January

Sydney Christmas Holiday continued...

I love photos of my family!

The boys love their Poppy, and his 'poppy juice'

And all the attention from Mamar and Uncle Maxi

There is something about cousins, it doesn't take long for them to connect!

Even when they have never met before.

Our blondies

This excitement for the water heading toward his mouth only resulted in a mouth full of sand and salt... poor kid.

Loads of fun at the beach with all the family digging, playing and laughing non stop!

The beginning of his crazy (bogan) hair

Josiah's Blessing

The big cousins...

Can't help but think of Jony when I see Ashton in this photo!

And no visit to Sydney is complete without an ASADO.

Bailey gets his first lesson in the art of cooking an Argentinian style BBQ with Lelo

Gabe introduced us to Entraña, a new love. We just need to learn how to cook it as well as he does!

Yaya, even with all that she had been through still showed us so much love by making this beautiful pastry on our last night.

We are so blessed to be part of such great families!

Christmas

Temple Lights

Poor Chase had a rough time with his skin before we left for Sydney

...and an even worse time at my parents after somehow climbing over Jony and falling out of bed in the middle of the night on boxing day! Nothing a bit of tape couldn't fix and thankfully it healed quite quickly.

About a month later.

Trying something different this year, my family decided to stay in Sydney and do day trips rather than camping or cabining. So Sydney aquarium (along with many amazing lego statues), Sydney wild life and Manly ocean world for the kids.

THEN Lindt and Brassa for the 'grown ups'.

With only these little ones and the rest with a great and much appreciated baby sitter, we headed out to a delicious and loud restaurant... perfect for our noisy and fussy bunch.

All you can eat everything, Brazilian bbq straight off the skewer (just name what type of meat and they have it) and a lovely variety of delicious salads... with 'palmitos', my favourite! Followed by banana fritters and cinnamon coated bbq pineapple... yum!

Great night!

Happy faces all round...

We loved being with all the family at Christmas!

December

Family photos

Family Fun

Christmas Boxes

Fishing

St Nick's Day

Yayo's 90th