2009-12-25 Christmas Day

Aiysha: What a day!

2009-12-24 Merry Christmas Everyone!

Aiysha: We're a strange family...



Things we got up to over the last week:

Went out to McDonalds before we drove around looking at everyone's lights. That was so much fun - some were quite amazing, and even had music! Lauren spent the day with us too, which was excellent. I went to Whitfords water slides with Lauren too on another day - that was brilliant!

We went down to Matilda Bay today, caught jellies! Daddy even windsurfed between 2 dolphins! Amazing!

I can't wait for Christmas Day! I have set out all mine and Cloggers certficates, my reports, and put the treats out for all the reindeers and Santa. They're going to love it!

Merry Christmas everyone!

2009-12-11 Hip Hop Champ Just Like Dad!

Aiysha: I won my dance class hip hop competition at school! I was the best in the class out of 50 children, and I had to perform in from of everyone with the best boy who was Ellis! I was so proud, and I practiced at home so much for Mummy and Daddy, but I never thought I would win it!

I also went to a grown ups party - Lauren and Ash from next door are leaving, and stayed the latest I have ever stayed up - 1am! Daddy stayed with me, as he wanted to watch the rugby. We dressed up like 'hippies', so we had lots of flower stuff on, painted faces, and Daddy has his waistcoat and our small guitar. It was really funny. While we were there, we watched the Wannaroo Show fireworks! It was so nice.

Danielle's Mum rang up for an emergency, and asked if we could have Danielle for the night, and I was so excited! We had so much fun, and we had a lovely dinner, and played loads of games. Daddy read us a crazy Mr Men story, and Mummy made us cakes! It was brilliant!

We also had our school disco, but it was too hot to dance so I played outside with Clog and my friends.

Cloggy: We had Ella round for the day this week as her mum was in hospital, and it was so much fun!

I also had my swimming lesson, and I am swimming without floats, and learning how to keep my head above water! I am so excited, and love it!

C: I am on holiday, but feel as busy as ever! It's crazy! I love spending time with the girls though! So proud of them with their dancing and swimming!

S: Finally back from hamstring injury, played 2 nights this week, and my leg was fine! So nice to be back playing!

2009-11-25 Uncool Dave!

Aiysha: I was sooooo excited about Uncle Dave visiting, and it was a brilliant 2 weeks! Pretty much as soon as he got here, we started playing top trumps, and it was sooo much fun! I got better and better, and he caught me a couple of times arranging the cards - boo! I managed to remember all the different types of cards, and how good they all are.

Dave also brought some really cool helicopters which really fly! They are sooo funny, and Lauren and I loved playing with them in the mornings when she comes round.

Whenever Daddy had rugby training, Uncle Dave would take me and we'd play some games - it was great. He even allowed me to take some picture with his camera, which was so cool. He also came to watch me swim, and also watched my gymnastics class aswell. After one gym session, Uncle Dave and Daddy took me to lunch in the market - I had chips, and the boys had noodles as usual...

One cool evening, we all went to Botanical Golf, and although I was not allowed to play mini-golf, I explored the forest with Uncle Dave, and we had lovely pizzas. Uncle Dave loved the chips - they were the nicest he's ever had he said.

Uncle Dave and Daddy had a photo competition because they had the same camera. They asked me to judge which photos were the best in their action, tree, cactus and portrait categories. For most of them, I chose the same photos as Mummy, which was funny! Uncle Dave won the competition - boo!

It was so great having Uncle Dave around. I got up specially at 3am to say goodbye to him, and I was very sad. I hope he comes to visit us again soon!

Lauren came over for a sleepover just before Uncle Dave arrived - the first with anyone in her class, and we did some special things like get pizza, watch Hanna Montana, and stay up talking. Mummy took us strawberry picking the next day (even though we got there too early), and then to Rotary Park. It was great fun, and I loved Lauren coming round.

Dr Roxo: I love Uncle Dave - we were buddies! I kept on giving him kisses everywhere, even when he was leaving in the car! He was so funny. I was very sad when he left, and the day after he left I closed the door for him as I thought he was sleeping in. Then Daddy told me he has flown away, which made me sad, but he also said we were going to talk to him soon, and I said "Yesssssss!". He taught me to call Daddy "Stevie Wee Wee". Daddy was not happy. We also did rugby tackle, and watched lots of TV together.

C: Dave was the perfect guest once again! Amazing with the kids, so helpful around the house, and was funny! Thanks Dave!

S: What a fantastic couple of weeks! Not only did I not have to go to work, we did so much stuff it was amazing!

We finished GOW2, did loads of fitness, played tennis, did body boarding, went camping, did Jacobs Ladder, went to Little Creatures, went for Dim Sum, touch rugby, and watched Metalocalypse!

We tried to go canoeing, but the day we chose was awful! Instead we went body boarding in gale force winds which was so funny, but we didn't last long.

Camping at Laine Poole was amazing. We set off a little late, as it took 3 hours to get to our camp site. Luckily, on the way we bought some firewood, paper and matches. If we didn't, we would not have been able to cook dinner in the barbecue pits! We set up our tent, then went for our hike. We got lost on the way since the signs changed - little did we know we were looking at the wrong signs. Night time was amazing, only forest sounds, and there was no one around! We did some cool pictures by writing people's names using a torch - we forgot to do Claire, and she was not happy.

Our fitness sessions went from Neil Hawkins Park, to runs on the beach, to Emerald Park, to Jacobs Ladder, to our hiking. It was great.

The Touch Rugby State Championships were on, which we won again. Unfortunately, I had a hamstring problem, and only played 2 games, including the final which I scored a try. Leading up to the tournament, I was frantically seeing a physio to get it fixed, which was rather frustrating for both Dave and I!

Kings Park was lovely when we went, and I tried to take Dave to the nicest coffee place in Perth - Rosso, but it only just closed before we got there! How annoying!

Our photo competition was funny. I struggled with the action and portrait photos. Claire was the judge, and discounted a lot of mine 'arty' shots as she thought they were not so good. Shame on her!

GOW3 is not out until 2010! We struggled to find other games (Okami, Shadow of the Colossus), but suppose will have to wait until it comes out next year on PS3.

On Dave's last day, we went to Mullaloo on a beautifully hot calm day. We went for a run, and then did some body surfing and boarding. It was amazing. Also went for Dim Sum, and then had a lovely sweet sauce chicken dinner. We tried to go for a swim, but the pool had no chlorine so we had to come out. Boo!

Can't wait for you to visit again Dave! We have so much to do!