so its been a bit quiet....

So i got home from Perth! Mum and dad and i took Annelise, Zach, Alex and Elijah to the zoo - it was really fun! but tiring! And i managed to get Aunty Jenny's cold, yuck!

But Then i went to Nelson Bay for the weekend to celebrate the Lovely Catherine's birthday! It was a great weekend, but i felt a bit crap :(

so i spent the next few days recovering from being sick and doing errands like getting another watch having broken like 5 in the last month!

I started back at work in Aged care on Friday and back at church yesterday. We had a kids Pirate Party! We looked after kids while parents went out for dinner hopefully with non christian friends,
it was fun!



so then church all day today...

ok well it hasnt actually been that quiet!

Hola from Perth!

Well amigos, not quite sure why there is a spanish flavour to this post but thats what you get!

I am off for the day in Nan's 30 year old car - you need to pull the choke out to start and i barely fit under the steering wheel - for a day of adventuring! So far I've only made it to the beach and the shops but anyhoo!

Its been crazy but lovely in Perth so far. Nan's 90th was duely celebrated with a big lunch in Scarborough, CRAZY! But good and i have had my hands full hanging out with sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts and nieces and nephews! oh and parents! Tomorrow mum and dad and i are taking the 4 neices and nephews to the zoo, yikes!

I managed to get the cold that jen had and feel slightly wretched, but will survive! the most exciting thing is that i won a HUGE spongebob squarepants toy in the skill tester at Warick shops! I'll post a pick when i get home!....

PERTH!

Well I probably wont be blogging for a little while, i'm off to Perth for a week to celebrate my Nan's 90th Birthday



She is a lovely Godly woman and I cant wait to see her, my last remaining grandparent!

Its going to be a bit of an intense family time, I'm staying with My uncle, Aunt and Cousin with my sister Deb and her little boy Alex. Mum and dad are round the corner with Nan and Jen and Ben and the Kids are a little further away in Scarborough!

But it should be fun, my lovely Cousin Hayley is a hairdresser, and will probably do our our hair! And Deb is looking forward to shopping at Warwick Grove Westfield!

see you next week!

I read a great book...in the middle of the night!

So Monday night i woke at 3am and couldnt get back to sleep so i decided to read. I recently bought this book:




It was Awesome, its basically her autobiography of being a young woman minister. I found it really encouraging. She was also the inspiration behind The Vicar of Dibley. I enjoyed reading the story of a young woman ( like me) who believes in taking a leadership role in the church (like me) and who is an evangelical (like me). She ends up marrying Jim Wallis, the guy who writes lots of stuff on christianity and politics. It was just encouraging!

Go give it a read...i got it on amazon and can lend you it if you want!

the most moving thing about Equip today...

Well I went to Equip with some people from church today. It was good, the talks were on Esther and i went to a seminar on depression. It was great to get to know some of the women form church.

But the most moving thing about the day was watching the Auslan signers. There was a group of hearing impaired people there and they had 3 women signing for them. The coolest thing was when they were all singing. It was so cool!

he he he!

I saw this book on the bookshelf at church, oh i laughed!

Smuts!

Mum comes to town!

Mum made an unexpected visit to sydney this week, she came up tuesday and left yesterday. Dad finally finished his MD thesis and needed it bound and handed in. so mum was doing that and driving it up to newcastle.

WE had a lovely time together, on thursday, my day off we did some errands and then shopped and got pedicures!

The funny this is Max really does not like mum! he is such a grump! hissing a her, but she just laughs and give him a squeeze :)

the bounty?

Well i harvested some more things from my sorry looking veggie patch, more peas! yay! and carrots, well the carrots were a bit of a dud, the soil probably wasnt the best so the grew short and fat!

KASM Kids Club

Here are a couple of photos from a kids club i helped with late in April. Check out how crazy my hands are when i am doing a talk!!! I gave a talk on the resurrection, and my team, Year 2 were green grasshoppers hence all the green!

so much to tell you!

Well its been a while since i've been on the blog and so of course there is lots to say! I keep thinking of things to blog and then forgetting when i sit down at night.

So i will post a few photos with comments...

But first just let me say, I LOVE playing netball! we had a really fun game today, we lost but it was fun! its nice to get sweaty and play! I am getting to know the team which is great and we all played really well today. its nice when the team you play are lovely and not too aggressive.

on to the photos!