Hello!! How are your holiday's going? Children happy and enjoying the break in routine OR bored and wandering around not knowing what to do??
My precious ones are doing a bit of both actually! I've said many a time
"we can do some schoolwork" but they'd rather be bored than that! he he!
So the other day we went to the local City park with our wonderful friends Phillip, Vanessa and their 2 little ones Emma and Luke. They live in QLD and this was the last catch up before going home. We had a super awesome time
This is one of the first times that Esther has really been able to join in on the slide fun and the others sure LOVED helping her in that!
How cute is that smile!! (and not just my spunky husbands either! he he!)
Hannah and Ness (Mrs Jordan) had quite a few games of noughts and crosses
At City Park there is this little train like Thomas and you can tour around the whole park. It's soooo much fun (even for us adults) and on this ride the children had an absolute ball. From when it took off they would all call out
"Hello! Hello!" and wave madly. Now in my family I've been told that I'm quite a loud person (I got that off my mum) and so you can only imagine how loud my precious treasures actually were!! Ness and I couldn't stop laughing!!! Not at them but just at the situation and how happy they were and how when called out Hello to and waved at even the most seemingly unhappy person walking by turns and smiles and waves too!! Little Emma was quietly saying in a whisper
"Bye, see you later!" the complete opposite of my rowdy bunch!!! It was soooo delightful! Even the train driver after wards said
"I had the advantage, I'm deaf in one ear and in the other I just turned off my hearing aid!!!" So funny! What a memory.
After saying goodbye to the Jordan's the children played a game of chess and then it was time to go. It was such a wonderful way to spend time together!
Smiles from The Torrents's.
Each day that's warm (as the mornings are starting out rather fresh...)
I hope that you have a wonderful day and super weekend!
Smiles The Torrents's :)
Each year I LOVE to put in a vegie garden. There really is nothing that compares to you going out to the backyard and picking some home-grown goodness. Yesterday when we were out and I was fixing some of the HUGELY grown tomato plants after all the rain I showed Zeke some little bugs.
I told him that when I was little that I used to touch their fluffy "bum" and they flick away, so for me, I've always called them...
Hannah and Soph soon got in the mix of it and they all happily flicked these little "flick bum's" away off the plants!! SO much fun!!!!
Question: Does anyone actually know the real name of these little bugs??
I can't wait to cook up these babies into some very scrummy RELISH! YUM YUM!!! Slowly but surely they're getting there!!
Sophia loves her pony and is always happy to have a photo taken, I love her choice of Dasiy Duke shorts!
Hannah looked very much the part of a real cowgirl!! I love the curly hair that she let me do!! Hannah is never really one to have her hair done so when I get to it's a real treat!
Ezekiel looks fabulous, especially with his idea of having a "3 day growth!!" He came up to me and said
Little Esther was a little more tricky to photograph but we managed with the amazing ideas that Zeke had! He suggested to get the camera ready and he'd drop the hat on Esther's head and then at that exact moment I'd take the pic! Well after a few try's we DID IT!!! (note the hand about to go up and take the hat off!! he he!!)
The games at the party were the sack race and toss the gumboot. My children actually won them both, Hannah the sack race and Zeke the gumboot toss!
This is one of the first times that Esther has really been able to join in on the slide fun and the others sure LOVED helping her in that!
How cute is that smile!! (and not just my spunky husbands either! he he!)
Hannah and Ness (Mrs Jordan) had quite a few games of noughts and crosses
At City Park there is this little train like Thomas and you can tour around the whole park. It's soooo much fun (even for us adults) and on this ride the children had an absolute ball. From when it took off they would all call out
After saying goodbye to the Jordan's the children played a game of chess and then it was time to go. It was such a wonderful way to spend time together!
Smiles from The Torrents's.
