Christmas 2011

Well where did 2011 go, before we new it Christmas was upon us and for us it was extra special. For the first time we had Brian's two younger granchildren Olivia 10 & Jamie 5 and their mum have Christmas lunch with us, they live in Qld and are not too far away from us, we had a lot of fun and laughter a lovely summery lunch as it was so hot and then the present opening time. They all left around 1.30pm as we had to drive to the airport to collect the best Christmas gift any mother could get, the arrival of my darling daughter Yasmine along with her partner Adam (now fiance as they became engaged on Christmas Day) and our darling grandson Rory age 5. This was to be a fleeting visit only as they could only stay for 4 days. On arrival at Brisbane Airport it was no sooner through customs and into the car for the 1hr drive north to home. Rory fell asleep in the car on the way home and never woke until Boxing Day morning, when we then had our Christmas of exchanging gifts etc. We had a pool out the back and Rory and his dad had alot of fun and laughter in there. The dreaded day arrived and we had to take them back to the airport to get their flight home, I hate the goodbye bit. Although it was not too bad as we would be seeing them in a few weeks as a surprise for Rory we would be flying over early February for his 5th birthday and to see him start school - more on that in the next post.