PHOTOS FROM LAUREN'S BIRTHDAY!!

 

Well, after going crazy in the party section of

Spotlight in Darwin, we were all armed

with crazy headgear, leggings, face paint,

gloves, tiaras etc.

 

So, back in Katherine,

 in fine style we made our way into town

and tried to make a statement.

I don't know what kind of statement,

but that's not the point.

 

Unfortunately, there wasn't as many

people in town that particular day,

but we still got some 'looks' and laughs.

 

Here are the girls checking the mail

 

 

And Maddy with her very yellow and large glasses

 

 

And Abbi talking to her workmates at Brumby's

 

 

Her boss was so kind as to give us all come
 chocolate éclairs to devour while we shopped.
Yum.

 

 

Shopping in style!

 

Self Explanatory :)
 

 

Emilee with her Joey in tow.

 

 

Goofing off on an old train in Katherine

 

 

 

All dressed up for church

 

 

Before we dropped the girls off in Darwin,

we went to the Wave Lagoon down

on the esplanade. Great fun!

 

 

Just like a real beach, but without the

Northern Territory Crocs!

 

 

 

 And that will about do it for now.

Hope you enjoyed the pics.

 

And a HUGE thanks for Linet, Jasmin and India

for coming and making Lauren's birthday so

special and adding another 3 females

to our household to add to the bedlam

already present here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An update on the weather

 

The water level ended up reaching

just over 13m so we've had our

rain excitement for the year now.

 

 

 

 

 

MORE JOEY CUTENESS!

 

 

I have so many pictures I'd like to post as so much has been

going on lately, so I'll start with some of 'Star'.

 

Sometimes, she 'helps out' with Emilee's Maths!

She needs to use the calculator tho.

 

 

Other times, she just likes to look cute.

Seeing she really is going to be a Star,

(she's on Facebook and is soon to be in

Jo's new recipe book),

she's working on melting everyone's heart.

Apart from the times when she's scratching you with

her deadly paws because she wants to get down.

Yes, she can hop now!

 

And, much to Emilee's horror (when she finds out I've

posted this picture), here is a lovely photo

taken by Linet when she was here.

 

 

 

On to other things.......

 

I was able to go with Dave out to Timber Creek last week

on a routine run that turned out pretty exciting.

We got stopped at a creek waiting for it to go down,

for 2 hours, along with a bunch of others.

 Trucks, locals, tourists and yes.....idiots!! 

 

The picture below made it to the Northern Territory News.

I took a video of this idiot crossing the flooded bridge

and nearly getting swept away in the process.

 

 

 

We were able to get across once it was down to just under a metre.

Along the way we saw some beautiful scenery.

There were some awesome red cliffs with waterfalls

cascading over them. Wow!

 

At the roadhouse at Timber Creek, the owner made us

a burger with the lot for our long journey home.

 

We went through a lot of water on the way home

and some torrential rain, but it was great.

I only took just over 400 photos!

 

 

 

Enough about the weather, and onto

Lauren's 18th Birthday!

 

With 3 extra teenagers in the house, and girls at that,

life was very crazy, noisy, and giggly for a week!

 

Our girls often sit on the end of our bed

(or on it) to chat to us at night, but now there was a crowd!

 

 

Dave didn't mind so much as he now had 3 extra slaves!

Vegemite toast and a glass of water was ordered.

Well.....that meant a few cups of water and

toast cut into tiny pieces, each on their own

little piece of paper towel!

 

 

And this was only the beginning of craziness. All in all, we had

a great time as you will see with my next post,

when I sort out the 600+ photos took of Lauren's Bday week!

DON'T GO AWAY!

WATCH THIS SPACE!

MUCH MORE CRAZINESS

TO COME SOON!

 

Oh, and this is too cute to miss

 

 

Amen!!