boys going & I told them to make me some shapes....

They were really good at doing squiggly ones, but not much else :( 

So then Stan jumped in on the act & did a few more....

Now I'm just looking forward to being able to do it with more adults around next time so we can write some cool words cause it was so much fun!!

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