Well bill has been lucky enough to have between xmas and new year off… so what has he been up too.. well anyone that knows bill will know that he is not a man to sit on his butt and do nothing….. PLUS i think he has been trying to get in as many extra activities as possible before bub arrives…..
Ma, Pa and Jod all headed back to inverell on boxing day so once I got bill to help me with a general tidy up he was off to the races.. He went with Wendy and Paul.. i didn’t go.. Too damm hot !!!…. I think he was expecting it to be better then he got as they were only there for a couple of hours and retreated to the local pub where is was cooler and less crowded…. he ran into Matt and his mates there and made an afternoon of it…. We also had a good friend come visit us from sydney for the night… Snooks has been overseas for the last 2 years (i think) and decided he wanted to head to newey for a spot of fishing and surfing etc…. so the next day bill and snooks headed out at about 5.30am to stocko for a spot of fishing and surfing !!!….
Bill caught a flathead and snooks didn’t do so well…..


that arvo we headed over to Paul and Donna’s again for a BBQ with Wendy and Paul…. Bill took the fish and cooked it up on the bbq…
Since then it has been a combination of golf and more fishing and more surfing for Bill…. He went out yesterday morning again real early with Ben ( i get to sleep in while he’s gone ) and managed to get a salmon…

It’s been that hot down here so most of these activities have been in the early mornign or late arvo so the middle of the day has been reserved for quality time with ME !!!! in the air con….

ahhh !! as do all good things it must come to an end… Back to work on Tuesday !!!!

Well,,,Christmas has come and gone for another year.. This year we spent in our new house in Newcastle as we didn’t want to take the chance if the bub arrived early….
Ma & Pa came down and Jodie and Matt came up from sydney for the day….. although it was quiet is was a very nice day….. Bill, Mum and I headed into the catherderal for the 7.30 church session in the morning which was really nice…. Bill then went for a christmas day surf….. Byt he time we got home dad was chanting at the bit to open some pressies but we had to wait for Jod to arrive…..
Jod and Matt arrived just before 11 am and it was stacks on the mill to get he best seat in the lounge room for pressies……. Bill played santa and the presents were handed out a plenty…..
all in all I think it showed that everyone was good for the year as well all got some really nice stuff.
The baby.. although not here yet also scored pretty well with pressies…… here is a pic of the bubs first pressie

Bill got dragons bar matt for his new bar

This is jod and Matt opening the pressie Mel !!.. thanks mel your stiching pics are unreal

Mum also got a very very nice watch from Pa !!! god love him..

And last but not least dad ended up with 3 new watches for xmas…. He got a really nice proper one from Ma.. and 2 mickey mouse watches from the kids ( these are watches he can were to work adn get covered in tile grount etc etc.. usually $5 from Go Lo )
He was so excited about his watches he could get into them having to resort to using his teeth

we had a beautiful baked xmas lunch that Ma cooked …. and then had a little rest before heading over to Paul and Donna’s place to spend xmas evening with Trev, Jean, Paul, Donna, Wendy, Paul, Dave and Donna’s family…. it was really nice…..
we got home just in time to put in a call to Melanie who was all by herself in Rocky to say Merry Christmas !!!…
so all in all you couldn’t have asked for much more…..