Happy New Year!

Happy New Year.

We have just gotten back from a camping trip near Deniliquin. We headed off Saturday morning and arrived at the campground about 1pm. We stayed in a Youth Camp called Four Post and It was just perfect. The camp was right on the edge of a river so each day we headed down there for a play. Coban, being such a water baby, had a ball. We had to put a life vest on him just in case and he looked so adorable.

I planned on an alcohol free weekend but got sucked into a few drinks on New Years Eve. Only a few glasses of wine and a very small amount of Bundy. One of the guys we were there with gave me the Bundy can to drink as that was always my drink of choice before I had Coban. I managed a couple of mouthfuls just to keep him satisfied but left the rest when I headed to bed at 2am. Apparently everyone else followed suit not long after that.

I managed to take 120 photos so I was pretty impressed with myself lol. DH kept telling me off for not leaving Coban alone. I couldn't help it, he was so cute!

Coban was pretty grumpy for the whole weekend. I think it was due to his teeth coming through but who knows. It was pretty hot while we were up there. He didn't like sleeping too much which drove me mental! Normally he is in bed at 7.30pm and sleeps right through but the first night he was awake till 10pm!!! And then up again at 6.30am.

Oh I forgot to mention that we took our new 4WD away with us. It is so cool!! DH actually took me for a little drive in it which is a big thing becuse it's manual and I have never been able to drive a manual. I did pretty well too. Stalled twice as I was taking off but was darn good by the end. (It was only about 200 meteres driving but i did change gears lol)

We are heading off on a 4WD trip over Easter with the same group of people that we spent the weekend with. We are heading up the Oodnadatta track and depending on time, we will hopefully be going to Ayers Rock. I am so looking forward to it!! I am a bit hesitant to tell Mum as ahe is paranoid about dingo's and babies but she will get over it!! lol
My FIL is lending us some stuff for our 4WD so hopefully we will be all loaded up and looking the part when we head off. I just need to get a good first aid kit from St Johns.

Here are some photos:

This is Coban squished in the back with all our stuff surrounding him lol.


This is Coban with baby Summer.


Swimming in the river with Daddy.


After his swim.


Resting in the boat. What a cutie!!



Part & parcel of being a boy; playing in the dirt!


Playing totem tennis with Alicia.


Daniel taking a power nap whilst getting beer tipped on his head.


On to some other news, the first ever Dingo Lingo Journal has been sent out. For those that don't know, it is the newsletter that Trish Jones has put out. I am on the newsletter team and have an article in there about realistic layouts. I have a signup link in a previous post so you should all sign up for it. The newsletter is heaps different to what you would expect. I am biased but I think it's great.