Yay....GREAT to meet you Nathan. Anisia's boyfriend Nathan came back to his home turf for a week to catch up with family and friends, and of course Anisia. This was my first meeting of Nathan....we all very much enjoyed your company.......apologies for the deeper initiation into Carcassonne but that appears to be an integral part of the participation in the Lambert clan....if you haven't figured that out already!

AND Scones after church.......

sparring partners......

...... and yet even more Carcassonne fun.....truly if you don't know this game, you MUST get it.......

Sleepy baby pics for you Ellie.......

Happy Birthday To YOU......

Happy Birthday Neish

We celebrated Anisia's 26th birthday at a very yumptious!!!! Himalayan restaurant in the Valley last night....just the 3 of us which was very special. We both have our respective Bible studies tonight, and I know Anisia had a very special pamper herself day today (no work....the benefit of an RDO).
Happy Birthday Anisia.....you are so special and precious to us........rock on Carcassonne!

Birthday girl with her KONG!!!!!

A special Hello Kitty radio alarm clock all the way from Japan from the gorgeous Bing.....

CELEBRATIONS

Last night we headed up to Brisbane again for yet another birthday celebration.....and tomorrow night there's YET another. All the very special people are having birthdays.

Happy Birthday Colby

We celebrated Colby's (my nephew) 21st birthday last night with a banquet at a Thai restaurant in Brisbane.....along with his Mum and Dad (my sister), their eldest son Joshua, "old" friend Janine and of course the lovely Anisia......

Happy Birthday KEVIN

Another wonderful year to celebrate......

and more Carcassonne.........and the winner was???????

Happy Birthday KEVIN.......52 years young, and 2 cakes!!!!!!

We had lunch at Palm Meadows, just Kevin and I and Anisia.......

Afternoon tea at Ashmore Garden World......Neish talking to Joshua.

AKA Diddy Kong.....Ellie will get this.........the girls' pet name for Kevin.......found the Congo in the Garden Centre.

Hello Neish....an old picture of you when we were in Thailand I think. Oh what great memories.

Banrock Station.....

Found it........I knew I had an old picture of Ellie and Jordan at the same spot Ellie just posted a picture....from their weekend Riverland visit. See Ellie's blog and you'll know what I'm talking about. It's at Banrock Station with the wetlands (now apparently drylands!) in the background. We were there together a while back (as you can tell from the Jordan hair).

Mari & Bing

Thanks Ellie for all you blog pics of your Riverland weekend.......lots of good memories there for all of us for sure.
Am at home "sick" today, yes really SICK, something of a rarity for me to be bed-ridden; have a nasty germ which I can't shake even with antibiotics, so Ellie encouraged me to blog....
This is Mari (from Japan) and Bing (our Chinese student who you've all seen before). Mari is here for just two weeks through an exchange program at the College, and to help Bing with her Japanese.
Mari can actually cook! For those of you who have experienced previous Japanese students' cooking (Ellie and Neish), this was EXCEPTIONAL!
Well done Mari.
We also have a new Thai student "DO" so have a very multicultural dinner table. Do's family knows Ben's family. Ben was our longest serving student and whose family showed us amazing hospitality in Thailand last year.