Friday, December 28, 2012

First Family Christmas in SA

this year marks our first big Family Christmas with the girls getting to have Christmas with their Grandparents ( hubbies Parents) wish my parents were still around but this is my 3rd since Dad drowned in June 2009 and 22nd since Mum passed in May 1990 :(  but they are always apart of us xx♥
 we went down to Victor Harbor for Christmas Eve with a stop in at maclaren vale to see the wonderful (Godparents  ) Jon the Beast and Michelle White ♥
then headed to Victor for the end of the day and then came back on boxing day ( think it is proclamation day here in SA) and then to My Cousins for Christmas and then home for more lol
Like I said it was a BIG Christmas, next year we will be doing Christmas here and hope the grandparents come up here for it






the worst part was when Family get drunk early on they fight and we had this so next year we are looking forward to being home and everyone can come to us :) 
but it was good to have our first Family Christmas in SA with Everyone

Thursday, December 27, 2012

school awards for 2012

Alex got the academic award again as well as citizenship award for grade 2 and Robyn won the citizenship award for Prep I am one proud Mummy this year ♥
the girls are registered for a new school in SA and looking forward to going, plus they have made a friend ith our neighbours boy and talk to him through the fence

Alex has also shared her story ( through me) with the QLD cancer council for the Christmas appeal and other areas and she will walk the Relay survivors walk next year in our new suburb



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Moving state and starting over again



This post will be a big one as it will cover the move from QLD to SA  in December 2012

we are moving house and State, Going from Sunny QLD to the driest state on the driest continent South Australia. this will be fun, messy, stressful and exciting all together, as we change Dr's, Hospital, School. and make new friends and support network, at least I can say its a good thing Alex hits 3 years in Dec since she finished treatment ♥we had a farewell BBQ at another Families here in Brassall from the school.  last week I also went to Lunch with the Tuck-shop ladies and then a movie with my good Friends

- 29th November 2012, today we had the removalists arrive to start packing everything we have not done, we did all personal items plus everything we need for the trip down. tonight we spent our first night in Temp accommodation and tomorrow the house will be completely emptied and we spend another night so we can head out on Saturday morning. we spend two nights at the Oaks aspire

- 30th November is the last day that we will see our house and the girls school ♥

- 1st December we are finally on the road and looks like a lovely day to drive so will see how Far we get before we stop for our first night on the road. this week we had a heat wave head up through NSW and QLD so was a hot drive over the great Dividing ranges and through Warwick and we stayed the night at Dubbo and funny enough the same motel we stayed in back in 2004 when we left SA, the girls bugged us about a swim so we had a quick dip

- 2nd December today we drive towards Mildura and stopped at Parkes for the Dish after last nights thunderstorm it was a nice start and wanted to reach Mildura so called ahead for a motel with a pool got told yes all good but on arrival the pool was closed , no trailer parking and room small so we left and went to the Commodore in down the road and the girls had a swim and we had a nice View of the river Murray


-3rd-6th December, today we drive to Adelaide stopped at Blanchtown for Lunch then drive to the new house to have a look, before heading down to victor Harbor for a couple of days with the family, the girls got to meet their grandparents and uncle, plus enjoy the beach and pool table, only problem was it was cold and we only had warm summer cloths with us



- 6th December, today we moved into temp accommodation at  Mawson lakes hotel for a few days then we will move into our new home out at Gawler, South Australia, we got the Carols in the park just down from us and had a great view of the fire works for the girls to see

10th December , today we got the keys :) woohoo not long now and we will be enjoying getting ready for Christmas and catching up with everyone

11th dec we moved into the house and now we can start sorting out making it a home,

Slide show below from Photobucket to show all photos as I have hit max on this blog now so just sharing the sites and not much else, plus the photos are a little jumbled up :/ sorry ♥