Hellooooooo HESTON

We have welcomed this adorable bundle of fluff into the house....

 

The kids both adore him - he is only 9 weeks old and his legs are so small for his little chubby shaggy body....

Garfield however doesn't really think much of the new family member.

 

'Mexican cat stand off" under the dining table.... hhhmmmm this could be interesting.

Garfield - our new family member

Meet Garfield...... our new family member.

He is 11 weeks old and so gorjus. 

Noel and I both vowed NO more pets after the hermit crabs, fish, frog, rabbits and guinea pigs as both Noel and I ended up looking after them all but after weeks of the kids wanting and pleading for a kitten guess who won????

He has definitely made himself at home and I have to admit that we all are mesmorized by him even Noel.

Cookies & Cream

Meet "Cookies & Cream" ~ she is our new rabbit. She's 12 weeks old and adorable.

After Alex's morning yesterday and the sad loss of Pumpkin, she wanted another rabbit to keep Muffin company (mind you there are two guinea pigs, Rocket and Patch) but as a parents the main thing is that your children are happy.

She proudly carried Cookies & Cream through the shopping centre and into the car, then took her to school to pick up Oliver - and although throughout the day she had tears there were quite a few smiles too... especially at the little fluffly white tail bouncing up and down with every hop.

New pets...

On Monday whilst at the pet shop purchasing some new plants for the fish tank the cutest guinea pig was spotted whilst walking past the enclosure. A tiny little thing it was, white with different brown coloured patches and only 6 weeks old.

That guinea pig, now named Patch, was purchased within minutes of the kids putting on the adorable "can I please have" eyes in the direction of their father!! Unfortunately there wasn't another female rabbit at that pet shop to even up the numbers.

So we left Passion for Pets armed with one guinea pig, 4 snails (for the fish tank) and 2 plants. And that's when all the driving around Melbourne started....

The next pet shop had a gorgeous fawn coloured rabbit, also six weeks old, a dwarf lop and Alex was in love. This rabbit also came with a nice price tag of $70 - yep you read correctly $70. Convinced we could find another cute rabbit that wasn't as expensive we then went to another 2 pet shops, only to be disappointed by the types and sex of the rabbits they had on offer.

Needless to say we returned to the little fawn coloured rabbit several hours later and her name is Muffin!


After our expensive adventure to buy plants for the fish tank we now have two happy children and two more additions to our family!!

My Family from WiddlyTinks.com

Getting back into the swing of things.....

I know I have been slack this last few weeks and have only been posting on a weekly basis but I have blown that out of the water now by having nearly a week and a half break between socialising within these blog walls.

So now it's a case of where to start.....

The reason for my slackness is the flu - NOT the swine flu. Just the flu. Infact I didn't work Monday and Tuesday only to return today. Feeling very run down but I must soldier on!

We have just about put the final little bits of our rearrangement into their new homes... the loungeroom got another reshuffle and it looks a lot better than the first arrangement. It's all starting to feel homely now which is good - one less thing off my ever procrastinating mind!!

On Thursday I received a shipment of a pallet, yes a pallet, of boxes containing chocolates. Cadbury's Freddo's, Camamello Koalas, Cherry Ripes, Crunchies, Boost and Time Out... a total of 256 boxes! Thankfully we don't eat that much chocolate at our place but geez I have chocolates everywhere. Please be aware these are NOT for us - these are for the football club fundraiser - we make really good profit out of them. The catch is that they need to be sorted into boxes of 8 flavours before distributing for sale. Last night Nazz and Jane (two lovely parents of club players) came over to help especially as I have been sick and are coming back tonight.

Friday night, Alex had a birthday party to go to. It was Shiryln's party and Alex actually went straight from school to Shirlyn's house so she had an extra long play. She was really happy about that. Oliver was picked up from school by Nana and Grandad and taken up to their house for a sleepover and when we picked Alex up from the party we took her up there aswell. They had a ball especially as Nana and Grandad have a Wii..... guess what they did all day???

Over the weekend, we picked up the fish tank that was on layby and Sunday went down as a family to choose a few fish each... the kids were really excited and chose there own 2 fish which of course are now sporting interesting names. We have 10 fish in total, one black moore, one pearlscale, one oriana, one bronze moore, two danio's and four white clouds. At the moment, it's a novelty with the kids, racing to feed them etc., standing next to the tank just watching but it will be interesting how they will go with the first clean and to whether or not mam will have to do that.

Another pleasing thing for us is the Under 11's won again... and they blitzed!! I believe the final score was 118 to 8 but after a team having a 70 point lead they do not continue to score.. but we did! LOL!! Nana and Grandad came down to watch also. Needless to say Dean was happy, Noel was happy, the team was happy and we have had our 2nd win for the season...