It's begining to look a lot like Christmas..

All sorted for Chirstmas this year. 

For the first time ever!

í got the bulk of the gifts in July and have just been paying them off, even the Parents gifts..

I've picked about half of it up and have gift wrapped them. Just need to collect the next lot mid Dec and then gift wrap them.

We sold j's bike, he just wasn't using it since he got his new car. I'm sure he will get a new one in a couple years.

So yeah, less than 4 weeks till Christmas and all organised! Even had a chat about what food we will buy over christmas, like extra treats and sea foods etc..

So just a home day for us, probably have a BBQ at home just the 4 of us and head off to the beach.

Then the mum in law and her hubby are coming over for 3 weeks in Jan, so that should be great for the kids to spend some time with their grandma. I'm sure they get sick of being with the 2 of us all the time!

Then we are all heading off on a holiday which is what im really looking forward to, not had once since Jan of this year and really looking forward to heading off on a bit of a road trip for a week.

So yep Christmas, and a crazy week leading up to the last week before.  I have Miles' orientation to Prep at his new pre-school/ school.  He's going to the Hills Grammar School and they have just opened a Pre-shcool for 4 yr olds, as a prep to the lead up to him starting Kindy the year after.. The Pre-school at the top of the street we live in now is so crappy, they just leave them to their own devices so i really don't want him to go there next year.. so we went and got his uniform and he is so excited to start in jan - 2 days a week!
SO we have orientation for that on the Tuesday the 12th, then we have Playgroup Christmas party, so have to rush over for that the same day after orentatin finishes.
WE also have his current Pre-school leaving party that same day which we just cannot attend, i've tried to work out whats best to go to and what he will enjoy the most and as much as i would like to do all 3, they just overlap in time and Greta will have to miss her day sleep, its just not possible..

Monday we have a pantomime at the library that i took the kids to last year and was really good fun, so going to that again.

Wednesday we have our Playgroup party.

Thursday is Christmas story time at our local library, stories and songs and crafts and snacks, looking forward to that.

And next Monday is Miles' music calss concert - he has to learn 3 songs, jingle bells being one, which he has mastered half of, and 2 others.. one he knows and the other is a new one we have to learn this week.

So yeah busy busy lead up to Christmas, glad we have a week off over Chritmas!

Weight loss wise im going good.  im donw 12.5 kgs since mid September when i started so im happy with that.

i'd love to lose another 3.5kgs before Christmas to take me under the 15kg mark, but we will see.I'm trying really hard so i hope to make it.. still another 25 or so to go after that! But im making good progress and am well on my way so im happy.
Fitting into so many more clothes that i had got too big for, so thats great.

Its warm here at the moment, very unlike last year, it was stinking hot last year, had so many days over 40 degrees C.
This year is so much cooler, well it gets hot and then gets nice and cool again.. which is good as i do love it hot but last year was a killer as we didn;t have any air con units!
This year we have bought 2 new air con units.  We have one installed in the kitchen/family room.. so thats fantastic! somewhere to cool down :) and we have 1 on the way in via courier,we orderd it about 3 weeks ago and still waiting for it to arrive!
That will go in the bedroom, the we want to get 2 fans, one for each of the kids bedrooms and just have 1 more to get then to do the rest of the house, but that will be a big one so will have to wait till next year for that one.
Least we have a couple anyway, so thats more than we had last year.

Ok all for now.

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A few pics

Just some pics from the last couple of weeks.

Miles in his new pre-school uniform, he starts 2 days a week in Jan.

A couple from a trip to the beach over the weekend.

And at the Fairies concert.

10 kilo's

So i've lost 10 kgs this past couple of months, just over 10 actually - really happy with that.  I started in mid Sept and here we are on the 2nd day of November. 
I have a few more i'd like to lose before Christmas, about 8 or so, but see how we go..

Main thing i've been doing is lots of walking, i've cut back a lot on the 'crap i eat' and have been walking walking walking...seems its paying off.

Oh and i had a little win on the Melbourne Cup ! i let Miles pick a horse for me - and it won!

No news really, had a playgroup meeting last night where i once again put my hand up to be the co-ordinator, so that will take me through till next year, and then i go back to work the year after that (2013) so may hand over the reigns to someone else then - but im happy to keep doing it another year.. good to be involved in the kids activities.

Got a secet santa gift for a Mum i am involved in a mums group with - and along with a few other little gifts a friend had made for me, i put them on the top of the car while i got the kids fastened in and drove away with it on the top of the car !! needles to say i lost the whole lot - along with some craft i had done with the kids - so so cross at myself, and now have to go get a new SS gift and not to mention the lovely hand made items i had made for me as a gift - so cross with myself!

In other news, i  think jonathan has sold his motor bike - after his crazy friend messed us around, one minute he wanted to buy it, the next he didnt, then for some odd reason he thought it a good idea to bid on it ont he site we were trying to sell it on and almost messed it up for us again!! Honestly, who does that!
So anyway we have someone coming to see it tomorrow night with a view to buy it.

Other than that - just ploddind along till Christmas really - i have pretty much all the gifts bought for everyone.. Im really happy with that.  Its all on lay-by, even got Miles' gift from my parents a- a bike - on lay-by at the bike shop. 
Mother in law has deposited money into the kids accounts so i will go and get their presents - Miles is getting his pre-school uniform for pre-school next year.

Ok thats about it, best go get the kids dressed for Playgroup.

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