Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope everyone had a great new years eve. We had a great new years eve & new years day. A bit of a lazy day to start off with yesterday as the weather was pretty bad. The Bodle's & McBeath's went snowboarding and we went to meet up with them in the afternoon. That was pretty scary because the visibility when driving was extremely bad, very scary!! Everyone got back safe and the new years eve party got started with some very tasty...

Up early today to head off to the snow. Max, Luke and Anker started the hard work of shoveling out the cars. We waited for the grader to come to clear the road. They finally came about 9 so Anker and Luke went for a drive to test out the road. They returned to tell us about the adventures of getting bogged and that the road was closed. So we were snowed in. We made the most of it and played in the snow with the kids and tried out some sledding again. We are all h...

Merry Christmas! Today was christmas day and we started the day off with the kids opening their pressies from Santa. Then we did brekkie followed by the rest of the presents. We were in charge of cooking the turkey, which turned out well considering we never cooked one before, hehe. We also had ham and lamb, a great Christmas feast. We had a few rounds of indoor mini sports and snowball fights. We also made some snowball pyramids with lit candles inside, which tu...

After a delayed flight from Australia to LA and a connection to Phoenix we finally met with Stacy and Luke and kids. Then we jumped in the car for a drive to Greer. We had a quick stop for dinner at a casino in the middle of no where then kept heading to the cabin. We were the last to arrive at the cabin. Mum, dad and the Bodle family had arrived before us and done all the hard work. The cabin was all decked out with lights, candles, the pantry was filled and of ...