Category: Cade
Whitbourn Christmas 2013
we had a very busy Christmas – which was made even busier with us packing and leaving to go to PY Summer Camp first thing on Boxing Day morning.
Christmas Eve we went with Paps and Kath to dinner at Dragon Castle, which was the girls first time in a Chinese restaurant. They loved trying to eat with the chopsticks and loved the Dim Sims the best!
On Christmas morning we woke up and opened our presents – the girls each received a suitcase which was pretty cool. We then went off to Church and then went over to the Cousins house for lunch. There was about 19 people for lunch.
After that we came home for a rest and then went out to the weir for Dinner at Naa and Poppas house.
After that we had the best week at Summer Camp learning about how Jesus is supreme over everything. It was a wonderful week.
Birthdays!
We had some more birthdays – Tally and Cade. The good thing is that they are only 2 weeks apart so we left the decorations up for both of them to enjoy…
Tally had her 6th birthday which meant she was on a party year. We had 5 of her friends over for a party – they had a great time.
Cade went for his annual “run the amount of kms of the age that you turn”. We got him a fire – which we have all enjoyed!!!
Pippa on her upcoming birthday
Talia Rides
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today we
attended a beautiful wedding for Sam and Hannah.
too busy for any formal photos – this is the best we could do!
Fathers Day
“its a very special day..”
Girls ready with their gifts for Cade
Having a Daddy huggle
Playing “the funnest game with Poppa” that involves throwing cushions until you wrestle
Happy Birthday Cade!
We celebrated Cades birthday earlier this month –
Mothers Day 2011
I was excited about Mothers Day – but Maisie was even more excited! She made me a necklace at pre school and could hardly contain her excitement as the day drew near!
Here are me and the girls having a very rushed present giving moment before running off to church.
Our Day at Blowering
In January when the Stevens/Shanahan family had their annual pilgrimage to Blowering, I decided that we would take a day trip up to visit Naa and Poppa at camping! So, Aunty Jacq, the girls and I left Albs at about 7am to get up there for morning tea. As soon as we arrived the girls wanted to go swimming, so we had a quick bite to eat and then went down to the water for the rest of the morning. We stayed until after lunch and then traveled home so the girls could nap in the car. It was a great day – everyone had fun and didnt want to leave “camping”.
Pippa kicking back relaxing
Alice being a mermaid
Pippa having a nap
Tally and Aunty Jacq going on the biscuit
Maisie having a drive of the boat
Maisie and Lisa on the biscuit
Phil, Fleur and Shawn doing cool tricks
Alice, Aunty Jacq, Tally, Naa, Aunty Fleur and Maisie having a swim
Finishing off the day with a dance routine for Naa and Poppa
Happy Birthday!
Cade turning 31.
Nailed the Nail Can Hill
John, Cade, Stuart, Lincoln & Hannah all raced in the Nail Can Hill run last weekend.
This is the before photo as they got ready to head off to the start at 9am.
The race is 11.3 kms up and over Nail Can Hill and finishes over at Bonnie Doon Oval in West Albury.
Funny thing is that the photo represents the order in which they finished the race!
John, 47:54 mins
Cade, 48:55 mins
Stuart & Lincoln 65:09 mins
Hannah 77:31 mins
That’s a man in pain
Another reason why I run
This is a new one. Should I be concerned?
and 30 he now is
Cade has been waiting to turn 30 for a few years now, and it finally arrived over the weekend. He celebrated over pretty much the whole weekend, with a dinner out on saturday night, a 30km run on sunday morning to celebrate the 30ishness and then cake and presents on sunday afternoon.
We placed a marathon type of ribbon across the finish line of the 30km run.
Cade finishing the 30km run at 8:30am
Birthday cake time!
Present time!
For the record, I ran 30km in 2hrs and 35mins
-Cade.
Lake to Lagoon 2008 course
UPDATE: Placed 15th in a time of 37:21mins.
Hopefully I will get a chance sometime this week to go for a jog along the course to remind myself of all the ups and downs.
For the record, I placed 14th last year with a time of 36:55mins. But I honestly don’t expect to perform anything like that this year.
It's been a year already…
But I still get a kick out of scaring the kangaroos away when I arrive for work.
It’s been a year already…
But I still get a kick out of scaring the kangaroos away when I arrive for work.