Christmas Part I

This Christmas is going to have to be written up in instalments. Darron is on leave at the moment, two weeks, over Christmas and New Year! First time in 10 years! So we decided that rather than spend Christmas driving all over the country side we'd go to Rosedale this year and start alternating years. We had already celebrated with Dad and Trish and Paul, Melissa, Bella and Ave, Tenealle, Steve and Jack and Tim & Beck a couple of weeks ago, due to a couple of my siblings heading to QLD for Christmas.

Mum and Ed came over the day before Christmas Eve to give Coen his pressies! (I got some too! Darron had already received his golf bag a couple of days before to make packing easier!)

Coen got some fantastic Thomas toys and cooking equipment, but most important was the wheelbarrow!

Which he used to tidy up all the wrapping paper. Those Coen sized work gloves are too cute!

Then on Christmas Eve we packed up both cars, Coen and me in the Territory with all the luggage, Darron and Riley in the Barina! Coen discovered early in the trip that he could halt the convoy by simply requesting a potty stop. Within the first 15km we had stopped 4 times so he could use the potty at the side of the road. I think he enjoyed the power trip immensely! We stopped in at Dad's where Riley disrupted Shakes' bath by jumping in and out of the water, and eventually made it to Rosedale where Riley jumped in and out of the pond, possibly scaring the new fish to death!

Dayle and I had some fun with Mawson, and Wendy took some fabulous shots of him with her new camera! Then we settled in and waited for Santa to come!

Jen