Day 8-13

Yup got a little slack but at least the photos were taken :)

Been such a long weekend.

Day 7

Dont have much to say for today, apart from the fact im trying to get fit, need to lose some weight and want to get into shape.

i started a program C25K from an app, where the first week is walk for 5mins, then jog for 60secs, walk for 90secs all up its 30mins.  Today i did day 1 of week 1 and could only do 15mins but it works right? will try again tomorrow.

So day 7 of the photo challenge

Getting Creative

Something different for today.  While Lukas was playing in the pool i started setting up cornflour and flour with coloured water on the side.  Lukas was very interested in this, so i decided to give him the last of our baking soda and the vinegar aswell for him to play with.

He loved it

Todays photo challenge 

Day 5 of the photo challenge

Day 5 of the photo challenge though.

Pretend, the kids got a new shop, well i picked it up for free, but the kids are enjoying it as their shop and selling lots of different things

Hunting around

The kids went outside this morning to play in the dirt pit.  They moved some dirt over into the other shell so they had a shell each. They were digging and playing and when i went out to check on them, Lukas tells me he is going a treasure hunt.  I went inside to find them something and got some of Damians poker chips for them to hide and find.  30mins later Damian and I went outside to hide the chips for the kids and once they found all their ones we would get them showered and head out for a ice-block and go to the gardens.

Kids were excited about this idea and off they ran so we could hide their chips.  Back they came into their shells and started searching, digging, raking and Dakota even got daddy to help her.

After 3 hours of playing in the dirt and in the last 15mins they found their chips we hid for them

Time for a shower and clean up, especially with Lukas and his cast we have to clean that out and its easier to put him in the shower for that.  Then off to the gardens for an ice-block.

We went to the gardens as the have sculpture's in the gardens which are there at the moment, they finish on the 16th Feb 2014.

We followed the trail and it was like another hunt, the kids would find the signs for us to follow to make sure we were going the right way, and stopping at the sculptures on the way.  We didnt get all the way around as we had to be somewhere else so will go back to have another look so there will be a part 2 of this.

Found ducklings and Dakota decided to sing to them "5 little ducks" so we watched them for a while.  They would keep diving under the water and coming back up, man they went down deep and stayed there for a while

It was a nice walk though the garden and was interested to see the art.  The kids would stop and talk about certain pieces not all of them.  This last photo they talked about for ages, about the boats, and the man that fell off the boats and the boats came from the tunnel and bridge.  Was very interesting and the people on the bridge with us just smiled while they listened too.

After all this it was off to my parents place for a BBQ and a good time and yup there was a GOOD time had.  There is this thing my stepdad does and its the condom over the head trick, where you pick one over your actual head and blow it up.  He tried this tonight but it broke, so Damian gave it a go and got it up a bit.  Of course mums friend did it too and she got it pretty big (wont put her photo up).  But to see what i mean ill put Damian up.

It was a great night, yummy food, great company, my friend was there with 3 of her kiddies, my sister, and a friend of my parents with two of her daughters and a boyfriend (one of the daughters boyfriend LOL).

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And of course once again.  Day 4 of my photo challenge for January is Happy.  Now nothing in the rules says you HAVE to be smiling to be happy.  So my kids were having a blast this morning dressing up and were so happy they were singing their pretend friends and having a birthday party with them.