holidays and beyond...

shannon and i moved into our new house in the middle of december with a strict deadline -  the place needed to be in reasonable shape for christmas as we're having 16 guests for lunch!  we slowly worked our way through the boxes and everything was more or less assigned a new "home" in the house with one day to spare!  we even had the christmas tree set up on buddy's cage to avoid him chewing any of the ornaments!  lunch itself was a great success - traditional aussie bbq - and i was particularly pleased with my my first ever pavlova and mom's shortbread cookies! :) 

post-christmas, we headed down to lakes entrance with the kids and buddy for a week of camping and relaxing!  we caught up with shannon's brother and his family on the way out and a girlfriend of mine and her new addition on the way home. while at lakes entrance, we visited the buchan caves, went lawn bowling and boogie boarding, tried archery and took buddy to the beach!  all up, it was a rather busy holiday though at the end, when asked how the kids enjoyed their holidays, it was given a 6 out of 10, namely because they didn't get wifi in their tents!!  how the world has changed!!  that said, buddy had a great time hanging out with his peeps camping :)

unfortunately, i was sick so we missed out on new year's eve down the coast but otherwise, we've been busy with the usual/typical life events!  and now, we've got this house thing which seems to suck up a fair bit of time too...  oh, and we're both a little addicted to candy crush (blushing immensely)!!

i hope everyone's well and that 2014 is fabulous to each of you ;)

hugs,
s