Category: the week that was

There was a blood test and a visit to the doctor… results were all fine which was good to hear. Starting on anti-inflamatories to try and help the swelling & pain in my hands and feet.

There was time spent cleaning all the outdoor areas including the chook area and pool – my least favourite job! Looks lovely when it’s all done though.

There was lunch out by the pool…

There were dogs lying in the garden to keep cool

There were dogs lying around inside

and there were dogs being cute.

Above…

and below…

There was Christy trying to hide out in Kevin’s car so she could go to the USA with him.

There was our first taste of cheeseless pizza and it was yummy!

There was time spent pulling out all the dead plants from our Summer garden. Looks so sad and bare now.

There was heartache over the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. We’ve been there a couple of times so it was especially shocking to see the city in ruins. I actually saw a twitter update about it 2 hours after it happened so watched a lot of the live feed on my laptop. So sad.

And finally I wore my new Crocs every day in an effort to help my heel spurs. Good news – on Sunday I was pain free the WHOLE day!!!

NOTE: Photo problems AGAIN so these are uploaded from my computer (not flickr) and therefore the quality is NOT as good (for some reason).

I’m going to make this a weekly feature whereby I show photos that didn’t make the blog. These will mostly be everyday photos – along the lines of those I take for a day in my life – which you all seem to enjoy – and some I’ve taken for Project Life.

So this week …. we enjoyed some nice sunsets…

I did lots of washing up when our dishwasher went on strike.

I envied Rosie her daytime naps.

The girls enjoyed a few evening swims. This was around 7.30pm on Friday night.

I found this piece of writing I assume Amy did for school. So cute!

We tried our first cheese-less pizza. It was messy but we really enjoyed it. I think our new BBQ pizza sauce really helped to make it yummy.

I cleaned out the fridge in preparation of our new fridge arriving (we finally decided to go ahead and buy it)

I tried papaya for the first time. I thought it was okay but I didn’t love it.

I watched more sleeping puppies.

And I finally got moved into new school uniform shop – it’s like a 5 star hotel compared to where I was before (see photo below!)

Where the uniform shop has been for the last 6 months while works were being done at the school. I shared with the maintenance man!

It was our first week with both girls back at school but it still wasn’t what I’d call a normal week.

Christy had her swimming carnival on Thursday.

She’s a bit of practice so only ended up going in the 50m freestyle. She gave it her all though, which is all you can ask.

Of course, that meant we left at 11.30am and she and her friend spent the rest of the afternoon playing. Amy had her swimming carnival the next day and on Friday had mufti as a fund-raising for schools in flood affected Queensland.

There has been quite a bit of baking including this batch of banana muffins.

After a busy week it was nice to a have a quiet weekend. Though we were out for half of Saturday to roller skating lessons and the hairdressers. Then Saturday night we swapped our normal season basketball seats for courtside.

It was fabulous being so close to the action. The second half of the game we sat in the front row so had an uninterupted view – except when the ref. would stand in the way.

Best of all- the Hawks won- by a landslide. Which broke a 9 game losing streak :-). Check out the score – 105 to 73. And little (as in the shortest player in the NBL) Zac Delany got his first field goal in a game. It was an awesome game.

Today we’ve spent lounging around playing on the computer and getting a few odd things done around the house (but not much to be truthful). The girls had friends over and found a frog drowning in the pool. Luckily they rescued him just in time.

Not sure how they managed a swim as the weather cooled right down this afternoon. In fact, it was cool enough to think about making soup for dinner. Yum!