The Speech!

This gorgeous little girl make the most beautiful speech. Confidently and loudly she thanked everyone for their beautiful gift!

Darling cousins

Decorating her cupcake - there ended up being more decoration than cake!

Harry's first ice cream

Unlike his big sister who was at least 2 before she even had a lick of ice cream, Harry has found the holy grail of food - he shakes when he sees the cones come out of the cupboard!

"Hey, Dude, you better not be thinkin of stealing my cone!"

Some painting on the deck

Back home again

Ourfamilyfreeman has now returned to normal - as normal as we get anyway! We are home and glad to be back. We had a lovely holiday but as Dorothy said "there's no place like home". Since being back we have done a trip to Queenscliff for lunch and today we went rasberry picking. Hopefully the next post will be some pix of the rasberry jam i plan to make!

We hope you are all having a good break xx
Harry's new shaving kit Aunty Gabe gave him!

after 5 days on the Gold Coast, we headed up to Brisbane and stayed with Tom and Mia for 2 nights. We celebrated New Years at their house, which was lovely. We were actually asleep by 8pm which left Mamma and Daddy to have a few drinks!
The next day we headed over to the Hills house for dinner. Its been a while since we caught up with Adam and Renee. Their girls are just gorgeous.

If you think Holly looks a bit funny, its because Alexandra and Sarah got makeup from Santa and they all "painted" their faces!

The Boys

Our little boys watching over the ocean

Currumbin Sanctuary

Harry and the Roo

Our kids just love animals of all sorts, they inherited their Aunty Nickee genes and have no fear and want to cuddle any animal they come across.

Christmas celebration on the Gold Coast

We flew up to the Gold Coast two days after Christmas, we spend a lovely 5 days there with Nanny and Pa and all the family. We were spoilt rotton by everyone. Thank you all for your very kind gifts and love xx

Christmas Day

We had such a wonderful Christmas day. We had a minor meltdown on christmas eve - we put out an SOS call to Liz (Grandma) - who drove straight over to look after the kids while we prepared for the next day. The day was perfect and I think I can probably say the best christmas so far.

We hosted the day at our house and had 33 people for a sit down 4 course meal. Included in that was 15 kids! We had 20 stay the night (plus 5 that bailed just before midnight due to little twinnies that wouldn't sleep!) and of that 4 and a dog slept in the cubby!

Everyone had a blast and a big thank you to our amazing Daddy for cooking up a mouthwatering feast. Although everyone was quite slow to move in the morning we had a big cook up on the BBQ.

We can't wait to do it again!
Pa dressed up as Santa to give us all our presents

Holly and Amelie hiding while i was trying to pack the next afternoon!

Christmas Day

waiting for "Pa-Santa" to arrive





All the cousins together!

These two were just so gorgeous on christmas morning. All Holly wanted from Santa was lipstick and when she found it in her santa sack she was beside herself! Harry was completly engrossed in ripping paper - and a massive smile everytime he got to the bottom of another gift.

Xmas Morning!

The night before christmas, sprinkling reindeer food on the lawn - we needed to be sure that they would know where to land.

Ta DA! The finished product - Santa was kind enough to deliver a slide, stairs, door and a sandpit full of toys!! The kids were just beside themselves.

and a nice shady spot to play when its hot.

Construction photo shoot!

We did not tell her to pose like this! she was just lying there and we took some snaps!