Day 28

     Man it is hot here today. It is supposed to be at least 40 degrees but it wouldn't surprise me to be hotter. We have finally decided what we are doing with our Internet and just have to wait about a week to do it. The boys went off to school ok again today. Will see how they went soon. We had a chat with Caden this morning and we have decided that since he is getting so much bigger now that he can stay up a little bit later than Tyler. Hopefully that will help with him going to sleep easier at night. I dropped of more resume's today so hopefully that will turn into some work pretty soon. We bought some more curtains today for our bedroom. They are like the ones in the lounge room but a dusky brown I guess you would call it. They look quite nice - would be nicer if I ironed them first but hey you get that!

The boys were great when they got home from school. We filled the bucket with water and they ran under the sprinkler for a while to cool down. C went to bed easier tonight but still wasn't asleep till 9. I think the days sleeps are going to have to go. We rearranged the lounge room a little bit and Caden's comment was "Wow Mummy it is so clean!' I think we need to tidy a bit more!

We had a little visitor on the door this afternoon - a bright green praying mantis. He sat on the door for ages. About 93.0 tonight I was growling at Josy for banging on the door all the time till I realised that she was climbing it to try and get the insect.

oh my POTD - Caden going out to play from the Bilby room. Tyler watching TV and the praying mantis!

 

enjoy J

Day 27- Hobbies

It is a no brainer for me today (plus a lazy photo day) My latest hobby is to be blogging and posting on forums. so my POTD is of my computer with my weekly update for my project 365!

not to happy with the focus (I don't think I was concentrating enough to have in manual mode today!)

and my second one - don't know that you would call it a hobby or just a habit but the kids certainly do LOVE to jump on my bed - despite the fact that we have a lovely big 10 foot round trampoline outside!

 

enjoy  J

Day 27

Renewed my licence this morning icky stuff that photo!

Took out my resume today trying to be at the top of the casual lists this year

We bought the boys some new summer jammies.

We bought some new curtains for the loungeroom.

We built things with the ZOOBS today

Caden went up to the Bilby room today permanently

(here we go!)

(new locker)

Tyler had a great day at school

(exhausted after playing hard all day)

We researched new Internet packages more

Daz folded the laundry and we washed more - icky stuff that!

Watched Jelena Dokic play in her tennis singles match at the Australian Open.

enjoy J

Day 26 - Australia day

We went to the Australia day celebrations this morning. here are a couple of shots...

 

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Day 26 - Australia Day

Today is Australia Day. We actually managed to get down to the ceremonies and breakky at the victory memorial Gardens this year. We haven't really done anything for celebrating this day for years but thought we needed to introduce the boys to this tradition of our country. We got the boys a couple of T-shirts saying little  Aussie on them to get in the spirit!

breakky was scrambled eggs and bacon on bread - Aussie I guess but I have to admit that scrambled eggs and bread together aren't fantastic combinations! WE got there about 8.15 and this was the line for the breakky...

Daz lining up. Luckily they actually got through the lines pretty quickly (about half hour wait).

  

the Cutie's in their T-shirts

 

The boys on the big slide - Tyler wasn't too sure but Caden loved it!

That's about it for today!

Enjoy  J

Day 25 - Chinese New year & sunset after picnic

we went to a Chinese New year celebration with Daz's new Chinese employees. here are a couple of shots!

trying to pick up marbles in soapy water with chopsticks

the marbles

yummy lunch!

Today was the second round of the Facebook shootout. These are my  entries - Secret ingredient was grain. I had to look up the definition of grain to get something different to wood and rice/pasta and literal grainy stuff!

 

(grain - how the grass lies on the putting green depends how fast the ball runs.)

the wood of the blossom nut, as well as the fork in the tree is also called the grain!

then we picnicked in the park

 

until sunset..

 

enjoy  J

Picnic in the park

Tonight we took the boys for a picnic in the park. We grabbed KFC on the way and sat and enjoyed the sunshine. The heat was starting to wane a little bit so it was quite comfortable there. We had a couple of ducks visit us to beg a chip then we hit the play equipment. Even Daz and I tested out the swings!! We actually got to check out the sunset from the look out tonight!

    

 

enjoy  J