Happy New Year!

Well it has been a while since I wrote something here, first I will write about our New Years, seems sooooo long ago! We were luck to have a visit from famil again this year. We had the Crossin's and the Horne family joining us this year. It was good afternoon evening with just sitting around hanging out and catching up with all the goss. The little ones had a great time, watching The Wiggles and just running around non stop as well as bouncing on the trampoline. It was a very warm night which was great a big change from last year as it was very cold.

We had a BBQ and then at around 9.30 we had our first lights display, we brought some fireworks and let some off for the little ones to enjoy.

We also got to see the ones at Royal Park that went off around the same time. At midnight we let the rest of the fireworks off and their was again lots of ohhhs and ahhs as they looked pretty, some however did fizz but overall they were not too bad. Again our firebugs enjoyed playing with them and setting them off and trying different combos of colour. Unfortunately this will be the last time we may have fireworks as the governement has banned over the counter sales and you now need permits to buy even the basic ones that don't bang but just have lots of colour. So just after midnight the troops ventured off to bed, however I was a bit pumped so after sitting up talking to Ryan and Rob we didn't venture into bed until 3.30!!! And then we were up again at 8 when the kiddies woke! We had a yummy breakfast of bacon and eggs and pancakes cooked on the BBQ and then we sat around and enjoyed the lovely weather. After Breakfast, which really we should have called brunch we had a play on the wii then got dressed to go to the Gorge for a lovely swim.

Charlotte enjoyed getting a chance to use her new sunshade and rested, as it would have been too cold for her to get into the water and she would have screamed the whole of Launceston down! So after a refreshing swim we said goodbye to our extended family as they travelled back to Devenport and we came home to just sit around and chill, think the lack of sleep finally started to catch up!