since my last post:

~ I went on my personal retreat and it was AWESOME! Would love to plan to have one every year.


~ Malakai turned 4 :) He had some cool little friends over and enjoyed his 'Lightning McQueen' party so much he didn't get over it for days! I sewed my first banner out of some Cars fabric and it's now hanging in his room.

~ Ariella toilet trained herself (pretty much). It started the day after Malakai turned 4. And that's that. My last baby toilet trained. I'm excited and kinda sad at the same time (but not THAT sad!!)

~ We played tag team with another bug. It's been a rotten year for all of us catching things :( totally over it

~ Josh's class had their assembly at school. SO PROUD of him :) love smiling and winking at him and making heart shape signs with our hands when he's supposed to be paying attention to his teacher ;) and taking a million photos

~ We celebrated Father's Day - Aaron is such a totally awesome daddy :)

~ Aaron and I celebrated 9 years of marriage!! God is so good :)

~ To celebrate our wedding anniversary and Aaron's birthday ;) we went on a short holiday to the coast between my work days. On one particular morning, we were all on the beach and the weather was PERFECT! the sun was shining and there was no wind...we were building sandcastles and throwing the frisbee around and we were having the best time...it's one of those memories you want to bottle and never EVER forget.

~ I've had a cyst on my right thumb for several months now, the dr wasn't too concerned about it as long as it didn't change. Unfortunately last friday morning 23rd Sept it did change :( it got infected and PAINFUL and swollen :( it's a lot better now, and the unbelievable pain has gone (so grateful for THAT) so now we'll have to see about whether it needs to be removed. Interesting.

~ Mum and I took the kids to the Colin Buchanan concert on saturday (I was dosed up on painkillers and paranoid about people bumping my thumb but it was fine). We had such a good time. I love *most* of his songs and this concert was hilarious.

~ I started the Maximise Your Mornings challenge. Basically, from Sept 15 to Dec 15 you commit to getting up to spend time with God before the day. I've done this for a while now, but never as consistently as I'd like. So I joined the challenge to see if I could push myself just a little further.

So far it's going ok, despite being interrupted by holidays and infected thumbs!! Having a group to sign into each day for accountability is such a blessing and encouragement - makes more of a difference than I could have imagined :)

So now we are looking forward to my birthday (YAY! Love my birthday lol!), Josh's birthday (7!!!), Aaron having a couple of weeks off at the same time as me (which equals lots of things getting done around the house I hope!) and many other things I'm sure.