2010-04-26 Grandma Sik & Grandpa Brian

Aiysha: Before Grandma and Grandpa arrived, Daddy took me windsurfing, and I loved it! Well, the first time I did. The second time I felt it was a little bit difficult, and got frustrated. But I'm going to try again next year, and I cannot wait!

The week after Grandma Sue and Grandpa Arthur left, we had the biggest storm ever! There were hailstones the size of tennis balls, and our games room was completely destroyed! I helped move everything out, and Daddy did not get home until 9.30 as the trains broke down. It was very exciting, but a little scary too! Mummy and Daddy say we might get a new games room! I hope so.

It was so nice to see Grandma and Grandpa again! They were really happy, and we had lots of laughs. Daddy and Mummy took them all around. In the first week, Daddy took them to Dunsborough to stay in Daddy's bosses place. They stayed for 3 days. He also took them on lots of walks along the beach, and we went on several walks with them - some of them very windy on Mullalloo!

Grandad did lots of jobs round the house like painting and gardening - why do all Grandpas do jobs round the house when Daddy does not? Daddy needs to pull his socks up!

On the day that Grandma and Grandad left, I made up a cool competition in the garden, consisting of catching, throwing and hoops! I also did a presentation of prizes! It was so funny.

Clara: I was really scared in the storm. But I was brave. I am trying to be a big girl in my bed, but sometimes I have accidents, but I am getting better.

C: The storm was crazy! The rain was so heavy, and the wind was very scary! Aiysha was amazing helping get all the things in from the games room. Can't wait for a new one though! It is about time!

S: We had a great time - saw 2 awesome games - Dockers beat Geelong in the last minute, and Western Force beat Crusaders in the last minute! Amazing! Dunsborough was soo nice - walks, lighthouse, lovely food (even a curry!), and 1-1 at Scrabble. A few runs along the beach too!

Back in Perth, we did lots of walks (Iluka, Pinnaroo, Mullalloo), went for some Dim Sum, made some lovely dinners, and watched some great movies - Kill Bill (Dunsborough), Pursuit of Happyness, and even 300! Grandad liked the violent genre for some reason.

Best holiday yet!

2010-03-27 Grandma Sue, Grandpa Arthur and Auntie Lizzie!

Aiysha: It was soooo nice having the Lyonses around for such a long time! Lizzie came first, well for one night, and then they all were here!

Apart from my special dinner out at Leapfrog Cafe where I had the yummiest pizza and chips, we had such a great time in the pool, playing games, dancing, performing, going on trips and going to the beach!

We all went down to Margaret River, well, apart from Daddy. It was so much fun, and I also ate a bit of chocolate. I loved the house we stayed in, as it had a trampoline which we went on lots! I also loved the car we drove down in, since it was big. I hope we have a big car one day...

Grandma did loads of things with me, and helped me with my learning. Grandpa did lots of jobs round the house like putting up a new washing line, cutting up lots of branches Daddy was cutting down, and also did some amazing lights in our frog house!

I also went down to watch Daddy play some touch rugby at Northern which was nice. Josh came down one day, but I preferred to watch Daddy play and cheer him on in the final! Unfortunately, he lost it 10-9 to a really good team. Maybe next year Daddy! Well played!

We did loads of surfing aswell with Auntie Lizzie, and Auntie Lizzie even went windsurfing! Wow, she is brave! She did really well too! May be I will try it some time!

Clara: I had the best birthday party ever! I had a huge cake, lots of presents, and ate loads of naughty things! Thank you everyone for making my day so special! I am so glad you visited!

I love our new lights in the frog house. It is fun to look out and see what is going on there! Thank you Grandpa! I also loved the Margaret River house - I miss it so much!

C: It was so nice having everyone here! I will miss you sooo much! Thanks for another great visit!

S: Stephen Botchjob wasn't too happy at all with Arthur - he seemed to do all the jobs right!

2010-01-02 It is 2010!

Aiysha: What a funny New Years Eve we had! We decided to go camping near Mundering Wier, and it was so much fun! We visited the big dam which give Perth all of its water, and we stayed at a great campsite which was almost empty!

We asked the nice lady if we could go to another part of the campsite where there were no people, and she sent us next to the cinema! Such a shame there we no movies on, but we had so much fun. We made our barbecue, set up our tent, and played happy families all night while 2 Kangaroos jumped around chasing each other all night. I have no idea what they were doing, but Mummy and Daddy kept on sniggering.

We saw the longest shooting start - just kept going and going! Amazing, first one I have seen!

We went for a little walk on the way back home, which was pretty hot, but nice. When we got back, we decided to go for a BBQ up in Yanchep until the evening, and see all the kangaroos come out - it was very funny!

Clara: Mummy brought out the chocolate bavarian cake for our desert when we went camping, and it was lovely! I stayed up really late, and it was so exciting! I love camping!

I'm looking forward to all our visitors!

C: Lucky we moved away from those noisy campers!

S: An amazing, amazing way to spend New Years Eve. Possibly the best I've ever had!

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!