Time flies.......

when you're having fun, and we've been having lots of it.

I did promise myself I would update this more often, but life seems to get in the way, so I think now I will resign myself to the fact that I update it monthly.  One problem with that though is sometimes there will be a LOT of photos!

So what have we been doing?  Well the last 2 weeks have been school holidays, which has just been wonderful.  It was lovely to spend quality time with the boys doing loads of fun stuff, fun free stuff at that and enjoying each others company.  Unfortunately Tris didn't get any extra time off, which was the only bummer.

The sun was shining most days and we made the most of it by having picnics in parks, going to the beach, going to friends houses for playdates, going to the movies (to watch Despicable Me 2 - very funny!), going to the science museum in Brisbane, going to the markets, doing free workshops and just really enjoying our local area and new found friends.

It has been a bit of a shock going back to school, well the boys love it, but it is really quite at home, although plenty to be keeping busy with.

I can't really think of much to write so I think I will just pop the photos on and explain as I go.....

World Environment Day Festival

It was a great free day out at the local university

This table was musical instruments made from rubbish, the boys loved it

On this table he had pumps and things attached things.  Rowan loved the rubber glove blower upper!

That look says it all really, eh?  Yes they did love it!

Face painting fairy was free too, the boys lined up for 45 mins, they have learned if it's free it's worth queuing for!

We weren't sure the fairy would do spiderman, so Rowan asked for something awesome, her response: Spiderman?

Then its was Boo's turn

Another skeleton/zombie

There were loads of free kids workshops too, this one was Renata the recycling lady, she has really made a mark on the boys - Rowan told me off the other day for leaving on a light!

Random shot of one of our local beaches - Moffat Beach

This is the view from Point Cartwright.  Somewhere we have been meaning to go for ages and finally went the other week.  It was lovely, you can see miles down the beaches and surf was beautiful that day.  We went up to the lighthouse for a picnic and hoped to see whales off the headland but none.  We did however watch a bunch of teenage boys sit in a bush with a rubber snake on a bit of fishing line tricking all the passers by.  It was quite funny as lots of people fell for it, including us at first! 

A winters day here in Queensland

The boys had their first semester school reports.  Both were amazingly good and they were both very proud.  We knew Rowan would get a good report, but we were quite amazed at Reubens.   He gained an academic exellence award, which means he is in the top 5 of his class and he got to go up on stage to be acknowledged.  (They are not in uniform as it was community day, where they could go in dressed as a caring role model form your community, Reuben went as a Daddy!)

Day out in Brisbane

Science Museum, great fun, rubbish photos though

The start of the school holidays, we made marshmallow shooters with some friends on the street

Half of the street gang armed with their marshmallow shooters, Rowans went furthest!

Reuben still badly wants a dog, so as a compromise we walk our friends 2 dogs, this is Lilly

And this is Amos

Trees, boys and beach

Our first 4wd trip, through Mapleton National Park

A very happy man and his 4b

We drove to high lookouts and waterfalls, walked in the rain and had an awesome day out

Would you trust these two?  I wouldn't!

Scribbly Gum, the boys favourite tree to point out on a walk.  The bark naturally makes these cool little scribbles

Mapleton Falls - 120m (rubbish photo though!)

Eumundi Markets school holiday fun, science workshops

Gloopy Goop

A trip to the beach for some fish and chips and sandcastles

They spent half an hour making a track for the ball to roll down by sliding their bums along the sand!

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running races at the lake

A shot just for you, Dad

I finally went to the hairdressers yesterday and am happy with the result

So thats the last month all wrapped up just in time before picking the boys up from school.  We have friends staying with us this weekend and then in a few weeks time we are planning a camping trip to break up the long term, but for now its beaches and parks to enjoy this beautiful sunny winter weather :)

Some more snippets

I seem to have a pile of random photos building up so I thought I would pop them on here.....

Wet swimmers after a surfing sess.  Rowan can now stand up on his board, he makes it look so easy!

A bowl of flowers picked by my little boys

Glassy sea

Our thongs

Tristan surfing

Afternoon Tea Time

Boiled eggs and Lego ninjas

Lego in pjs's

For Reuben's birthday Cath sent him a make your own pop up book kit.  They both loved it and spent hours, thinking of their stories and making them

This is one of my favourite views.  It is along the pathway between school and the lake, every time I go past it I think to myself, oh how I love it here!

Rowan had a day off school as he was a little under the weather and his concentration was getting really bad, so I thought he needed a break.  He got well into doing this jigsaw.

School had a dress up day, the theme was Aladdin

I suppose this is our biggest news, we have a 2nd car.  We only needed one a couple of times a week so it won't be used much, but we also wanted a 4x4 so we could go to better camping places, as here you are really limited to where you can go if you only have a normal car as the roads end as soon as you head away from the coast pretty much.  So we now have Goldie, she is an old 1988 Toyota Landcruiser, a beast but should be good fun too!

As a mid term treat we went down to the Gold Coast last weekend to go to Movie World, the boys choice.  We all had a great day.  This was Rowan's favourite ride - the childrens bumper cars, they went so slow it was amazing, but he loved them!

This is Reubens favourite ride, the childrens roller coaster

And the end of the day was finished off with the parade, they have seen it beofre but they loved it again.  I thought Reubens arm was going to fall off he was waving it so hard!

We have found a new park around the other side of the lake, it is great.  Rowan though liked the adults park best, they have loads of gym like equipment there.  He was well into doing 'his exercises'!

So that's a pretty good example of our days really.  We have a long weekend coming up for the Queens birthday then only 2 more weeks till school holidays, yippee!  I can't wait to do some fun stuff with the boys and just hang out, I miss them when they are at school.  We may try to get a camping trip in Goldie done soon too!