Australian Father's Day

So Australia has it's own father's day.  They don't celebrate it in June, when America does, but in September, September 1st to be exact.  The girls had been making cool presents for Cory at school and were really excited to give them to him.  They also kept making tons of cards at home for him also.  They could hardly wait for the day to just spoil their dad.

I also decided to do the super cheesy, trendy thing of getting a picture of each of the kids holding the letters, D-A-D.  I thought that I had better do it this year since I have three kids for three letters.  Perfect, and I'm hoping that that still won't be the case next September when Father's day rolls around again....but we'll see.  Anyways, the photo shoot was so fun, my friend Ali, was doing it with her kids too.  So we had lots of fun trying to get good smiles and happy faces out of all the kids.  And they were seriously some of the best photos my kids have ever taken.

Get ready to be overloaded, we're going to see with how many different poses we can spell dad.  :)

There's one...

There's two...

There's three...

There's four...

There's five...

There's six...

There's seven...and we ran out of Lily "D's" So here are some just plain "AD's"

There's one...

There's two...

And there's three...now we just have a couple "A's" left...

 And here are the ones we actually put together for dad.  :)

Here are some of the things that the girls made for Dad at school for Father's day.

How great is all these cute things they made?

These girls sure do love their dad!  Will does too, he just shows it differently!  ;)

I sure do love him too!  I'm very glad that he is the father of my children!  I couldn't ask for a better man to do the job!  WE love you, Dad Cory!  :)

Random Bits of Life

Not too much has been happening for us down under lately.  We are all just so ready for Spring and Summer!  Here are just a few of the random things that have been going on lately.

I got a haircut.  A huge hair cut.  My long hair was driving me crazy, and I just wanted to go to my shoulders, but this is what happened.  And that's alright!  Always fun to try new things.  :)

 We went to our first "hangi" as a family.  So the Maori's usually bury the meat and coals in the ground, but they have discovered this new way of cooking the meat and vegetables which is easier than burying it, they do it in a keg.  I am a little embarrassed to say that this was the first time in all my 30 years that I had ever seen a keg!

 On nice days, we still do a lot of park playing.  :)

 There is a pay phone outside of the library that Will just loves!

 The girls are still loving school!  Here is a lovely necklace and headband Ava made at kindy out of noodles.

 The kids always love to stop and play on the way back to the car when coming home from school.

 Will busy being an excavator at another park.

Ava and Will sailing on the playground.

I thought this was a really cute door, just on an abandoned building right by my favorite fabric store in town.  Love the color!

Here are some of the first signs of spring.

 Here is Will enjoying some of the new greenry.

Here's Ava just being her cute self.

Lillian received another Principal's Pride award.  She is just such a little school super star!

 Lily is in the green, her faction color.  All the kids at the school are split up into 4 factions.  I don't really understand it, all I know is that it is okay for Lily to wear a green uniform shirt because of it.  

 Here are the girls being Captian America at Kmart on a drastic occasion when I HAD to take all the kids shopping with me.

And that wraps up our random bits of every day life.