Photos with David's family

We took photos with David's family yesterday. Something we never found time to do when Amanda was here in April. :(

They turned out pretty good considering it was really overcast.


Dawn and the granddaughters



The Gang

Dawn and Jannene

Pumpkin seeds

Roasted pumpkin seeds..... Yum!

Halloween 2012

Halloween has never really been celebrated in Australia but is finally becoming more popular now. Nothing like in the US but nonetheless more popular.  For instance, last year I had to go to a speciality beauty store to get black hair spray and we could not find pumpkins anywhere. It was the girls first Halloween that we did not carve pumpkins. :( This year however, the local supermarket has Halloween candy, some decoration, a few costumes and even pumpkins! Only about 30 to choose from and very expensive, but at least we got one. They are sold by the kg so I had the girls weight a few and then I made the choice. 

 Allie carved it all by herself while David worked on the deck and Emily "relaxed" before work (her way of saying she is finally too old for pumpkin carving). It was worth every penny of the $12 the pumpkin cost. Look how cute it turned out!

Day with the girls

Yesterday was my last day of vacation so the girls and I went bowling.

We had a lot of fun being silly and cheering each other on. It had been a while since we last bowled and none of us remembered how challenging it actually is. We got our fair share of gutter balls! Well Emily and I did, Allie used lane bumpers!!! 😃