The Chambers

hello and happy new year. Hopefully your new years resolutions are still intact and you’re invigorated for a fantastic 2008. It’s been pretty quite on the blog’s western front, life goes on and things happen… like Christmas and work.

I hope you had a great Christmas. We did. We had family come visit at our house, we had Nicole and Harrison come stay with us and about a dozen or so people here on Christmas day. We had a nice “buffet” lunch of roast turkey, “big al’s” ham and roast pork and salads and we spent the day relaxing, playing with new toys and swimming some too. After telling the people we met in the USA how hot it was going to be here in Brisbane at Christmas…. it was very nice to have to “endure” temperatures in the mid 20’s! Harrison and Jackson cleaned up on the present front, with Jackson also sharing a Nintendo Wii with me as a present. Jackson likes the Wii nearly as much as I do and we play tennis and guitar hero mostly. Kylie and I didnt do present for each other, we were well and truly spoilt on our holiday, we figured we didnt need presents…. though I did buy Kylie a nice pair of (wait for it) powerboards, with individual on / off switches which should help reduce our electricity bill…

As a birthday present for me…. I got spoilt. We bought ourselves a new painting – which hangs in the “compound” room at the front of the house. The artist is David Bromley and it is in his female portrait style. It’s pretty big, taking up most of one wall. We bought it from a gallery at Highfields, just outside of Toowoomba. David and Fay run the gallery and were nice enough to deliver the painting and help hang it! It looks beautiful and it should also turn into a nice investment piece, with his works doing well. Have a look at it: in our picture gallery

We got all our pictures from our holiday sorted. FINALLY! There was a lot and it took much longer than I thought it would. We also put “some” in to get printed. 650 odd photos… heavens only knows what we’ll do with them – but! they’re printed….

Jackson is doing great in his swimming. He doesnt mind, in fact he loves, putting his head under the water now and looks forward to Friday’s for swimming with Nannie and he loves swimming with us on the weekend. He’s off to his new child card centre on the 29th of January, which he is looking forward to and he talks about the “new kids” quite a bit.

All’s well here and we’re looking forward to 2008 and the adventures it brings us.

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stay safe!

Chris, Kylie and Jackson

so, we’re driving home Tuesday. We’re just off the freeway, coming up to the Gabba and Jackson starts crying – screaming in fact. He’s obviously in pain and it takes only a few seconds for him to tell us that a sultana is stuck up his nose! OUCH – wouldn’t that hurt…. !?

So, Kylie is driving and I’m in the front passenger seat. Jackson is howling.

I spin around in the seat and I can see a bump in his nose, which is obviously this sultana and it’s stuck up a fair way. He’s still screaming.

We’re stuck in traffic. He’s still in pain.

We ask him to blow his nose…. nothing (we want to) comes out. He’s still in pain.

When the traffic starts up again, Kylie turns the car off towards the hospital. Jackson is still in pain and now he tells us he doesn’t want to go to the hospital and that the sultana is gone. We’re still telling him to blow his nose. He’s still in pain…

We pull off the road and I get out and am in the back covering one nostril and telling him to blow out his nose. (Mum’s and Dad’s get to do the coolest things!). He’s still screaming.

I’m telling him to blow his nose and then POP out it comes! gross… This was a big sultana. Operation completed…. back on the road and away we go.

So, now we randomly ask Jackson what he isnt going to do to his nose and he knows the answer.

have a top weekend.

cc

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