The one after the one before new year :)

Hello everyone, sorry to be a pest, but our video camera had a wobbly after mummy came back from Melb. (mummy went down for 24hrs, for a funeral a couple of weeks ago) and when she got back, we had to send the camera away to be fixed - there were some shots on there we wanted to share and have just got the camera back so here goes...........

Pete picked mummy up from the airport at midnight, in this classic 57 Chev which he and Deb are going to do up - It rocked big time !!!! They tried to hide my baby under a sheet but I got to touch it!! I doooo so love that car :)
this is Poombah who lives on the property across from Pete & Deb - he is soo cute! He keeps the foxes away from the sheep - cool huh?
This is my best bro and my best friend making sure I really did get on the plane and didn't stay around to cause them trouble.
Bubba in his new bob the builder raincoat for the first time..........
Hands up who thinks it may be a tad too big? He loves it!!
Daddy making bubby laugh by causing teddy to crash down on the floor.
Mummy's trip to Melb although sad, was a great bonding time for both Pete and mummy so something really positive came out of it - they spent more time together than they had in years and had a great time just doing "stuff" - so that's it! Cheers! xoxoxoxo

The one before New years

Hello everyone, I hope your xmas was wonderfull, relaxing and exactly how you wanted it to be. We had a really lovely xmas, even though we had lots of cooking to do, we started 3 days before so when the time came, most of it was done. We got to spend lots of time enjoying the company of our Cairns family, ate lots, drank lots and everyone helped out where they could. All of xmas was spent outside as it was hot hot hot! Mummy did up the table and decorated everything in a suitably festive tone. She even did a centrepiece (look out Martha Stewart!!) :) Christmas eve we had roast beef, and vegies, with a scrummy potato bake cooked by Marisol, and afterwards we had a chrismas ice cream cake thing that we made - Yum!
Joining Mummy and Daddy for dinner were Mark (aka santa), Scott, Shane, Marisol, and Debbie. Jazz and I had ours early.

Chrismas morning I had 3 special presents to open, I had already got my swing set and trampoline early! The first one I opened was from my Auntie Susan and Uncle John, it was a really cute teddy with a marines sweatshirt, I take him to bed with me for all my sleeps, and have called him new bear until we can think of a name for him.
My next present was from my Auntie Big ears, it was a housekeeping trolley, with heaps of cleaning stuff on it, I tear around the house with it doing "keening" and now Mummy can leave the brush and shovel out without me stealing it all the time. I pretend to polish the furniture and do lots of sweeping. I did, however, pull all the yellow wool out of the mop and the bits are now "noodles" which I feed to mummy and daddy. Mummy was quite tickled by this.
THEN........I opened my last one which was from my Grunk. It was the new tickle me elmo, it cracks everyone up when I play with it, he rolls around and slaps the floor, he is very very funny. Here I am ripping off some paper.
Daddy bought Mummy an ipod, mummy nearly fell off the couch! She really really wanted one but didn't want to ask for one - clever daddy! Mummy bought daddy a remote control tank, he really really wanted one too - clever mummy! Before daddy could have his present though, mummy set up a treasure hunt so daddy had to work out the clues to find the next clue - there were 20 clues and it took daddy an hour to find them all, he did very well and eventually found his present under my cot.

We had Marisol, Jazz and Debbie here for christmas day lunch, which was a crunchy vegetable and noodle salad, fresh prawns with dipping sauces, and spicey prawns with a cucumber sambal. Jazz and I got to open our presents to each other and the adults did theirs as well, we all got spoiled and had a lovely time in all the paper.

It was really really hot and after we had our lunch, Jazz and I got into the little swimming pool and had ice blocks, while the adults slugged at the table.

Marisol had to go to work then and Shane arrived, along with Scott, they stayed for dinner which was roast turkey and veg and was supposed to be followed by plum pudding and brandy custard, but no one could face anymore food. In between all these meals, we had made dips and had shortbread, mince pies, nuts the list went on and on. I also made a slice that never made it out of the fridge for fear we may all pop. We migrated to the lounge to finish off our celebrations watching The life of Brian. One by one everyone fell asleep, some made it to beds, others stayed where they were.

Boxing day was get rid of leftovers day (wasn't it for everyone?) Bruce and Scott came over for a cold meat and salad dinner, where we managed to fit in one more bottle of champagne, a bottle of chardy and some other wine we had in the fridge. We had a lovely time catching up, we hadn't seen Bruce for ages. For those of you who know him, he looks really well and seems very happy. Considering all the food we had, we judged it just right, there was no food wasted, we planned it really well. (pats on the back for us - I hate wasting food)

I have had some lovely e-mails from some of you and promise when I get a spare week I will answer them all :) We are heading down to Lismore/Brisbane on the 7th January to visit Damians family and friends and will be back in Cairns on the 15th. We are spending new years eve with Shane, Marisol, Debbie and Jazz, we are having an early dinner, and will watch the fireworks on the esplinade before (probably) going back to the Mathewsis to put the kids to bed and have a card/game sesh. Shane (who is a cheater) has to work N.Y day so we'll see how he feels.

We all hope that you have a fantastic new years eve and stay safe and happy into 2007. Mummy is reminding those of you who are joining the 2007 challenge (or would like to) that there are only 2 more sleeps to go!!! So drink/eat/ party hard kids! Love and hugs and skishes - Kylin Jett xoxoxox

The one before christmas

Hello again everyone, hope you are all happy and well. Here's what I have been up to lately.
We went to have dinner with Filiz & Richard recently and I got to play trains with Ollie and Finlay which I just loved!! We all played very nicely together and wore each other out running around, and I went down to sleep without a peep.

We all had a really lovely night, dinner was absolutely delish and the Mortimers "special thing" was brought out in out honour.
The Saturday BBQs are becoming quite the event to attend, with even the most party weary folk struggling with the early hour, to participate with us. Jazzmin and I are here waiting for another helicopter and spotting imaginary frogs.
Here is my luscious mother in law to be, giving me a squish. It has got quite hot even early in the mornings here so mummy and I usually head straight for the lagoon pool for a swim until breakky is ready. They have aqua aerobics on when we get there, and I entertain the class inspecting the amplifyer trying to work out where the person is.

Suzanne and Nic came to stay with us for a long weekend, Nic's mum and dad looked after their kids, and Nic was soooo patient with me as I attached myself to his shadow repeating "goodmorning Nic" over and over and Nic replied every single time like it was the first time. They all went out to La Fett for dinner with about 10 other people - Nic & Sooz hadn't been here for 4 years and have been hanging out to have another meal here. Just like old times, they headed off to the chapel and dived head first into the long island iced teas. I will just leave it at that - needless to say, they all had a fantastic night. I stayed overnight with Vanessa and got to sleep in Erins room! We were all supposed to meet in town for breakky but didn't quite make it, so everyone came here instead and we had a fab bbq breaky with everyone bringing something to contribute. The weekend was filled with great food, wine, friends and lots of chances for mummy and Sooz to catch up - it was perfect.

We had another visitor from the animal world recently, it's called a stag beetle and was over 13cm long. Aparently they wont hurt you, (unless you annoy it) despite the fact it has 3 sets of pincers arranged shark like, that it seems to want to use to attach itself to you. Friendly as that might seem, mummy politely declined it's advances and captured it instead.

We have put up our chrismas tree and all the decorations, I am obsessed with the magic flashing chrismas lights and am very good at not touching anything on the tree. Mummy is very excited about having chrismas at home this year. Shane Marisol & Jazz are spending christmas eve with us, and are sleeping over so Jazz and I can open our presents together on christmas morning. Scott should be back either xmas eve or xmas day and will be with us too. Mark will be popping in at some stage on xmas day - probably only able to see from one eye having made the rounds. We are having a seafood lunch and roast turkey dinner on xmas day so by boxing day we will all be unable to move.

I hope you all have a very happy christmas with people you love and you all make it safely through the madness in the shops and the traffic beforehand. Guess what?? I just loved santa this year! Big kisses and hugs to you all - Kylin Jett. xoxoxo