sorry Ive not posted anything for a few weeks but we've had trouble with the Internet because when we arrived in Australia we signed up with a company called telstra for the phone Internet and foxtell and ever since we have hat nothing but trouble with them over the Internet package we have had 3 bills in the since the 25th Sept bill 1 $39.99 bill 2 $127.00 and bill 3 $1014.00 and here they pay there bills every month so Greg has been in to the shop a few times to try and sort it out and every time he is told that the bill has been wiped clean but it still shows on the Internet that we owe it I'm shore that we will sort it out soon also we are not the only people to have this problem so if anyone is thinking of coming to Australia shop around.

this week we have had a few bad days both with the family and the weather on Saturday the day started off good we were going to have a nice day out looking for my Christmas present i will tell you about this in a minute anyway we were all set to go out i was getting the kids ready and next thing we hared a bang i looked up and looked at the TV and there was a big crack in the screen with it being a LCD TV it looked like it was a cartoon crack as we were watching cartoons at the time but it was the TV that was cracked so you can imagine what happened next it turns out that callum , Caitlin and Megan were stood in front of the TV and Connor asked them to move and they wouldn't so threw the remote at callum at this point callum moved and it hit the TV so that was a $1000 TV down the drain so we had to go out and buy another $1000 TV at this point i didn't want to get another TV i sat and cryed and i could quite easily got on the plane back home so none of them got any treats that day.

MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT
after the TV incident and i stopped crying we went and got the TV and then we went and got my present you will never guess what Greg got me ?

he got me a new ford fiesta its coming tomorrow you are probably thinking i didn't now that she could drive the answer is i Can't so that's my next job to learn to drive the only thing is Greg is teaching me you can imagine what my first lesson is going to be like he will probably give me one lesson and not want to give me anymore so wee will see i will keep you up dated with my progress .
christmas feels funny here we are not used to having sun at christmas alot of people here have got there christmas decorations up already back home we only put ours up a few days before because they didnt last very long in our house by boxing day there would be nothing left of the tree anyway ive go on for long enough goodbye
hi marie and philip how r thing i hope philip is feeling better tell him we are thinking of him say happy birthday to vincent for us
hi pauline how r you rachel and baby? tell chris hello

a few pictures for the family

and here is greg with his new toy 



hi mum here is the pictures you asked for this is my house

FIRST BBQ

hi again as i said in my last post callum was going to his friends house on Friday he went and he really enjoyed himself on the Friday i had to go to school to pick Megan up so i waited until callums class came out just to make sure callum was still going and to pick his bag up he came out of class with his friend and he looked so grown up him and a few of his friends stood all together i don't really think he wanted me there showing him up but i suppose it could have been worse i could have kissed in front of his friends.
we also got our first BBQ and table and chairs i spent 2 hours yesterday putting the BBQ together nothing is simple in Australia everything comes flat packed and once id put it together it was a nice night so we decided to have a BBQ just me Greg and kids so Greg went shopping on his way home for the food the BBQ. the one we got is a gas BBQ so when we got it we got a gas cylinder as well so anyway we connected the gas cylinder to the BBQ and tried to turn it on and it didn't work so we tried everything to get it to work but it just wouldn't work it was a good job it was just us and not a house full so Greg ended up cooking the food inside so today we went back to the shop we got it from and asked about the gas cylinder it turns out you pay Kmart $40 for a empty gas cylinder and then you have to take it to petrel station and pay another $30 to get it filled so tonight we had our FIRST BBQ apart from Greg burning everything it was fine . this afternoon we also went to Megan's friend birthday party we thought we could drop her off and then pick her up later but that wasn't the case they invited us all to stay Ive never been so bored in my life but it was good for the kids all that junk food and fizzy pop and at the end when they gave out the party bags full of sweets i understand now why they got a bouncy castle there was about 12 manic kids running around and 4 of them were ours so you can imagine whet the journey home was like and to top it off i ended up with about 15 mozzie bites so I'm in pain at the moment i think that's all for now i will add some more soon . HELLO PHILIP AND MARIE HOW ARE YOU COULD YOU FIND OUT IF SUZANNE GOT THE GIFT WE SEND BECAUSE IF NOT I WILL HAVE TO CONTACT INTER FLORA TO FIND OUT WERE IT IS THANKS AND HOW IS LITTLE VINCENT DOING

HI PAULINE HOW ARE YOU ?
AND HOW IS RACH AND BABY DOING