Back to School

Hi Everyone,

I have been getting frantic trying to get all of Caitlyn's school supplies together to start school tomorrow. It is the first day of school here in Australia tomorrow. They have just finished 7 weeks of vacation and Caity is more than eager to get back to school. Can you beleive that she is starting 4th grade this year, I certainly can't lol. We just found out that Caity will be in a combined 4th and 5th grade class this year. When I told her she just said 'That way if I get bored I can do harder work'. She is already reading at a 5th grade level and she is only starting 4th grade. I am very proud of my little brainiac. :-) We also found out that she will be in the same class as her best friend again this year so she is over the moon about that. Those two little girls love school so they are two peas in a pod.

In other news, I am now 27 weeks pregnant and Caity is soooo excited about becoming a big sister. She has already offered to get up during the nighht for me in case tthe baby wakes up. I told her that she probably shouldn't offer that unless she knew how many times a newborn wakes up every night lol. She has plenty of experience with being around babies though as she is Tyson's favorite person and the favorite of all of my other friends' babies as well. She will be a big help when the baby comes. :-) I still don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl yet as I have now had 2 ultrasound scans and both times the baby had it's legs in the way... lol I guess I am not meant to know yet. I will keep you posted if I find out more info in the next few weeks.

Well I better go now and start cooking dinner but I will get back on in a while after Caity gets stettled in at school.

Love to all,
Bonnita

Wonderful B-day

I had a wonderful birthday. Couldn't have been better. The kids were all home and Bonnita made me a beautiful devils food cake. All of the girls got me things for my new kitchen. New hotpads, aprons and Sarah created a nice recipe book of all of my favourite recipes so I don't have to look through every book to find them.

Then Ben was kind enough to take a photo of us all together. This doesn't happen very often, so if you want a family photo of us, you better get this one. It is like pulling teeth. Everyone is allergic to photos and the amount of groans that were heard to get this one was loud enough to be heard overseas.

We all plan on trying to keep this up to date of our goings on in our family. It probably could get boring at times, but at least some of our family and friends can check up on us.

Anyway, Love to everyone in the USA.

MOM

G'day From Down Under

Hey all, we have finally started a blog to keep you updated on the goings on down here. We all just celebrated Mom's b'day a few days late and everyone was at Mom & Dad's place. They are putting in the last cupboard in the kitchen. The house looks great. We took some family photos while everyone was together and so we've put the best one on the blog for you all to see. Caity is growing like a weed. She is taller than most of the kids her age. Tyson is talking up a storm and Lisa says he is talking better than the other kids in his age group at daycare. Sarah is getting ready to move up to Brisbane to go to University.