Fun at the Lake and Swimming Pool

More summer fun in the water!

Maebys favorite place. I hang out here and chat with the other mums and dad gets to play in the lake with the big kids.

Spencer is getting good at swimming around.

Maeby is brave like Liam, she loves to jump in with Dad. She loves to jump off his hands, high into the air.

Here we go again, lets see who can get hurt first! Dad is so much fun, most of the other dads are sitting on the benches

Spencer is a little more tame, but he's getting braver! Weeee!

Ohhh, my little circus performers...Ta-dahhh.

Willy: Fly young one, be free!

Spencer: "Ahhhhhhhh!"

Maeby has to have at turn.

Lunch time under our beach umbrellas, yummy.

Maeby putting on some sunscreen, one can never be too careful in the Aussie sun.

Hmm, what should I do with all the extra, maybe Daddy needs some.

Swimming at the city pool. This is such a cute picture of Maeby, my little fishy.

This is supposed to be Liam, what is he doing with his face? And what happened to his left leg? Shark attack at the city pool...Ahhhhhh!

This is Melanie's picture, Liam is trying to steal the show. Of course Mel has no idea, her eyes are closed and her nose is plugged, but hey, shes underwater!

Where's Maeby?

Christmas 2009

Not much of a display, but there was something for everyone, and the tree and the decorations were on loan from the church in Wangaratta.

We didn't have our Christmas stocking this year so we wrapped the kids stocking stuffer up to look like we got them lunch at Fish and Chips. Fish and Chips is a very popular place to eat in Australia, they serve a variety of food with a large amount of Chips (french fries) with it. The kids looked a little surprised when they opened up what they thought was lunch.

Letters to Santa were a bit late this year, we left them out for him to get when he came to drop off the stuff.

Nana sent the kids some really neat embroidered pillow cases this year.

The boys got camping ones, Daddy was a bit jealous he didn't get a cool camping pillow case.

Maeby was actually a little disappointed that she didn't get chips Christmas Morning.

She quickly forgot about the chips and dove right into the chocolate.

Liam got a rubber band gun...it only took seconds for him to find an illegal target and nearly got it taken away before opening presents was over. Ahhh, he is his fathers son...

Daddy loves to play Santa every year and hand out the presents.

Spencer was pretty happy to get this, despite the look on his face like, "Really Mom, a toy motorcycle...I can't ride this thing."

Maeby was so excited for a new princess dress.

Happy kids! Mission accomplished.

Liam has been begging for this game for over a year, Willy ordered it from America and had his friend bring it out. It was a big hit, and a total surprise. Lucky stinking kid.

Similar story here.

We took these boats to the lake a bit later and everyone loved them.

Melanie finally gets to have a fish, and what a joy it has been. If only I had a time machine...

Poor kid is dying of starvation, look at him, writhing on the ground in pain. You can see his bones and everything.

Who needs toys, why waste the money? Just sneak around other peoples houses after Christmas and take their boxes.

We actually couldn't find Maeby for a while, till we found her hiding quietly in here.

Surprise!