TOY SALE and MOVIES!!!!

Well, we braved the toy sale again for another year and it was all done within an hour. My great friend Katie was my partner in crime again. (Thankyou xxx) While I also had two other wonderful friends Leeann (with Wade (my Godson) and Parker) and Lesley (and her daughter Sally) come to stay at my house for the week from Nanango. to do their toy shopping too. (Thankyou xxx) Lesley was kind enough to offer to look after Nate for me while we shopped. We have secrets to our madness which I'm not sharing (Sorry;(( but our military mission toy sale begins on Wednesday and finishes an hour after the shops open on Thursday. I dropped the kids off super early (6:30am) at kindy and preschool with their breakfast in hand, and proceeded to the shops by 7am to be lined up first at the door at 7:15am. We knew what we wanted and grabbed everything by 8:15am (thanks to Sally who was our bodyguard for the toys), after the shop opened at 8am. Luckily, Katie my speedy gonzales grabbed the only two plug and play cars games in the shop or we would have missed out as all K-marts didn't get many. After K-mart we proceeded to Big W for the rest of the list then we enjoyed a well earned cooked breakfast and large coffee!!!! All birthdays and Christmas pressies done for another 12 months. It sounds like a military mission to do every year but secretly we all enjoy the thrill of it:)) and the bargains are way TOO GOOD to pass up - only way we afford all the pressies;-)
I have also been shopping the Winter clearance sales and have picked up some bargains for neices- Jayda and Ruby aswell as Nate. Myer were having 25% off the marked down price and Target have some great bargains at the moment too.
Our other big event this month was taking the kids on a Surprise!!!! We took them to the shopping centre telling them we were going to a surprise. We got about 5 metres from the cinema entrance before Kadence clicked and said "Are we going to the movies????" when we said yes and we thought you'd like to see Ice Age 3 we had 2 verrrry excited children jumping up and down in the trolley. They were awesome in the movie and enjoyed the whole thing. We shared a large popcorn together and had water bottles. It was cheap Tuesday so cost $30 all up with popcorn. We usually have "movie" night together on Saturday night with the family movie on TV, we dim the lights and have popcorn after dinner, the kids will understand our family movie experience at home a lot more now. Nate continues to grow and has grown out of the 000 sleep suits I have borrowed for him. My good friend, Suzanne, has suggested a heater in his room instead of laying out more money for sleep suits or sleeping bags, so I will try that tonight. Nate has started waking up every night around 2am only once a night and feeds then goes back to sleep. But I'm thinking he is getting cold!!!! Our beautiful daughter Kadence also competed in her first Eisteddford. She got wonderful comments, danced a solo by herself on stage, some girls in her competition were 6years old (Kade is 4years old), she got 67 points and 1st place got 82 so she did really well. Some updated pics of the kids................and our movie adventure. Mummy is hoping Nate will LOVE the jolly jumper because preparing dinner will be so much easier then ;) The one of Nate falling is a classic shot of his fear face LOL