Belmore Christmas

We had the Belmore family Christmas today (21st Dec). We all come from far and wide so it's easier to meet before Christmas than on Christmas day. Too much running around for everyone otherwise. This is so much more fun and relaxing. Each year we take it in turns of who's house it will be at and this year it was ours.

The kids were itching to get their presents and were hanging around the tree feeling all the presents. So we decided it wouldn't be fair to wait till after lunch, so the present opening was done first.


Bailey got this one from my Mum and Dad


All the kids making a mess of my lounge room.


Micayla sitting amongst her gifts.

Liam and Kieran.

The whole Belmore family. For once there is no one missing, so had to use this opportunity to take a photo. The last time there was a whole family shot, Bailey wasn't born yet, so it was no longer a whole family shot.

Left to right: Adrian and I, then the Wynne family, Rochelle, Mark, Kieran and Taylah, then Liam, Rohan, Wanda and Lachlan Belmore, then Dale, Geoff, Alex and Wayne Belmore. Micayla in the front with Mum, Dad and Bailey.

Then it was all the 'grandkids' together. L-R Taylah (9), Kieran (12), Liam (12), Lachlan (10) and Micayla (8) with Dale (24), then Bailey (5) and Wayne (22)

My sister Rochelle, My brother Rohan and me.

A silly shot with my other brother Geoff.

Wayne

Dale

Bailey cuddling Rochelle and Mark's puppy 'Oscar'

Oscar riding the scooter.

Taylah with Oscar

Micayla trying to ride the scooter with 'Sasha', Rochelle and Mark's other dog trying to bite the wheels.

Kieran riding Bailey's bike.

Bailey doing a mono on his scooter after watching the boys do tricks on their scooters

My sis and I.

Micayla's Story

Micayla brought home a story she had written on the computer at school. She has given me permission to put it up on here because I think it's just amazing for an 8 year old to write like this. She assures me she made it all up herself. She is really showing talent in so many things that she does.

Here's the story, it's called "Disco"

"It was the day before the Princess's Birthday and she invited Prince Jackson, Talitha, Sarah and Lilly to a party.

They didn't know that the witch was spying on the party.

Then suddenly the witch appeared before their very eyes. The witch said in an evil tone of voice, "What are you doing in my disco hall?"

"Don't ruin the party" cried the princess.

"Oh but I already have" yelled the witch.

"I'll call the fairy" said the princess

"No you won't" yelled the witch

"yes I will." said the princess, and she did.

The fairy came right away. "It works every time." said the princess.

"What would you like me to do?" asked the fairy.

"Get rid of this witch." begged the princess.

The fairy did what she was asked. The witch was gone forever.

"Thank you." said the princess.

The party went on and they had a great time.

Written by Micayla Klaster

Gymnastics Display, Kinda Concert and Kinda End of Year Party

So much has been happening over the last couple of days.

Micayla and Bailey had their Gymnastics Display on Sunday 14th Dec. Their Oma and Opa came to watch them as well. It was a Circus theme and they had to come dressed in bright colours and crazy hair. Micayla's group were "acrobats" and Bailey's group were clowns. We didn't have a clown suit so we just put him in the brightest clothes we could find. He wouldn't wear a clown suit anyway.

I put pipe cleaners in Micayla's hair so all the plaits would curl which ever way I bent them.


Doesn't Bailey look so cute with his spiked coloured hair. I'm surprised he let me do this. He's really come out of his shell these last couple of months.



Bailey's group doing their display, showing us what they have learnt to do throughout the year. So so so cute!!!

Ta daaaa, aren't we clever.

Yep, big applause please!!!

Micayla's turn now.

Going into her handstand. Although Micayla can do a proper handstand, for the display she didn't have to do a complete handstand.

Some floor work

Receiving their medals

Micayla found me in the crowd

The following Monday night was Bailey's Kinda Concert/Graduation. I was really proud of him. All year he would not join in the singing and dancing with all the other kids. He'd just stand there. So I was surprised to see him doing the actions to the songs during the concert. No singing.... buy hey! at least he didn't just stand there. Well actually he did at the end. He was over it.

Can't remember what the song was to this action.

Or this one. Just looks cute and wanted to prove he moved.

The whole kinda class together.

Being a cheeky shit!!! As he is

I'm sure he's thinking "what the hell..... am I meant to do with these" He says that a lot lately "what the hell...."

Is it over yet?

Brush your teeth with bubble gum.

I'm so over clapping all the graduates.... when is it my turn?

Now Bailey. I heard that at this point, grandmothers were marrying their granddaughters off to Bailey.

The following morning (Tues 16th) was Bailey's last day of Kinda and they had a party. YAY!!!! I went along to do kinda duty cause I just had to celebrate the end of the Kinda year too. Whoo Hooo!!!

Bailey is with some of his friends. The second girl on the left is Chloe. Bailey says she's his girlfriend and wants to marry her. Asked if he could take her on a date and kiss her. LOL

Another cute photo of Bailey

Bailey with one of his teachers, Rita.

And with some more friends and his other teacher Nicole.

Bailey and Corbin. These 2 are inseperable.

The Party table

Nicole had set up the projector with photos of all the kids during the kinda year. It was meant for the mums later but the kids were just loving seeing themselves up on the big screen.

All watching and Corbin up on the screen at this point.

Bailey and Corbin together again.

As if Corbin didn't have enough on his plate, he had to go for more.

Is it over yet??? I'm tired.... I just want to go home.

It had been a very tiring 3 days for the little champ.

Layouts to Share

I haven't been doing very much scrapping at all because of my photography course. These are the layouts I did at the Artypants crop a few weeks ago. The ones I promised to share when I finally finished them. Well here they are:

These were done for Artypants using the papers from their wedding and special occassion invitation section. To show that they can be used for scrapbooking as well as invitations.

Micayla had a dress up day for "Wicked Day" at school to raise money for the grade 5's to see the production. Micayla went as Glinda the Good Witch and was voted best Glinda at school assembly.

These layouts were done for Alison Ellis Designs (AED) using their "space" range and "Beach" range.

The 'things' in the photo are the only craft things Bailey did at Kinda. He would do the same thing but each time it would be called something different, a rocket, a space ship, a jet plane etc etc.