The Nielsen Family

We had a nice Christmas this year at home, Alexander’s first and Isabel’s third. She really got into it this year and had lots of fun leaving out stockings and opening presents.  Alexander started on solids (sweet potato) on our Christmas eve roast dinner and continued with sausages on our Boxing day barbeque in the park.

After Christmas we met up with Lisa and Damon and Ted and Val up in Brisbane for a nice catch up and to check out the newly refurbished backyard which was good fun but we all got very wet after a rainstorm on a post lunch stroll.

Finally we went to see Le Grand Cirque at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on the 30th December which was a great circus show with some incredible arobatics which Isabel and even Alexander were very excited by.

Merry Christmas and a happy 2009 to everyone.

Isabel and I went along to the Carols by Candlelight at Burleigh and had a great time.  We left it pretty late so parked up by North Burleigh then walked along the beach to the show.  Isabel managed to drop the camera in the sand and there was much crunching in the lens but it managed to come good again (woohoo!).  The fireworks were great and the moon looked really good as it rose up out of the ocean on the walk back to the car (the photo doesn’t do it justice).

We’ve finally got around to organizing a new kitchen for our house.  The new cabinets are all in so now we need to get the spashback in,  tile the floor and paint.  We’re really happy with it so far.  It gives us lots more storage space and really opens up the room.