The Three Sisters

What on earth posses someone to willingly go to Katoomba in the middle of winter? Well Christmas in July of course.  We stayed at The Carrington hotel and enjoyed their Yulefest celebration.  If you love old buildings with authentic creaky floors, stair cases and an old fashioned lift - with the sliding gate door, this place is for you.  It had so much character.
We couldn't book into our room until 2pm so we left home early on Saturday morning and took the girls to see The Three Sisters. No surprisingly they weren't really interested, other than the walk we took on one of the trails. 

They did however, like Scenic World, riding the Skyway and Cableway and don't forget the Railway.  The girls loved running along the Walkway and squeezing between the trees in the board walk. 

Here's some of my favourite pics of the weekend.

The Three Sisters

Zoe & Emily at the look out

Emily squeezing between the trees - because you just do in fur!

Zoe in her squeezing between the trees tiara!

Point 2 is the reason for this photo.

My family.  Emily, Zoe and Robert ready on the Railway

Cheers,
Donna

Happy Birthday Emily!

My big girl turned 6 on the 6th.  She celebrated with a party at Hungry Jacks.  Not my first choice of venue, but, Em chose it, and when you invite an entire class of kids, it becomes an affordable and stress free day!

Here's the cards I made her.  I have used some of the wrapping paper from her pressies, so it coordinated nicely.

I was inspired by the very talented Dawn Griffith with her multi panel card.

Here's a side view to get another look.  I think this could become a new favourite of mine.  :)

Cheers,

Donna

Card Recipe

Card stock: Whisper White,Mellon Mambo,Perfect Plumb

Other: Wrapping paper, Big Shot, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Die, Snail Adhesive

Welcome Rebecca

This is a photo of my girls and their new baby cousin Rebecca. You forget how small and floppy new borns are, and anyone who has held on knows you always seem to rock side to side and pat them... Why? Who knows, but everyone seems to do it!

So a big congratulations to my brother Andrew, his super-wife Nicole and their kids, Mikaela, Matthew and Thomas on the safe and healthy arrival of Rebecca Lilly.

Here is the card we gave them. It was one I made a few months ago so you may have already seen it. I always intended on giving this card if the baby was a girl.

Cheers,
Donna

Card Recipe
Check out this post for card details.

December Rundown

2nd December

The girls had their Christmas concert at daycare. Lots of singing and dancing by the kids, and laughter and tears of laughter from the parents. Did we take photos, yes, are they any good, no! Too much jumping around and once the kids are in costume, you can't tell who's who. It was great fun though.

4th December

Happy 6th Birthday Kristian. Krissy had a visit from Spiderman at his party, and both girls were trashed afterwards. They had a great time. I (of course) made Krissy a card, but alas, didn't take a photo of it!

6th December

Happy 6th Birthday Matthew. Our nephew Matty gets so excited when he gets pressies in the post, so we posted his pressie and card down to him. Needless to say, another card with no photo.

7th December

Happy Birthday Andrew. My brother and his family live 1 1/2 hours down the coast, so i not only posted his son's card and pressie (see above), but his as well. And as I was on a roll, so no photo of the card!

9th December

As you may have read in previous posts, Emily does Cheerleading, and the end of the year concert is always a treat. This year was awesome. It was held at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre. Because of the proper theater seating (each row behind higher than the one in front), everyone could see each performance. Whilst I have no photo's of the concert itself (no flash photography allowed).

10th December

Emily had her Daycare graduation. Wow! When did she grow up! This photo was taken mid year when school photos were taken, but it's just toooo cute to not show you.

25th December

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! We had the family at our place this year. For lunch there were 9 adults and 3 kids. By dinner, Rob's family had left (5 adults and 1 child) and my brothers family arrived (2 adults and 3 kids). Although it was awesome day, it was not a quiet one, not was that night with our house sleeping 6 adults and 5 kids!

Happy Birthday Alissa. My girlfriend Alissa shares her birthday with the little baby Jesus (same day - different years). Of all my friends, hers is the one I never forget. What I did forget, was to post her birthday card. Have I done it yet? No, it's still in my craft room. Sorry :(

26th December

Peace - well sort of! Mum and Dad headed home and Andrew, Nicole and the kids headed off with them for a few days 'holidays'!

27th December

Up to mum and dads for the day - because we hadn't seen enough of them over the last day and a half!

31st December

Caught up on tome TV watching, missed the early fire works on TV and knew there was no way I'd make it to midnight, so toddled off to bet and was fast asleep by 10pm. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Cheers,

Donna