Garden Produce

Here's some of what was picked out of the garden a couple of days ago. I think cucumbers are so easy to grow and they keep producing every few days. Today I bought some punnets of lettuce and spring onions to plant and in a couple of weeks time I'll get some more so that we can stagger our harvest. The eggs were collected over a few days but always look good in the basket.

Harry Potter Cupcakes

Santa gave the kids a box of cupcake mix each which I thought was a lovely holiday activity idea. James got a Harry Potter cupcake mix and Sienna got a pink butterfly mix. The other day we made James' cupcakes and they were delicious and are all gone so I guess we will be making Sienna's cakes next. Here's a few pics.

Skating

My beautiful friend and I took our kids skating yesterday afternoon which is great because it's exercise for the kids, it's fun and they are worn out after 2.5 hours of it. They do dancing, general skating and their favourite is the limbo. The kids had a bit of a practice of their technique this time and they all got lower and stayed in a little longer. They were so cute to watch. Best $13.50 per child a mother can spend I say. We got to watch, drink a nice coffee and be the proud mothers watching on and taking photos. All in all it was a great afternoon for mums and kids.

Christmas Ice Cream

At Christmas time we make healthy ice cream using yoghurt, berries and icing sugar in the shapes of Santa's, Reindeer's and this year we got a new mold in the shape of a gingerbread man. I love the fact that the kids can have a healthy dessert and the shapes make it all the more fun. The molds are silicon and I bought them from Robins Kitchen for about $6 each.

We do make this recipe throughout the year and I just make them into normal ice cube shapes and when they are frozen I get them all out and just put them into a zip lock bag so that after dinner it's just a matter of putting one or two ice cubes into the kids bowls and they can enjoy it. I find it saves room in the freezer as well to have them in the little zip lock bags. This photo is going in the December Daily for 2010.

New Zealand Ice Cream anyone

We went to Southbank this afternoon to go on The Wheel of Brisbane and afterwards had a yummy ice cream from the NZ Ice Cream shop....doesn't get much better than that.

Best of 2010

There are so many memories of 2010 that have been captured on film (or hard drive as the case may be) and here are a few of my favourites.

Happy New Year 01.01.11

It is always a relief when New Year's is finally here and you can have a rest from the huge activities that December brings. Last night I had my family over for a BBQ to see in the New Year and the kids were still up at midnight so it's nice to celebrate the changing over to 2011 with them. It would be nice if they slept in, no such luck as Sienna was up at 5.30 am however James slept in until 6.30 am so that was something. Everyone came back around 9.30 am for a breakfast of bacon and eggs on the BBQ and the kids had a quick swim as it was a bit cold and rainy today. We are all very tired and will be having an early night tonight. I made the pavlova in the afternoon which was beautiful; crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside which was a big hit all round with adults and the kids. The last photo are of the colourful poppers that I got from Woolworths, they were great. They packed some punch in the noise and streamer department and looked very festive. Happy New Year everyone.