I don't do tornadoes!!

Feeling a little anxious while I lay in bed, my two girls beside me, listening to all the wind and rain outside. Normally I would enjoy this weather, but after QLD having 5 tornadoes (and counting) generated from the system creating this wind and rain we are getting now, I am feeling a little on edge ...

I just want to lay here and enjoy the sideways rain and howling wind ... My eyes just don't want to close ... Just. In. Case! :(

Feeling Hopeless!

That awkward moment you realize you have applied for about 20 jobs and not one single one of them even had the decency to tell you that your application had been denied ... Gaaaahhhh! So stressed, any job would make me happy :(

Sundays

I am falling more and more in love with this place the more time I spend here! Sunday fun is free fun! Spending the entire day at the beach with a packed picnic BBQ, no one complains they are bored, all you can hear is children's laughter, splashes in the waves and sand in your bum (yep, I said it!) ... At this point lifestyles don't come any better than this ...

Say what ... Did she just do that ...

Woke up this morning to a drizzly day, what is there to do on a drizzly day when you live at the beach?!?! Go to the beach still, silly!!! Dan really wanted to go for a surf. So off we went to the beach, Dan had a surf, but had to go out some way away, after having a week of perfect conditions, it would only seem natural that on his day off the conditions weren't the best that they had been having, he still got good go at it though, I just couldn't grab the happy snaps like I had hoped!
After he had finished his surf and he came back in Taylah asked if she could have a turn, we both agreed 'why not', Dan would be out there with her and they would stay closer the shore where the smaller waves were. Not in a million years would I have EVER imagined she would get up on the first day, let alone THE FIRST TRY!!! I would never be able to express the shock plastered across my face, it truly was a 'had to be there moment' ... She got up! She kept going! And going! She looked like a pro!!! I was jumping for joy for her on the shore, singing out at the top of my lungs "THAT'S MY GIRL" booyeah!!! She wasn't stopping any time soon either, she kept trying, barely missing a wave! Such a proud moment, she is such a natural at it, she was truly born to do it!!!

Guess what she wants for her birthday now ... Guess what she is getting ... :))))

First blog in my new home 

After a very frustrating and busy 6 weeks, we have finally arrived at our new home!!! As exciting as that sounds, it still made for a very busy and hectic Christmas eve and Christmas day! I am in no way complaining, I expected it to be that way, and as completely exhausted as I was, I admit to thoroughly enjoying every moment of it just knowing we would soon be relaxing in our new home!!! New Years came and we were still getting ourselves sorted, Christmas is usually Dan's busiest time of the year, so setting up was left to me to do on my own, not to mention the guests that made an appearance slowed the process down somewhat, that being said, I enjoyed having them here, just slowed things down :)

So here we are, a week into the new year and what seems to be a happy, settled little family!!! Dan's work has slowed down (from the 13-14 hour days he was doing anyway) and we have been able to all enjoy some time together as a family again. We have been off sight seeing, checking out all the different beaches (there is just sooooo many of them), walking through the new shopping centers, looking at all the different shops, driving around looking at all the little cafe's imagining which one might soon become our favorite little local spot for Sunday mornings! There is just so many of everything, so many choices, so many options, so much of so much!!! It's incredible!!!

The girls seem happy, we have looked at schools, public schools here are so far better than any private school I have seen up north, I just can't begin to imagine what the private schools would be like. Taylah has begged to start dancing classes again, and also asking to do cheer leading (no, I swear, this is all off her own back!!!), Felicity is still at the age where she can't choose her genre just yet, but as long as she is still having fun she will be happy! Dan and I decided long before we finally moved here we would put the girls into surf life saving, mainly so they can learn to read the waters down here and learn about the dangers.

So far our new life is looking great ... Our lifestyle has become quite carefree (well, to an extent anyway) and even on a rainy day the beach still looks like paradise to us. The only thing missing is our extended families ... But we are secretly working on it ;)