FHE with Playdough

For Family Home Evening tonight (just getting in before the week ends), we played a game about how choosing the right makes us happy and making bad choices makes us sad. After that we played with playdough and had mentos lollies for our treat.

 Ella's attempt at a smile

 Faith and Mums Dog  and 2 butterflies

 Ella drawing on unused Christmas cards, which is her favourite thing to do at the moment. Quite cute to watch her doing 'peetchers'...except tonight when I found she's drawn on the wall by the table.

 Between drawing on the wall and her body, she does get quite a lot on the paper too.

And she appears to favour her left hand. Not sure if I should train her to use right?

K, this is short as cause my computer is working slower than you could ever imagine. I think it's overloaded with too many home movies. Will have to get another hardrive or something before I attempt this again :)

Puzzles and Towers

Tonight Joe went out to a seminary meeting and the girls were not happy about their Dad leaving. To distract them we built towers and did animal puzzles. 

That's Faith in the middle of shouting 'cheese'. Most of her photos these days look like this!

Ella only lasted about 10 minutes and then she went off to bed. And Faith decided that since she was told it was nearly bed time she better actually eat some of her dinner which sat untouched...yummy chicken and mushroom pie, one of her favourites.

The Royal Easter Show

On Friday Faith and I went out on a Mummy/Daughter date to the Easter show with Mac and Aunty Nae.

Teacups, always a favourite for these 2

Faith desperately wanted to go on a ride like this at Movie World last year but she was too short. It seems that between then and now she's developed a bit of fear for things that she's unsure about. Eventually she got on....and loved it at first, but after the first few drops the smile disappeared and was replaced by panic (trying not to scream for help!)

When we first got there this was all Faith wanted to go on. A train that goes around a little oval track.....so fun!!!!

It was soooo cool. Faith and Mac went on lots of the Cookie Bear rides together.

Once again there was lots of farm animals that we could walk right up to and pat (or just look at!)

Faith was game enough to reach out for a pat

This was a big Alaskan Malamute which reminded us of Skye. His name was Cola.

There was a strong man competition that was fun to watch. The big men had to lift heavy weights. We wondered if Dad and Uncle Stan could compete at something like that? 

Wow Mac, your muscles are MASSIVE!

We also got to go to the Polkadots show. Faith sat still for the entire show and didn't take her eyes off the stage for a second. Big Polkadots fan!!!! And Mac was quite taken by Koopa and Doobie Wop (the robot)

Faith in Polkadot Heaven

Mac with his new bestie

And his other new bestie

We're already looking forward to going to the Easter Show again next year!

Butterfly Creek

About 2 weeks ago we went to Butterfly Creek. We got to see crocodiles and butterflies and lots of farm animals too.

Ella stop trying to eat the bunny!

Faith is a little bit scared of animals (maybe she picks up on her Mum's fears), but Mac and Shylah were much more confident.

We bought about 4 bags of food for the kids to feed the animals and I think Joe and Stan had to do most of it.

Getting ready for our train ride.

A 'Mac' sandwich

Cuzzie Mac's 3rd Birthday

A few weekends ago it was cuzzie Mac's 3rd birthday. We had been looking forward to his party for ages so it was so exciting when the day finally arrived. He had a 'Cars' birthday with a 'cars' bouncy castle and old Mcdonald's farm. It was so fun. 

This is the cake that Aunty Nae made. It was so cool and yum.

We had lots of yummy food like pizza, chicken nuggets, popcorn and biscuits.

Mum and Ella Bellie Butt Butt

For some reason Mac didn't have his t-shirt on for the whole party. Not sure why