One of those days!!

Ok, to start with, I have been very slack with blogging, it's been really bugging me, but i have been finding it hard to find the time to blog. or not organising my time properly - either one.
I don't know why I thought it would be any different to journaling, I've never been very good at being a consistent journaler! (is that even a word?) except as a young teenager when my friends and I were avid journal keepers and would write about which boy(s) we 'loved' at the time :) anyway..... back to blogging I have to start blogging at least once a week!! That's my goal, I really do want to record the moments of our kids, my thoughts or feelings at the time etc.

So that's it, at least once a week I will be here!!!

As the title says today is one of those days!! My 'awesome' day started at 12.30am - yep AM! when Harper decided she was not going to sleep! My poor little girl is sick, so I was up with her for most of the night trying to soothe her and get her back to sleep. She did eventually sleep for a total of 3 hours straight though which I was so grateful for! when we 'woke up' (did we ever really go to sleep?) it was pouring rain out side and freezing!! Yesterday our heater decided to stop working, so that was another awesome moment! we don't have any insulation under the house and we have floor boards which doesn't help the warmth situation. We did decide a week or so ago that we are going to insulate under the house and get gas put on in our house - YAY!!! - warmth! so while we are waiting for that to all happen the kids and I look like Michelin men all bundled up!

I put on some washing later in the morning, when it was done i chucked in the dryer put it on and thought that this might help heat up the house! anyway, about 10 mins after I put it on our stupid smoke alarm started blaring! and wouldn't stop for 45 minutes!! I was fanning it trying to get it to stop. I couldn't reach it to disconnect it, trying to figure out what it was that caused the alarm to go off, then finally realised it was the dryer! crazy I know! anyway after 45 minutes it finally stopped and our house was back to 'normal'.

I don't know if it is lack of sleep or what, but today is a horrible day! - only 8 more hours 'til the kids are in bed and I can go too! ( I wonder what is in store for us this afternoon) In saying that though, my two little bundled babies are being so good today and making up for me feeling blah! i hate having these days, but they do make me appreciate the good days!

I can't wait for tomorrow!

London Living

I was going through some old photos on our computer the other day and came across all our old London photos and it brought back memories of how much we loved it there!

We loved everything about London. We loved the people we met, the things we saw, the places we travelled, it was such a different life to the one we had been living at home in Coolum on the Sunshine Coast!

Rudi and I often talk about moving back and we would do it in a heartbeat if there was a job for Rudi over there. I would love to take my kids for a play in Hyde Park or for a stroll through the Portobello Markets, catching the Tube to church! It was all such an adventure!

I'm so glad Rudi and I took the opportunity to live in London and to travel to parts of Europe. We didn't get to do all that we wanted (I don't think you'd ever get through all you want to do and see in Europe!) and our time was cut a little short, (I fell pregnant) but we were there for a year and what an awesome time in our lives it was!

 

                    

My name's Brooke

.....and I'm a chocoholic.

I heard that admitting you had a problem was the first step to recovery, so here I am admitting that I have an addiction! An addiction to that deliciousness that is chocolate!!!!
I realised that I had a 'problem' when I found myself eating a chocolate Easter bunny like it was an apple , eating 2 blocks of chocolate in one week, eating all the left over Easter eggs, the list goes on (disgusting I know!)

I'm trying to think back to when this 'habit' really came to be. I thought maybe when I was a young girl and Mum and Dad used to put their stash on the top shelf of our huge fridge and I used to get so antsy for it that I would make the desperate climb up the slippery shelves to get my 'hit'. Or was it when I was older when Mum could no longer put it out of our reach, so she would buy Fruit and Nut - seriously who likes Fruit and Nut chocolate? Anyway I began to eat it, just so I could have chocolate! Or was it when I moved in with my sister and her husband, where it was like a ritual to have chocolate after dinner - yep I think it was then, the daily dose got me hooked and I blame my sister. No actually I blame her husband who actually got her taking it daily!

Anyway now that I've admitted this big little problem, it's time to go cold turkey! Yep you read right, no easing into this. When talking to my sister last night she suggested this to me so we're both on no chocolate for a week!

Aggghhhh, how am I going to get through!???

Daddy's little girl

I love how much Ocea loves her dad! They are so alike, in so many ways. From little character traits, to things that she and he find funny, to little faces she pulls. She adores him and I love how much he adores her right back. I love the special friendship that they have.

She is definitely Daddy's little girl!

Easter Long.... Long Weekend!

5 Days Long!!!!!

We had an awesome long Easter weekend full of sleep ins, afternoon naps, cleaning and sorting, kite flying,  Easter treat making, Two Easter egg hunts, chocolate eating (waaaay too much chocolate eating), BBQing, hanging out with family, donkey rides and remembering the massive sacrifice that Christ made for us - The real reason for Easter!
We all had a great Easter, and loved hanging out for 5 straight days as a family! Here's what it looked like for us....

                                  

Love this shot

Ocea was very excited to find that the Easter Bunny had been

So was Harper...

........and then the Easter Bunny visited Lol's house too!

Hanging out with cousin Caddie, Uncle Reilly and Aunty Aimee

Ocea Riding Snow with cousins Caddie and Jeong Soo

Love this photo

Family.......

.....I miss them!

Animals, Rides and Showbags......

........ It must be the Easter Show!!!

Monday morning we headed in to the easter show with Rudi's brother and his family. We all caught the bus from Orsons (rudi's brother) Which Ocea and Harper just loved, but it was just a warm up for all the real fun that they were about to have!

We saw animals, Ocea, fed goats and sheep, saw baby ducks, cows, chickens, rabbits, dogs, she was absolutely in her element! and again I had to save a couple of animals from Harpers deathly grip!! but she was having a ball with all these new sights and sounds!

I just love spending time with my family like this, seeing the girls experience and react to new things, we had so much fun!

Thank you Kawasaki Showtime FMX for the free tix!!!!! 

End of day and fast asleep (sitting up!) must have been a good day!