15 December 2010

Today Phill brought home a gift from METS, it was so lovely to get a Christmas gift from work. I’m pretty sure this is the first one we’ve received, as BHP does end of year gifts in September so they are not Christmas gifts. Dad S went in for his gall bladder operation. Emily had a hard afternoon and night, I’m not sure if it is teething or immunisation related. Phill enjoyed testing out the new roller mower that arrived today.

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14 December 2010–Phill’s birthday

I’m still not quite used to the Christmas/birthday season around here. It makes for some busy days!

We celebrated Phill’s birthday with the traditional steak diane thanks to Mum S and I made the ever popular strawberry hazelnut gateau. In the afternoon I’d had the brilliant idea to made dinner rolls using the breadmaker and they were very popular. Les (and Asha) and Steve joined us to celebrate! Phill’s presents were a hit all round with Bunnings vouchers, flying monkey (which has been adopted by Emily) and the sibling’s Lego Starwars Wii game, shirts and more. Emily had a late sleep so was able to stay up for the 7pm dinner but wasn’t too sure about the sparklers.
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13 December 2010

I was inspired to reuse my layout for 9 December today, it will be a fewpages later in the finished album, so why not? So I rotated the photo placeholder and embellished a little differently. A lovely quick page!

Today was a run around kind of day. Emily had her 18month immunisations - she was a very brave girl and got a blue jelly bean. She also had her child health check, I went to see the Chiro. I worked on Phill’s card and present wrapping. Mum O and Cait joined us to check out the progress of the house. The electrical channels are now cut in and the roof structure is complete. Now for the tiling!

Mum S made these mini presents with a little verse and sweet treat inside for Dad S to give out to his work mates, they were too cute!

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9 December 2010

I was so blessed to spend time with Sarah Davis over from Sydney. Emily loved the ship playground at Zephyrs on the Swan River.

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4 December 2010

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On Saturday, Emily and Phill went to visit Dad S in hospital. He got out of hospital around lunchtime, so we had a lovely lunch under the pergola together. While Steve was over for lunch we decorated the tree. After a couple of days we decided to move the Christmas tree so it would be out of the way of the open windows.
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3 December 2010

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Today Emily and I visited Dad Shanhun in hospital at St John of God Murdoch. Then we headed up to Mum and Dad Okely’s place to sign over the Barina to new owners, we stayed for tea and Emily enjoyed helping with putting up Christmas decorations and eating the Gingerbread the girls made

6 December 2010

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I love to have my hair all nice and freshly coloured for Christmas. I’ll be honest, I do leave it too long between appointments, but I like to hope that I’m doing my hair a favour in the long run by not colouring it every 6 weeks. Besides my fine, delicate hair doesn’t grow too quickly, so it’s usually a while before it starts to really show the roots. It takes about 3 hours for a half head of foils, a bit of shaping around the face and a bit of a trim. I love having excellent hairdressers who are also friends, so it is a chance to chat too! Thanks for doing a great job Carlie. Thanks to Mum, John and Cait for minding Emily while I got it done!

I’m not exactly scrapping from my original plan so far, but I’m having fun finding the Christmas goodies I’ve got in my stash!