The Right Time

Photo blog..........

updated .................

well..............

for the rest of June so far lol

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(plus a separate entry for today on this blog!!)

Jen :)

Rest of July school Holidays

Back to the real world straight away with me babysitting Malachie and Skyler and Jesse (and Mitchell) the next day and then Jesse came and stayed the night here -

 
the next day (Sat 4th) was when we picked up the new couch so I'm not sure how a photo of the old couch being moved out

or the new one being moved in got into June's photos!! Weird !   Good of us to clear the way eh!! lol

 
Monday - Mitchell and I went to see Ice Age 3 - it was excellent - better than No 2 in both opinions - we laughed and laughed and laughed!!  We laughed when a lot of other kids didnt - a lot of the jokes went over the top of the little kids heads!

Tuesday  - "Swimming Emma", Benjamin and Lena came here.  Lena and I did a little craft work and the kids entertained themselves all day only coming out for food lol

Wed we had a quiet morning then Chris and Shanae came in the arvo so that Shanae could try on some of Mitchell's dress ups to decide what she would wear at Target's Toy Sale coming up. 

Thurs morn was when we discovered the dreaded lice so the morning was spent treating M's hair and then we went to visit J,K&C who had arrived back from UK on Sunday.  I was happy to cancel the visit coz of the lice but Jude wasnt worried and just got her girls to tie their hair back and keep their heads away from M who wore a beanie anyway lol

 
Fri we were meant to go to a Kinder Kids place for Morning Tea however they DID cancel when they heard about the lice as they had never experienced it before - their oldest child is Kinder age - and I didnt blame them - I would have been the smae back then!!   We had also organised to go bowling with Anne and she was happy that M had been treated the day before so we still did that

That was the end of Week 2 of the holidays!! They went pretty quickly as usual and I felt like I needed another week (as usual too lol) especially as the 1st week of term was Lit Gp and babysitting Malachie and Skyler again and Kinder 2 days so had only 1 day to do everything else!!

Jen :)

One month until Christmas .....

YIKES!!  I cant believe it's only one month until Christmas!! Have you seen the count down clock on the right hand side of the blog - isnt it cute!!

We better get a move on and get some Christmas shopping done!!  I can remember the days (pre Mitchell) when I would have all my Christmas shopping done before the end of November - mmmmmmmmmmm - NOT going to happen this year lol, altho I might be able to get some done tomorrow ...... Let me check ............. I still have 19 people to buy for and have already bought 18 - ahhhhhhhhhh - almost half way - it's not as bad as I thought lol

People keep telling me I buy for too many people (and I have actually cut back a little bit from a few years ago lol) but I love buying presents .. especially for little kids ....

So - how long is YOUR Christmas list?

I'll work out tomorrow how many Christmas Cards I have already done and have yet to do......(lots!!)

OK off to bed - yes another cheats post (as in short and sweet - but it's late yet again and too late to do a huge long post - maybe TOMORROW!!!!! lol)

Jen :)

The new couch ...

photo as promised .....

This is our first ever couch that WE have bought - all couches till this point (17 years of being married) have been 2nd/3rd or even 4th hand!!

It is SOOOOOOO comfy to sit on !!!!!!!!! I LOVE it!!

Well thats my post for today - bit of a cheats one I know but it's late - I must get back to catching up again or it will be Chrismas and I'll still be in July lolol

Jen :)

How cool are these medals!!!

 
I cant believe these medals only cost $2 each!!

Gary has been giving Chess Lessons all year to Mitchell's grade and this week will be the final one where they are going to have a tournament where Gary will play each of the kids individually at the same time if that makes sense lol

So we bought these medals for any kids who beat him (although he doesnt think there will be many ... lol) but also for the kids who manage to keep the game going the longest etc

You'd reckon for $2 they'd be junk

but they are solid metal not plastic

and came in the diff colours (gold silver bronze) in both styles,

 
although they only had one gold one

 
close up of a silver

close up of a bronze

I'm hoping to be watching the tournament as I have a kInder meeting about 1 hour before so will excuse myself from the meeting if it isnt finished to go watch - should be fun!!!!!!!!!!

We also bought a bouncy rubber ball for all the kids lol

Mitchell has his eye on one of the medals - can you guess which one???

Jen :)

Patches holiday with Miss Jen and Family

Once we were home I had to fill in Patches diary complete with photos and stickers in keeping with the other kids entries lol

It was fun writing it actually .......... it was written from Patches perspective lol

The kids apparently loved it when it was read out to them (I wasnt able to be there)

and liked all the sparkly stickers lol

Last page

Longer post tomorrow - it was getting late so this was a quick one!

Jen :)

Last day of Bendigo

Our time in Bendigo went really quickly and the last day was upon us!  We awoke as usual to VERY noisy birds...... luckily not too early!! Couldnt stand to live here permanently tho!!

This tree was on the other side of the little Caravan Park Road (ie less than 50 metres away!!) It just looks normal but lets zoom in closer ....

 
Aha - a bird

... or 2 ....

The tree was filled with these very pretty very noisy birds!!   

We packed up and headed off to the big Church again - this time we were able to go inside

Um so either this is a Pope or a high Church of England person coz I cant remember whether the Church was Catholic or Church of England lol

They had lovely stain glass windows wheihc were hard to photograph as I didnt have my tripod with me so either I had to handhold the camera with a long exposure = blurry or use a flash which didnt reach far enough = dark!!

After we finished looking around the Church we headed off to Bendigo's Science Discovery Centre (lkie a mini Scienceworks)

It was very cool with lots of puzzles etc and a planetarium - which I ended up freaking out in when more and more and more people came in and it was getting too crowded!! :(   I was coping but when they let more and more people in and I suddenly got bery hot and decided I better get out before it started but I had got this photo of the ceiling before I left ...

 
 Cool huh!

The puzzle pieces

 
 It looks easy but let me tell you it did take some solving!

Freaky huh!!

Just plain weird lol

Nice tablecloth tho!! lol

OK I'm not going to put photos of every single thing we did there coz there's just way too many - but we had a lot fo fun with the many experiments and puzzles and then we went and watched a presentation on liquid nitrogen which was freaky!!  The person doing the experiment (we seriously couldnt tell if it was a girl or a guy!!) was having so much fun - have a look at the glee on his/her face!!

 He/she sjowed how liquid Nitrogen interacted with the air and different materials - it was a great show!

Mitchell (blue top) stood up and backed away when the LN was thrown on the carpet.....

but most of the other kids just dived at it lol

After this demonsttration there were still stacks of puzzles and little mini experiments to do - we actually went out of there to have lunch and came back in again lol

Click on this pic to see it bigger and have a go at the puzzle - its fun!!

It really is well worth visiting if you are in Bendigo - it's nowhere near as big as Scienceworks but there is still plenty to do!!

ok, tomorrow's post should see the holidays finished and then into 3rd term .......... slowly catching up lol

Jen (who has been really enjoying listening to the rain tonight!!)  

 

 

Bendigo Part 4

We had a pretty full day that day - visiting Victoria Hill in the morning and then Bendigo Pottery in the afternoon

On the way I got a couple of photos of the large Church in Bendigo City

An amazing Church built on quite a tricky site!

Next we headed off to the Bendigo Pottery and did a history tour first

 

It was a self guided tour and had quite a lot of interesting stuff to see.

An old Kiln - you can walk inside these kilns now and see little films about different parts of the history

The detail of some of the figures was amazing

More old machinery

The ceiling inside the kiln

The end of the tour brought you outside into a lovely garden with .....

.... huge goldfish in the pond!

Then it was time for .............

Mitchell's pottery lesson!!!!  (another of the half price vouchers we got with the Travel Auctions accomodation)

 
He had a BALL!! lolol

The tutor centred the clay for them all and helped them with their first piece with them having goes at it in between the guy showing them what to do and then they did the second piece on their own!

 
Creating a hole in the middle

 
 Pulling up the sides

Working on it together

 

It got a bit thin so the guy helped Mitchell push it back into a more vase like shape

The almost finished product ...

Shaping the neck

The final product!!

The second lot of clay (and a bit too much water lolol)

 
 Pretty good for a solo attempt!!

The end products

Hmm - yeh - no closer to the camera thanks!! lol

Mitchell took home this one unfired but we left the other one there to be fired and glazed and then posted to us!!

I know I've got a photo of the glazed vase somewhere and will hunt it out tomorrow - too tired now as it's 11.45 and I did NOT sleep well ast night so going to bed now!!

Jen :)
 

Bendigo Part 3 continued lol

Tonight we had the information night for next years new groups for Kinder!!  Cant believe how quickly this year has gone and I'm really going to miss this years' 3's next year!! I really hope we get a nice bunch again!!

So back to Bendigo ...

This place (Victoria Hill) didnt look that big from the outside but as you have seen from yesterday's post  - and there's more today - it was quite big once inside and quite a lot to "discover" so there's still quite a lot of photos!!

Machinery relics

 
Building relics

As we continued walking around Mitchell discovered this huge burnt tree that seemed to be solid and stable enough to climb

The colour of his top against the tree was quite striking

It had an absolute labirynth of branches!!

This is the put on "Do you HAVE to take more photos of me?" smile lol

This is a nice one tho!

And THIS is an "I'm gonna get you with my pretend sword if you take any more photos face!!" lol

And this one is a "I've run away from the camera and turned my back on you!!! photo lol.  So sad to see all the burnt out area.

Anyway if you're in the area of Bendigo I highly recommend visiting this place - it really was great!

We then went pack to the Caravan Park for lunch and headed off to Bendigo Pottery in the arvo - that can wait for tomorrow's post!!

Jen :)

No time for more Bendigo photos.....

as it's already 11.19pm.  I went to a Jewellery party tonight and whilst most of it was pretty expensive I managed to pick up a lovely set of 4 bracelets that were reduced to $20 for the set, so I was pretty happy about that!!  The company is called Honey and the jewellery is made in South Africa however there is a website in Australia ...  http://www.honeyjewellery.com.au/

Back to Bendigo tomorrow!!

Jen :)