Weekend Celebration

Simple cake with family - perfect for this one year old.

Someone's watching!!

Things have been a little slow here lately.  Our house has been filled with sickness of all different types for the last month, so only the essential things have been happening - like cooking and washing clothes.  Any other things have been a bonus.

Saying that, I still have at least one well boy to work with while the rest of us feel like resting and sleeping so there is always something happening.  To try and maintain some level of normal, I try to keep certain things in our day.  One of those is something we started just before we got sick - its called Before Five in a Row.  We read the same book 5 days in a row and then do activities together related to the book.  (I'll hopefully show more of what we do another day). The first book we did was called Runaway Bunny.  One of the pictures in the book has a veggie garden with a scarecrow.  We talked about this and why he was there and then if we needed one for our garden.  It was decided that we did.  BUT then we got sick and the scarecrow didn't happen.

Finally on the weekend, we were all starting to feel better so I brought my sewing machine out to the dining room table and we started the scarecrow.  After sewing him together we headed outside to the hay bale ready to stuff him.  When we got there, Isaiah was greeted by a rather large brown snake sitting on the hay.  The scarecrow was quickly abandoned and we went back inside, with a promise of doing it another day.

Yesterday was THE day.  Meet our scarecrow.

We are still trying to come up with a good name for him so any suggestions would be appreciated.  He is also in need of a little back bone so he stands up better.  But for now he sits in the corner of our garden keeping watch and making us smile.

How does the garden grow??

Here are some photos (most taken by Isaiah) of our garden on the weekend.  It is growing so well at the moment. Also interesting to see what he likes to take photos of.

Redfest

Last month we went to Redfest - a festival celebrating music, art and community in Redland Bay.  What drew us to such an event?  Our favourite musician.  Colin Buchanan.  He happens to fit favourite for all our family as he does the coolest kids Christian music and he is also a Golden Guitar winner for his country music.  So when we found out that he was performing for adults on Saturday night and a kids show Sunday morning, I was hooked.

We had no idea what Redfest was, we were just going because Colin was going to be there.  Anyway, it turned out to be a wonderful weekend of fun for all.

Sorry about the terrible photos - I forgot the camera and had to resort to the good old phone camera!

We enjoyed

• show rides, 
• lantern making for a parade, 
• fireworks at a kid friendly time of 6:45pm,
• animals for touching,
• show food,
• we got to talk to Colin for 30mins after his Saturday night show 
• Isaiah got a really close and personal show with Colin on Sunday
• And Colin sang 'Edge of the Kimberley' specially for us. 

Such a fun family time together.  So many special memories made that weekend.

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Finally Finished

Sewing has been a rare event in my life lately.  I've snatched a few minutes here and there, working away on some cushions for a friends little girls bedroom.  However, when the same project has been moved from the sewing table, to the ironing board, to the bed and back again numerous times, one tends to get a little tired of the fabric, the colours and even the whole project. I have visions of a sewing room where I don't have to put projects away, but can just leave them out, mid project ready for the next time I have a few minutes.

Anyway - I finally finish this prolonged project last week.  I actually had lots of fun, using pink fabric, putting hearts on them and making something girly.  Not something I get to do much of around here.

Our Weekend

We had a super busy, family filled weekend.  On Saturday we planted 199 trees along our little patch of creek.  Yes, not 200 but 199, don't ask me why, it's just how it worked out.  All the family was there plus a few extras helping out.  The kids did a great job, helping, playing together and generally enjoying being out in the sun as a big family.

I love warm spring weather and fun family projects. What a great combination.

Around Here

We are loving spring in so many ways

*getting out to clearing sales and grabbing some bargin old stuff
*playing in the rain now that it is slightly warmer
*practicing 'camping' on a 'rock' (apparently, not where I'd be putting my tent) for our week of camping coming up
*eating some super yummy and healthy choc surprise balls
*getting ready for a new season of veggie gardening with my new toy
*playing in the hose
*watching plants emerge

Heading off to plant out some seedling in our veggie garden this afternoon...
No doubt you'll be seeing the progress soon.