A couple more photos ...

Easter 2009 ...

We were lucky enough to be able to use John's Mum shack for the Easter weekend. We usually complain about all the stuff we have to take but we had a great weekend!!

We had friends for lunch on Good Friday, joined up with some friends for a great BBQ tea on Saturday night and had family for a BBQ lunch on Sunday.

One of the views from the front verandah ...

A little bit of unsuccessful fishing ... this one was too small

Enjoyed a couple of cold glasses of this ...

Had a couple of these ...

Enjoyed some of these ... Coffin Bay oysters

Ate too much yummy cheese ...

Easter bunny made a visit ...

Hannah finally started to enjoy the sea water ...

Climbed a big sand hill at Long Beach ...

On the whole ... had a great weekend!!!

First olive harvest ...

A few years ago we bought 3 Kalamata olive trees and planted them out near our clothes line.

Today the boys and I harvested the first crop!! Only one tree has fruited!!

We got 1.4kg.

I found the pickling method here.

Wish us good luck!!

In about two weeks we should be able to taste test them!!

Jack at the moment ...

Jack is 7 1/2 ...

• he loves sport ... especially football and cricket. He can be found playing it, talking about it, watching it on TV at any time of the day!! He will watch any games of it on TV even on Austar when it is from the 1980's!!
• he is a good reader
• he is quite tall for his age
• he is not fussy about what he wears at all and never has been
• his favourite meal is schnitzel, except he prefers the butcher shop ones to our home made one
• he will eat peas at a push, carrot, prefers fruit (grapes, waternmelon, apples, strawberries)and salad (lettuce, cucumber, raw carrot) though
• loves playing games on the internet ... Mathletics and Stick Cricket are the favourites at the moment
• he is a lot like John in his personality ... a bit antagonistic
• lots of people tell me he looks a lot like John too
• he has an interesting teeth arrangement at the moment
• he has quite olive skin
• he can spit it with the best of them but doesn't do it to the same extent as his brothers!!
• wants to play cricket in the next season for the Cummins Scorpions
• he will be playing his second season of minis this year in Ramblers

Lachlan at the moment ...

Lachlan at 6 ...

• he loves Lego, happy to play for ages with it making creations. Gets extremely upset if anyone touches the creations or wrecks them.
• he enjoys the PlayStation
• he isn't a big meat eater, use to love fish, chicken etc but not as keen now
• his favourite meal at the moment is roll ups ... tortillas with yoghurt, cheese, lettuce, cucumber.
• he can be a bit particular about his clothes but not as much as when he was younger
• he follows Western Bulldogs in the AFL, has done for over a year now.
• he loves sport ... cricket, football especially
• he is very sensitive, just last night went to bed very early upset because John had promised to get him a packet of footy cards and forgot ... Lachlan was devastated!!
• he takes a while to get over something upsetting
• he is very affectionate
• he is very cheeky
• he has curly hair, especially if it is a bit long

Rohan at the moment ...

Rohan is 4 ...

• he is a very fussy eater. At tea time he always wants fish (King George whiting) ... he would say he wanted it every night if we asked him!! He might eat a hamburger or a sausage or a roll up with grated cheese but really that is about it. Very frustrating.
• for breakfast he likes toast or crumpets but sometimes doesn't eat them.For lunch he always attempts a sandwich!
• loves to drink juice or pink milk (strawberry quick)
• he is very determined once he makes his mind up about something
• he loves Lego
• he is very sensitive, becomes upset at the littlest things
• he is very caring
• he can often be heard singing, little songs that he makes up
• he is a story teller, not so much at home but with his uncles and auntie and cousins ... some very amazing tales we get relayed to us!!
• has long eye lashes
• always needs a belt on his pants!!
• he has a very good memory for things we have done or places we have been
• he is my baby boy
• can be a bit particular about what clothes he wears

Hannah at the moment ...

Hannah at 2 1/2 ...

• loves to decide what she is wearing ... doesn't really like wearing jeans, prefers dresses, skirts and shorts.
• loves pink ... her cup, cutlery, clothes, lollies etc!!
• when she puts on a new outfit or one that she thinks is "pretty" (her words!!) she walks out to show the boys ... "modeling" as she goes ... a little pose here, a little pose there!! Looks hilarious!
• if the boys put on a footy guernsey she wants one on too!!
• she likes to wear her "sneakens" (aka sneakers) even if it isn't apporopriate (according to her mother!!) with any outfit ... I hide them sometimes when I would prefer her to wear other footwear!!
• is a fussy eater at dinner time.
• plays really well with Rohan
• likes to wear clips in her hair, if she finds a headband at someone else's house she will put it on, likes necklaces and bracelets too.
• likes to draw
• looks very intensely at reading materials as if she can read!! Saw her doing it with a brochure at the bakery the other day ... looked so funny. She has loved to "read" things from a young age (from about 6 or 8 months!!).
• always wants to wear "knick knicks" (aka knickers) over her nappy

Hannah ...

Just had to post a photo of Hannah last week after leaving Granny's ... she had found Nana T's old handbag and pearls!! There was a black evening bag as well!! Very glam hey!!

Hi ho everybody ...

Well I had a lovely trip to Adelaide on the weekend ... shopping until I nearly dropped!! I mainly needed clothes for myself and Hannah, the boys got a few bits and of course the mandatory present which is requested if John or I go to Adelaide!!

The boys had requested ... football paraphanalia!!

Jack ... a Geelong guernsey ... very expensive and luckily I didn't find one in his size!! So a cap and a few football cards and a football book were the substitute!!

Lachlan ... Western Bulldogs shorts and socks ... again no luck so the same as Jack.

Rohan ... no specific request so he got a Hawthorn Hawks cap and a packet of footy cards and a footy book!!!

The caps are quite nice, bought them at the AFL shop in the city. Not loud colours either.

Hannah was very happy with her Fairies book!! So far she likes the clothes I have shown her ... she is a little particular but so far I have talked her into each item so far!!

Enjoyed a yummy meal out with friends at Chianti Classico on Hutt Street in the city, with a very entertaining waiter ... I was trying not to laugh when he was describing the dishes!!

Finally ...

I have got most things re-installed on my computer!! Hooray!!!

So some computer journaling could be done!