SO MUCH TO DO...SO LITTLE TIME...AND ADD IN SOME SICKIE BUGS!

This has been our life for the past couple of weeks. I realized that I haven't updated the blog in so long - this is probably the longest I have ever gone. So yes, we are still alive - just barely!! LOL!!

We have done so much in the past few weeks, so I will share with you the highlights. Last week was spend mostly with sick kids. Fevers that only lasted about 8 hours and colds and coughs. Yuck!! Rylee is still hanging on to her cold, not sleeping, and playing with her ears, -so she gets a trip to the doctor this afternoon. Hopefully they can give me something to give her because we are getting on an airplane next week for a little family vacation to the Gold Coast.

So last weekend in between sick kids Kevin and I actually got to go on a date! We went to see Chronicles of Narnia Prince Capsian - I really liked it. However, I am going to need to read that book one more time to see what I missed. It has been a while. We had the babysitter come at 7:00 and right before she arrived we looked at the movie times - the movie didn't start until 8:45. We had some time to kill. Which normally wouldn't be a big deal - but is here when nothing is opened past 6:00 UGH!!! We did find a Baskin Robbins and had a little ice cream - yummo!!

Then Saturday was our really busy day - one thing after another. Kev played in a basketball tournament with the Stake. They rented out an entire center and played 3 on 3 basketball. We did not go because Cooper had a soccer game. I bundled up the kids and we headed to the soccer fields at 8:00 am. It was so cold. We came back chilled to the bone. I made us all hot chocolate and the kids had nice warm baths - this helped. However, didn't help the colds and coughs.

When Kev got back we headed over to the preschool for Family Fun Day. It was little carnival fundraiser. I had volunteered to help out at the biscuit decorating/apple slinky stall. I wasn't sure what an apple slinky was - but I soon learned the process. You use this contraption and out comes a coreless, slinky apple. Really, what a fun toy!!

The kids had fun jumping in the blow up castle. Madi got her hair sprayed another color and opted for her arm to be painted instead of her face - then much to our amazement she AND COOPER got a tattoo (we were only amazed that Coop wanted one - this never happens). We had fun looking at all the art work Cooper has been doing and enjoyed some yummy cake that Kev purchased. I was doing biscuit decorating and kept calling the biscuits cookies and the lollies candies - hopefully the kids weren't to confused. It was a fun afternoon.

We then headed home to get ready for some of Kev's work friends to come over for dinner. They have all just arrived here in Australia so Kev invited them over. We had everyone bring something and had a very eclectic meal - 7 layer dip, Japanese sushi and chicken, and Indian curry. It was all delicious!

However, we then had a miserable night with a sick baby. Not much sleep and the girls all stayed home from Church to rest. Originally we had Madi stay home because she had a cough - however, about half way through Church time she had a fever too.

By Tuesday Madi was better and it was a good thing for her too because it was her first Athletic Carnival at school. After dropping Cooper off at school Rylee and I went to see what it was all about. It was pretty windy and Rylee still had her cold so we only stayed until after morning tea. I wasn't sure what it was all about - this is our first after all - apparently it was to last all day. All the kids are divided up into four houses - Madi was in Sturt and had to wear something yellow. They had the little kids run races and then do novelty things like sack races and crab crawl. They also had a race for the brothers and sisters - so I had Rylee run in it. As you can imagine she was lucky last - also by far the youngest competitor. They also had the moms race. So I took a stab at it. Madi's teacher held Rylee for me - Madi said I did okay even though I finished in the middle. Rylee and I stayed and watched Madi run in her heat and then we stayed until her sack race was over. I spent most of my time walking behind Rylee and she wandered around. What a fun day!

A few of the highlights from the last couple of weeks. We have big plans for Independence Day tomorrow - so watch for that post! Also we can't wait for our trip to the Gold Coast. We are counting down the days to Dream World and Sea World!!