Saturday, February 14, 2015

February Fun!

In early February, Brian and I had a date night in Sydney at the open air cinema…a rather expensive movie going experience, but an outdoor movie experience like no other!  We enjoyed dinner & drinks overlooking the harbour and then watched Taken 3…I had to look away from the movie several times just to take in the amazing surroundings!  What a great night!

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Look at this little guy that made his way into our house…oops!  Thankfully, he went out the way he came in after a little fun on the Wii! Smile

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Valentine’s Day!!

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We had a fun afternoon at our friends’ house for Pimms (an English liqueur) & Croquet.  We felt so very English! Smile  The kids had fun playing and doing crafts, and in Hallie’s case, getting messy (she decided to apply her own sun cream)

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Trip to our local hardware store and enjoying some Chinese crafts for Chinese New Year and Alaina sporting her Aunt Beth’s old pajamas!

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There are definitely a lot of things that creep me out around here!  First picture is of a Papuan frogmouth bird that was sitting near the sidewalk on my way to pick up the girls from school…totally made me jump after I realized it wasn’t a stick! The second photo is a lovely and huge blue tongue lizard who we thought was a snake by the corner of our pool.

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The big girls got to enjoy a couple rounds of putt putt at a friend’s birthday party.  Loved that the place had cute raincoats for all the kiddos!

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Hallie’s 1st Day of School & Kyla’s Soccer

Since Hallie isn’t 3 until the end of March, she technically couldn’t start preschool until her birthday, but they allowed me to bring her in early as long as I stayed with her, so mid-February Hallie went for her first day!  We now go Thursdays & Fridays for about 2 hours a time so she can get to know the other kids and participate in the preschool fun!

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Lining up to go outside on her first day of preschool

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Hallie had so much fun singing and dancing

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I can see that this will be one of her favorite activities at school

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Kyla & her friend Sophie have enjoyed playing soccer during term 4 of 2014 and term 1 of 2015.  It’s been amazing to see Kyla improve in the last couple weeks…we may have a future soccer player on our hands!

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Another game day…

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