2016-08-28 Spring is here? Netball season (and the Rio Olympics) is almost over :-(

Clara: We have now finished netball season, which I am pretty sad about. I was so excited every week to play, so I can't wait to play in Spring Netball! We lost out last game, and the rain was really hard and windy, but I enjoyed it anyway. The final few minutes were called off because the rain was so bad!

I went to Jazmin's brother's party at Rotary Park - lucky it didn't rain!

Dad and I went out to Yello, and it was the most beautiful day out - loads of people and boats were out and about. Can't wait until Summer! We also did some rock climbing at Trigg!

Aiysha: Our closest game this season - against Hammersley! We finally won by 3, which means we play them again in the quarter finals next week. My shooting was pretty good, and Dad and I have been practicing by going to Kingsway.

I got my Naplan results - I passed them all! Wahoo! No re-takes next year! I am pretty happy about that.

Casey came for a sleepover, and we watched Stick-It to annoy Dad - it worked!

Dad and I also watched the Wallabies second test against NZ - hoping it would be better than last week, but nope\, it was worse! At least it wasn't 40 points!

I loved the Olympics - every sport was awesome - rugby, the gymnastics, handball, badminton. I even woke up in the middle of the night to watch some of it! I'm going to miss it!

C: Got out new robot for our pool - Clara named him Triton!

Brrrr - still cold and wet here, and we've run out of good firewood! Ah man!

A couple of weekends ago we spent the evening up at Two Rocks - it was lovely. We played cricket and kicked the rugby ball around - well, I didn't.


S: I wish Spring would arrive soon!

2016-08-13 Avon Descent, One Big Voice, Interschool Cross Country!

Clara: I was soooo nervous about the Interschool Cross Country. Last year I came second, but me and Daddy have trained hard and went on a few 6km runs together - they were hard, but I really enjoyed them, especially when it was raining. This year there were around 7 schools competing.

The race was at the same place - MacDonald Reserve in Padbury, and Mummy managed to get some time off to watch too! The race started off really fast, perhaps because we only had to run 1km. I managed to make my way through the field and I was second place when we got to half way. I felt good, so I overtook Skye who I competed against in the sprints and field events. I managed to maintain my lead right up until the end, and I won by around 15 metres to spare - I was tired, but pretty relieved that I managed to win this year!

Everyone at Edgewater managed to run well, but we were a man down, so we missed out on some points. We managed to get third as a team, and 5th overall for our school. Last year we came first as a school, which was amazing. Maybe next year.

I was also in the choir for One Big Voice, an event with over 3000 students performing at Perth Arena. It was amazing to sing in such an amazing venue. We were there from 1pm, and we got to practice with the other schools until the show started at 6pm. There were people there from Australia's Got Talent too, one went to Mummy's school! It was a really fun night, and we went to our favourite chinese restaurant after!

Aiysha: I played my first quarter of a game today for 10 weeks! It was against Sorrento, and I scored a couple, but really my shooting was bad.

The Olympics are on in Rio at the moment, and I love them - gymnastics, rugby, and now track and field!

We had a really funny time at the Avon Descent - watching capsizing boats, donuts, going for a big walk, and even throwing the rugby ball in the river for a boat to collect for us! Funny!

C: Is it the end of Winter yet?

S: Looking forward to Summer now!

2016-08-06 Burning Fruit - Best Online Business Award, Burning Fruit Trip - Mandurah

S:  We won our third award this year - Best Online Business by the Joondalup Business Awards! Crazy stuff!

We went on our Burning Fruit Trip to Mandurah - our second there! In total, we had 11 people come along to visit our pad - Julz, Connor, Harrison, Amanda, Andrea, Tammy, Henry, Glen, Daniel, Harry and myself. We even took a boat trip out and went through the canals!

It was great fun, but work was a big crazy! Some of us had a routine by going to the gym and sauna in the mornings too.

C: The girls and I were freezing! We pretty much used up all the firewood, but we had fun watching Dance Moms.

2016-07-20 Sydney / Wollongong

Aiysha: I missed having Daddy around, but we got to watch Dance Moms!

Clara: Daddy rang every night while he was over in Sydney, and we sat around chatting to him on the phone each night! It was fun, but I preferred him to be with us!

C: It was sooo cold while the work was being done in our kitchen, but we survived! The surface was all done, but we missed Daddy!

S: I went over to Sydney to visit Wollongong University iAccelerate building opening - it was an amazing week with the ECU team of Vicki and Darren - lots of fun both day and night! Bondi, meals out, even ended up in a night club one night! Funny!

2018-07-05 Talent Quest and Lightening Carnival!

Clara: I practiced so hard for the Edgewater talent quest - I decided to do my Counting Stars dance, and Aiysha and Daddy helped me put it together. In the end I came second because Xander had a brilliant Rubix cube routine with his sister - it was so funny! I was really happy coming second to that!

We also had the lightening carnival where we played our school team against other schools. We didn't place, but it was really good fun playing with my school friends!

Lockey and I were chosen to do an audition to be announcersat One Big Voice - it was pretty scary, and I am glad I didn't get chose - maybe next year!

2016-07-04 Dance Troupe Comps, School Holidays Start!

Clara: We had our dance comps at Sacred Heart School. Modern, Tap, Jazz (Blues Brothers), Acro - it was great to do them, and we placed second on tap, which was great. I loved our jazz and acro too.

Aiysha: School holidays! Wahoo!

C:  I loved watching Roxy's dancing comp - it was really good, and we ended up being great judges!

Voting - yippee :-|

S:  Well done Roxy - amazing dancing!

Voting - yippee :-|

2016-06-28 I am 14!

Aiysha: I am so excited to be 14 - wow, I'm growing up quick!

I had it all planned out - sleepover on the Tuesday AND the weekend! It was great that everyone I invited - Jess, Violana and Casey, could come to get pampered with me. Then they came over for a sleepover, and we even played charades! We went to Hillary's for dinner and then back to do girls stuff!

My back is slowly getting better, and I'm still keeping up with the exercises and bike riding! It is getting annoying though!

Clara: I love Aiysha's friends - they make me feel so welcome!

C: I can't believe Aiysha is 14!

S: Wowzer, that was quick!

2016-05-29 Party Party Party!

Clara: We ended up in Netball Division 1, which is going to be a challenge. We also went to Inflatable World with the netball team, which was fun! I went rollerskating with Aaliyah and Jasmin which was really fun and Daddy and I tried playing table tennis at Picnic Cove with a dodgy ball - not the easiest and it was also getting dark!

Rollerskating with my friends - FUNNY!

Aiysha: I went to 2 parties in one week this week - cool! At Westcoasters, we decided to go in Division 2 as we were getting beaten easily.

Tact was so exciting this year - I was so happy to be put in team 2, but unfortunately, I hurt my back in the first 2 minutes of the first game, and had to sit out the whole weekend! I was devastated, but I still supported the team. It certainly wasn't the same, and I will make it back next year. We actually won our grade, which was amazing, but I desperately wanted to take part.

C: Division 1 will be tough!

S: Shall we take up table tennis?

2016-05-17 Mothers Day!

 
Aiysha: We had a really cool Mother's Day planned! We took Mum out to a mystery breakfast in the Swan Valley where Clara and I had pancakes, Mum and Dad had a cooked breakfast, and after we went to Bells Rapids where we went rock climbing over the rapids! It was loads of fun!

We lost our second grading game, and it rained again! So annoying, but we played okay. I voted that we stay in Division 1 so we can get better and play more competitive teams - I think we can do it!

Clara: I went to watch Daddy play his first tennis match in his tournament - it didn't go quite as smoothly as it could have - he pulled his groin muscle, he hurt his wrist, but even after all that Daddy still managed to pull back from being 1 set down to win 2 sets to one! That was a close one. Well done Dad!

Played the top team in our league today - we did really well, but lost by 8 goals. It was really competitive, and fun to play!

C: Thanks guys for an awesome Mother's Day!

S: Nice to play some competitive, but not too serious tennis finally! Fun!

2016-05-01 State Champion!

 

Aiysha: After battling with my injured back over the past month, I managed to do 1 week training before States - I was so excited, as I had nothing to lose!

I managed to perform pretty well on all apparatus - I came 1st Vault and Beam, 2nd Bars and Floor, and I ended up being State Champion! It felt amazing, and I was so proud of myself! Thank you everyone who helped me get this, and I must look after myself more carefully from now on!

Clara: Aiysha did amazing!

C: So proud of you Paish!

S: What the!?