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.

The weather this summer in Sydney has been a shocker. So once the weather is good enough it's off to the beach.

New Years Eve.
We went over to friends who's house over looks a river.
Joel was happy to go in, just as long as he hitched a ride.

Australia Day 2008.

It was a really nice day and we went to Taronga Zoo.

"Lucky" the Possum.
We found the cat trying to kill a baby Possum, thankfully the poor little thing managed to climb the fly screen to evade the cat until we could save him.
We took him to the local vet, who is going to make sure he is ok before giving him to WIRES, a wildlife rescue org. Both Mollie and Joel loved having Lucky in the house and wanted to keep him.

Poor Joel has been in the wars recently. Next doors cat attacked him when he tried to stroke it. He had a really deep cut and blood everywhere. As the cut was over his lip line the poor thing had to have a plastic surgeon sew him back up, with an overnight stay in the local hospital.

This is the house we are hoping to build. The plans are being finalised and we hope to submit them to the council by the end of January.

Happy New Year.
This year looks to be an eventful year, with us hopefully being granted a permanent visa into Australia (not supporting the Green and Gold just yet...) and with us building our house. As if Iain hasn't got enough grey hair already.

Feeding Time.
5pm every day Mollie and Joel now have the task of feeding their new buddies.
They have quite a little club of them.

Joel had been practicing for his gym concert. They all had to appear in 'costume'. Joel turned up dressed at 'Jack Sparrow'.

We had such a fantastic holiday and it was great to catch up with everyone.
It will be a while until we return again, with us looking to build our house in 2008.
So it's back to reality, back to the summer and the beach.

The kids going crazy

Anne and John came down to Clare for our last few days.

Having a great time at the park

A nice picture of Toby