Missed a month..........

Hey everyone, I missed a whole month! So much has happened time has just flown. So....In case any of you actually keep "normal" hours, you would have missed Venus which has been shining big and bright in our early morning skies these last couple of weeks....around 5 to 5.30 is the best time to catch her here.......depends what time the sun comes up where you are......here she is with the moon.......(double click on the photo to see it properly)

Kylin got a cold but it really turned bad quite quickly, short story of a long saga.....he developed pneumonia and although 2 doctors told me he'd be fine - I thought otherwise and took him to hospital, he was really grunting for breath and for you medicos had the tracheal pull, his intercostal spaces were pulling and so was his stomach. It looked like the respiratory distress he had when he was born. Triage put him on the monitor and he was saturating at 82% - they raced him off into a resus room and started preparing for him to crash....I kept saying he's been like this for 2 days, I don't think they believed me.... He was chatty and playing and mucking around with me....he was having a great time until they started trying to get an IV into him - 5 times - he has mummy's dodgy veins and 3 different peeps couldn't manage to find a vein. He was admitted and had a terrible night of being frightened of everything. Here he is telling me in graphic detail where the air was hurting his nose. (he was only on oxygen at this stage)
I must say....I called Bindi and Dan to go feed my dogs, turn off my puter and to bring in some goat milk for Kylin.
Dan turned up on the ward sometime before 6am....we hadn't slept at all, I hadn't eaten since lunch the day before.......I was starving, but it didn't matter, He didn't only bring in Kylin's milk.
Bindi had got up early and made me some toasted ham and cheese sandwhiches - OH MY! I inhaled them both like I'd been starved for a week..........she had packed in gluten free snacks for Kylin, and some of Brodie's toys and books. The thoughfullness of that alone made me cry.....I was so happy to see a familiar face, and it was a familiar face - with milk and food!
The day before good Friday....needing to go food shopping, with two small children in tow....Bindi came in later that morning, armed with another bag filled with coffee, she had been to subway and got a roll for me for lunch, baked beans, biscuits for us both, fruit, and a sausage roll amongst a heap of other things. She had gone back to feed the dogs. And in doing so had gone through all our drawers to find toothpaste and toothbrushes, spare clothes etc. Without being asked to do any of this. I just wanted to share with you all how amazing it felt to have people mobilize and help out so instantly and proactively. AWESOME PEOPLE - I just wanted to publicly thank you Bindi and Dan - for being there and knowing EXACTLY what we needed. You know you are awesome, I just want everyone else to know it too. Thank you so very much. xxxx
We all went to Bramston beach for a catch up and to meet Mark's wife Col for the first time. She is lovely and he is so happy. We all had a fantastic day.
Anyone seen Kylin?
Awesome photo of "my" camaro on fire in Perth recently........
Frank came to visit for the weekend. It was fab to see him and have him in our space. Kylin just loved him.
We all went to Babinda and had a little paddle, scoffed the prawns and threw loadsa rocks until the rain came.

D&B, kids and I headed off on an explore and found this awesome beach.

It was perfect for exploring, fishing and had heaps of shade for playing in.

Me and Boo on "his" rock

Baylie - getting cuter by the day!

In other good news...I found a long lost friend...a brother...and am sooo happy to have him back in my life.......for those that knew him.........it's Luke....he's in Perth and very happy.

Happy birthday to all our May babies....

Andrew T. Chris, Rick, Pete, Emma, Michelle, Jo, Both my mums, and Shane.

Hope your birthdays were/are magic. xxxxxxxxxx

Also..........Happy Anniversary to Denis and Jo for the 19th. xx

love and hugs to you all, hope all is well in your world - Kaz n co. xxx

Heaps of adventures.

Hi everyone, hope all is well in your world. :)

We have been doing heaps of stuff. Ky n I met the Mortimers at Yorkies one Sunday and Ky, Finlay and the Drummers little boy all rocked on with the band. The adults uncoiled in the sunshine, it was a fab afternoon.Our mate Mark arrived back from Perth, all loved up -so good to see.
I went on a beach adventure by myself one day and discovered some great stuff.

Kylin's new painting area, he invented "car" painting where we use the wheels to make patterns.

Anyone seen the Rocky Horror Show? I went to a costume party dressed as Frank.

Me n Boo on the way to school.

We took Ky to muddies with Dan n Bindi n their kids. It was fab, nice n cool and the kids were worn out.

Some random wench with her gorgeous offspring.

Kylin n Brodie - best buds!

I drove up to Kuranda by myself early this morning and discovered this lookout tucked away in the middle of nowhere. Just gorgeous!

On my earlier explorations, I was chased by aboriginal folk looking for ciggies, I was just a little bit scared, luckily I wasn't too far from the carpark!

Then I went on a different walk through the rainforest there was no one around, so peacefull.

Amazing vines on my walk.

Barron falls was pumpin - it was loud and misty and just mesmerising.

After a couple of hours exploring, I met my boys who came up on the train.

Boo remembered he had ice cream last time we did this so off to the "red van" we went. He had an awesome day, so did we all. He is crashed out all happy now. He has black fingernails to match mine from the costume party on Friday night. :)

Hope you are all happy, and life is being good to you.

Happy birthday to our April babies:

Mia, Blake, Randy, Catherine, Meg, Muriel, Anna, Sean, Lisa, Susan, Sheridan, Bindi, and Noah.

Hope your special day is fabulous.

Also

Happy anniversary to Shane n Marisol.

And

RIP for my nan on the 6th. xxx

Love and hugs to you all. xoxoxo

The Wedding weekend

Just a quick intro this time. I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

Congratulations to Renae and Nick on the birth of their daughter Hannah.

Happy anniversary to Wayne n Kim, and Danny n Caroline.

Happy birthday to our March babies:

Beccy C, Jenny, me, Jacinta, Jo, Annette, Nick, Rob, Michael, 2 Chris's, Stuart, Finlay, Aimee, Suzanne, Rachael and John Casey Snr. Hope you all have a wonderful day. xoxo

And now......the wedding....Enjoy!

Sunday!

Ouch!

Love to you all. xoxo

Big few weeks

Hi everyone, Well here they are! All grown up and off to school. The day was a complete success, all the preperation and planning we did, really really paid off. The plan was for Kylin to only stay a few hours on his first day - he stayed ALL day and had a wonderful time. I was so proud of him he was really upset but darling Jazzmin looked after him and after the initial seperation, he joined in and settled in wonderfully. (insert sounds of mummy slumped in the corner heaving huge sighs of relief) He can't wait to go back tomorrow. All geared up and excited.

On Kylin's last day of pre-school we had a little family party to celebrate another milestone, and picked him up in a taxi as a special surprise. I thought he was going to have a chicken when I told him we were going home in one.

A couple of photos when Kylin and I went exploring the creek out the back.

Just a cheeky photo, when we come home the back way, we pull over and let him sit in the front for the last few blocks home, he loves it.

Me n Boo xx

and again :)

He doesn't really care about the chips, it's being in red roosters "house" he loves.

A special adventure with Daddy on the Kuranda train. I drove the car up to meet them. We had a little walk around before boo got all fatigued and funny and I drove them home.

We went to Bindi n Dan's for Australia day and as usual had a blast. Loadsa food, and great company. We stayed the night and caused havoc with their routine - it was ace. Dan even cooked us an awesome breakkie the next morning! All too good.

STICKERS!

He'd been in the pool and his zinc ran - yeah right!

Love you wenchie xx

lets all be like Sam!

Kylin, Connor and Alec at Kylin's last day at preschool.

There is some more stuff but I am having trouble getting our NEW video camera to talk to the computer now. (I think the universe is trying to tell me something)

Happy birthday to our February babies:

Marie, Merial, Marisol, Jessica G, Trish, Mandy D, Ernie, John H, Kimmy, and Taylah.

Our bestest wishes for a wonderful day, hope it's special for you. xoxo

Hope all of you with little ones starting at Creche, day care or school this year have a smooth transition with them.

Big squish for Renae who is due to have her bubby on Saturday. Good luck sweetheart.

Congratulations also to Tony (aka Big ears) who is getting married on valentines day.

We hope everyone is happy and well, we will be back to annoy you soon. xoxo