Stake Conferene Weekend, Camping and more birthday Photos

Well we ha a busy weekend this weekend, On Sat morning we travelled to Port Sorell to stay with Ryan's Sister and their family. We decided to pitch our tent out the front of their house. In the afternoon Ryan and Rob went to the Leadership meeting for Stake Conference while Coral, Abbey, Amelia William and I went looking for new sneakers for Amelia as her sneakers are falling apart. After shopping we travelled back and Coral took Amelia and Will to the park then onto the beach where William and Amelia decided to go and get in the water. Abbey came back and got me to drive the car back down and collect teh wet little munchkins as William was shivering from being cold, he didn't want to get out however and screamed blue murder when we took him out.
The two Crossin girls babysat our kids while Coral and I went in to the Stake centre to attend the evening session on Stake Conf. It was an excellent meeting as we had Elder Baxter the Area President and Elder Vinson from the 7o visiting. Both gave wonderful talks, and the spirit was strong. After conference we went and ate dinner at La Porchetta and I mentioned to Ryan that this was the first time in a very long time we have been out to dinner with another adult couple and didn't have kids! After dinner we travelled hoe to a quiet house with all kids in bed. I m,ust say that the girls did a great job looking after Amelia and Will as I did here that Amelia was a bit upset and wanted mummy for a while, then got a nose bleed and stressed out over that.

Sunday morning we got up after the kids body clocks didn't realise that it was Sunday and they could sleep in at 6.30am! (I dont understand how kids seem to want to sleep in on days when we have to be somewhere yet when we don't they get up early!!!!!) So after watching a little bit of Wiggles in the tent we ventured into the house and had some breakfast. After chilling out we then got ready to got to Sunday Conference session. Again it was excellent! President Challis was released and we now have President Prebble as our New Stake President, we are really excited as he is such a great guy and is very youth focused, which is kinda the message we got fro alot of teh talks over the weekend. We then heard a few talks and then we watched the live video link from Salt Lake. After teh video finished we had a little lunch then Ryan, Coral, Lottie and Will went home while the rest of us stayed on the attend the Youth Fireside. Again it was excellent listening to the speakers. I have added details to the Young Women's blog on what the speakers were talking about.

After the fireside we went back to theCrossin house and packed up the tent and ate tea, the travelled home. It was such a great weekend but I must say that I enjoyed my bed last night as I was really tired. I think the kids were happy to be home to, although I know that Amelia misses the Crossins heaps as she just loves them so much!

Travelling to Church on Sunday

Our great BIG tent!

Abbey was a great helper over the weekend.

These are from Amelia's birthday a week or so ago. In the evening we took her to Maccas and ate ice cream. She was even luck to get a Sunday, a very big treat as we usually only ever get cones, cause they are cheaper.

Zoe loved theChocolate Frappe, it is really good to drink on a very hot day as it is crushed ice and has oreo biscuits crushed through it, with cream on top! William loving his ice cream cone was all excited to eat it with a spoon!