Happy 2006

Well Christmas and New Year came and went pretty fast! I didn't even write about them. Here's the brief of it:

Christmas Day
We spent Christmas morning together, just the four of us. We opened all our presents and had a Christmas breakfast together. Eli got a bike, Clayton got a big table with trainset and other things. I gave Janene some hubcaps (cos I ordered some beading stuff for her from ebay but it never came on time).

Janene actually loves her new hubcaps! She'd told people at work "all I want for Christmas is a new hubcap", since she had lost one of them one day and the car lost it's appeal.

I was thrilled with my cordless drill, and soon got busy doing lots of little jobs with it, like hanging some curtain rods.

Of course we all got other pressies to play with, but those were the big ones.

Afterwards we went to Aunty Di's house and had a Christmas lunch there with all the cousins, aunties and Pop. The cuzes played some "backyard cricket". I got sunburnt, but the fact I clean bowled Michael and Craig made it worth it.

Boxing Day
I took the boys out to the farm, and along with Juanita, Ted, her boys and his two kids, we all went crayfishing with Pa. We got a couple of buckets full, we threw back the small ones and cooked the rest. There were actually more yabbies than we felt like eating.

I got more sunburnt.

New Years Eve
The regular event again, we had dinner at the Radburn's house with other church folk. It was a good time to catch up, eat lotsa food and watch illegal fireworks over the back fence.

There were lots of good little discussions going on as the night progressed, and Patty Arnis sat glued to Napoleon Dynamite. I'm not sure how much a guy from Papua New Guinea with limited english skills would get from that movie, but he sure watched it right through!

As usual too, Flo Sunderland saw the new year in. She may be the oldest church member, but she's really a stayer... or a goer... or whatever.

Well at midnight we watched the display of fireworks on TV... and imagined what else those millions of dollars could have be used for. Oh well.

We saw the new year in with a prayer led by Cpt. Chris Radburn.

RESOLUTIONS?
So, I didn't bother making any New Years Resolutions, because I still have last year's to keep. I know what they are... they're private.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!