Happy New Year

Hi All,

If you didn’t know already, I kept up an online Weblog – kind of like a diary – of our family activities for the year. Here’s a summary with all the links if you’re interested. It was a good experiment, and an interesting way of keeping up with all the stuff we did. There is much finer reading by going through the archive sets.

• In January we had the Crying Baby, and The First Day Of School.


• In February we had The Story of Wednesday (the Dog), Callum's so called First Word (and he still doesn't talk), and our favourite past time of Going to the Beach.


• In March we had Callum's Chickenpox, Sleepy Children, The Golden Crutch (one of my literary masterworks), and my first Taekwondo grading.


• April brought the first of the birthdays with Aidan's birthday, Stupid Faces, Our Melbourne Trip including Going to the Zoo with all the nieces and nephews, and Ethan having a Heart Attack at soccer.


• In May we had Six Strange Things About Me, Hell Morning followed by Aidan's Child of Courage Award, Anth's Birthday, and my first trip to the U.S. for the year.


• For the first part of June I was in the U.S., but I did have the good fortune of seeing my Sister and Her Family. On the return I got to see Callum Crawling and had My Birthday.


• In July, we saw what it was like to have Dinner at our Place, Discussed God, had Ethan's teeth fall out, and had Ethan's Sports Day.


• In August Ethan got the Taekwondo Student of the Month Award, I did the Bridge to Brisbane run (and paid for it for months!), went to the Ekka, Went to a Farm, and had Aidan's Sports Day.


• September brought forth Aidan's Charity Art Auction night, spring Callum eating Chocolate, and had Callum's First Birthday


• In October I went down to New South Wales to watch the AFL Grand Final with mates, Callum stood for the first time, I headed back to the U.S. again and wasn't home for Ethan's birthday, and Callum really got going walking.


• In November Ethan took up Auskick, we had family outings to the Park, and I got very very sick.


• Which brings us to December, where we've already had many trips to the beach, we completed nearly a whole year of Taekwondo (including with Snake!), we got our new Bird Beefy, and recently celebrated Christmas.

Cheers, Wes (and Anth, Aidan, Ethan, Callum, Wednesday and Beefy).

P.S. I haven't stopped completely, I'm going to attempt a new blog called I Love Brisbane. Check it out!