Sunday afternoon

With the delightful sunshine today the girls made the most of it and enjoyed some slid n'sliding!

I LOVE how Sophia is our fun, crazy, adventure child!! She is ALWAYS keen to join in on the water play with her little sisters, it's such a blessing to see. There is sooo much fun to be had on a Summer, Sunny, Sunday afternoon,
Smiles The Torrents'

the sunshine is still here...

Each day that's warm (as the mornings are starting out rather fresh...)
I get excited that our "summer" is not quite over!
The children have had sooo much fun in this last week playing with the sprinkler, I had to take some photo's of them!



I hope that you have a wonderful day and super weekend!
SMiles The Torrents's

{holiday} park fun

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.

yummy summertime treats

We picked these the other day!
I love our raspberry patch, all thanks to our super Nanny who helped us get it started! Next year we will have a BUMPER crop, there's been sooo much growth this year with all the rain.

Hope your day is filled with sunshine and yummy summertime treats!

Fun with Tadpoles

Over the last few months this spring/summer the children have had the most wonderful time watching and learning about tadpoles and Frogs! We were blessed to be given eggs (frog's spawn) from the fabulous Harding family. We first of all had them in a small plastic container, then moved them into our old sand pit! They loved the new space and each morning the children would check on their growth and feed them!

draining out the water and catching the tadpoles/frogs as they come

Of course the time came when we needed to return them to their home.

here is a close up of a tiny frog, still with his tail but all of his new legs!

Have you ever seen baby frogs or watched them grow?? There is sooo much to learn and so much fun to be had!