Cobbler Creek

Today Rory has a pupil free day, so he is meant to be working on assignments. I don't want him getting to much in the habit of Calvin in this comic strip.

 One of the things he needed to do was collect 10 different seed. It is such a nice day today, it is forecast for 19C and sunny. I thought that it would be nice to go for a walk in the reserve, with Anabelle and Benjamin, and help collect the seeds. We decided to go down into the creek during our walk. It is the first time I have actually walked through parts of the creek in the 13 years we have lived in our home. It looked so beautiful down there and so relaxing walking at Benjamin and Anabelle's speed. I had to take some photos with my phone.

Rory and Benjamin walking ahead.

Rory wishes he could add a water feature to this spot.

Rory would hang out with his friends here last year.

Anabelle insisted on bringing her baby.

Looking at the water.

Our home is up there.

At the top of the creek other side to our home. You can just see our roof through the trees.

I think I will have to go for a walk down there more frequently and enjoy this beautiful land Heavenly Father has blessed me with.
Thanks Rory's teacher for his assignment. Without it I probably wouldn't have ever gone down to the creek.

Random pictures of our family

I thought I might just put up some random photos of the kids.

Charles entertaining Benjamin

Anabelle during Juliet's soccer game

Isiah was bored at the park

Rory as a traffic monitor this week (on the right)

Juliet, Anabelle and Charles at the end of a soccer game

Benjamin - 5 months

Anabelle, Rory, Juliet and Isiah playing lips on the Xbox. We were going to go to the Royal Adelaide show but it was raining. We borrowed Grandad's Xbox 360 and bought some games instead.

Juliet and Charles entertained by a portable DVD player while the boys had Primary Achievement day.

At Carisbrooke Park. Charles and Anabelle are on the swings and Ruthie is pushing them. What a nice cousin.

Benjamin in his capsule.

Anabelle at church

Local Newspaper

We have recently had a lot of rain in Adelaide and as a result some of the soccer pitches have been too wet for playing on. Damien is try to get the council to do something about the drainage on the pitches so that it is safer for the children. Damien and some of our kids had a photo in the local newspaper about this issue.

Here is the photo.
If you want to look at the article here is the link: http://news-review-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/goal-to-improve-pitches/

Book Week 2009 Safari

Last Friday the children had their book week parade. The theme was Book Safari. So we tried to think what they could dress as. Rory didn't take long at all to know what he was going to be.

A tiger. Anabelle is scared of him when he wears this tiger mask.


Isiah was a hunter.
Juliet was a tree with a monkey in it.



Ruth was a ballerina.

Charles was an orange Nephite.

And Anabelle was just Anabelle.