Well we have just finished a fantastic weekend.
Saturday morning I was woken with big wet kisses from both my beautiful husband and my gorgeous little girl, along with a slightly off key rendition of "Happy Birthday". Sleepy head Xav doesn't "do" early mornings, preferring to laze around in bed until about 8am, so I didn't get kisses from him until later.
After everyone was up the kids gave me my present and then Grace eagerly starting unwrapping it for me. I was spoilt rotten with a 50mm 1.8 lens, which is exactly what I wanted (seems the constant mentioning of it worked well!). There was also a Photoshop magazine, which is not what I wanted so Duane was shipped back to the news agency to exchange it. he was under strict instructions to swap it for a Digital SLR one, but still managed to come home with another editing book - Finally got it right the 3rd time.
We were supposed to be going out for a nice lunch at the Golf Club, but a couple of corroded spark plugs nipped that in the bud. A bit of pleading and a guilt trip and our new mechanic went to work for the day to fix it all up for us. So Duane spent most of my day hanging out in the mechanics waiting room whilst I cleaned up at home in readiness for the afternoon tea that Duane had organised. I'm sure it was a scam for him to get out of cleaning.
Anyway, he made it home by 1.30pm, just in time for everyone to start arriving at 2pm. I really couldn't be bothered doing anything for my birthday, so it was nice to have a little surprise and also to have Duane organise everything (well except the cleaning!). He had organised a huge seafood platter, date scones and my absolute favourite cheesecake - Apple Crumble from the Cheesecake shop. So naughty, but oh so Yummy!
I was absolutely spoilt with presents. I now have a gorgeous tan handbag, Pandora "sister" charm, Luis Vuitton silver coin purse, set of lip glosses, some body shop hand creams, Coles/Myer vouchers, new handmade earrings, photo frame and a Michelle's Patisserie mini Chocolate mud cake which I need to get some vanilla ice cream so I can devour it.
It was such a lovely relaxing day. The kids all played happily together whilst the parents got to sit around chatting and eating. Perfect.
Sunday morning was a bright and early start as we were heading down to Brunswick Heads for the day with the Truets. We left here around 8am, just enough time for sleepy head Xav to wake, get dressed and shovel down his weetbix. The rest of us had been up since 6.30am packing eskies and getting everything ready.
The car was fine for the first few minutes, until we hit a hill. Then it starting splattering, missing and loosing grunt. I text my younger petrol head brother and he suspected it was the leads. I wasn't too worried, cause I had already dealt with split leads a few years ago and just got some young guy at Repco to change them over for me. I figured if on the way down to Brunswick it was still playing up we would just buy the leads and then my non-mechanically minded husband cold pop the boot thingy, fiddle with all the leads to work out which ones are the right ones, step back and ponder, fiddle a bit more, poke and prod then declare he has no idea. Then we'd just have to find someone to change them.
Saturday morning I was woken with big wet kisses from both my beautiful husband and my gorgeous little girl, along with a slightly off key rendition of "Happy Birthday". Sleepy head Xav doesn't "do" early mornings, preferring to laze around in bed until about 8am, so I didn't get kisses from him until later.
After everyone was up the kids gave me my present and then Grace eagerly starting unwrapping it for me. I was spoilt rotten with a 50mm 1.8 lens, which is exactly what I wanted (seems the constant mentioning of it worked well!). There was also a Photoshop magazine, which is not what I wanted so Duane was shipped back to the news agency to exchange it. he was under strict instructions to swap it for a Digital SLR one, but still managed to come home with another editing book - Finally got it right the 3rd time.
We were supposed to be going out for a nice lunch at the Golf Club, but a couple of corroded spark plugs nipped that in the bud. A bit of pleading and a guilt trip and our new mechanic went to work for the day to fix it all up for us. So Duane spent most of my day hanging out in the mechanics waiting room whilst I cleaned up at home in readiness for the afternoon tea that Duane had organised. I'm sure it was a scam for him to get out of cleaning.
Anyway, he made it home by 1.30pm, just in time for everyone to start arriving at 2pm. I really couldn't be bothered doing anything for my birthday, so it was nice to have a little surprise and also to have Duane organise everything (well except the cleaning!). He had organised a huge seafood platter, date scones and my absolute favourite cheesecake - Apple Crumble from the Cheesecake shop. So naughty, but oh so Yummy!
I was absolutely spoilt with presents. I now have a gorgeous tan handbag, Pandora "sister" charm, Luis Vuitton silver coin purse, set of lip glosses, some body shop hand creams, Coles/Myer vouchers, new handmade earrings, photo frame and a Michelle's Patisserie mini Chocolate mud cake which I need to get some vanilla ice cream so I can devour it.
It was such a lovely relaxing day. The kids all played happily together whilst the parents got to sit around chatting and eating. Perfect.
Sunday morning was a bright and early start as we were heading down to Brunswick Heads for the day with the Truets. We left here around 8am, just enough time for sleepy head Xav to wake, get dressed and shovel down his weetbix. The rest of us had been up since 6.30am packing eskies and getting everything ready.
The car was fine for the first few minutes, until we hit a hill. Then it starting splattering, missing and loosing grunt. I text my younger petrol head brother and he suspected it was the leads. I wasn't too worried, cause I had already dealt with split leads a few years ago and just got some young guy at Repco to change them over for me. I figured if on the way down to Brunswick it was still playing up we would just buy the leads and then my non-mechanically minded husband cold pop the boot thingy, fiddle with all the leads to work out which ones are the right ones, step back and ponder, fiddle a bit more, poke and prod then declare he has no idea. Then we'd just have to find someone to change them.
We drove a little further, wiling to the car not to conk out as it spluttered up the hills. I then remembered back to a little trick I was told to do if your leads are starting to split, tape them up with electrical tape! So we pulled into Pottsville, bought our tape and went Magyver Style on the leads. It worked and we had a smooth ride for the rest of the trip.
We spent the morning in beautiful Brunswick Heads. The dads took the kids to the beach whilst Nicole and I went looking for holiday houses to rent. We found a perfect street, close to the surf beach and the calm kid beach, also a nice easy walk to all the shops. We've booked a week stay for the end of March and I can't wait.
Nicole and I then headed to the beach and spent an hour or so floating around in the beautiful water. The kids dug in the sand and flittered around the waters edge, under the watchful eyes of their Daddies. Afterwards we headed up to the playground with some yummy fish n chips and enjoyed a picnic lunch. The kids were exhausted by this stage, so we loaded up the car and headed home.
It was a beautiful weekend. Can't wait for the end of the month to go back down there.
2 comments:
Oh, Happy Birthday for last week! Glad you had such a lovely day :)
What a BEAUTIFUL picture Kirsten!!! You look so young & gorgeous! I'm glad you had such a wonderful weekend - you deserve it!!
xx Ave
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