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

Juliet's shiner

My black eye.
This is the story of my black eye. On Saturday, I was carrying a tool. It swung on to another tool. It whacked me on the eye. I was crying. Dad squawked like my arm was chopped off. I was dizzy. I was walking around and around. Dad carried me up to the deck. Dad put me on a chair. Auntie Sarah gave me an ice pack. Nanna and Auntie Ruthie looked after me. That's my story of my black eye.
by Juliet


Juliet's shiner

 Last night we had a bon fire at Nanna's house. Damien had taken the kids up in the afternoon to prepare for it. Benjamin and I stayed home to rest while they were working. While Damien and the kids were helping Juliet was injured. (If someone is going to get injured in our family, Juliet is usually the one.)

The story I have heard is Juliet was carrying Damien's sleg hammer. She went to put it down but it landed on another tool, possibly a spade. The handle popped up and whacked her on the eye. My poor little girl and poor Damien, he felt so bad.
It doesn't look as bad as it did this morning. She could bearly open her eye.

Thankyou to all those that looked after when it happened.

soccer

The soccer session has just finished. It has been an eventful year. We would have not been able to do it without the help of family and friends. Thank you to all those that have helped us out, especially when Benjamin was born. We have watched the kids improve in their soccer skills. Isiah has become quite a good goalie, saving many goals. Juliet has managed to play games without falling on the ground and crying. She showed that she has potential to be a great player if she puts her mind to it. She is not afraid to tackle the boys who have the all. She even managed to score a goal. Rory managed to prove to his coach on the last game that he is a defender. He had a chance to get a goal but boot it over the goals instead. Charles participated in development squad with his Dad as the coach. Damien was the development squad coach and the Chairman of the club.

These are some of the thoughts from the kids regarding the soccer season:

 Isiah: Saving goals and having another player get angry at me for letting a goal in. Fun. It is fun being a defender.

Isiah and Mario (U9 coach)

Juliet:Sad the season ended. I loved it. I'm going to miss soccer. I can't wait until next year to play soccer.

Juliet with her trophy

Rory: Awesome

Rory collecting his trophy from his coach, Nick,
and assistant coach, Peter.

Charles: I like kicking the ball into the goals.

Charles with his certificate and medal for
participating in development squad

Anabelle: I want a lolly pop. (I shouldn't have asked her with a lolly pop in my mouth)

Benjamin: Is just happy he can sleep in his bed on Saturday mornings.

As for Damien and myself, we are happy to have sometime on a Saturday to do work around the home (The garden is in desperate need of attention and we need to put the vege garden in). We are also looking forward to not needing to go out on Tuesday and Thursday evening for practise.

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/

Juliet's goal

We are nearing the end of the soccer season. I look forward to having Saturdays to do things and Damien looks forward to sleeping in. We have had some exciting times watching Rory, Isiah and Juliet play their games on Saturdays. But I wont be missing the cold nights of practise and the games played in the rain.

Last week the boys both had no games and we did think about Juliet missing her game so we could go to the show. when we decided she would play her game we had problems with getting her ready for her game (she is a shocker to get ready for most things). Well she was very happy that she did make it. In the second half of the game Juliet scored her first goal. Well done Juliet.

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.

"Mum! Juliet has hurt herself"

I don't not what it is about dads going away for work but it seems like the disasters aways happen during this time. Last week was one of those weeks but luckily Damien was on his way home and we live so close to family that are great helpers. On Friday night Rory was cooking dinner. He enjoys making up his own dish. Juliet was wanting to help so she ended up stirring for him. Every thing was going okay then I had to go to the lady's room. I heard Juliet screaming but thought it was just the children fighting until Rory yelled out, "Mum! Juliet has hurt herself." She had knocked the pan off the stove and spilt it all down her legs. She had pulled her pants down to her ankles before I got there. She went straight into the bath and I put running water on her legs. Nanna, Grandad and Aunty Sarah were there within minutes to help me. Damien was driving through Pt Augusta on his way home.

Juliet's first concern was that we wouldn't have anything to eat for dinner. Then it was that Rory would be angry with her for spilling his invention. Next came ,"I want my daddy!" Whenever she hurts herself she asks for her daddy. I ended up ringing the ambulance after Nanna suggested it. The ambulance crew were great. They tried to keep her mind of the pain. They gave her a green breathing whistler to use as well. It kind of works like the gas when you are in labour. She really enjoyed it, they had to take it off her at the hospital she wasn't very happy with that. She was still in a lot of pain so they had to give her painkillers through the nose and put a pad with a special gel on it on her burns. Damien got some stuff for us and the came straight to the Lyell McEwin Hospital.

She had to be transferred to the Women's and Children's hospital so the burns unit could treat her. She had some more painkillers through the nose in ER before going to be treated. I'm not sure if it was her nerves or if she could still feel all the pain but she would scream every time they touched the burns to get rid of the dead skin. Her right leg had a burn the size of a 20c piece, the left leg was much worse. She has special pads on her burns that contain silver to heal the healing process and to keep out germs. We have to keep the pads moist so they don't rust. We will be off to the hospital tomorrow so they can see how the burns are looking and to change the dressings.

I am so glad it wasn't at the beginning of the week. I'm even more grateful for the priesthood on the earth and that I have family members who hold it. The priesthood blessing she received was such a comfort to me and helped me through the night.

Thank you so much Nanna, Grandad and Aunty Sarah for dropping what you were doing to help us out.

Juliet was given a trauma bear by the ambulance crew.

Juliet found it very comforting throughout the night.

Juliet's leg covered with the dressings.

2008 random school photos

These are just some photos of the boys 2008 school year. Hope you enjoy.

Isiah's Road Safety Excursion






Juliet bored

Charles wasn't to happy

Sport's Day
Isiah waiting for his turn

Rory watching the races

Juliet running as fast as she could. She is the one in the purple jumper.

Rory representing the comits in a race with a team mate

Isiah with the parachute.

Book Week
I think my kids are a bit obsessed with Star Wars
Juliet Amidala

Charles as Yoda

Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory and Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory (Cody)

Kindy Graduation

Sorry it's been awhile. Damien set this up and was suppose to keep it up to date but seems to be leaving it up to me, and I hate writing(typing) me thoughts. Hence it hasn't been updated in ages.

So much has happened since last blog. We have had Juliet kindy graduation, end of year school activities, school holidays, Christmas, 2 camping trips, Juliet starting school,a heat wave reaching up to 46c, 2 teeth and crawling.

I think it might take more than one blog. Charles won't let me be on the computer that long.I think this one will contain the morning of the Kindy graduation.

Juliet is growing up so fast. The last Tuesday of Kindy she had her graduation. She had her dad, Nanna, Auntie Sarah and eventually her mum and Anabelle there. Damien was good, he got there nice and early for it I believe that he was the first parent there. Me on the other hand saw that morning as a good time to get the Christmas lay-by of.

The boys were at school, Charles was at Child Care and Juliet was at Kindy. I should have had plenty of time to get the laybys and get back. During the toys sales the stores had been storing the laybys at their warehouse and you needed to give them 5 working days notice that you wanted to collect your laybys. I had done this so thought I would have no problem collecting the layby. When I got there they couldn't find all the parcels of one of the laybys. It hadn't been sent with the other parcels. They could replace most of the parcel but not the scooter I had for Charles, the other option was to come back when the missing parcel was there. Option one was the best for me as I would have all 5 children with me when they finally would get it in. Now I just had to get Charles another scooter.

When I finally got out of there I had to go straight to kindy. By the time i got there the graduation was half way through and they had already done Juliet. I felt so bad. What kind of mother would miss her daughters graduation. At least Damien was there. We were able to take photo with her friends. None of which are at her school or aren't at school yet.

Juliet with her certificate

Juliet and Myah. Myah isn't at school yet.

Juliet, Myah, Holly and Jasmine.

Juliet, Holly, Madeline and Monthana.

Juliets school visit

Friday 21st November
Today was an exciting day. Juliet had here first school visit. It almost didn't happen, as there was a planned teacher strike for today. The notes went out yesterday saying there was no school. At about 9pm Ruth called me to tell me that she heard on the news it was cancelled and schools would be open. The boys weren't to impressed but Juliet was happy about it.

There are about 10 children starting school with Juliet. The school has spilt them up for school visits. Juliet has only one other child with her which is a girl she isn't really friends with. Juliet goes to Ruthie's class for the visit though so at least she has someone. Although it was no help today as Ruthie had an appointment so wasn't at school. The other kindy girl wasn't there either, probably because of the strike that was going to occur. The class only ended up with about 6 children in it and that included Juliet.

The teacher, Mrs Woods, asked the only girl there to help Juliet. So Juliet made a new friend. She was there for recess so Rory and his friends went and spent time with her. What a nice brother helping his sister settle in. She doesn't really need to much help around the school though as I was pregnant with her when Rory started school. So she has spent a majority at the school doing drop off and pick ups.

Crossing the road to school.

Looking around the class and deciding what to do.


Making a new friend and settling in.