family fun

where is Daddy, Matty, BJ and Annie???

here they are!!

If you look closely in this photo, Lucy is on the new bridge in town and Stewart, Matthew, BJ and Annie are down below on their bikes/scooter about to ride under the overpass.

Lucy on the new bridge

What a wonderful way to have some family time then by having a bike/scooter/walk time in the park.  So with Matthew on his scooter, Daddy, BJ and Annie on their bikes and Mummy and Lucy walking, we all had a wonderful time exploriong the new bridge in town.  After the HUGE bike/scooter/walk time we stopped for some morning tea and a play on the playground before finishing off with some ice cream before we headed home for the afternoon sleep - which we ALL had!!

The next day Matty kept on complaining about his right leg being sore and could barely walk on it properly until we remembered that he scootered from Southbank pool to over the new bridge down to bike path all the way up to the botanical gardens over the Goodwill bridge back to the pool at Southbank.  And he was very proud in the fact that he won the race.  No wonder his leg ached!

christmas 09

What a fantastic day!!  It  all began with the girls waking up and jumping all over daddy and Matthew coming in with his santa sack all very excited.  BJ and Noonie were the only ones not awake so Matthew and the girls had the pleasure of waking them up (all woke up at a resonable hour for Smiths - 6am).  We then all went through the santa sacks on Mum and Dad's bed with lots of excitment and happy faces.  Once that mad minute was over we all headed into the lounge to open the rest of the presents.  It was so lovely seeing all the kids take turns in opening presents and then admiring with great joy the presents each other received.  The BIG present the kids received was a Wii and all its trimmings from Nooonie and Grandad and Grandma.  This was definitely the winner!!  The boys got a mixture of spy gear and toys for outside and the girls received tickets to see Angelina Ballerina Ballet at the Lyric theatre later in January.  Also the 3 big kids received a special picture of theirs framed.  They were really excited about these.  After present opening and of course time to play with the new presents it was time for Christmas breakfast with Noonie.  The table was set with all the christmas placemats, christmas plates and glasses and of course the christmas bon bons!  We all filled up on yummy fresh fruit, crossiants, sausages and eggs and lots, lots more.  For lunch we headed over to Uncle Doug's house to eat more food, open more presents, eat more food, have a swim and play with the cousins and eat more food!  Once we arrived back at home there was defintiley no arguments with getting the kids into bed as they were so worn out from their HUGE day! 

Merry Christmas!!