Yuletide Dragon

Dear Uncle Max spent a great deal of time and creative energy constructing a Yuletide Dragon- which sadly was destroyed by mini monsters within moments of introducing them to it. Happily - its fate was simply to exist till such a time of destruction as it revealed greater treasures withing its gut... and arms.. and head.....

I think Max has missed his true calling - this was a brilliant piece of recycled artwork which gave the kids alot of pleasure looking at .. and ripping apart.

It was in fact holding a bed for our dog ( which we have not as yet gotten.... in January.......not that the date means anything to the kids other than its not NOW!)

the kids were so ferocious, the poor dragon had no chance....

heres a photo of it being held down and ripped to shreds..

Christmas Drinks

With the table only half lain with Xmas treats - all ready for our annual Christmas Drinks - something that we have done since we moved back to Brisbane in 2000 and bought our first house. It got us to thinking about parties in general....

Something we have noticed throughout the years is the decline in invitations to parties - just in general really. People just don't seem to 'do' parties any longer. I wonder if its because we are all just so 'buys' in our busyness - or just can't be bothered with other people in our houses? It was def like that in the UK - in the five years we lived there - regardless to work or friendhsip closeness, peopel didn't seem to invite you over or in.

We used to do themed dinner parties ( dress ups the whole thing) as well - but stopped - mainly as it was alot of trouble with two small kids and all our friends had no children ( so made it hard all round) - but also that we never seemed to get invited anywhere ( do I smell??)

I come from a long line of HUGE party throwers - the Mitchell Shed parties are something to be experienced.. My brother Jamie is legendary with his Halloween and new years parties. Adrians folks used to do very posh dinner parties.


anyways... heres to a new year shorlty - full of parties and fun... soomething we are going to start agian are our dress up themed parties and dinners.

We survived five parties in under 30 hours

Yep.. last of the party goers are the Evett Family....Sad thing ( for me!)is that most of the parties were kids parties..

Yesterday was a pool party for Morgan - I didn't envy that mother with a half dozen high spirited 6 and 7 year olds racing in and out of the pool with waterbombs, buckets and water guns, devouring everything she laid out on the table - like swarming locasts.

This was followed quickly by a princess party - which both kids were invited to. 25 kids u nder the age of 7, mostly in fairy wings, pink and purple fluttering about the back yard, filling up on fairy bread, chips and lollies.

This morning was another fairy party, but held in a park. It was hot as.. well ... it was damned hot. Again - the park was a mass with fairies, wings and wands. Such alot of fun with the games organised - all fairy related; gorgeous cake and treats for all the kids.

We rushed from this party over to the other side of town, to a swanky lunch affair; but one where the kids escaped to the pool and I lay on a lounger in the pretence I was supervising them. The raspberry daquiries were the BEST i've ever had and I was sorry to have to stop at two ( designated driver...)

From here rushing back to our street party- held at th eend of our cul de sac- Street ricket, Thong tossing, bucket races and apple bobbing; along with a visit from Santa and a huge BBQ...

PLUS - lets not forget the lolly bags and other crap we all consumed.... groan....

Am off to bed now ( very early for me) and try and get off this sugar rush I am on.