Yesterday was VERY HOT in Sydney so we decided to make the two hour drive to the Blue Mountains with my Mom. We had a fun day hiking in the mountains, eating ice cream and then stopping a pizza restaurant we enjoyed when we went there for our holiday in October. We had a really fun day and now we are back to Sydney and another hot day. The kids are in the pool with heaps of sunscreen. It is difficult to believe it is cold in America right now.
whew - it has been so busy and I really need to post some photos from our Cairns vacation and Christmas, but my computer has been acting crazy (and I did a newborn photo shoot for a friend - very fun!). If you want to see some Great Barrier Reef photos you can pop over to my Mom's blog: Rita's Adventures and scroll down a post. We had a blast taking photos with our new underwater point and shoot canon camera. It took video underwater too! I just haven't figured out how to post those yet. I had a deadline to finish the book we ordered on our New Zealand Cruise last year by January 1st so I worked on that almost non-stop between Christmas and New Year's Day. I'm glad to have that completed! After I ordered it they sent me a link where you can view it online. If you have a few minutes and you'd like to see all the fun we had feel free to check it out here: So there is a little of what we have been up to. It has been really wonderful having Matt home almost every day over the past week and a half. We will miss him tomorrow :(
My Mom will be here until January 24th and the children all go back to school the week after she leaves so we have a few more weeks of fun before switching gears to moving in June or July. It has been a really amazing and wonderful three and a half years and we are definitely totally blessed to have had the opportunity to experience living in Australia.
We are really looking forward to the next phase in our lives. (and no we don't have any idea where we will go next - We hope to have some idea by March!) We have been reminded recently of the scripture God spoke to our hearts before we left for Budapest in 2001:
"The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." Psalm 121:8
This is our family scrapbook . . . thanks for stopping by! It's fun for us to stay connected to our family and friends while we are so far from home. PLEASE leave a comment every now and again - it makes us feel like we are not forgotten :)
Aus speak
Chockers (short for Chock-A-Block)
Chock - A - Block (very busy or "full-on"!)
full on (this is the BEST of Aus speak!) Full on means totally busy or completely absorbed in - a child that is super busy can be "full-on" or a weekend crammed with activities is "FULL ON!" We love this expression because it does not seem to have an American equivalent and we can't imagine how we were able to express ourselves adequately with out it!
gobsmacked
Give it a little rub (your head, when you bump it)
