Another xmas catchup

Hello out there......hope you all had a good Xmas time with family or friends ☺

I whipped up a batch of these cookies.....

M&M type cookies which are really popular and very tasty......

I know some of you know my Mum is now in aged residential care, and here we are, on Xmas day with her holding the top I gave to her ☺♥ I did not make this one.......

After we left her we headed to my daughters house and the traffic going the other way was full on.....lucky for us, okay our way ☺

There she is with her man ♥

and again lol 

My man Paul , girl Sarah, grand-boy Sebastian and Shannon.....I did not get a photo of my other grand-boy Brandon......next time maybe ☺☺

And the lovely cat Dante'.....he had such a comical look on his face lol 

Leaping up for some turkey.....

The regal cat relaxing....

She has 3 cats and this one is Dexter......the other one looks almost the same and is called Sparrow, but he is a bit shy so none of him

He seemed happy sitting with Granny lol 

On one of our many walks while staying near my girl we came across HEAPS of tiny snails......heading somewhere lol 

And on Sunday we caught up with my youngest boy Ray, so were able to get a photo of my 4 all together.....Her, my oldest boy Rex who lives over 800 klm's away (drove down), my youngest boy and my middle boy Frank ♥♥♥

The wind was blowing and the sun was in their eyes lol 

Smile ☺☺

And here are all of us together and I guess you can see we are expecting a new grandbaby in the new year ♥☺☺

Here are all our names in order....Sarah, Shannon, Rex, Frank, me Wendy, Paul, Ray and Lauren his lovely wife ☺☺

Action shot with their dog Trixie who can run really fast lol 

Back at the motel for our last night and I opened up a cute little light up man which I bought for myself and is for reading books or maybe crochet.....

He is all bendable, and those lights sure are bright lol 

Just as we were leaving the motel this Cockatoo visited.....

I know Lucy from the UK would love to have one of these ☺☺

Hello Lucy xo

We are now back home relaxing after visiting Mum again......These are some slinky pyjama pants I made for myself ☺

A couple of burp cloths I have knocked up......

And these little shorts were given to my Sarah and they fit and she loved them ♥

They are a boys size 14 and she is tiny and fit her perfect ☺

I bought a black singlet and sewed some of the cat fabric to the front to match ♥

Well busy times sure have been had and now going to chill if we can.....the weather is going to be a scorcher for a few days so we have plenty of ice in the freezer while some of you over the other side of the world are sitting by blazing log fires......take my warmth PLEASE lol 

Thank you for dropping in and may you enjoy the new year ahead.....me, well I have a dentist appointment new years eve so that will NOT be fun......hey ho xoxoxo

Catching up with grandies etc

Hello, very warm here currently so not a lot of sock knitting happening but at least I am still working along ☺

Had a trip down and back to see my Mum and also caught up with one of my sons.....this is his meal of calamari which he shared with his little boy ♥

Young Misty enjoyed some Pumpkin Risotto 

There is Riley tucking into the Calamari ☺ 

Yesterday I decided I needed to knock up a batch of cookies.....I do love this frog my oldest boy gave me and the egg cage behind ♥♥

Some Smarties type lollies included ☺

All baked roughly 28 in total......some are going to the baby shower on Sunday so I can give to my youngest son and his very expectant wifey ♥

Also other food and drink and will post about that next week ☺

And that Dry Dan is happy on our kitchen window ledge drinking.....Weather is going to be in the low 30's Celsius till Monday at least, so trying to keep cool with a bit of sewing.

We have a Xmas get together with our van group tomorrow (Saturday)....also bbq for the Man's work which we will just drop in for and a 50mile market which we might also have a look at.....

Busy time of the year.......

How are you all going out there?

xoxoxoxo

Cooking and family visiting fun ☺

Welcome back, on Friday I decided to whip up a batch of M&M cookies/biscuits as we were going to have visitors for lunch ☺☺

I put in a little too much M&M's so the next batch will do half 

The recipe made roughly 40 cookies and if I made them a bit smaller would be HEAPS....going to make some more too because the van group we belong to, there is one guy who LOVES these so going to knock up some more to take on our little trip next week ☺☺

I also made this garlic and rosemary cob style loaf to have with the BBQ we were going to be having with those visitors ☺☺

I also boiled up some spuds to bake on Saturday as they crisp up real well just with some olive oil spray, quite healthy, these are also some low Gi spuds ☺

And had these wings marinating for a few days in my own concoction of mix to be also cooked in the oven, to have along side some BBQ steak and salad ☺☺

Some more birds have been drinking from my water dish, but not very colourful....

Where have all the fun bright coloured birds gone? Hope they appear here soon ☺

And LOOK yes my girl came to visit for the lunch on Saturday and look how tiny she looks next to my big sunflower ☺

She is about the same height as the smaller one lol

There is grand boy number 2 

And my girl's guy who is quite tall himself but dwarfed by this beauty lol 

A lovely group shot of the awesome foursome who traveled 160 klm's to spend the arvo with us ☺☺

A bit of attacking/friction went on with number 1 grand boy (who did not want to be photographed with the sunflower lol) and number 2

Hence why in this pic number 2 does not look happy lol We love all of these guys ♥

And me with them and they look happier separated by Granny and their mum lol 

Good to get a couple of photo's....and grand boy 1 is so tall now!

And could not forget the man himself who was barbecuing the onion/snag/steaks....which was all fabulous and everyone ate heaps, did not get any photo's of the cooked up food as we were having too much fun with the family ☺

It has been a great weekend here, how is it at our place?

See you all again soon xoxo