Come and Gone

Well before you know it Christmas has come and gone and now we look forward to the new year. I can't believe it is all over so soon, it seems just yesterday we were handing out the invites to the Ushering in yet now we are planning when to take down the Christmas lights. It has been an eventful month kick started by the Ushering which was fantastic. We had around 25 people at our place all in the mood to kick start the festive season in the correct manner-dressed in red and white with mates.

We have just moved from function to function from there on in. We had Sar's work function at movie world, a fantastic day of golf with Thommo, Clayton and Andrew at Gold Coast Country Club. I must say this was a great day which started with Andrew knocking on my door at home at 7.20am with an eski full of VB for the "cart". We seem to have found 4 golfers who enjoy the game and a beer and have the intention of making this a once a month event in the New Year. It won't be long before we up the numbers as people here seem to take golf far to seriously and don't play for the right reasons-to be social. Already there are 2 more interested parties for the January edition.

The 15th was our annual "Carine Court" Christmas Party. Invites are handed out to all in the street annually for a Xmas BBQ and cricket in the Cul de Sac. This years turn out was fantastic with around 40 people ans a visit from Santa for the kids arranged by Reece, they loved this and at one stage Sarah and Karen were seen to push in front of all the kids to get their glow bangle and some sweets-now that is the Christmas spirit for you. The evening ended at our place with the girls drinking tea and Matt and I in the pool with beers at around midnight, I think!

the last day of work Troy and I (boss) left early for a game of Golf, it was a memorial day at Burleigh Heads, now this was played in the right spirit as the organisers had cunningly placed an Eski full of beer on the tee box of every 2nd hole-fantastic way to start your annual leave.

Saturday the 21st will be a day long remembered as it brought to the family our sixth niece-yes another girl... Lauren and Jacques welcomed to the world their first child named Caitlin Judy late on Friday afternoon SA time. All are well though the only gripe I can have is that it took 6 days to get a photo for the blog. That has got to be the longest head wetting party in history Jacques . Having Lauren home from hospital made the Christmas at Stormont Ave all the more special I am sure.

We spent Xmas day at Sar's folks place with once again a fantastic spread being put before us for both lunch and dinner, it was hugely relaxing and once again it started to feel like we were on holiday while we were there.

What is in store for New Year we are not sure as yet though yesterday the planning for Japan started as we pulled out the snowboards and gear and started getting ourselves sorted for our skiing trip to Niseko and tour stop in Tokyo where we will no doubt sample the sake with Kim and Kame whilst enjoying our box seats at the Sumo wrestling. All this kicks off on Jan 16th.