Christmas Craft Night

We had a lovely relaxing night sitting around with each other getting into the Christmas spirit!  Some of us made some really beautiful cards using things like the Cuttlebug & Stamping equipment - made us look like professionals!  Others of us were busy decorating balls and other shapes into sweet little christmas decorations.  They looked awesome!

In keeping with tradition, supper was really scrummy too (cheesecake, strawberries, chocolate etc!).

If you'd like to see a few more photos, you can view the album here.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Welcome Baby Tyla!

Yay!  Little Tyla safely arrived at 2.32pm on the 14th October 2011 via C-section.  Mum and baby have been resting up and are recovering nicely.

Tyla weighed in at 4020g (8lb 13oz) and was 56cm long.  She's a little honey.  Mikayla is a very adoring big sister, and enjoying doting on Tyla.

We look forward to having cuddles at WM.

A huge congratulations to you, Vivienne, Paul and Mikayla!

Think Pink!

Today we kicked off the term with a LOVELY morning tea to raise some money for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Lamington, White Chocolate Brownie with a pink ganache, Dark Chocolate & Berry Brownie, Marshmallows, Sprinkle Biscuits, Pink Grapefuit Juice & Julia's fab coffees!

Yummy!

Congratulations girls, today we raised $40!!!  It is such a good thing to be able to give to charities that effect women in our community!

Click on this link if you would like to know more about the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Welcome Baby Rawiri!

Amba had her little baby boy on the 7th of October at 11.50am.  Everything went really well, and Amba is recovering great.  We even got to cuddle this little newbie at WM today.  He's adorable.

Rawiri (or Arjay) Komene weighed in at a decent 7lb 14oz!

Congratulations, Amba & family!

Cool Cupcakes

What fun!  The kids loved playing with the icing - it was just like playdough afterall!  We (the children) decorated lovely cupcakes to take home for our dads and significant men in our lives to celebrate Fathers Day. 

I was quite surprised with how well they did, and really didn't need much help at all!  Check out the photo album here.

Welcome Baby Liana!

Little Liana Joy Fransham was born to Nicole on the 17th July at 5.12am.

She weighed in at a lovely 7lb 13oz (3530grams), and was 52cm long.

By now most of you will have a had a chance to oogle this little cutie, and perhaps even have a cuddle!
 
A huge congratuations to you and your family, Nicole!

Cupcake Decorating Night

Wow - we had so much fun labouring over these little beauties for a couple of hours!

Emma came and showed us the basic tricks of the trade to get started and she was so helpful!  Even learning little things like how high your cupcake should rise in it's case while cooking makes all the difference to the icing.

We experimented with a butter cream icing, a ganache icing and a cream cheese icing as the bases under our top layer of fondant icing.  They were yum!  If you would like the icing recipes, download them here.

We were amazed at the creativity that was evident in everyone's cupcakes.  They looked really cool!  A HUGE thanks to Emma for a really fun night!  (See the album for more photos.)