1 January 2013!

New Years Day ... still can hardly believe we have started 2013 already.  2012 seems to have gone so fast.  Lyndon and I saw the New Year in by standing on the balcony with his parents watching the firework display at the shopping complex near to us.  Much better than I remember from last year :-)

These ones caused lots of smoke though and there wasn't much wind to blow it away so some of the fireworks following got a bit lost in the smoke!

Today we were up early (before 5am!).  Lyndon took his parents to the airport and then we scampered about getting ready to go to a funeral at 10am.  We had to leave at 9 as Lyndon was setting up the speakers.  Kids were pretty good considering the heat ... although I didn't hear much that was said with Samuel jiggling about on my knee!  Was nice to be with friends though.  After the service at the house, we all went in a couple of buses out to the cemetery which was about 45 minutes drive and then we waited for about half an hour as there were two other burials in progress and we were asked to wait till one of them finished.  Was rather hot standing around.  It was overcast, but phew it was hot.  I actually got quite sun burnt.  We headed back home after the service at the grave and had lunch, the kids played about while Lyndon had a snooze on the couch then we went for a swim.

After dinner there was bit of You-Tube watching!

I tried to capture the clouds at sunset.

Then when Samuel was in bed we had a game of UNO Stacko with the kids.  They got given this game for Christmas - so was very exciting :-)

Got down to Lyndon and Aaron playing.  Aaron pulled a yellow double, which meant Lyndon had to pull two yellow tiles!

Aaron was nearly beside himself with excitement hehee

VERY carefully ... Maddison is watching very closely to make sure Daddy is being careful!

Whoops!  Aaron jumped in the air with excitement that he'd won!  (He does like winning!  haha)

Thought I would share this cheeky photo of Maddison wearing Lyndon's glasses tonight!

So that was our first day of 2013.  

I have a list of things in my head I want to get done this week ... we'll see what happens :-)  

One of them MUST happen though and that is Project Life!  I haven't done anything with it yet or even set up my album.  I have to clear a space in my craft area (which is looking like a bomb site) so it's going to be easy to print a photo and pop in, if not every day then every second day.  Wish me luck with that one!

Thanks for visiting - hope your 1st day of 2013 was a good one.

New Year's Eve 2012

I think we will be seeing the New Year in for 2013 by default!  The noise from the nearby shopping complex is rather loud!  The last couple of hours all we've heard (over top of the music and dj) are those horrible horrible Vuvuzela horns!  Who on earth invented them? (I'd like to ram one down their throat!!)

You can see the lights on top of the mountain in the distance ... that's Genting Highlands.  The lights are really clear tonight.

Tonight Lyndon and I spent the evening with some friends while Grandad and Nana looked after the kids.  One of our dear friends here passed away on Saturday morning - his funeral is tomorrow.  So our New Year's Day will be spent attending that and sharing good memories with friends.

Grandad and Nana head back to New Zealand tomorrow too :-(  We will miss them.  Maddison told me the other day that she wanted Nana and Grandad to stay for 100 days!  hehee  (100 days for her is like forever!)  ;-)

Looking forward to the fireworks at midnight.  

Happy New Year to everyone.  Hope 2013 is a great one for you all.

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A New Year

Didn't get a chance to blog yesterday ... but Lyndon and I did see the New Year in (not very often I do that!). The traffic was insane in and around our street, not to mention the parking!!

We had a great view of the fireworks from the nearby shopping complex. :-)

So that was the New Year seen in with a lot of noise from the crowds at the shopping complex and heaps of noise and smoke from the fireworks! (Can't believe the kids didn't wake up from it!).

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We went to an Indonesian restaurant for lunch on New Year's Day. Lyndon had some sort of set meal.

I had my usual not very adventurous one hehee (lamp chops, chips, salad and watermelon), although the cut of the lamb chop wasn't one I had ever seen before! ;-) Samuel enjoyed the garlic bread.

Aaron had fish'n chips.
Maddison had chicken and chips.

Today I seem to have spent a fair portion of the day in the kitchen baking & cooking. But we had friends over late afternoon and their two little girls and our 3 rowdy kids had a grand time together. We went to the pool and completely wore them out! :-)

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This morning Lyndon noticed the buildings at Genting Highlands were visible (usually they are covered in cloud). So he grabbed the camera and the big zoom and snapped some pics. (Just for you Grandma!) :-)

Also the statue of Muragan at Batu Caves could be seen quite clearly.
Lyndon heads back to work tomorrow. We are going to miss him around here! Especially Samuel, he's been like a little leach to Daddy! :-) Oh well they will have to put up with me till he's home again!

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