Happy New Year to you all from the Lesinas. We marked the New Year coming in at Eastern time (so only 9pm for us). We had had a busy day including going to see Gullivers travels at the movie Theatre.Cute movie! Had Billy Connolly in it as the king of Lilliput, and when Braeden heard him speak, his wee head swung round toward me and said "he sounds just like your Grandpa"...and we clarified he indeed meant Granda Stewart :-)

So as the ball dropped in New York, a very sleepy Braeden noticed it was snowing outside. we ran out to toast out there but unfortunately my phone camera did not pick up on the huge snow flakes falling :-( Beautiful!

So Thats it....2011 here we come, ready or not ;-)

Love to all

Lucy xxxx

Braeden

This posting is especially for Mum. This is Braeden in his Perry the Platypus/Agent P get up that mum/dad got him for christmas

Yes, i know the sweatshirt is a wee bit big but he had to have it and Perry the Platypus was not available in the size that would actually fit now "But Mum, I like it big"

And this was the trick he learned he could do this morning! He can make it all the way to the ceiling but by the time I got the camera on my phone set up he was beginning to fatigue.

Never dull around here :-)

Love to all

Lucy xxxx

Its a big day for My Favourite 4 year old. A Very Happy Birthday to you sweet Luca. Wish I could be there to celebrate with you....one of these days I will make it home for your birthday!! We will have a cupcake with 4 candles on it in your honour. And we will play the Ben 10 Wii game all day ;-)

I did not send a birthday present yet as it doesnt sound like your Christmas present made it through yet. But there will be a parcel that come a wee bit later on for you xx

Have a wonderful day. Thinking of you

Lots of love, hugs and kisses


Auntie Lucy, Uncle Scott and cade and Braeden xxxx

Well Hello, and Mery Christmas to those of you who I wasnt able to say it live to.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We had a fun day, but given the camera problems noted of late I had to resort to disposable cameras for Christmas So I will wait and tell the stories of the lesina Christmas when I get those photos developed and onto a disc so I can out them on the blog.

So you Simply get a photo of Holly. Taken on Scotts phone when he had her at the dog park christmas eve. Scott did a fantastic job getting all the energy filled beings out of the house christmas eve afternoon so I could finish wrapping, cleaning and doing food prep. It was very much appreciated. He firstly took Cade and Braeden to the skate park, returned them home while he took Holly to the dog park and then on his return was off to the skatepark again due to special request from Cade.

Scott and I are all alone for a couple of days. Kids are off to Karens for a couple of days, watching them for me while I work. So we are enjoying the unusual quiet and are spending our time vegging out and eating left overs. Last night was prawn marie rose in avacado and smoked salmon. Tonight was crab. Yum!! Not to mention polishing off the coconut and choc cream pie :-)

Well thats it for me. I am too stuffed to sit here any longer. Must lay down and unbutton my pants ;-)

Take care everyone. Love to all

Lucy xxxx

Video of boys 2 yrs ago

Just to get everyone into the festive spirit. Cade and Braeden 2 yrs ago at xmas xx

Still have not found my charger for my camera so still no photos. But I did figure out that my work camera has the same charger so I will take my battery in tomorrow. So alls not lost when it comes to getting xmas photos onto my blog.

I have absolutely nothing to report other than I am completely unable to resist all the goodies at work! Why can I not walk past chocolate and baked goods without grabbing a handful?? Even going to the gym 4 days a week is not holding my winter spread at bay! I also have difficulty resisting the egg nog lattes. Everytime I do some shopping for xmas I just feel I must have one.You know, to be festive :-)Today driving home from work I picked Karen up a pumpkin spice latte, as she had been watching all 4 grandsons and I knew by that time she would be needing something, and the Britt in me would not let her drink alone ;-) Another egg nog latte was had. I cannot stop!!!

I too have got my smoked Salmon, but prawns, Rib roast and yummy pies will all be picked up friday for the xmas feed. Oh and I need to go get Tuaca. An Italian liquor that I will put in warmed apple cider. Yummy.

Loved reading Dads blog and hearing the story of the meeting of my grandparents. Would love to hear more stories. Think you should make it a regular thing on your blogs mum and dad :-)

Right, Im going to get going. After the choccies and egg nog should really get going to the gym. Anyone have any suggestions for running music. I am getting bored of my playlist

Love to all

Lucy xxxx

Just a quickie. No photos I'm afraid as I have lost my camera charger :-(
Alls well here. Headed to Portland on a course and the family are coming with me so we will do some christmassy things while there, so I may actually have something to blog about after the weekend.
Today after work I head to the school for parent teacher conferences so will let you all know how that goes.
Thats really all I have to report. Raining here but mild. Decorated a gingerbread house with the boys last night. Wokeup this morning and it had all fallen down. Gingerbread with morning coffee....yum yum!


Love to all


Lucy xxxx