The Days Around Christmas 2014

We've been dressing up.  The two pirates were shy and were not to be photographed as that would show people where the treasure was. If you look carefully you can see one pirate in the background of the bottom photo.

Jigsaw puzzles and the building of Bilbo Baggins Bag End in lego.  The children flitted in and out of these activities. Running, chasing, swimming, hide and seek with Aunty Sandy were more to their taste on the day.

Poppy and the boys.

Some quiet time amid the chaos and fun.  Uncle Poh (from Kung Fu Panda) is hiding in the back of his ute in the front yard to scratch his scratchies.  Peace....

The kids made their own orange juice slushies with gifts from my sister.  Pretty awesome little inventions. You freeze the cups then add juice, softdrink, flavoured milk - whatever takes your fancy.  Then squeeze the cup repeatedly and a slushy appears in the middle.  Voila!

Chalk love letters to family.  So very sweet.

Glow sticks in the pool for Mr J and Miss S on their Boxing day sleepover.  SO... MUCH....FUN...

Camping out in in the playroom and watching a movie on the big screen.  Kids thrilled and the old peoples home they put Jeff and I in has just improved in quality!!  ha ha.

To cap it all off a HUGE branch came down on the neighbours driveway and over the road.  The top photo is after extensive chainsawing, pushing and pulling to get the bottom half of the branch off the driveway. Yes this is only half of the branch.  The whole thing was probably 20m long perhaps more and came off the tree you see on the right edge of the driveway in the bottom photograph.  It's the second big branch to drop from this tree in 3 weeks. The bloke in the red ute who narrowly missed having the branch fall on him as he drove past got his Christmas miracle.

I hope you are all having a safe and happy holiday period and that work is being kind to you if you are back on the job.