Well, you heard that we had a late New Years Eve, it was fun and we didn’t get a lot of sleep. We were all up and about (at Paula’s) around 9.00. Her X-husband picked up the boys at around 10.00. The rest of us finished out breakfast and chilled out for a little bit. We got home from Paula’s around 11.00; by the time we packed up sleeping bags, deflated mattresses etc. We had a quiet afternoon and then ended up at the Rivera’s for some dinner. One of the Andrew’s (Australian guys) got sick and ended up in the emergency room, we think reaction from one of the beers. It was a nice quiet evening and great way to start off the year.
Wed 2nd, Jan was the last day of holidays for the boys, (not that Bruce and I were excited) and Conner wanted to do something fun before they went back to school. I went off to work and the boys spent the day at home, doing the usual. So they picked me up from work, and off we went to the Movies to see “The chipmunks” movie. We had a great time, eating popcorn and laughing through the whole thing. It was a cool way to finish the holidays.
The boys got back to school and into the swing of things pretty quickly, no homework for the first couple of days, so it was a little easier of a transition. Thurs bought a small milestone, the tree whose branches have been falling down was finally removed (even if it was after all the leaves had fallen), and we were hoping we wouldn’t have to do that this year. Bloody tree!!!! Anyway, we have no more tree out the front, so in the summer, no shade on the drive way, we’ll see how much difference that makes.
The storm hit over night, and boy was it a BIG one, it continued into the Friday. OMG, it was huge, I have never seen it like that, it was raining so hard all day and I’m not kidding. Paula told us to go home early cause she was worried about us (Darcy) driving home. So we were out of there early afternoon, although I did go home and work, so it really made no difference to me. The rain eased and we had a semi quiet Friday night; Bruce wanted to get out of the house and of all places wanted to go to Costco for dinner and a little shopping. So off we went, the boys ate and I looked around. We bought a few things (food) that we needed and a stop off at Best Buy for a look around and we were home around 9.00.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TWINS (RAELS & TRUDY)
Our Saturday was the usual, the boys played basketball, Jamieson is doing not to badly although his shooting is not going so great, he seems the have lost control. I cleaned the house and we moved Conner’s desk out of his room and into the office and the extra desk out of the office and into Conner’s room, which also gave me a chance to do a clean through the room, my usual after Christmas thing. Conner played a great game, he is getting really great, he’s working hard and practicing a lot and it’s definitely paying off, he makes his father proud.
Our Sunday was a usual one, chilling out around the house, the boys doing some chores and in the afternoon I went out to take some stuff back from Christmas, the rushes have gone, so it’s not too bad. I bought some DVD’s for myself. Mum called later in the day and we spent a quiet night at home watching Beauty shop on DVD.
My week started out with a long Monday. I am trying to figure out a schedule that gives me a day off and Bruce is planning on being on the road Tuesday’s and Wednesday. I have parent helping on Wednesday’s so the decision was kind of easy. It just means I have to work a longer day. Anyway, the boys are back and school and as adults always do in the new year, trying to organize the rest of the year. Bruce was working his schedule and I was organizing strategic planning for work. I was online with Elise while I posted the last blog, otherwise it was a quiet night.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NICK BELL!!!! (January 7th)
Tuesday was our strategic planning at work and Tom from works Birthday so we couldn’t go out for lunch, which was a bummer. The planning took up most of the day but we got some great results and are all really happy with our goals for the next 3-12 months, in the afternoon to check out a couple of prospective new offices spaces that I had found. Paula wants to relocate into new premises in the next 6 months so that has been added to my task list. I’ve done it before for 17 people so this should be a little easier, I hope. Bruce was in and out of the house for the day. Conner had his first basketball game for the Stone Lake Hawks (school team). He played well considering how HUGE they were. There was this one kid, the biggest on the court; he was 11 years old and as big as me. Needless to say they didn’t fair so well, Conner got about 12 mins and did ok, he made one basket but missed a couple, he did well considering the pressure, the team was really good. It was the usual evening for us, the boys went off to basketball practice and I did some stuff at home.
Our Friday started off surprisingly, Bruce came into the bathroom while I was getting ready for work to inform me that he had just measured the boys and my youngest son had growth 1cm in around 2 weeks and I have to feed him. Jamieson walked into the room with a huge smile on his face. We all had a usual day, I got home from work and the boys were playing while I made some Vanilla Slice (Kristie bought me back some custard powder fro London) and they love vanilla slice, of which you cannot get here. We arrived at the around 6.00pm, Carlos had gotten back from Germany earlier in the day. We had a yummy dinner and sat down to what is becoming a little tradition playing cards. Paula and Steve arrived around 9.00, they had been out for dinner. We finished the game and started in on a new one. Before we knew it; it was 12.30 and poor Carlos’ eyes were falling out of his head. We worked out he had been up for nearly 2 days at that point. I drove Paula’s car home, they had had a few wines, and Bruce picked me up and we arrived home with the kids in the back seat sleeping at around 1.00am.
We had a quiet-ish weekend. The boys played their basketball after a sleep in from our late night on Friday night. Bruce had a brain wave about Jamieson watching him during the game, cause it definitely wasn’t his best. He’s growing too fast and hasn’t adjusted to his body yet, which is why everything is completely out of whack with his game, which makes sense. Julian came over for a play in the afternoon and then we all went to watch Conner play and win later in the day. I quiet night at home for us, which we all needed.
Sunday was John Charles’ birthday party over at a stadium on the other side of town. It was nice to see them cause we haven’t seen the Charles’ for Christmas; we are all catching up for dinner next weekend at Paula’s. The boys had fun; it was a basketball party so Conner and Jamieson were in their element. The girls sat down and watched bubba Cooper (Belinda took lots of shots of Cooper, of course) just generally catching up. It took a little while, but I finally got a kiss, so I had a great day. We were home in time to watch the last ¼ of the Patriots v Jaguars NFL finals game, so Bruce was happy. Otherwise a nice quiet night chatted to Rhys on messenger and watched TV with my husband.
So, that is 2008 up until now, it’s Tuesday night and to read what has been happening in the last couple of days you’ll have to wait for another 2 weeks. Which is my aim with the blog this year. (Let’s see how we go) I hope everyone is doing well and staying out of the heat as much as possible.
Just a quick FYI – our wonderful friends the Rivera’s (who work for United, and helped getting us home on our trips last year when we needed it) are going to be in the Geelong neck of the woods next month. Hopefully they will be staying with mum and dad one night on their travels to see the coast and if you could try and meet them, they would love it and so would we. I will get more details to everyone when I have them.
Otherwise, everyone have a great one and I’ll be back in a couple of weeks.
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