Jan
31
2009
Many people have the problem of possums dancing, or should I say thumping around in their roofs. Our government has declared it illigal to kill the annoying mammal (athough recently decrimialising abortion which says alot about our nation) so how do you deal with these pesky animals? Go up to Mundingbarra, catch this 4m scrub snake found on a shed, and shout him some lunch. How huge is this, would this thing not give you a heart attack if you found it sleeping in your yard? I think that I know a couple of teenagers that would love to see this giant python, but let me just say…I don’t want to.
Jan
30
2009
This hot weather in Melbourne is terrible. It is the hottest run of weather over 43 degrees for over 100 years! Keep an eye out for your elderly neighbours and little children folks, this is a death trap! I am so happy to have an air conditioner and a pool! Any longer though, and I think I’ll be ill. We haven’t been doing too much, although we did go to someone’s house for tea last night (thankfully they had air conditioning), the kiddies just played Playstation all night so that they didn’t have to move. We need rain! Living amongst the trees makes me very nervous, I pray that we don’t see any fires.
Jan
25
2009
Oh Man! The pool that we just had fixed is leaking again, or should I say pouring? Some how I don’t think that I choose the right guy for the job. If nothing else it will be a lesson in patience.. 
Jared has been looking over his article that he has written for AP on innerancy, what an important subject! If the Bible isn’t true, then God is a liar, will you tell him or should I? Hopefully it will get people to think a little harder, and not to take things for granted. Pick up your bibles people, you will have the very words of God in your hands, get to know Him and see what a great and merciful God that we have.
Jan
14
2009
After another hot day of us doing just about nothing, the highlight for today is that Cassandra got stuck! We were just about to go out, but guess what she did instead?
The pool man didn’t come again yesterday, he called to say that he will come tommorow instead, yeah right!
here is the photo from the paper that I promised you yesterday.
Jan
13
2009
Wow, what a great couple of weeks I have had. We spent a week in Torquay, Vic. enjoying the sun and the beach. Altogether we went swimming at the beach three times, and other times we just climbed rocks and explored!
Jared would stay on the beach and bury which ever child wasn’t in the water, in fact he even got his photo in the local paper burying Stephanie! (I will put the photo in tommorow when I get it onto the computer).
We also visited Fort Queenscliff, which we all really enjoyed. I love the history on how it was built to watch over Melbourne’s new found gold supply. Most of my photos are on Jared’s computer because I ran out of memory on my camera, so I will have to wait for those before I go into more details.
Here is Lachlan, he is 12 now. I like this photo because it isn’t posed.
On Sat. we arrived home, and not long after Jared’s brother and three of his children visited. We ended up having Indian for tea, it was nice to catch up despite the terrible mess of suitcases spread over the floor.
Anyone would think a bomb had gone off!
Once again we found another huntsman, a scary big one, this is the result of it being hit with my shoe (not by me may I just add).
What Jared needed was a hammer, because the stubborn thing wouldn’t die! We had another few marks like the one above, thankfully we have great walls with wipeable paint (they should make an add about this).Sunday we went to Church and the girls had some friends over in the evening.
Monday we went to a Knights and Ladies party, here are the Ladies of the house.
Lachlan went as a modern day knight (or spy).
Camden went as a knight.
The mum of the birthday boy did a great job, with lots of great games, and a homemade laminton castle cake!
Today we went and looked at pot planters in the terrible heat! Steph and Lachlan stayed home. Steph cooked a few sweet treats! Jared went to the dentist, and now we have two of Lachlan’s friends over for a sleepover ( last I looked they were rolling around the floor and knocking heads!).
It’s nice to be home!