Happy New Year

We are still home in Australia enjoying some downtime as a family of four before I head back to work in the not too distant future. Although not all of us are relaxing in the sun (on the rare occasions it shows up... bloody Victorian weather), Naz is still working this month at the fire brigade and is spending a lot of time travelling between the beach house and work.

We enjoyed a fabulous Christmas and New Year with family - lots of kids, food, drinks, laughs and the usual interesting moments.

Our Internet access has been very intermittent but I will try and put up a few more posts this week of our time in Australia.

Cousins

It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas...

On the 1st December Santa sent Piper an early present. When she woke she found this Elf and storybook on her chair.

Santa has sent Max the Elf to live with us and report if Piper and Frankie are naughty or nice. Every night he flies back to the North Pole to report to Santa, Piper can also tell Max any wishes she has and he passes them onto Santa. Every morning Piper has to find Max and we put him back on his shelf for the day. 

Unfortunately it turns out our Max is a rather cheeky and mischievous Elf and has turned our house upside down over the past week. Below are the antics of Max over the past 10 days.

1. Max destroys the nursery     2. Toilet papered the staircase     3. After a couple of late nights Max took a nap

4. Connect 4 fun and games                              5. Max stole chocolates from her advent calendar... this caused tears

Piper decided to take control on night 6 and trapped Max under the laundry basket before she went to bed.... unfortunately Max's magic was too strong and he escaped and trapped all of the toys from her bed..... oops Max made Piper cry again!

7. Green milk anyone??     8. Piper's bear decided enough was enough     9. Scooter fun with Baby Molly

(P.S. I have had lots of queries as to where Max came from - in Australia PotteryBarn Kids are the stockists, in the UAE I purchased direct from the USA via souq.com)

Our Christmas in Dubai

It was a very different Christmas this year and sadly it was all over far too quickly as the UAE is a muslim country we had to take annual leave for Christmas Day and Boxing day and now I am back at work.
But we made the most of our time and enjoyed good food, great company and lots of drinks... oops I mean laughs! Here are a few snaps of our Christmas fun!

Decorating our Christmas cookies and preparing for our Christmas Eve Party!

All partied out!

Christmas Morning....

Morning cricket match with friends to get the day underway, followed by lunch in the Burj Khalifa!

When in Rome.... I mean why not play cricket in a park at the foot of the world's tallest building!

Piper and Laura preparing to field



Playing with her new scooter from Santa

We finished our Christmas day off with a trip to the beach and some aggressive beach soccer



Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas with lots of laughs and fun like ours xo