In a Bucket!

We are having such a good time up here that the kids decided to get sick and ruin our run of good health since being away from the child care! The past 3 days Master5 has had his head in and out of a bucket with a tummy ache and temps with a heat rash (I think), and this morning Little Miss 3 has decided she needs a bucket also! Let's just hope she finds the bucket in time if she actually needs it, this house is fully carpeted and I have run out of my floor spotting spray. And, to add to the turmoil, my DH threw up on the way to work the other night!??! They all seem to be nauseaus, and I am praying my tummy is strong enough to avoid it (goodness knows how the household would cope then!).
Our gardens are coming along nicely, my second garden has been filled (I got in trouble for working out in the sun just before lunch, but with the kids I do what I can when I can).  I probably could have watered the garden with the sweat I produced that day! I now have some nice tomato plants growing, a beetroot, some shallotts, a few bok choy seedlings, some chilli plants, strawberries, ginger and tumerick. We had some lettuce but the dog knocked them down, and he has also dug DH's pot plants to find the pecan nuts DH had planted (I think the puppy likes the pecan nuts!). 
The kids planted sunflower seeds a little while ago, so we have now also made a flower garden, recycling the rocks out of the old gardens which were here when we moved in. And we have grass! Our dirt patches are disappearing and the grass is nice and green (for now).

 Since I brought the boat home, we have spent a few days at a local weir. Catching crayfish in pots and catfish on the line. Nothing else of note from the weir at the moment, except the kids love swimming there and we have enjoyed taking the dogs on the boat for the first time also!

Pictures at last!

I found my camera in no other place but the car where I left it, so here are the pictures I promised!

The Clan.



Boys being boys. "All my boy wants for christmas is a water gun!"

 My girls party dress! And the shirt she got from the Grands' which she put on herself.






Our girl with her puppy dog, he wont be that small for too long.

Chattter chatter chatter chatter...............

Have been meaning to write another post but am trying to find my camera so I can share some piccies with you all. I might just have to do a picture post when I find it! I find it hard to write a post at the moment cause all I hear is chattter chatter chatter chatter from the kids, then a scream and a cry and a tease and a lot of Mummy listen to mmmeeeeeeee. We recently did a trip down to our old haunt to collect our boat stored at my Mums place near the beach, a 7hour trip down in the car with the kids by myself - needless to say I am greatful I took the portable DVD player because it meant the kids had something to occupy themselves with instead of chewing off my ear for 7hours! Though, we will be in for a new DVD player soon cause I broke the cover off this one on the way home trying to open it, still useable, but not very travel friendly anymore. Mabey that is one for Santa!
Well, we got to catch up with my inlaws on the farm which was great, I have always enjoyed going out there with none of the usual social/town distractions we encounter most days (I am tossing up going for a walk to buy the newspaper today, which you can't do out there). The kids loved collecting the chook eggs and visiting the goats. Their Aunty was a wonderful help in guiding them around the farm, it is wonderful they are getting to know her and are happy to play with her most of the time. It is a different life on the farm, one which I could quiet easily slip into and after seeing my kids out there I think they could too!
We spent the majority of the week at my Mums place near the beach, close to where we used to live. It was nice being back there, but I don't miss it. We had some wonderful times with some fantastic friends, an impromptu dip in the ocean :-) and all the busyness of getting the puppy, sorting out the boat for the trip back, checking up on our property, and spending time with my Mum. I don't call it a holiday, but I did enjoy catching up with our friends.
We also had a day at my Sister in Laws for my Niece and Nephews birthday party. A massive blow up water slide was the main attraction of the party which the kids utilised extremely well (until it got a little cold), and lots of sweet treats! Even our new puppy had a ball eating the cake and anything else he could get his mouth on, only to cry half the evening due to a sore tummy from over-eating. He was all good after he threw up, three times!
Another stop in at the farm on the way home (as busy as the farm is, it is always nice and peaceful), to collect some seeds and cuttings for our garden at home, then the trip back. It was just as long as the trip down, but it was good to get home.
While away, my wonderful husband finished off the edges to my garden beds and laid some grass seed on our bare patch of earth we have dug up (ie. most of our yard!). I am tasked now to fill the beds (a layer of composting leaves from the previous gardens, a layer of horsie pooh, and a layer of topsoil and we are ready for planting). Not an easy task as my garden beds are approx. 2m long by 1m wide, so that is a lot of compost/manure/soil I have been carting. It took me 2hours the other day to mostly fill 1garden bed.
Back to reality and Christmas is looming, I keep seeing facebook updates only 6 weeks to go (or some nonsense), and I have not even started. I have thought about what we are doing, but that is as far as I have gotten! I will weave my magic soon and have a day in Rocky by myself to get organised, and that will have to do. It is afterall about the company you keep, not the material posessions we recieve, so I am just glad my little family will be together on the day, after DH gets home from work :-)
Keep smiling, pictures to come soon!