Weekend away

 Recently we went up to Sydney to celebrate Paul's 70th birthday. We enjoyed a lovely day together with lunch first at Como. We then went back to Ma's for cake.

On Sunday, Janelle, Ma and I had an adventure and caught the new train to Castle Hill and had morning tea and a look at the shops. We then headed back to the city and then home.

On Monday we headed to Bathurst via the Botanical gardens at Mt Tomah. We had yummy morning tea and then wandered around the gardens. We stayed in Bathurst for the night and had yummy pizza for dinner.

On Tuesday we drove to Cowra and really enjoyed the Japanese gardens there. They were just gorgeous. It was lovely to see the bright yellow canola on the way home.

An award

 It was very exciting to secretly attend the assembly a few weeks ago to see Alice receive the Hyacinth award at her primary school. This is a major award as only one is given each fortnight. She was very excitied!!

Bits and pieces

 Lovely to see the miss dressed up for book week. She and her friends were Alice in Wonderland characters.

Jack dressed up too as an oompa loompa!

Ben also celebrated his 13th birthday recently. He had a lovely time.

I have so enjoyed knitting these two scarves recently. The knitting is taking over!!!

Spring is coming and the blossoms are just gorgeous at the moment.

Catching up

 This month seems to be flying by. I must admit we are looking forward to warmer weather soon! We headed north to rainy weather in Maroochydore but had a lovely time catching up with Fiona and David. It was a flying visit but so special. I was able to give Fiona her little birthday gift. It is not terribly useful but is cute! Sadly we didn't take any photos.

I finished my Lovenotes sweather and am very pleased with it. 

While we were up north Janelle and Ma had adventures in Sydney. We caught up with them on the night before we flew out and on Sunday. We were to have Saturday night there but due to flight problems we didn't get into Sydney till 10.30pm! It was a long day.

Holidays

 Thought I would share some of the lovely photos of the miss and her family on their wonderful holiday to Germany and Austria recently.