A Travelling We Will Go ....

We went to Canberra on the weekend.
And had such a good time.
Caught up with family I haven't seen for about 4 years!
Isn't it funny how you can lose touch with some people and when you meet up again it's like no time has passed at all.
The conversation flows and nothing much has changed!
Well that's how it was for me!
The family is still the same - except for a few new additions.

Here are some photos from our family reunion!

MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME ...

Lauren with her 2nd cousin Lochie. We both wanted to sneak him in to our luggage and take him home with us. Such a cutie - makes me want a boy even more now! He was the most placid little boy. Caz - how did you manage to have such good looking kids!?!?!

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ...

Lauren with Aunty Laurel (her great Aunty!) and Kenzie the chihuahua! Lauren would have loved to have taken Kenzie home too!! She just adored her!

TOUGH LIFE ...

Here's Lauren taking a break from all the hard work of catching up with her cousins!


BUSTED!!

"Now ..... here's how this works, you WILL pretend to be my baby whether you like it or not!"

EASY DOES IT ...

"OK, you're dismissed now!"


THE GIRLS ...

BACK ROW: Ashleigh B, Ashleigh H, Laura
FRONT ROW: Casey and Lauren

The girls with Piper the dog!


GOOD TIMES ...

Here's where we hung out all afternoon! Such great weather!

QUACKETY, QUACK, QUACK ...

Here's Lauren chasing the ducks - they're pretty fast!! It was good exercise for her!!


MY LITTLEST PETS HEAVEN ....

Here's Ashleigh and Casey surrounded by My Littlest Pets toys!!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST ...

The two Ashleigh's with Lochie!

Hopefully it won't be so long between visits next time!

Harmony Day

So much has been happening lately!
I can't keep up!
I seem to go to bed exhausted every night!
There just aren't enough hours in the day!
And I thought things would slow down once Lauren started school!
Boy was I wrong!

Today was Harmony Day at school.
The girls got to go to school in mufti - as long as they wore orange.
It was Lauren's first day wearing "normal clothes" not a uniform.
She now wants to go to school in normal clothes every day!
I managed to find two orange t-shirts - one in a size 7 that Ash wore last year and another in a size 6 that Ash wore in Year 1 at school.
So Lauren wore the size 7 and Ash wore the size 6!
Go figure!

Here's a photo of the girls before school ....


Here's a photo of Ashleigh lining up ready to sit down for assembly with her classmates (notice the size 6 top - poor kid!)


Here's a photo of Lauren walking up to the hall for assembly with her friend Alexander .....

Lauren was given her very first award at school today - the Harmony Day 2010 Everyone Belongs Award!
Only one child in each class is chosen to get this award and Lauren was chosen for her class. We're so proud of her!
It says "This award is presented to Lauren Brown for showing respect and fairness and promoting a sense of belonging for everyone."
Well done baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRJPaYfIRc

We're off to Canberra tomorrow to visit my cousins!
Aaron has a job to do so we decided to go along with him for the ride and we can spend time with my family while he works!
Sounds good to me!
It's supposed to be nice weather which is good!