Munsey comes to visit

This is the excerpt that I wrote and stuck into the Book of Munseys Amazing adventures. I thought you might like to take a little peek as well.





This weekend Munsey the Monkey came to stay with the Douglas;s. Everyone was terribly excited to finally have Munsey come to our home. He was a wonderful house guest and we LOVED getting to know him better. Here are just a few of our favourite times with Munsey.








These are our friends the Hallams. Sarah is Caitlins Sunday 4 Kids teacher. Munsey really enjoyed climbing the Hallams trees. It reminded him of his Africa Days.








Munsey even took Ted up the tree to show him the view.


Caitlin climbed up too and thought it was SO SO funny.



They started getting sillier and sillier until.............



SPLAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Down we came. Luckily the ground was nice and soft because of all the rain. Monkeys are very good at crash landings. But you must always be careful when you are climbing trees. Caitlin said we had done enough climbing after that.


Munsey made a lot of friends at our house. There were lots and lots of kids to play with. They all wanted a turn with me. SO much that sometimes my legs got pulled a little bit. But thats ok. It just means I am popular.


Can you tell which feet are Munseys? It's pretty tricky.


Munsey made some new friends and enjoyed a quick Bible Study.


Caitlin didn't mind helping us when we had some questions about the story. She loves the Bible too.


Caitlins dog Minnie was a bit too friendly to Munsey and on the first morning attempted a kidnapping. But after a good chase by Mrs Douglas returned me to Caitlin and we had to keep an eye on Minnie.


I don't think her intentions were good. I could have been licked to death.


After all the adventure and fun we fell fast asleep. Thanks for visiting us Munsey. You were a great reward for Caitlin. She loved having you there. So did we.

The last week has been incredibly sad.

So many lives have been lost in such a sad sad way. I can't even imagine what these people are going through. The stories we have been hearing have been horrific. It is so good to see the nation rallying together to help ease these peoples sorrow.

Drama at the Douglas Home

The kids were outside playing on the trampoline when Caitlin came in absolutely screaming. She was all sweaty and clammy and as I gave her hug I felt something sticky on my face. Yep it was blood. She wasn't sweating she was bleeding. The boy next door had thrown a hose piece over the fence and it cracked her skull open. Our blue car isn't working and James was at church, so I rang Emma and she came and collected us all. I dropped the youngest two at church to sit in the back row and BEHAVE while Daddy preached and took Catie off to hospital. We were there for FOUR hours. They truly are so slow at the hospital.

She had to have 3 stitches but they wanted to use super glue because it is less stressfull for Cate. But surprise the hospital had run out of the glue. Just as the doctor was testing her head for numbness and about to put the needle in to begin the stitching a nurse came bolting down the corrider with the last tube in the entire hospital of the glue. Praise God. Finally she was all glued up, bandaged and sent home. She has to keep the bandage on for three days so guess who will start school with a bandage on her head? Yep thats right. Caitlin. Ah the excitement never ends around here.

Happy Belated New Year

We are back from holidays. We have done the camping thing. We have done the Grandparent visiting thing. We have done the Uncle and Cousins visiting thing. We have done the all go down to Canberra to visit the Aunty and Cousin thing. We have done the go to the circus thing. I even got to go twice. I LOVE the circus. People are incredible aren't they? I have done the night away with my mum bonding thing. Now I have done the label all the kids school supplies thing, ready for them to start the week after next. I am looking forward to doing this last week of work and taking two weeks off. To get over all this holiday thing. LOL.

I have millions of photos to share and stories too but for now this will do. Hope you all have a great New year with lots of adventure and growth and happiness and joy.

Elf yourself a merry little Christmas

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

All I want for Christmas is..............

PERFUME
I guess not this particular brand. I don't even know what kind I would like, but I love this bottle it is so sweet and girly.


BOOKS





A pandora chain and charms.

# Gold bracelet, PAN Clasp
# (55702-17)
# Price: $1,533.00
Not too much is it? LOL. I think I will need some charms too. Keep dreaming hey?


And cute cute CRAFT stuff like this.
I found this at this blogspot http://inspireco.blogspot.com/

and just how darn cute is this. I am going to try and make one in the holidays. I will take pics if they work out.

And I would love to wake up on Christmas morning looking like this


I know buckleys to none but that is why it is called a WISH list people.

We got a tattoo, a three year old and a tent!

This is the tattoo that James got today. It is his Jesus shield with the children's initials on it and his fave Bible Verse John 10:10. He likes it but he is feeling the pain if you know what I mean. The kids are thrilled that Daddy has their names on his heart forever. How cute.
Here are the two sisters on Charli's birthday. With Holly Daisy Belle the new dolly Charli got for her birthday. They look so sweet.
Daddy and Caitlin. Catie struggled a bit on Charli's birthday. But she got over it eventually.
Look how excited Charli was at the cake that Aunty Steph made for her.
I think the hug says it all really.
And the smiling girls with the cake. Charli was so excited that it had Dora the Explorer on it.

Who can believe that our little cheeky chops is now three years old. She is such a delight and I thank God so often for bringing her into our lives. She makes everyone smile.

And before I forget this is a photo of our tent that we will be camping in for a week over Christmas. I am SO looking forward to it. LOL. !!!!!