QUEENSCLIFFE

FISH & CHIPS FOR LUNCH

Today we went to Queenscliffe with Mel & Ben for lunch, we had originally planned to go Boxing Day but as Phil had to work over Christmas we finally went on the Saturday after Christmas. We had a lovely day, the weather was good not to hot and we had our much looked forward too fish and chips. The shopping area is changing every time we go down and now has a couple of new shops to look through. Phil got his supply of green tomato pickles and I bought a couple of bits and pieces. After lunch we strolled along the waters edge and then walked back to the car and went to find where the fishing charter company was that Phil and Ben hope to use sometime this year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Hope you are having a great birthday and that our dinner tonight is good.

PHILS CHRISTMAS DAY

CHRISTMAS MORNING
While we were all opening our presents and having fun Phil was fixing his truck in Toowoomba. His sister Gayle and her partner Steve came to collect him for the day but firstly they fixed his problem. After which they headed off for a late breakfast/early lunch with a friend of Gayle's and then on to Steve's parents for a slap up Christmas Dinner. So although he missed out being with us, he had a very nice day with Gayle and Steve. Later in the afternoon he headed into Brisbane.

CHRISTRMAS DAY 2008

When I found out that Phil would be away on Christmas Day I was not happy, but we both ended up having a good day. Phil spent the day with his sister Gayle and her partner Steve in Toowoomba where he had Christmas lunch with Steve's family and was made most welcome. Mel and Ben stayed on Christmas Eve and had their first christmas together at home. Ben is a present poker and it was very hard for him to leave the presents with tags on them for him alone, and had to laugh to myself when at 6.30 in the morning I could here the rustle of paper as he unwrapped Mel's present to him. Needless to say we were all up early and had a great time unwrapping presents. This year for the first time I didnt have much to do for lunch as Trish cooked the meat and vegies and made sweets, so it appears that the changing of the guard is happening. We had a lovely lunch and headed off home about 3.30pm, a quick call to Ian and then a sleep. We headed back for tea about 6 which Byron and Kylie did and it was nice to just sit back and relax although I was missing Phil it was good to be with all the kids and grandkids.

COCKTAILS AT 8

This year for our Kris Kringle we had a cocktail party. Mel and Ben were our wonderful cocktail makers and we had a choice of three - martini, cosmopolitain and japanese slipper. The martini wasn't very nice but the cosmos and slippers were yummy. Thank you Mel and Ben for doing such a great job. As you can see from the photos we all had a great night.

MADAGASCAR 2

As Trish was working and Kylie had shopping to do it was a good chance to take the girls to see this film. We all enjoyed it and must say the soundtrack was great it had us all dancing in our seats. What a nice way to start Christmas Eve off.

HAPPY 21ST CRAIG

Congratulations Craig on reaching 21. As your Father said on the night their are many who thought you would never make it to 21 but here you are still in one piece. Hope you had a great night we all certainly did and we wish you many happy kilometres in your car.

PRIMARY CARE LUNCH

CHRISTMAS LUNCH AT GALLI

Our work christmas lunch was at Galli and as always the food was very yummy, I had turkey and pork with vegies followed by fresh fruit salad and mango ice cream. The photo is of myself and Tammie a very special young women who works with me on reception. We are both pisces and have this incredible link which is very nice and something special. The day previous we had our admin christmas lunch at Flanagans in Bacchus Marsh and it was good fun too. Thankfully have two weeks off now and am back at work from the 5th January for two weeks, then some more time off.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYRON

Congratulations Byron on your 34th birthday yesterday. We had a lovely night at the The Club in Caroline Springs where we had dinner with family and friends.

BIRTHDAYS, BIRTHDAYS

December is certainly the birthday month in this family. Two of my best friends Judi and Dearne have birthdays within days of each other. Hope you both had wonderful birthdays and that the year to come is filled with love and happiness.

AUSTRALIA THE MOVIE

Tonight I went to see the movie Australia with Trish and Di. I enjoyed the movie, the scenery was fantastic and was good to see so many Australian actors in one film. Can understand that for some it dragged in places and possibly should have been a bit shorter but he had a story to tell and he told it his way. Nicole and Hugh were great together and as I said I enjoyed the whole experience.

GUESS WHO'S 6

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY
Hard to believe Jordja is growing up so quickly. After work today went to her birthday party at McDonalds and will be going bowling with her on Sunday which will be great fun.

ROCKHAMPTON

We have just had a wonderful 5 days in Rockhampton. It is amazing just how much you can cram into the days. We have travelled approx 800 kilometers in that time and seen some wonderful sights.

These are some of the photos I took at the Heritage Park which was fantastic. We thoroughtly enjoyed our visit there and had a good few chuckles over the school house which reminded us both of our days at school.

They have a wonderfull collection of vintage cars and bikes as well.

CHRISTMAS TREE

PUTTING UP THE CHRISTMAS TREE

Jordja helped me to put up our christmas tree this year. She was a wonderful helper, firstly getting the branches out of the box, then putting them in colour piles and finally putting them on the trunk of the tree. We then got out all the decorations and selected the gold and red ones, which was the colour theme for the tree this year. As you can see from the photo she did a very good job and our tree looked lovely. Thank you Jordja for all your help.