NEW YEARS ON NORFOLK ISLAND...see ya in 2009!!!

Yep, Thats right,Therese with her ever vigilant scanning of the of the SMH travel section and the NRMA newsletter has jagged us a week on NORFOLK ISLAND.

Airfare, a car and a weeks accomodation on this secluded island where everyone has the same surname Christian.We will be diving ,reading and just plain laying flat for 7 days. Total $ 750 pp flying out of NEWCASTLE via our own special airline JETSTAR....Ahhhh FUNTASTIC !!!

WHITE POINTER

Cruz can now open all those off limits containers with the NEW PEARLIES...he chomped into some blockout and then chewed a hole in a freezer brick...LETHAL power cords and poisons are like a magnet to these critters.Play with the toys approved by safety standards...NAH !!! give me a power board,remote and jagged bunch of car keys..ANYDAY !!

CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2008

Mike encourages Therese to continue the NZ POI twilling demostration PRE LUNCH

THE LOOT

Of course we stopped the consumerism every now and then to eat cheese etc

Therese in the new robe....post POI demonstration

THE LOOT

Christmas Lunch 2008

Maree GUARDING the food from "pickers"

Mums Apple Pie...The ORIGINAL

Mike wated to show us all his new underwear...BUT...It was a joke...he has actually had his tortos tatooed with stripes...innovative

Christmas Lunch 2008...Therese made a FANTASTIC lunch

Mum camme thriugh with the APPLE PIE that killed elvis

CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2008

We invited rics grandma in for desert


The perfect hosts

A non christmas present for Mike. It was a photo doco of his 1/2 marathon at Forster
Cruz's TEAM MORTLOCH jump suit also included. What t buy an aspiring TRIATHLETE for Christmas.
EASY....We have bought JUSTINE NORRIS gold medal Olypian to coach his swimming...PERFECT !!

RIPPIN OPEN PACKAGES

CRUZ...like all other kids.Prefered to play with the wrapping paper and boxes

Oh Yes we all liked the "LOOT" !!

...and of course I was able to give GIFTS that truely HIT THE SPOT with my "NEW" children.....

....I was able to give Maree some useful gifts...When she decides to start dating.
A compact which has a small secret compartment that holds items made out of latex.

Here she asks older brother why they a all bumpy and rough.

Mike reads the instructions of the new underwear I got for him...
"Belgium Chocolate" my favourite he said. No Mike you are not the one that eats them.

Maree said "Cool, my dance tights have a hole in them....OH but so do these"

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL