Perth {Home}

We are here again!

J is helping out a builder he used to work for by doing a job and well given it is school holidays it made more sense to 'hide out' in Perth.

We arrived on the Friday and spent the night with Jamie, Peta & little Sadie.  It was a great night, even if Sadie decided to have no sleep all day and a lot of the night {that is why they make babies cute},  Saturday we pottered around for the morning and then headed to Applecross for a picnic lunch, was a beautiful day.

 

Next stop was Mum & Dad's place, where we took our standard spot on the 'lawn'.

Time flew by the first few days as we caught up with a few people and Thursday I decided to take the kids to the Dinosaur Exhibition at the Museum of Western Australia.  We ended up with their cousins joining us.  I must have been crazy, four kids, just me on a train, during holidays to the city!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all survived and the kids all loved it.

The weekend saw Easter, which meant more catching up with people we had yet to see {and trust me we still missed seeing loads of people we would have love to have caught up with}.  Easter Monday I came down with the dreaded lurgy which threw out a lot of plans for the week.

Wednesday we headed back to Bunbury as Kyla needed to go to the Dentist again, stupidly I got the appointment time wrong so we drove all that way for nothing.  Well not really nothing, we had a lovely evening at Aunty Di's place {she even cooked, with her still broken foot} and then a morning tea with Nana Pat & Pop before trekking back to Perth.

The kids had a sleep over at Alison's with the girls that same night, which they LOVED.  Friday I bummed around the house while the smalls and J where out.  And we spent ANZAC Day dinner at the Parkerville with the family.  It was hard all of us getting together for a meal and Mum not being there with us, we all felt it.

We blinked and the weekend had passed us by again, I really did feel like nothing was really achieved!

Monday Alison's girls had a pupil free day, so we decided to head to Kings Park.  Even though the weather wasn't the best {and most of us forgot jumpers} the kids all had a wonderful time.  It was nice to just hangout for the day before we all headed in our own directions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday we ran around and finalised everything we needed to do.  Including packing somethings into our newly purchased sea container {yes that means we are now the proud owners of two 20ft containers,

Then it was time to say goodbye, this time for a larger distance and an undetermined amount of time.

Donnybrook {Visiting & Working}

Another night in Perth after our overseas holiday and before we left we got to go meet Sadie who made her arrival last week. She was tiny, soft, squishy and so very cute.

We made it back to Donnybrook in reasonable time, not a sole was there so we set up the camper again and started on the dreaded holiday washing.  There is always something unrelaxing about coming home from holidays, even without a house there is stuff that has to be done.

A few relaxing days before we started school.  Trip for ice-cream and craft for the kids but poor Justin started right back into work.

 

 

The rest of February saw work, school, heaps of baking/cooking, gardening and trying to find our rhythm again. Before we knew it March had arrived and not much had changed {except for Kyla's age - which is a separate post}, well other than my Aunty breaking a bone in her foot! We had Sunday drives with lovely lunches or sometimes just a drive to take a look around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We did spend one of our driving Sunday's out looking at Gnomesville, Wellington Dam and spots along the Collie River.  We even stopped in at a space called Honeymoon Pool where I camped with my family as a child, it looks almost exactly the same as it did then

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 April and we've been back for more than a month!

Justin spent sometime down in Manjimup doing some work, picking potatos {the biggest I've ever seen & the tastiest) and also some building. We had more school, more baking, the kids had a trip to the dentist and we had a lovely dinner with Nana Pat & Pop. The kids and I also had a fabulous time with different experiments!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Before we knew it, it was time to hit the road again {all be it a short trip}.  Everything was sorted & repacked, the camper closed up, attached to the car & off we went again.