Owl Day Out

Bad pun I know. We went to Owlcatraz (Shannon)...this was the only owl we were allowed to photograph! But it really was cool seeing live owls up close from inside their enclosure (even though it was their sleep time).

Some of the kids' photos from the rest of the visit...if I had any wall space left, I'd frame this one of Lily's!

This baby alpaca was born the day before!!! Now Lily wants one!

We also went for a ride on Thomas, and stopped at the lolly stop station!

Fish 'n chips and a play in the park at Greytown on the way home (via an afternoon shopping at Queensgate that is!)

Lachie's ostrich impression!

Love this photo too!

Monkeys and Dolphins!

For all the doubters (and few believers) HERE are the monkey bars I (yes, I!) made for the girls. Actually, making them was the easy part, that's why I made two, one with smaller spaces for the girls, just the right height off the ground for Eden, and another set longer and bars further apart for Lachie and co. The attaching to the equipment was the hard part, that's why I have only finished the girls ones so far. Lachie's is right now making a challenging bridge between the castle and the rocket!

So funny watching people's faces when I give the little guy the camera at the pools and he chucks it in the water...and I don't spaz out! Here are some shots the kids took this morning (note Lily and her dancing friend in the background...still practising!)

Chocolate milkshake moustaches!

Cooper just looked at all these photos and said "Lily", "Eden" etc. when I got to this one I said "Who's that?" and he said "Magic"...huh? Maybe he was listening to Zappo the Magician this afternoon after all!

(Lachie pulled a weird face and I didn't want to embarrass him by putting it up!)

Kittens! (NOT ours!)

A couple of kids, a Gizmo and a Muppet!!

And that bike again...without flat camera batteries!

Kenny and Brooke's Wedding

Whoa...what a cake! 4 layers of chocolate mud cake, 3kg of chocolate ganache icing, 16kg altogether! (Same as Lily and Eden both weigh!!)Chloe and Ava walking down the aisle Lachie and "the boys" Mason, Sam and Corey (Luka's missing from the shot)
The boys having fun with some tulle
Nannie and EdenAva and Daddy Kenny with all his favourite girls...Ava, Chloe, Brooke and his Mum!Eden and Lily with Abby (a year younger than Lily!)Lily and Chloe Both girls love Chole!Then the kids took charge of the camera, Lachie had Lily do some posing while the official photos were being taken!
And lots more shots of wedding guests and each other doing funny things...!

And some from Dad's camera too...Lachie giving Kenny our present, a cake server of course!

CONGRATS Kenny and Brooke! Beautiful wedding, very special day. XXX

And stay tuned for what we went and saw afterwards!!!