Christmas, holidays and a great start to 2012!!

My first post for 2012!! Lots to catch up on!!

We had such a great Christmas - visits with family, loads of yummy food and so many wonderful presents! Defintely the highlights for the kids were the iPods from mummy and daddy, the Harry Potter book collection for Luke, and the Pillow Pet Pig for Sarah! We finished the day absolutely exhausted, but had lots of fun!

 

On Boxing Day, we headed down to Merry Beach for five nights, which was a much needed break. Close friends of ours were there too - it was so nice to spend the time with them and their two gorgeous children. Beautiful weather meant plenty of swimming, sand castle building, bushwalks - not to mention plenty of eating and drinking!!

 

With only one week left now of school holidays, it's amazing to look back and see how many great things we've done during our Christmas break. To highlight some of our favourite things:

• Sarah and I going to see Annie with my mum, my sister and her daughter Amelia. We absolutely loved it!
• Taking Luke to see the Harry Potter exhibition! He is Harry Potter mad at the moment, and has already read the first four books in the series, and made a start on book #5! And that is just since Christmas Day! Such a clever reader.
• Brett's work Christmas party at Stanwell Park Reserve. They hired some games for the kids (and big kids too!), including a huge hamster ball and laser tag. It is a great place for a day out - beautiful playground and a great beach. The kids loved watching the hangliders coming over the clifftops.
• Going to the movies! One trip I took Luke to see Tin Tin while Sarah went with Grandma to see the Chipmunks, and another trip we went to see Hugo, which was a fantastic movie for young and old!!
• Luke's cricket camp at the SCG. Luke participated in a 2-day holiday program at the SCG which was a great experience for him!

 

Hamster ball fun!

 

Batting inside the nets

 

The SCG grounds!