2009 In Photographs

I've been reading blogs, tweets and Facebook status updates about the year that has almost come to a close.  I was thinking ours was pretty uneventful...nothing much stood out, no family births, deaths or marriages.  Then I thought I might let my photos from this year do the talking for me...and it seems we did do a bit in 2009...

JANUARY

Rob took Isaac for his first bushwalk.

FEBRUARY

We went on our first date in years on Valentine's Day.

We went to the beach, Ava's first time.

We visited the Evanses holidaying at the Sunshine Coast.

MARCH

We visited the farm.

APRIL

The Easter bunny visited.

We went to the beach...again...and Ava thought she could ride Isaac's bike.

MAY

We visited Australia Zoo for Mother's Day.

JUNE

Rob, John, Michael, Nat & Dave attempted a climb at the Main Range

I had a college girls' overnighter at Caloundra with Melina, Joanna, Jane, Katrina, Bronwyn, Nicole & Toni.

JULY

Rob walked to the Kondalilla Falls with Elaine, Zoe, Mark, Beth & Carolyn.

AUGUST

We had a play at Kenilworth...

...and then went for a walk to the top of Kondalilla Falls.

SEPTEMBER

Ava turned 2.

Isaac turned 5.

We went to Sea World.

We had a joint birthday party for Louella, Ava & Isaac at the farm with the cousins.

A dust storm rolled into town.

And we had our trees lopped!

OCTOBER

I attempted to climb Mt Cooroora.

We went whale watching.

NOVEMBER

'The Police' came to visit Isaac's kindy.

DECEMBER

We put up the Christmas tree.

We went to Carols by Candlelight.

We visited Mum & Dad's new unit at Coolangatta.

We went to Geoff & Annette's wedding.

We woke to Christmas morning at home...

...spent Christmas Day at Caloundra...

...spent Christmas night at the Crown Plaza...

...and Boxing Day at the farm...

See?  We did do quite a bit, 2009 was a good year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Christmas 2009

The best things about Christmas this year were...

• waking to Isaac calling out from his room, "That's just what I wanted!"
• watching Isaac and Ava's faces when they were opening their presents
• getting to see every member of both of our families over three days
• getting a big, fancy breakfast at a 4 star resort on Boxing Day
• the kids playing Santa around the Christmas tree and clapping and cheering every time someone opened a present.

But it was busy and quite tiring.

This was our Three Day Christmas Event :-

  

Christmas Morning -
we woke at 5am
Isaac and Ava opened presents from Santa & us around Christmas tree

we had breakfast
got dressed
packed the car
left at 8:50am to drive to Caloundra

Christmas Day -
we arrived at Caloundra at 10am

the whole family was there (8 adults, 6 kids)

we opened the presents

had Christmas lunch (prawns, cold meats, hot ham, salads...yum)
checked into the Crowne Plaza Hotel with Mark, Zoe and Beth (with everyone staying there wasn't enough room for all of us at the house)

then we went back to the house

finally got Ava to nap while everyone else went to the beach

Isaac tripped on towel after his swim and fell face down into the concrete sidewalk (there was blood, tears, bruising, grazes, and a very swollen lip)

we had a BBQ dinner

then went back to the hotel to sleep

Boxing Day -

we had a buffet breakfast at the hotel

packed and checked out

went back to the house for a swim in the pool

packed and drove to the farm

the whole family was there (8 adults, 8 kids)

we had presents

Christmas dinner (number 2 - prawns, cold meats, salads...yum)

got all kids to sleep

Day after Boxing Day -

up at 6am
packed picnic lunches
packed the car
had extended family Christmas get together (22 adults, 13 kids) at Greg and Trish's
farewelled everyone
drove back home