October has come and gone in a flash!  We enjoyed 2 weeks of holidays at the beginning of the month, which included a trip to Albany, a day at Araluen and just relaxing in general.  We spent a day out for Rod's birthday, had a party for him a week later, went to League Day and had a very interesting mission presentation by the Wildeboers amongst the everyday things. 

On to some photos...
- Albany -

 public holiday Monday saw us head to Cheyne's Beach with

 Glenn, Leonie and family and Fritz and Viv and family

 dolphins in the waves

9.October.2012
We caught up with Ingrid one morning to have nice snuggles with little Clayton

 Clayton 5 weeks and Levi 6 months

 11.October.2012
We spent a day at Araluen during the holidays with Mum, Annette, Heidi, Marleen, Mary, Diane Moesker and some other church people.  A group of volunteers run activities for the kids which is always fun. 
All the tulips were gone already but there's always lots of other other pretty flowers and interesting plants to look at. 

Olivia doing the clay activity with Marleen's girls Caitlin and Elisa as well as Skye and Vince vdVeen

 going for a 'train' ride :-) Olivia's on the second row and in 

front of her is Skye, Courtney and Vince

 Devon and Anya

20.October.2012
Rod's birthday fell on a Saturday this year so we headed to AQWA for the day

We all loved it, there's just so much to see and learn about the wonderful and amazing sea life off our coast! 

in the tunnel under the huge aquarium

bad phone photo quality but my camera battery was dying and I needed one with the birthday boy :)

at the touch pool

7 months old

hanging out in the hammock