march photo a day wrap up

day twenty six

{key}

one of my favorite necklaces

day twenty seven

{my name}

day twenty eight

{trash}

a night of take out after all our hard work of moving out of our little house and cleaning it

day twenty nine

{feet}

can you see the bruise on my little toe, ouchy

i kicked it the other day and now it is terribly sore 

day thirty

{toy}

william gave his little buddy to his cuz halle

and she absolutely loves him, she takes him everywhere 

day thirty one

{where i relax}

in bed, with my laptop watching tv

at the moment my bedroom is my in-laws living room

well that is another photo a day challenge complete
which also means another month has gone past
fatmumslim is hosting another challenge for april
in fact there is going to be one for every month this year
just head on over to her blog to check it out

Adventure World

we spent the day at adventure world today. we worked out that it has been at least ten years since we have been there. our church orgainised a group discount so we went along and joined in the fun.

the little guy had a blast on the kiddie rides and he was also brave enough to go on some of the adult rides as well, the ones that he was tall enough for that is!

us adults reminisced the days of old, remembering what it used to look like and the mischief we used to get up to. there has been a lot of new rides added over the ten years so it was like being a kid again, riding everything for the first time.

we stayed until the park closed and we left feeling exhausted, hungry and ready to have a sit down and put our feet up. lucky for us we are living at my in-laws place and when we got home there was a lovely home cooked meal on the table for us, life is sweet.

one small step for man one giant leap towards our next adventure

today i kissed my little house by the sea goodbye, it was a little sad to say goodbye to her as i have really enjoyed living there. will learnt to ride his bike up and down the driveway, we enjoyed walking to the beach, our friends and family lived close by, bob and wendy our chickens oh how i am going to miss my chickens.

we moved all our stuff out yesterday, a few clothes, camping gear and a stack of vintage suitcases filled with our keepsakes. today we scrubbed, rubbed and buffed that little house until she was all clean and shiny. now we are shacked up at my in-laws house for a week and then we are heading down south for a camping trip for a couple of weeks which i am really looking forward to after all our hard work these past couple of weeks.
so we are now a step closer towards our next adventure... cambodia here we come!

march photo a day

day twenty

{before and after}

getting my colour redone

day twenty one

{delicious}

cadbury creme eggs

need i say more!

day twenty two

{kitchen sink}

there are always one or two or three

tea cups in my sink

i love a spot of tea!

day twenty three

{moon}

and so the world began... 

day twenty four

{animal}

my little angel asleep with his little puppy

day twenty five

{breakfast}

i have finally been able to get william to start eating breakfast

and this was my breakfast...

berry smoothie

no pancake sunday today as gluten is no longer my friend

trying to stay away from it at the moment

sunday snippets

 

a breakfast of champions, smoothies

cool weather, finally

jeans weather

an awesome church message

lunch

cleaning

gardening

visitors

haircuts

and by the cover of darkness

we crept around our neighborhood to stow our rubbish and recycling

all this made up a lovely but busy sunday

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sleepover fun

on friday night i had my nephews and niece come for a sleepover. william was so excited, he sat at the door all afternoon waiting for them to arrive.

the kiddies had dinner together, watched a movie and then we played games. the best game was  hide and seek. i think we played three different versions of the game - the regular hide and seek, in the dark and the seeker has a torch and sardines {where one person hides and the others have to fine them and then hide with them}
as we have no furniture in the house there was plenty of room to run around and have fun. the kids were really great at hide and seek, even william was able to come up with new and interesting hiding places.
after i had successfully wore them out it was bed time, everybody slept in williams room and it was wall to wall mattresses in there! will loved having them all in his bedroom. little lauren woke up in the night because she had lost her pillow. she had made her way into the middle of the mattresses and couldn't find her way back to her bed, that was probably because william had his feet on her pillow!
other then that they all slept soundly.

we had such a great time with the kids we could have kept them all weekend, but all good things must come to an end and their mumma and papa came to pick them up.
we sure are going to miss them when we are living in cambodia.

things i'm loving

i am loving my little sidekick and how much he brightens my day

i have really enjoyed being at home full time and not having to go to work

i am loving our new simple life

it has been very refreshing getting rid of all our stuff

it is nice not having junk stashed away in cupboards and draws, things piled high in the garage and 

and a million toys littering the floor

we have the essentials and that is all we need

i am loving finding old treasures amongst the junk when i was having a clean out

i came across some old school reports and awards i had received from primary and high school

i discovered that i was a pretty average student

but i believe i have gone on to do above average things in my life

and i am loving that the weather has finally cooled down

we have been using our two feet and our heart beats to get around our little community

i love walking in the lovely sunshine admiring my lovely neighborhood

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bare minimum

we are living with the bare minimum at the moment and i am actually loving it. i think i like it so much because there is very little to tidy and clean up!
all the left over junk, i mean treasures from the garage sale have been hauled away and i am selling off the last bit of furniture through gum tree. today i sold our fridge and now we have a bar fridge to keep us going until we move out next week. the fridge only holds a few essentials so no more big food shops for me, yes! i hate food shopping. so each afternoon me and the little guy walk around to our local corner supermarket and pick up the ingredients for the nights dinner. or like tonight, we head out for dinner, tonight we are heading to the dome cafe.
we still have our beds to sleep in, our couch is our camping mattresses and our dinning room table is a small folding table. we have folding chairs for arm chairs but don't feel too bad for us because they are comfy reclining folding chairs.

the only thing i am not particularly fond off at the moment is living out of a suitcase. i like all my things neatly hanging up where i can see them, but i will have to get used to that because i think i will be living out of this case for probably a month and a half!

sunday snippets

after finishing off at our yard sale we headed into the city to meet up with our buddies at the william street festival. it was a great end to a busy, hot and tiring weekend
street stalls, ice cold ciders, best friends, card games and delicious food... bliss
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