Ok, so you're probably wondering what have we been up to the last couple of months?! Well, here's a picture post to give you some idea :-)

We've been to Albany for Mike and Kathryn's engagement party... (May 9)

Rod catching up with his cousins Ashley and Jeremy

Heidi, Rose with (Sienna) and Kaffa (not sure why she's pulling that face!)

We also witnessed the baptism of "Sienna Lee", daughter of Darryl and Kara (Rod's oldest brother); they also have two sons - Ethan and Noah

This is the view I had on Monday morning from our bed! Nothing beats CWA cottages for accomodation

Olivia helping Nanna butter sandwiches for lunch

Annette coloured my hair...not that it turned out that special, but hey, we had fun :-)Doing something constructive while waiting for it to set

before we put the streaks in...should've just left it like this I reckon - I want
to go darker...

We've planted a new veggie garden...

We've been to the zoo! First time for Olivia and she loved every minute.

We took the train and the ferry there which was fun and lots of walking!

Saw Trisha the elephant go for her daily walk

YAY! Orangutans! Olivia couldn't wait to see them! She had been talking about orangutans for a while even before we thought about going to the zoo (not sure where she saw them), and well, I think they lived up to her expectations because she thought they were hilarious. They were doing roley poleys in a hesian bag and all sorts of cool tricks which was pretty funny to see. Well, Olivia couldn't stop talking about them when we got home - she would tell anyone who listened long enough all about the orangutans.

"Hilarious" - her latest saying


We've celebrated Elisa's 1st birthday
my cute little niece Anya

Courtney and Olivia enjoying the party

And of course I've been taking lots of photos of Devon and Olivia

Here's a little video clip of Devon 'talking' to Olivia - so cute :-)

Tribute to the ute

Mmm, my efforts to keep this blog up to date have been a bit poor...It's not that I've been extra busy really. When I am on the computer, I spend all my time checking out other people's blogs and facebook thingies that I don't get around to my own :-)

Anyway, we've been in mourning here for the last week.

Reason? We sold the ute last Friday night :-(

I mean we are talking about the ute here. It had a lot of sentimental value to us. We spent a lot of time together in that ute, driving, parking, talking, kissing, cuddling etc. I remember the first time I went for a drive in it with Rod. It was in Albany and we weren't going out yet. A whole heap of us had come back late from a day out 4WD at the beach, and my car wasn't at the place where we all had met, so Rod offered to bring me to my car. Anyway, he ended up just taking me for a bit of a drive first with 'Kryptonite' playing at a million decibels. It was the start of many more drives and many more great memories.

So, after owning it for 10 years (pretty much to the date) it was time to let it go. We don't all fit in it anymore so it's really no good to us for when we go down to Albany or on holidays. We could've kept it and then have the patrol wagon as 'my' car, but it really isn't much fun driving a car like that around town for shopping and the like. So, as hard as it was, it was time to sell it.

Mud bashing, camping and 4WD with the ute

And this is our new rig and Rod's new toy, a Patrol wagon!