Mollie and her cake.

Then it was 'Crash' the Bandicoot.

They got to see a Sydney local, the Sydney Funnel Web spider, which thankfully stayed in the box, as it's the deadliest spider. The boys liked it, the girls were not so sure.

Mollie then got to help out and became lunch (a rabbit herself) for a Diamond Back snake.

The animals started with the not-so native rabbit.

Mollie's 8th birthday party.
Mollie had her party at Taronga zoo. Mollie and her friends got to have their own zoo keeper for the afternoon, showing them the animals up close and then a party in the zoo.

Joel has been learning to blow out his candles and he passed with full colours, with not too much spit on the icing :)

The best part of the party was they all had lunch on an old bus.

Joel's 5th birthday.

For Joel's birthday party we went to a soft play center.

Lack of camera, too much work... excuses excuses.
Now that the weather is improving, we are venturing out again and so I'll try to update the blog again.

The Queen's birthday. God bless her, because it means we get a public holiday! Happy birthday Ma'am.
So we decided to go and see the dinosaurs at the museum.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I still haven't worked out which camera I want to buy and now that we have been given notice on our rental, we are having to spend our free time searching for a new place to live - which is proving harder than we hoped for.

It is with deep regret that we had to recently return to the UK as John passed away.
We will all miss him dearly.

The second wedding anniversary gift was tickets to watch a boy dance around in tights. (A father's nightmare...)
Although, I do concede that it was excellent and the dancers were very impressive.
It still wanted me to go out and buy Joel a Rugby League top...

Our wedding anniversary.
In true married couple tradition, we decided to buy our own gifts and the choices are fairly obvious!
First, rock concert tickets at Acer Arena to see the Foo Fighters.
The concert was excellent and we had good seats.

At the weekend we went to stay with friends who had rented a house in Boomerang Beach. It was a fantastic house with panoramic views of the ocean, through huge glass doors. The same doors that the burglars came through the night we arrived and took my phone, camera our friends week old laptop and ipod...

It's been a while I know, but work has been a little crazy.


Anyway, the Australian government have deemed that we are 'suitable' to stay indefinitely and have granted us permanent residency.

Finally!! It's been a while coming, Mollie has lost her first tooth!

Since arriving in Australia, Mollie has started collecting school uniforms.
It was a hard decision, but we decided to move Mollie to the school near where our house is to be built - a more long term plan.
So far so good. Mollie has started really well and is really enjoying it.

Joel surfing.