Home pakages of hearts ♥

On Friday, Offically the last day of the school holidays the kids and I decided bake some cookies, package them up into cute little bundles and deliver them to our beautiful friends.

We made heart shaped shortbreads with lemon icing.
Very simple to make with only a few simple ingredience...

2 Cups of self-raising flour (sifted)
1 Cup of custard powder (sifted)
2/4 cup icing sugar (sifted)
1 block of butter

Mix together with your fingers untill it turns into a dough.  This does take some time so you may want to have someone close by to chat to, my kids provided great enetertainment for me, heehee also you may have or want to purchase a fancy pants 'pastry blender' that does this job a bit quicker.  I purchased mine from 'robins kitchen' for only around $7, a great investment I think.

Once you have a smooth dough roll into a ball and place on a floured bench and roll out. Cut out your shapes...

The kids loved 'cutting' the cookies (we had our lil' neighbor friend help out too)...

Placed the cookie heart shapes onto cookie trays (or as we used pizza trays lined with baking paper) we used a fork to lightly place marks onto the cookie dough.  I think it just adds that professional look, LOL...

Once cooked to a golden colour we took them out of the oven to cool.  We made lemon icing with pure icing sugar and a squeeze of lemon, mixed to a failry thick paste consistancy.  If you like to get that 'lemon' look you can add a very. very small drop of lemon food colouring and mix it in well to give it the lemon look.  But this isnt neccary.  Put icing on ONE under side of of the cookie and squish another on top...

End result...Lots of tasty little heart kisses...

All packged up with brown paper and ribbon, as well as homemade stamped tags to let our friends know how much we love them ♥

Both my kids got a total buzz out of delivering them.  They felt so special and so happy they were giving homemade gifts.

Once delivered the text messages of thanks started rolling in.  The thanks & appreciation made all of us feel so happy & proud we made somone else day just that tiny bit nicer ♥

It was all worth it!

4wd with our wonderful friends.

Well a big hello!  As the school holidays draw to an end and my lil' family winds down I thought i would blog about the day we enjoyed last Monday with our beautiful friends...Claire, Dave and their lovely daughters Megan and Olivia, Maddona and Eric, Larissa and Paul and their gorgouse kids Tiana, Jay & Ally....and the 4 of us, of course.

About a month ago my husband was lucky enough to get a 'brand spankin' new, off the showroom floor' work car.  It so happened to be the new B-50 Mazda 4WD duel cab ute.  It was a bit of a treat for us as we've never had a new, new car ever before.  My hubby is 40 at the end of this year and feels a bit chuffed that he actually got a brand spanker before he hit 40, LOL.

Somthing we never expected to ever have...that along with having our own home!!  The 2 things we NEVER  in our craziest thoughts we'd have...pretty exciting huh?

Anyhoo...back to last Monday.  We, along with our friends decided to head out west...just past beau dessert (around the scenic rim) and head for a 4WD track.  Now as ive mentioned many, many ties me and my husband are coasties.  We've only been 4WDing a couple of times and it was on Stradbroke island...along the beach another once when we camped at Balina beach.  So heading out to the dust and hills was a tad different...but it was such a fun, fun lovely day.  Just check out the scenery...

Can you see the waterfall in the distance?...

Sooooo Pretty....

Through the water....

Our friends poor car suffered a little...

When we pulled over a few horseback riders passed, was pretty cool...

  ...and moo cows greeted us on the road side, perfect...

After a big days driving we got home, tired, dirty and happy!  We all slept well that night.  It was the funnest day ever.  I must say, it does help when you have friends that make you laugh the whole day.  Im very thankful and lucky for that.

Our very busy holidays! (my relief from reality)

Today I had bit of a blah! day....Looooooooooooong story short, my mum went to rehab, somthing Im not totaly wanting to get into but I thought I would blog to focus more on the positves in my life.  It has been school holidays for the last 1 1/2 weeks and we have been going non-stop, which has been good. 

We've done the Southport Rockpools...

brisbane museum and science centre,











botanical gardens,

Beach...

Park...

Fishing...

Loungeroom camping...

We even went 4WDriving with friends (will do another blog on this...was fun)...

I have truly enjoyed having my beautiful lil' babies home from school but I think we will take it easy over the next few days...Lil' T was feeling a bit weary this afternoon, lol.  Im very thankful for my family and the good times we have.  They are what keep me going each and everyday with the sadness I cant avoid.  I love my family...
                                                                                   *mwah*