happy 2007.

Happy new year everyone! Its 10am, January 1st here and we've been up for an hour or so. We had a small gathering at our house last night with stevie, myself, mum and dad, wade and tracey and little ruby. We had enough food to feed a small army, with turkish bread, indian dipping bread, a beetroot dip (yummo), a sundried tomato dip, homous, a thai dip with cashews which is soo good, bbq halmoui cheese and then for dinner, chilli and lemongrass bbqed chicken, steak,onions, prawns, a cos lettuce dill and roasted pine nut salad, bruschetta, a balsamic tomato and onion side and berry and orange rind trifle with brandy cream and a chocolate mud cake with vanilla ice cream for dessert. We also had pineapple and ginger beer punch which was soo good.

We got a new fridge and freezer on thursday. It has the freezer at the bottom and fridge on the top and it makes everything sooo super duper cold, its awesome. Best thing is desa can't open it up! Our old fridge is on the deck as a beer fridge for stevie. At the momment it has about 40 pepsi max's and 30 beers in it. It was great last night having all the food ready to bbq in it. We rearranged our deck, so the fridge is near our bedroom door, and has a small trestle table next to it, the church pew is facing our bedroom door, our setting is in the middle and our bbq on the far left hand side. It looks really good.

Everyone came over around 7ish, Mum and dad had to leave at 10pm as mum had to start work at 5am. We all stayed up chatting, with little ruby being so good, she's the most beautiful baby, the boys and ruby when in and watched some david chappelle stand up comedy at about 10 and tracey and i chatted on the deck. At 11.30 we went down to the beach, it was pretty packed, there was a laser beam which you could see from our house, a dj playing mc hammer and rick james and funny 80's and 70's music with some bad 90's music mixed in, a jumping castle and ferris wheel. There was a stall selling glo sticks and 2007 elton john glasses and devil headbands and the like, so everyone had them on, it was a scene out of miami vice! It looked pretty as it was nearly a full moon and there was just a teeny bit of grey cloud cover which made it now quite black, and the fireworks were set off from a barge floating in morteon island. We were standing right infront of the barge and they were actually really good! I expected about 5 fireworks! but it went for probably about 15 minutes.

It was then a mass exodus out of there, and we were home and asleep for about 2ish. The fantastic thing is the house is spotless, my parents washed up for us and we have a mountain of good food and desserts to last us the next 3 days off!

We are having a really relaxed day today, its quite sunny and warm already, so maybe this afternoon we will go for a ride, well me ride, stevie walk around to scarborough beach, along the beach walk to redcliffe (where the really nice apartments are on the tree lined landsborough road).

We hope everyone has a fantastic new year and even better year ahead of them all. Wish we could see you all xxox

Here are some of the pics from xmas day.