New Babes in arms and another of Mike's Mishaps!

During our trip home we were lucky to catch up with a few new arrivals, a few 1st Birthday parties and a trip to the beach! Firstly we went to visit Matt who has now moved to Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast. We took a trip to the beach with Josh and Hannah (pictured below) his two little ones. We had a great time although I think Mike and I played with the toys as much as the kids. As you can see Matt is well and working hard having just finished his course to become a personal trainer. Work 'em hard Matt!













Once we got home we were invited to Georgia Katherine's 1st Birthday! Michelle and Matt hosted a lovely Birthday breakfast BBQ in the park in Lismore. It was a lovely morning and a great to see Georgia turning into a beautiful little girl with loads of perosonality~!


In between a belated Christmas, Mike's second Birthday, doctors appointments, booster injections, malaria tablets and many trips to the beach; Mike managed to have another little mishap! For those of you that remember the backpack incident in Europe - that was nothing! It goes like this... We had hired a car from Brisbane. Mike had been driving and we were at the beach for a surf... well who went for a surf with the keys in his pocket?! So, we now have a hire car at one of the most remote beaches with no key! What's more is the spare key was in Melbourne (please remember at this point that Australia is a very BIG place!) and it is Friday afternoon after 5pm. The upshot was that the hire car sat at the beach for 4 days while the key got couried down and we were charged the excess for the lost key! What am I to do with this boy!? All ok in the end with us getting the key and car on our day of departure! (nothing like cutting it fine!)

On our way out of Brisbane to Bali we stopped in to see Jade and Sim and their gorgeous little 4 month old Finn. Unfortunately we didn't get to see Sim but Finn was having a ball in his new Jollly Jumper and Jade looked a seriously competent and stunning new Mum.

On the way home we also got to see Greg and Ang in their place in Brisbane who were kind enough to put us up for the night. It was great to see them both well.

Also a big CONGRATULATIONS to Dom and Soumi who had a little boy, Ethan Morley Cheah on the 3rd January.