New Year's Day...

We love going on driving trips and New Year's Day was the perfect opportunity to explore more of our South West corner. We headed inland around the Mt Barney area and found this beautiful grassy hill to picnic on aswell as a wonderful refreshing swim in this water hole. Fantastic day...thanks to the Biggies for finding it all!

A dose of Kingscliffe...

The days seem a little hard right now. 

Dreams unfulfilled and surrended. 

Struggling finances and debts threatening to lead us to the edge.

God stripping away, calling us to trust no matter what.

But today we chose to celebrate. Eleven years of marriage is something to celebrate.

A family drive is one of our favourite things to do, even on a rainy day. 

We walked along the Kingscliffe board walks, lunched on fish and chips and finished the day

with a quick trip to Movie World with our season pass. It was wonderful and refreshing.

Getting Outside...

Raising boys can mean fighting the constant pull of the technology game...computer, DVD, Wii...
Fresh air, green grass, tall trees, sunshine and watching energetic boys scootering puts it all in
balance...and does good for this mama too.

Gallery of Modern Art

 Creating our own shops in a town

 Dancing with the girls

Goma's kids exhibition keeping us busy one day of our holiday.

All in a Knights day...

 The youth tournament was serious!

 Caleb defending his King...Sebastian.

 One of their favourite activities of the day - shield painting, terrible dragons.

 The Goulds joined us and here they display all their loot.

The kids Medieval festival run by the Abbey Museum annually was impressive today. There was jousting, tournaments, shield and sword making. Lots of battles in and out of tournaments, some ending in tears...oops, all in a boys world and sometimes mama needs to deep breathe and let it all go, and laugh a lot.

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Celebrating our beautiful boys' birthday this year included a visit to Currumbin Sanctuary. A wonderful serene place to enjoy the animals. His school friend Lachy came along and 3 boys ran around checking out the birds, emus and tassie devils.

It is such a joy to be your mum Sebastian. I love how you make me laugh, your amazing smile and precious cuddles. You have such a tender heart for others sweetheart that makes me so proud. Happy Birthday darling boy xx

Somerset Dam Adventures...

Nanna Joyce and the boys on a wet trip to see the gates at the Dam.

Very thankful we were not driving under this thing the moment it fell!

A rainy week, a Saturday, and a desire to get out, we set off. We had heard of the gates open at Somerset with all the record rainfall.

Driving through Mt Glorious however we were stopped by this huge fallen tree across the road. Joseph assessing the situation, probably could have driven through...he mildly boasted! But seeing the long line of cars behind him, he did the gentlemanly thing with his trusty Discovery and pulled the tree off the road! He loved it.

It was a beautiful drive after this, everything so lush and green and wet. Creeks, waterfalls, dams full and overflowing. Prayers answered!