Wordless Wednesday : A Frosty Morning

Frolicking Fun

Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Come and play Week-a-Boo with Claire at Scissors Paper Rock.

We had a great weekend filled with family and fun.

Saturday was a funny day. It was scorching in the morning, great weather to tackle Mount Washmore. Hubby was finishing some odd jobs about the place and the kids were happily playing. By lunch time it had grown dark and really windy so we hastily packed everything up, ripped the washing off the line and dashed inside as the rain started. The kids settled in to watch their latest favourite movie, Cloudy with a chance of meaballs. Great movie actually. Look how engrossed they are.

By late Saturday arvo, the rain had cleared and when my step son and his family arrived, there was an impromptu basketball game to be played.

The Boy met his match, totally underestimating his big brother.

The Dude slam dunked, with a little help from Daddy.

My husband's grandchildren are the same age as The Dude, Miss A is 6 months older and Mr K is 7 months younger, so they always have a great time when they get together. We tried to take them all to the beach after tea, but not 10 mins after arriving, the rain started :(

Sunday saw the end of Mt Washmore and the yard work all done and dusted. My amazing husband pulled out all the horrible lillies that had started to infiltrate the garden beds again. We decided we're going to try and propagate the aggies in the autumn and see if we can get enough to adorn the front garden with them.

Sunday night after tea, we took the boys down to the beach to frollick in the sunshine, perfect way to end the week.

Hope you have a great week!!

A weekend in the sunshine

This weekend was absolutely magnificent. The sun shone brightly each day, it was warm without being hot and we got to spend the whole weekend together, all three days!

Friday, we enjoyed the company of some wonderful friends. The kids all had a great time playing inside and out. Everything from video game to football, you name it, they played it. They were all completely exhausted by the end of the day.

On Saturday we started working on our vegie patch. Hubby had already spent a couple of days preparing the patch, but we still needed to buy some timber edging, mulch and of course our vegies. By Sunday afternoon we'd finally finished. We planted carrots, beans, peas, strawberries, raspberries, basil, parsley, thyme, oregano and chives. We've still got to plant the potatoes and some broccoli if we can manage to find some. We need to add some chicken wire to help keep the neighbourhood cats out and some pinwheels to keep the birds away from the fruit.

After working hard in the garden all weekend, the boys played some backyard cricket and totem tennis.

To top off a great weekend and to celebrate the start of daylight savings, we went for a walk along the beach. It was a beautiful end to our weekend.

What did you do this weekend? Come and play along with Claire and Telle too.

Baby, It's cold outside.

On Saturday morning my DH decided to take us on a bit of a road trip to find some snow. The boys and I hadn’t seen snow before so we were all up for the adventure.

This past week has seen quite a bit of snow fall at Cradle Mountain and the surrounding areas, so that’s where we headed. As we headed out past Burnie, towards Ridgley the temperature was 9c. Once we got closer to the Waratah turn off the outside temperature had dropped to 5c and we could see small amounts of snow on the side of the road. As we continued along, the temperature continued to drop and the snow coverage grew heavier.

We happened upon a spot where the snow was so deep that we couldn’t resist it any longer. We pulled over where there were quite a lot of other cars and the boys and I had our very first play in the snow. It was so much fun. The boys absolutely loved it, frozen fingers and all. They built a snowman with their dad, all be it a rather skinny and oddly female looking snowman.

 

We threw snowballs at each other and to make it even more magical it started snowing! We decided to hop back in the car to warm up a bit and continued on a few minutes down the road where we found a nice little patch of sunshine and had another play.

 

We had a great time together, it was so much fun. Even though Jack was just a little upset at leaving, I know we made some wonderful memories that we’ll all treasure for many years to come.

 

This week I'm playing along with Telle and Claire, pop by their blogs and join in.

Hot child in the city

Well the kiddies and I are learning how to cope with the heat again. My goodness it's been warm here for spring!

So without air-con, I've been trying to come up with ideas to keep cool. Driving around in the a/c car isn't cutting it anymore, the kiddies get bored, not to mention the fuel I go through. So far we've tried cool showers in the afternoon,(bliss, until you get out), fans, escaping to the shops, all which work for a little while, but nothing has lasting results. Then yesterday it finally dawned on me....WATERMELON!

I'd completely forgotten about this summer staple and it's refreshing, cool, heat killing abilities. I organised the kiddies around the table and we treated ourselves to a bit of summertime fun.

Look at that gorgeous juicy pink flesh, just divine. So sweet and just a little bit sticky. The kids loved it, as you can see, and so did I! I promised Brock that we'd make some Juicy-Poles with the left over melon. Just have to see if mum has any moulds.

What do you and your kids love doing to keep cool is summer?