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Giddy up cowboy

Yesterday saw the beginning of the Christmas parties in our world, but unlike the boozy inappropriate Christmas parties of years gone by, this was a nice family friendly break up for our playgroup. It took place at a local farm and saw the kiddos have a wild time riding ponies as well as brushing them and feeding them hay. Basically awesome. Not quite as awesome for the mummies and the babies though as it was a stinking hot day. O especially loved the pony rides. He wasn't the slightest bit scared and held on by himself the whole time. Very proud indeed.

How beautiful is my family? I am one lucky lady. But who is that masked boy?

And I definitely had to include this one of Evie. Every time I look at it she reminds me of someone...


In other Christmas news, we went up to Kmart the other day to put our presents under the wishing tree. We have started a tradition with the kids where each year they will donate a present to a little boy/girl the same age as them. Ollie has really gotten on board with this and he and Nick have been talking about the little boy who will get his present (a big yellow digger) and how he wouldn't get any other presents except the one Ollie got him (and the one every kid gets from Santa - eek tricky). Anyway, all was fine in theory until I bought the present home and he decided he wanted it, declaring "but its not fair!!!". Thankfully Nick was able to refocus him and he was more than happy to put the present under the tree. Evie wasn't so concerned about the baby present we bought. We also got some presents for grandmas and grandpas because apparently they often miss out. So if you are wishing tree-ing this year maybe pick up a couple of extra gifts for the oldies.



And today we started the 12 days of Christmas. Each morning Ollie gets a new little present in the lead up to Christmas day. Our version of an advent calendar (no yucko chocolate made in China) that started 11 years ago when I did the same thing for Nick. Today Ollie got a doctor's kit, which he immediately used to check out Evie. Moosey is currently bandaged and I've had my toes pinched by tweezers a number of times. Future doctor? Not so sure.


Mini Mayhem-wise we had a bumper week last week. I personally invoiced 11 shirts and I know that one of the shops sold 9 shirts (not sure about the other one). We had a shirt featured on the front page of madeit.com.au and also received a mention and a photo of the shirts in two online articles (bristyle.com.au and mustdobrisbane.com.au). The links are on www.facebook.com/minimayhemtshirts. Yay us!!

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