Over a month...This must be a Serious Blog Post!

Now where do I even begin!? 

I'm not even sure. So maybe I'll start off where we left off, which was the 11th of December when you had not yet received yourself a Christmas Tree!

It seems the Genius Mission Impossible worked to plan...because I see you got yourself an amazing tree not long after! WIN ;)

So every year we go as a family to see Santee Claus in the City with our super exciting de Valle cousins...as the years have gone past without you, we have managed to still have you there in various forms of stuffed animal (how sweet are we?!) 

If you look closely...you are a cute little hedgehog, Rich is a Gorilla and Jordana is a lambkin :)...."Lest we Forget"

 Skipping ahead a bit...fast-forwarding over the inhaling of a serious amount of food...we had a visit from a big fat man in a red suit...although since our man has been eating vegetarian for the past year, i dont think he could fit the quota very well :/ 

It was a very different Christmas...with sisters all over the place!! One of them decided to get up and leave to Tasi to visit some other important family (pffft)...one was off in the fairy land of Jetlag, and one of course was in Festive New York. (The other two were present and lively :) ) 

Santa was very modest this year and brought us one gift each. It was different, but nice. 

Christmas also fell on a Sunday!...so we got to go to church. Now i can see all of your faces now thinking "*sarcastic woo*...why would you want to go to church on such a busy family day?" ...well let me tell you, it was so wonderful! The spirit of Christmas was quadrupled, and sining christmas hymns with everyone was just the most beautiful thing :) 

and you may have enjoyed watching me attempt to walk up to the pulpit to conduct, in the shoes I received for Christmas which were just that LOT too high and required some epic conscious walking haha

So Nanna's house didn't have any Red Rooster this year...because some Ninny passed the food onto our Mum haha...so the food has swaped from greezy chicken and chips...to festive salads and roasted chickens (it was actually amazing) haha

Oh and dearest Grandpa was in full form, making lovely not-repeatable comments about christmas presents haha ...did i mention we got pyjamas?? ;) 

Grandma Nicoles was busy as it always is and was full of violent children running around with Pinata sticks :) 

It was a beautiful, busy and different christmas. and i loved it so much...but i would have loved it more with my complete family :)

Ok...so now i think i will dot point...because theres too much to throw into one blog! so its really not going to be too exciting!

- Boxing day: We ate more food! who would have thought!? 

- Convention: Mum, Dad and I went to convention in sweltering hot Licola! It was so much fun...but left me lacking so much sleep and a desire not to 'reach higher grounds' but to sit under shady trees and be lazy for the rest of my life :) 

- Post convention: You would have been impressed by my social-ness ...who is this woman staying up past 10.30!? 

-The Wind and the Willows: I'm sure Jordy will do a blog post on this for you! It sounded amazing! but i can't really elaborate 

- Barwon Heads: We definitly had the chance to relax! It was windy and rainy and cold..."Hello Summer"...

Jordy and I had some real adventures chilling in our tent getting wet through the MEGAstorm :/ ...and somehow we still managed to get super burnt! 
and just throwing this one in there because you may find it as entertaining as i did...our little cousins asked Mum where her eyebrows were. AHAHA

That brings us to today...I have so much to get ready today! Sometime last year a did a post on no longer being a caveman/woman! well i really hope i can write a similar one by the end of today! haha 

I miss you and i love you, and i'm so sorry this blog post is so random and bedraggled, BUT its 2012, so they can only get better from now on right??

In fact I just thought of one i can do! so be prepared ;)