Wishing everyone a wonderful and peaceful, relaxing and abundant Christmas and a fun and festive New Year!

Thanks for sharing in our lives this year and look forward to seeing you all in 2015.

xxoo

The weeks before Christmas are all about hanging out, doing fun end of year school stuff and making sure we see all our friends before we head off for the holidays.
 Lucho will never be too cool for the marble run. Leyla just thinks he's amazing.
 We had some free passes for roller skating after the party so we headed there for a few Saturdays to make the most of them.
 Leyla improved a lot and could kind of "skate" about.
 La is a little speed demon, gliding a little now and taking more risks and therefore the stacks are a little more epic!
 The local shopping centre had a little Christmas festival so we popped down for a bit of a look.
 The Large Lego was a hit...
 ...as was the "face" painting.
 Olaf the Snowman.
 Craft.
 Couldn't keep these two away from the water fountain. It was a nude-y run home afterwards!
 Lunch with Aunty Ruth at the new Paddle Boat Cafe.
Christmas Party at the park with our besties.
Poor Lacey just wasn't in the mood for a photo.

Sienna gave La a great birthday present this year - a day at Wet and Wild! Fantastic idea and the girls were super excited when the day finally came around.
 Jye too of course!
 Slides...
 ...waves...
 ...more slides...
 ...getting dumped...
 ...and some tubing fun.
Wonderful day, super fantastic present - thanks Sienna! (Linda)

December is fun. We love December!
 Cheese!
 Alara's school disco night - the theme was Summer Fun and Leyla wanted to join in too if only from the sidelines.
 Simple fun and wonderfully time consuming.
 Lacey turned 3 and had her party at the local play centre.
 Jimayne and Linda did an amazing job for her Frozen cake.
 Best Friends.
Older sister's and best friends.

After the dust settled from the Epic Birthday Weekend, it was time to put up the Christmas tree and start having some festive fun!
 The 2014 Christmas Tree Photo.
 The Foreman's came over and we had a belated birthday and early Christmas celebration in and around all our work and family schedules. Of course, the water balloon theme carried through from the last weekend...
 ...but this time, with a decidedly more competitive feel with Charlie and Christina and Lucho who came over to play later on.
 Game on!
 Simple jelly and ice cream for dessert.
 The girls beautiful dresses from the kids.
 Some festive decorations for Larissa who happens to be hosting her Christmas this year so hopefully useful as well!
Such a lovely, wild and busy day with all the kids having a ball playing and water bombing, using new toys and dancing in the thunder storm. Thanks for coming - see you next year! x

It was a sad Monday night when Sami found out that his Dad had died after a short stay in hospital. Thankfully Sami and the girls were able to spend time with him recently and thankfully, he did not suffer a long and drawn out illness. May you rest in peace Dede.