March 2013

The past month saw us celebrate my birthday, camp at Mt Tamborine, reach our 100th geocache the day before our 1 year geocaching anniversary, and spend Easter up in Bundy.

Tent up, now for lunch

As is his custom, Jon took holiday leave on my birthday, and as it fell on a Friday this year we made a long weekend of it and went camping at Mt Tamborine. It was a bit of a wet weekend, but it was dry for when we put the tent up (well, there was the lightest of rain) and when we took it down. We enjoyed the sound of rain on the tent at night. I took frozen meals with us for the weekend so I barely had any cooking to do. We explored Gallery Walk (Jon bought me a German cuckoo clock - something I've been wanting; and some specialty fudge), visited the Botanic Gardens briefly for lunch (there was a cache there), went to the art and craft market, and did some geocaching. We didn't do any of the bush walks - it was too wet and there was plenty of other things to do.... and the girls are still not over our Bunya Mountain bush marathon :) They enjoyed jumping on their air mattress and playing frisbee with daddy. Caleb enjoyed hanging in his jolly jumper :)

Swinging in between rain showers

Getting rained on at the markets

Mummy thought Abigail might enjoy a pony ride - I think the petting farm would have been enjoyed more...

A couple of days after my birthday is when we found our first geocache a year ago, and Jonathan was keen to make it to 100 finds before then. Well, a couple of days out we still had 9 caches to find, but we did it - we found our 101st cache on the anniversary! I think he has hopes we'll find another 100 this year.....

Jon signing our 101st cache's log

For the Easter long weekend we went up to Bundaberg to see my Grandma. I was keen to travel during the kids' sleeping times as much as possible so we left at 5am on the Friday morning and came back home Sunday night after dinner. It certainly helped as far as travelling with children goes, but Jon and I were somewhat tired. However, our visits with Grandma are always relaxing (for me anyway!). The girls had a blast with the new array of toys for them to play with, and Jon and I enjoyed a good game of Cluedo with Grandma one evening.

Breakfast at Curra

Running around Grandma's yard

Watching Jon and the girls play

We had a young man over for dinner one night earlier in the month - he and his dad helped Jon with the audio at Philip Island and has just started uni near us. For the week after, Abigail's toys were named Amos (sorry uncles - Jachin, Andrew, Jono, and Philip - you were displaced for a while there). We've also been up to Caloundra to visit (Great) Grandma Randall, visited (Great) Grandma Sheehy, and had Uncle Jono over one night for dinner.

Caleb is rolling and can sit unsupported for short periods now. He enjoys playing with toys, sitting in the high chair, and watching the girls playing - won't be long before he's up chasing after them!

Sarah lost a fingernail earlier in the month after getting her finger shut in a door. The nail isn't getting much chance to grow back because it's on one of her sucking fingers and she keeps sucking it off!

Abigail has informed Sarah that her name is not Abby. She has taken to Richard Scarry books after Jon found some at the library, so lots of his stories have been read (over and over).

And that roughly covers our happenings for the month of March.