Christmas 2010

Christmas is over again for another year.
I'd say everyone was very happy with their presents.
And everyone had a fun time.

We slept at Grandma & Grandad's house Christmas Eve.
Ava and Isaac's Santa sacks were at the end of their beds ready for Santa's visit that night.  But Ava was scared of Santa coming into the bedroom and couldn't get to sleep, so we moved them into the lounge room.

Ava was the first to wake, at 6am, Christmas morning.

I had to wake Isaac at 6:30am because he couldn't get to sleep until 9:50pm!

Then after breakfast, we had to leave our mess...

Ooops!

...and head to the farm for more presents...

Yes, Ava is jumping with excitement!

...and fun with the cousins.

 

I took 11 of these, this was my best one!

Then Santa Shane handed out the presents.

The girls looked gorgeous in their aprons.



We had lunch, including delicious and beautiful treats made by Jewel...who should have been the Junior Masterchef!

Then, once we finally got all the kids to sleep...

...Michelle and I had a treat of our own!



Mmmmmmm

 

Mo-ET!



Police Kids' Christmas Party

Today we saw Santa, swam in the pool (well, three of us did and I wasn't one of them) for hours and came home bearing gifts and red arms and faces.

It was so hot and humid. Any little gust of air was welcome. But it started to cloud over and cool off a little just as we were leaving.

Anyway, the kids had a ball...that's the most important thing!



Isaac bravely jumping from the diving block

  

Kids everywhere...where's Isaac!?

 

There he is!

Pool party on the left, drinking party in the shed on the right



Mummy & Ava

 

Still swimming....

 

Still swimming...

  

Santa's here!!!

He arrived in a police car...of course.

 

Here he is!

With a police escort



Everybody is ready



Isaac & Jack waiting patiently

 

Ava jumped when she heard her name and would only go to Santa with Daddy

 

Isaac isn't scared of Santa anymore!



Even the police escort gets to sit on Santa's knee



Bye bye Santa

Flashing lights and all...
See you next 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