Date 2/12

this months date does not have a photo attached.

pretty much because there was a certain member of this partnership that was so excited about this date that they (he) didn't want to sit for a photo.

we went and watched BEAUTY AND THE BEAST !

it was AWESOME.

it was like being 4 all over again.

it is one of my favourite disney movies of all time.

you can't bet that, little mermaid and aladin.

so anyway this was also jevans birthday adventure.

what better way to bring in is 29th year of life than by 

watching his favourite actress acting as his favourite disney character.

i'm pretty sure he just bought me along to this date because he had to,

he would've been happy to sit there by himself with his beloved emma watson.

it was a fun second date filled with too much popcorn and both dark and milk chocolate maltesers.

Disco Bros

somethings are worth writing down to keep as a memory no matter how little they are.

braxton went to his first ever disco last friday.

he is our little groover,

he loves to dance.

this was the first of many disco's he got to go with his brother.

the theme was hawaiian,

and he LOVED wearing his lei.

he slept with it most nights leading up to it and kept changing the colour he was going to wear.

he cannot wait until the next one !

Empower

throughout life i feel like i have these random light bulb moments.

it's like you have a moment of clarity after you've been struggling with certain things of years

and then all of a sudden i just go ahhhhhh.

sometimes it's ahhh that's why that happened then

or today it's ahhh it's ok to be me,

having certain traits doesn't make me less of a person then others

it makes me who i am and who i am is ok.

we are all different.

our genetic make-up is different,

our looks are different,

our values and ethics are different,

the way we were raised and the way we raise our own children are different.

noone is better then another,

no matter what people may say or how people may make you feel.

we are unique and that is OK.

i am learning to empower myself,

to be confident in who i am,

to know that the qualities and traits i possess are wonderful.

for me it's hard to not let peoples words effect me,
and i 100% know that i allow their words to effect me.
so my focus this year is appreciate myself,
my attributes, discover my talents and use them, accept my boundaries and not see them as weaknesses, be more confident.
my main one that i struggle with is to be ok and comfortable within myself about who i am.
pretty much my goal is to empower myself.

Prospect Reservoir

i feel like i before last saturday 

we had been home for like 14 days straight.

the rain and sick kids are just never ending in the ormsby household at the moment.

so in the 2 hours that we had spare last saturday i was desperate to get out,

especially because of that beautiful sunshine we had.

we took the boys to prospect reservoir for a bike ride.

the bike ride didn't really go as i had planned.

there was lots of old buildings fenced off because of restoration works.

so we found four old pipes (some dating back to 1800's.)

and we raced through them, around them and played hide and seek in them.

it was so much fun,

the two hours went way too quick.

on the way out jevan let each of them have a go at driving us to the entrance.

they thought they were so cool.

if they end up driving like they did that day,

braxton will be the best driver.

makai and zayden almost sent us off the edge or into fences multiple times.

makai "dad, i learnt how to drive on mario cart"

oh kaikai we can tell.

Pre-School Boy

my baby started pre-school.

WHAT ?!?!

*insert freaking our emoji*

i really thought he would freak out,

he's a real big mumma's boy.

i thought he would cry hysterically, run to the door, call my name, beg me not to leave him

but

HE DIDN'T !

i was the run who cried hysterically (once i got to the car),

didn't want to leave and watched him play by the door,

the two older boys had to pull me out of the pre-school to take them to school.

i thought we had a good run him and i.

i thought i meant something to him.

but he waved me off without a care in the world.

i am super proud of him.

i love the little independent boy he is becoming.

he is getting ready to conquer the world day by day.

his little smile and cheeky laugh get me every time.

i love his curls and red hair.

they represent his personality the best.

he is confident, brave, courageous, boisterous, loyal, a firecracker and fierce

and i'm so glad he is mine (for now).

Rainy Day Train Rides

this weather stinks !

SO BAD.

i am starting to go crazy by all this rain.

i personally,

LOVE summer and the sun.

so today zayden and i had to get out of the house.

the rain did put a damper on our plans because the forecast was NO RAIN.

so instead we headed to the train station.

and caught the train to blacktown to get a donut and do my meat shopping.

needless to say zayden LOVED this idea and was all for it.

it was a win-win.

i got some exercise in, meat shopping done and zayden got a train ride out of it.