Time flies.....

Ok Ok Ok its been a month.
But let me state my defense! The last post was the 3rd of October I think...on the 5th Justin's grandmother on his mother's side passed away.  She has been pretty sick for a year now so it wasn't really out of the blue but it is still shocking.  She was already in Perth in hospital, she has two children - Justin's mum who lives over on the east coast of Australia and Justin's uncle who lives in Carnarvon.  So we made a mad dash down to Perth, Wednesday after work we drove 5 hours to Geraldton, stayed with friends then drove the rest of the way to Perth on Thursday getting there at lunchtime.  The funeral was Thursday afternoon and then we drove the 9 hours back to Carnarvon with Justin's mum on Friday.  Somehow in between all this we managed to clear a space in our spare room so we could have his mum stay with us for a week.

This photo was taken back in 2007 but it was a great day! We met up in Sydney after coming back from the US.
It was really good having Heather stay with us, we ate lots of delicious things and drank lots of wine! I wish she could come more often.... Yes I know you are reading this! Come back!!
While Justin's mum was here it was his 28th birthday.  It was really nice for him to have his mum around for the celebrations.  We had my mom come over for birthday dinner and presents.  Birthday dinner was Pioneer Woman's steak with blue cheese sauce and desert was Nigella Lawson's gingerbread with fresh ginger.  DELICIOUS.
Heather went back to Queensland a few days later and then it was onto Mom's 60th!!!
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A great time was had by all.  Between the gin and tonics, halloween decorations, beer, cheeses, beaches, sheep, skewers, roos, fourwheel driving, sharks, wine, cooked breakfasts, presents, turtles, champagne and orange juice, olives, mussels, beer, swimming, fishing, beer, bbqs, falling asleep listening to the ocean and beer there was a bloody good time had by all.
In between all this happening I will admit that I MAY have forgotten the password to this blog and had what we Australian's call a 'dummy spit' trying to navigate through the not-so-helpful help pages to figure out how to reset the damn thing.