May 2015 - Easy as riding a bike!

Another family in our stake kindly passed on some bikes to us that their girls had outgrown and it's been so much fun watching our girls learn to ride and enjoy them. 

We took them up to the chapel carpark to learn to ride as it's a great flat wide open space. I couldn't believe how quickly they picked it up and were able to ride around. Because there are only two bike they've got a whole system worked out so that everyone gets a fair go riding them. 

Mary and I discovered a fun stick insect as well and spent ages watching it together doing his cool stick insect dancing. 

May 2015 - Guinea-pig sitting

Over the years we've become the "go-to" guinea pig sitters for some friends of ours whenever they go away on holiday. Mary absolutely loves it and it quite attached to the little rodent. This time we looked after him for over a week and I think she was quite sad to see him go in the end. Alfie is pretty low maintenance and doesn't really do much during the day but at night he's pretty noisy and likes to let us know he's there, squeaking and rattling his water bottle.

I've also had a notion in my head for a while about rainbow swirl cupcakes and so I tried them out a couple of times ready for Mary's birthday coming up at the end of the month. This was my first attempt. Rather tasty!

April 2015 - Farm visitors

We woke one wet Saturday morning to hear the girls calling out "Mum, Dad there are cows in our driveway?!" We told them to go back to bed as we though they were joking but they insisted and sure enough to our surprise there were two gorgeous calves munching happily on our hedges.
We couldn't figure out where they came from and so we ended up calling the police. While we waited for them to arrive the calves decided to keep wandering down the road and so we followed them and herded them into the corner houses yard which was vacant so they wouldn't go onto the main road. Mary and Becky had decided that we should keep them if no-one claimed them!
After a visit from the police and some helpful neighbours we figured out that they belonged to the people who live behind us and they had escaped and come down from the side street down to our house. After their owners arrived we all helped to herd them back up the street to their paddock. It was such a fun morning and Mary was pretty disappointed that we weren't going to be their new owners after all!

But I want a baby cow Mum!!

April 2015 - ANZAC day

The week of ANZAC day was a busy one for us this year as the girls were involved in lots of commemorations.

Hannah had been chosen to co-host the schools commemoration assembly at the community complex with a student from the high school. She had to audition for it and was so pleased to tell me that she had remembered to slow down for her audition and not speak a thousand miles a minute like she usually does.

She did a fabulous job on the day and spoke clearly and really did her school proud. Afterwards she told us that she was really nervous but you couldn't tell at all!

On ANZAC day itself Hannah, Becky and Daddy went along to the dawn service as Hannah was singing in the school choir. It was a really moving service and the choir were wonderful. 

That morning all three girls marched in the ANZAC parade down the main street of Deloraine. It was huge this year and our school had a massive group marching. 

April 2015 - Conference slippers

Here are this years conference slippers...Mum crocheted them during the video sessions of conference ready for the chilly winter mornings which are coming.

April 2015 - Lego exhibition

The Brixhibition, which is a LEGO exhibition, was visiting Launceston this year on the same day as the General Conference videos were being shown. We worked out that we could do it all on the same day by watching the videos in Launceston in the morning and then heading over to the Albert Hall to check out the LEGO and then head back for the afternoon session of conference.
It worked out great and it was such a fun day!