Messages By: ceders2

How's things with you all? Hope you and your's are all doing well right now.

Well as you all know, Mark is now home and it's sooooo good to have him back home, thats forsure!

We went and picked him up from the airport last Thursday and Stephanie was so very happy to see her Daddy, and her Mummy was very happy to see her Hubby!

Stephanie has her final week at school this week and then she will be on School Holidays until the end of Jan next year. Here in Australia, the school year starts at the end of Jan and finishes just before Christmas. The school children all get about 6 weeks off at this time of the year.

Mark is doing great and is very glad to be back home of course. He only has to go to work this week for afew half days and then he is on Leave until he starts work on the 19th of Jan, at his new posting.

We move out of where we are now, from the 5th to the 7th of Jan and then move into our new house on the 15th of Jan. So, not that long now really.

Well you all Take Care and will be here again soon, Love Kelly.

Hi and how's things with you all? Hope you're all getting into the Christmas Spirit by now! Yes I know, Glad Christmas only comes once a year,lol!!

Well we have been very busy here getting things cleaned up really to move early in the new year, Mark and I have been washing windows, flyscreens, window tracks and fans, all very hard work, especially as Mark has had to replace nearly every flyscreen wire. It's not that we've gone and put holes in each one, just some of the flywire is quite old and when Mark started cleaning them, they started to fall apart.

Anyway, we are finished for today, thank goodness I say!

Well I'm not too sure if I will be on here again before Christmas, so I would like to wish each and everyone of you, A Very Merry Christmas and hope you all have a great day.

You all Take Care, Love Kelly.

Hi and how's things going for you all? Hope you are all doing well and had a great time over the Christmas period.

We are doing fine, be it that we've been busy busy busy getting things done around here in order to move next week.

I just wanted to take a 5 minute break to wish all of you, A Very Happy, Healthy and Safe 2009!

Will see you all early in the new year sometime, as we will be moving into the new house on the 15th of Jan, so it will be as soon as I can get on here after that.

Please know that I'm thinking of you all and please Take Care, Love Kelly.

How are you all going right now? Hope you are all in good health!

We are doing well and are slowly settling into our new home, by the way I just love our new home it's sooooo nice and is fully ducted air-cond, which has become very handy lately, as we have had some very hot day's, over 40'C even! Thank goodness for air-cond, I say!

Mark started back at work last week and so far so good for him.

Stephanie is doing well and will start her new school year tomorrow, she goes into Grade one!

As for me, well I'm doing fine right now and am looking forward to having abit more time on my hands as of tomorrow when Stephanie goes to school,lol!

Well you all Take Care and I will be back here soon, Love Kelly.

How's things with you all? Hope you are all doing well right now.

We are doing fine here and starting to really enjoy living here in our new house and area. We live in a Med-sized Country Town here and it's very quiet after living in a big city like Brisbane was.

Mind you we are enjoying the quiet, as it's so much better to hear not much than to hear traffic noise day in, day out if you know what I mean there. The only thing we really hear here, is the odd coal train that goes through Town. There is alot of coal mines around here as well as the Army.

Stephanie seems to have settled into her new school and is enjoying being in Year 1, her Teacher is very nice as well.

I do have to say, that it's much hotter here than what it was up in Brisbane, yesterday and today it's just over 40'C, all I can say is "Thank Goodness for Air-cond!!"

Well you all have a good weekend, whatever you all end up doing and please Take Care, Love Kelly.

Hello dear friends, not sure what you've all seen so far of the Bushfires that have been happening in Victoria or not, but I have to say, that it has really saddened Mark and I so much.

The last time I heard, there were now 181 dead and the count could go up to 300.

This has been the worst natural disaster that has happened to Australia since all time.

More than 1000 homes have been burned to the ground and the fires haven't even stopped yet. The fire fighters have been fighting fires since last Saturday and there are still new fires breaking out.

SOME of those fires have been started by some Very Sick people. The Victorian Police and the Aust Govt have got a Special Task Force set up to get those a**holes and lock them up for good!

Since this all started on Saturday and the first lives were lost, the Australian people have be banding together to do whatever they can to help and support those that have lost loved one's and or homes. Alot of the those people had very little or no warning at all to get out of their homes and so alot of them were burned to death in their homes or at the very last moment decided to get out, but they were then trapped in their car's by the side of the road due to tree's etc falling on the road's and or car's crashing because they couldn't see that there were already car's stopped because of the tree's on the road ahead.

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The weather conditions have been so bad since last Saturday and so that hasn't helped at all. Although the last few days has been cooler down there, there are still alot of winds that aren't helping at all, just making things worst!

The Australian Red Cross has had a Bushfire Appeal going since about Sunday and so far Australian's have digged into their pockets and helped to raise more than $50 millon Aust so far, I think. Mark and I have already made a donation and so we hope that that will help.

Stephanie's school also are having a fund raiser and they will collect the money from that and give it to the local Red Cross here in the next few weeks.

This disaster will take months even years to heal.

Please my dear friends here, would you mind saying as many prayers as you all can for those that have died and for those that have lost everything, that would be so very kind of you to do that!

Till next time, please Take Care Love Kelly.

How are you all doing these days? I hope you and your's are in good health right now!

We are doing fine here and are enjoying the slower pace of life where we are now.

Stephanie is having a great time at school and I've started helping in her class on a Wednesday and Friday Morning with Reading Group Activities and I am quite enjoying it!

Also I now got back into the Gym thing, yes I joined the local Gym here and getting back into it all and getting my fitness up again. Mind you, I didn't put on any weight from the time I had stopped going to the Gym up in Brisbane to the time I started at the Gym down here! So, I'm pretty pleased with myself there!

It was good to see Neeice, Kathy and Vicki on Facebook lately. I really enjoy going there, it can be alot of fun if you haven't been there before!

Well you all Take Care and I will be back soon, till then Bye-for-now, Love Kelly!