Cross Country and the Easter Bonnet Parade

Yesterday was cross country! Jayne came third in the year 1 girls and got a green ribbon..She was so exciteed showing everyone her ribbon. Edmunds race was next and he had to do two laps of the coarse and was coming 2nd at on stage but on the second lap slipped back to 11th and i could see him chatting to one of his friends on the last lap as he was jogging/walking. :) He had previously been protesting going to school in the first place as he prefers short distance running to long distance. Unfortunately Darys race was postponed due to a heavy load of rain that decided to decend for the remainer of the afternoon. So he gets to race today. He has to do three laps. We'll see how he goes...

The year 1 and Preppies had the annual Easter Bonnet Parade at school this morning. Jayne has been counting down the days and singing like a little angel practicing all the easter bunny songs. She woke up this morning so excited and was practicing jumping like a bunny all over the house, every couple of minutes she would say " Mummy do you want to see me hop like a bunny? See how high i can hop? " lol So we all rushed off for the parade which included the parade and looking in their class rooms at all the things they have made and then an easter egg hunt and morning tea. It was a lovely morning and Lizzie and Lydia had great fun dancing along to the music. Edmund had told me he felt like vomiting this morning so he came with me...suprisingly though he didn't feel sick when we got to the parade...funny that!

The start to the weekend

Friday night my husband i went out on a date night,movies and a dinner,which is a miracle because anyone who knows my husband will know he doesn't "Do" movies, so we met up with our great friends Elinor and Edward and had dinner to celebrate our wedding anniversaries (which are close together)we had a great night chatting and catching up without children interupting us wanting to play Bratz. :) We went to the Beach House resturant it was very good the boys got huge meals and the one that we ordered (we though we could share it as they looked like big meals) was tiny in comparison! Dang. Oh well, more room for dessert...Which was Cold rock, yumo! Mr knightly got his and went and sat in another resturants seating area so he could watch the football and eat his ice cream, as it was on the big screen there...all by himself as Elinor,Edward and myself were a bit shy to go and sit there but eventually we went over hiding our ice creams lol. We then went to the movies and we seen "The Blind Side" Which was really good and our friends went and seen "Avatar" in 3D.. we got out at the same time which was very well timed..Darcy had calculated that we would only have a wait of 3 minutes between the finishing times of the movies..lol We worked all this out before the night. We then went to McDonalds for late night snacks and drinks. We got home at 1am in the morning! Lucky the kids were sleeping over a Nanas house :) Unfortunately we were not able to have a sleep in, we had to get the kids at 7:30am..but it was a casual saturday which was good.Sunday we had ward conference at church and it was fantastic! I really got a lot out of the speakers and lessons. Sunday afternoon we went over to Mr knightly's parents house for a big family lunch and had a great time and the kids had a ball. This morning hubby woke up and said to me "Please don't keep me out past midnight again,.." Poor baby..still hasn't recovered lol This is coming from a guy who stayed up for three nights straight when he got home from his mission??? lol must be getting a bit old ;)

Jayne telling me and her dad about her day at school..."Mum did you know i got tree blood on my hand today? ..But i washed it off all by myself!" She smiles sweetly then skips off..Mr knightly and i are left silently laughing..Tree Blood???? lol

weekend adventure

So Saturday morning started with a fabulous breakfast down at ye olde chapel (Relief Society celebration breakfast) had a great catch up with family and friends then i got home about 8:30am and organized our picnic lunch etc for our day of driving and visiting, Jayne and Lizzie's cousin had a sleep over much to their delight, they had built a cubby from the curtain and had slept in that with all their doonas and pillows...so i dropped their cousin off at Nana's house and had to go get some maintenance equipment and petrol for my husband who decided to mow the lawn while i was at breakfast but had run out of petrol with only two strips to go! (the agony for my perfectionist husband!! he he) so i delivered the life saving petrol and the "blower" and he was able to finish his two strips :)..so i packed up the car and off we went on our trip...So we headed up to Toowoomba and of course half way there and with no rest stops in sight Lizzie tells daddy" I 'm busting...NOW!!" so we had to make an emergency stop on the side of the road, you know the two door open for privacy thing, :) so then every back into the car to finish our trip...next stop was to meet my lovely sister Andrea and her husband and their little family at a fete though it was only a short visit due to the petrol episode i love to see my sister and her family..so we walked around the fete, where the children had to go to the toilet numerous times, and looked at the stalls. My sister makes fabulous jewellery and there were quite a few jewellery stalls there and i must say Andreas are much more stylish. So After our 45min stop at the fete we headed of to Wivenhoe Dam to meet our fabulous friends (whom I'll call..Elinor and Edward and their son Brandon) for a BBQ /picnic and a play at the park...I'm happy to report that there were no accidents(miracle!!) though Lizzie and Jayne did get a bit wet but they didn't need a change of clothes(Which i now keep in the back of the car for such moments), The boys made a bush hut out of branches etc. and we did see a Koala high up in one of the trees, we found two hats and nearly lost a pair of shoe... but we found them just at leaving time..So at 6pm we have to leave the park because it closes and we decided to go home via Somerset Dam and then go through the Clem7 tunnel under the Brisbane river. As we were driving past the the dam we had to slow down for a 4WD that had stopped on the road, when we went past the car there was a huge snake on the side of the road that the 4WD was looking at. Mr knightly reckoned he should've done a "Crikey" and jumped out of the car! Ha ha ! It was a really nice drive with a lot of bugs and moths hitching a ride with us on the front of the car! Well we got to the Clem7 tunnel and on entering the tunnel Lizzie pipes up " But you can't see the water daddy!?" to which i replied 'that it wasn't like the tunnel on MarioKarts that you could see through!' To which the whole back of the car groaned and Edmund says "Well that's boring!"..some tunnel :) We arrived home about 9pm and did baths and bed...It was a great day out!!

So i picked up my kids from school at the usual time of 2:30pm and told them we had to go to the dentist for check ups..they love going to the dentist...so we arrive and i tell Jayne please only have 1 cup of water from the water dispenser..meanwhile Lydia has already poured every one a up and is still going..so i remove her from the water and set her up with some blocks of large lego which she proceeds to bash Edmund over the head with, so i sort that out and the dentist comes out to explain that darcy will have to go and see an orthodontist about his teeth(great!) so while i'm ditracted with the Dentist Jayne is drinking as much water a possible, probable due to the fact the the surgery has no public toilets *sigh..So next is Lizzie to see the dentist and i explain to the kids that they can't have a balloon today because mummy has an appointment at 3:30 and will not have time for them all to get a balloon today. So lizzie comes out an i wait to pay at the counter..The nurse asks jayne "Would you like a balloon?" which miss jayne answers " Yes please!" so they all get balloons and Edmund couldn't decide what colour he wanted..mean while Lydia has discovered the water dispenser again so she starts filling up her cup and pouring the water in the bin..Great! so i snatched her away from there and tell all my children to line up near the door at which point jayne tells me she is "busting" So Darcy says he'll take her up to the public toilets for me, such a good boy, so on Darcy and Jayne leaving to go through the mall Lydia escapes but luckily her balloon got caught in the door so we were able to detain her from running out.. so i finally get to the counter pay and make appointments, 5 helium balloons are floating everywhere and 2 had to be rescued off of the ceiling and when i finally got to my next appointment it was 3:40....needless to say i was a tad relieved to get home :) ha ha

Childrens names:-

I just thought i would make a note about my childrens names, i will be using alias for my kids name just for privacy issues. so as you will be able to tell i love jane Austin and as such i have named my kids after such characters just for my blog :) Darcy 10 yrs, Edmund 8 yrs, Jayne 6 yrs, lizzie 4 yrs and Lydia 2 yrs. anyone who knows my family will know who is who :) so let us start our adventures together .......

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