Family Time

Last Monday night (24/3/08) we had a lovely dinner with a few extras present. Arlie's friend Matt was playing golf at North Lakes so they decided to come home for a visit and Morgan had spent the day at Brendan's (her boyfriend) place. Arlie and Matt arrived just as Morgan was being dropped off so we invited him to stay for dinner too. It was a great night with lots of laughter and funny stories! We had all heard a lot about Matt but had not met him yet so it was really good to finally get the chance. They have become good friends and we discovered that he is a really nice guy so it's good to know that she has some company down the coast now.
At one time John and I commented on how lovely it was to have everyone at home for dinner and having such a great time together. I hope we have many many more nights like that!
The only down side of the evening was that Kaydon somehow managed to jam his little finger in between the chair and the table when he was setting it for me and the picture shows the damage he did. He must have banged it pretty hard as his finger was black and blue and very swollen by the next day!!
We also discovered that we are going to need a much bigger dinner table when all the kids start bringing friends home as we only just made it around the table with only two extras!!LOL

Easter Celebrations

Easter weekend was a fairly quiet one around here as John was going back to work for the first time on the Tuesday. Also, because it was so early this year, the school holidays didn't start with the Easter weekend as the normally do.
We did however spend the Sunday down at the Gold Coast. Wendy and Brads are staying at there unit down there for a week so Arlie met us there and we spent a lovely day relaxing on their veranda with Mum, Dad and Sandra too.
As usual, the Easter Bunny left everyone some yummy treats and Lacey and Morgan decided that the boxes that their eggs came in made really good hats!!

Yet Another Catch Up!!

Well once again I have fallen way behind with my posts!! I'm going to blame the fact that John was off work for another 4 weeks after his operation (but don't tell him that!!LOL).
Seriously, it has been a bit of a surprise just how long it is taking for John's knee to return to any thing like normal. He finally returned to work on Tuesday (25/3/08) which means that he has been off for a total of 7 weeks. He has been back to the doctor today and it looks like he is going to need some physio, and will continue on light duties at work until at least the 5th May.
I really did enjoy having him home for those six weeks, although it has meant that I am way behind on most of my jobs, but I have definitely decided that I could get used to him being retired and at home all the time!