2015-09-06 Champion Girl, Fathers Day at the Zoo!

Clara: I have had such a fun year, and perhaps the best year so far! I not only did well at Naplan, I trained really hard to try and win my events all year - and I managed to do it - I managed to win cross country, long throw, and long jump. On the Faction Carnival day, I also managed to win my race, the year relay and the grand relay! It was such a fun day!

Batavia managed to win the carnival, and I was Champion Girl, with Aiva Croot as runner up, which was really cool!

On Father's Day, we started off feeding Smokey with strawberries. Then we had pancakes, and then went to Perth Zoo! It was such a fun day, and we saw so many animals! Some strange things happened too, like we watched one tortoise push another one round and around, mice running on a spinning wheel and getting thrown off, water rats and finding out about all the endangered species. It's pretty scary how much we are blamed for extinction!

It was a really fun day!

Aiysha: The zoo was cool! We also had time to do some gymnastics! We gave Dad a few Dime bars too, which I hope to steal.

I spent all day trying to trip and push Dad into puddles, but in the end, Dad made me step into the deepest puddle, which I was not happy with. It was funny though.

At the Faction Carnival, I volunteered to help out, and I watched all of Clara's events - she was great! I loved helping all the little kids too!

C: What a fun day at the Zoo, and well done Roxy Roo at the Faction Carnival! It was great to see!

S: The meerkats were cool! The tortoises going round and round were the best though! Great running Clogger Rocker!

District32 SME Spectacular - what a night!

2015-09-01 Judges Invitational, Naplan The New Office!

Aiysha: I was so happy with how my first comp since my back injury went! All I was hoping was to get through the competition without getting injured. I opted not to do my bars, and only concentrate on vault, beam and floor.

My vault went okay I thought, but when it came to beam I fell off on my spin, which was really disappointing as I nailed that in training. I was really proud of my floor routine though, even though I had hardly any practice compared to the other girls. I didn't expect to place at all, but when they announced the results, I got 6th on vault and 5th on floor! I couldn't believe it! If I had not fallen off beam, I would have placed too! I was so happy, and I was beaming all night!

I had my final game of netball on Saturday, and we'd only really had 10 minutes training in the last 4 weeks - for one reason after another, training kept on getting cancelled. I was really disappointed in the game, and our coach didn't even turn up to watch the game, which was worse than losing the game, as it made me very angry after all the training we'd done all year.

I ALMOST let it overshadow my gymnastics, but didn't as it wasn't my fault. Next year will be better, and I can concentrate on my gymnastics now. I can't wait, as I am on a mission!

Clara: My final netball game went well - I shot 4 goals, and ran like anything! I got player of the game too! I really enjoyed this season with Rebels, and hope there is a Spring netball team.

My Naplan results came through this week - wow! I could not believe it! I got top in every category - no one expected that, least of all me! I was pretty happy. Mummy and I tried to play a trick on Daddy showing him Aiysha's results, but he didn't fall for it. Mummy and Daddy was amazed!

C: Our pool is finally settled down now and we just have to get rid of the leeching! Other than that, we're ready for Summer!

Well done Roxy and Paish! We're so proud! If only you were as good at tidying your rooms, Aiysha!

S: Well, it took a 10 months, but we've finally moved into our own Burning Fruit office! We've been through so much to get this far, and feel this is going to be so exciting!

Awesome performances Roxy and Paish! If only you were as good at moving your plates to the dishwasher!

2015-08-29 Port Denison & Dance Mums!

Clara: Dad has taken Burning Fruit up to Port Denison! WAHOO!

I will miss him, but we will get to watch Dance Mums!

Aiysha: Dance Mums, and no one is telling me to do my exercises every day!

C: Even though I love Dance Mums, I do miss the Doodis...

S: Port Denison was awesome fun! We did a heap of work on our website, and we also did some fishing, kerbie, cricket, running, walking and had a real laugh in the evening watching TV, games and some pretty decent food!

When we get back, we'll be in our office! Wowzer...

2015-08-02 Winners, Losers and Pool!

Aiysha: At the start of the weekend we said we would try and make it 3 wins out of 3 for our netball and basketball games. Unfortunately, I lost my netball game by 3 points - BUT, I did an amazing shot leaning to get a rebound out of court and I shot it straight in! I really enjoyed the game, but was very disappointed that we lost.

I am back at full training at gym now, and things are coming back to me pretty quickly now.

Clara: I did some great shooting at netball, and we beat a team that smashed us early in the season - we beat them 13-5! We were really excited about the win!

C: We are finally re-surfacing our pool! We drained the water out today. We also did some renovations to the pool house - Arthur would be proud!

S: Won our second game of the season by 1 point again! It was hard work, but a really satisfying result. My shooting was not great...oh dear...

Dad is now out of hospital - great! Mum is settling into her new home - cool!