Happy New Year and where did the last month go?

Ok, it's a bit embarassing to get an email from your dad asking how he's supposed to know what's happening when I don't keep my blog up to date so here's a bit of what's happened in the last month:

Christmas of course and all that entails such as carols at the school, carols at the local park followed by fireworks which were fantastic as always.

Busy busy busy with preparations for christmas day. We borrowed my BIL's marquee to put out the back with the plan that we would set up a table under that but with the Melbourne weather the coldest and wettest it has been for a long time we actually ended up inside. I was a bit worried about fitting us all in but we managed with a couple of trestle tables, bench seats and assorted other seats.

Lunch was delicious with smoked salmon for entree followed by hot roast turkey, hot roast beef, hot roast potatoes, various salads and lots of wine. Desert was christmas pudding (and I only needed one in the end so am thinking about christmas in July for the other one), white chocolate and raspberry tarts and mixed berries, icecream, brandy custard and cream. No wonder we couldn't move afterwards.

Boxing day was a very very quiet day. In fact most of the rest of the week was pretty quiet.
Since then, I've taken the girls shopping to Southland to spend their christmas money, we've been to the pool for the day and generally just pottered around.

We had dinner at a friend who lives just up the road for New Year but got back home at about 11.30 and just watched the countdown on tv.

Have done absolutely no scrapping but am about ready to start again.

Hope you are all having a wonderful New Year so far with lots of completed projects to inspire me with!

Will try to get some photos posted later.