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7 Comments:

• Dont forget to comment guys…

  Comment by Andy — March 12, 2009 @ 4:33 pm

• Comment.

  Comment by Aaron — March 19, 2009 @ 11:58 am

• Very nice Andy! When it comes to SA will you let me ride it??

  Comment by jo jo — March 26, 2009 @ 3:17 pm

• Not for a whle i affraid, cant get hols till winter, and i doubt i’ll go riding then!

  Comment by Andy — March 26, 2009 @ 4:34 pm

• Cant say I blame you! Although your niece is going to be christened in July sometime if you can come for that (its going to be at the litho church with monicas baby)

  Comment by jo jo — March 27, 2009 @ 9:01 am

• Seriously??? that church stuff clearly rubbed off you more than it did on me… Not gonna inflict Church and Sunday School on the poor girl also tho right???

  Comment by Andy — March 28, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

• Aaron you smartarse.

  Comment by smily — April 4, 2009 @ 10:17 pm

Well this news just came in hot off the press: Andy’s still working on his computer…meanwhile I spent the evening cleaning the apartment for his poker night with work mates tomorrow. Our old neighbour has left as the rent got too steep for him which sucks because he was a really good neighbour. Hopefully the new neighbours are just as good. I’ve been thinking up some ideas for the wedding but it’s still a long way off yet. Oh look some bills to pay. Off I go…

~ super smiles

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• bugger about your neighbour. Fingers crossed you have a good new one.
  Have you guys set a date for your wedding yet??

  Comment by jo jo — March 6, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

• Yeah the new ones look like a small family. They have a small car and that’s all that matters. Hopefully the rest of our car mirror stays intact from now on…

  Hmmm…..wedding date……interesting you should ask. You know we need Mia for the flower girl so as soon as she start walking we’ll start planning :p But good news is that one of my good friends recently got engaged so I finally have somebody to help me plan stuff so take whatever date it was going to be on and bring it forward by a few months!

  Comment by smily — March 11, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

We have ants! Last weekend we had to bring all the stuff from the balcony in to let the building people seal the balcony or whatever. This included the pot plants which Andy put in the bathtub and the dining table and bar which was put next to the kitchen bench. In no time at all the ants that were on them decided to start an expedition into our kitchen and now we’ve been finding the little critters everywhere. Including my kettle so now I have to buy a new kettle.

Andy meanwhile is busy working on his computer yet again. I don’t know what the heck he’s doing really…

He needs to put pics up of his ‘new baby’ too, I’ll let him do that himself. We rode to my parents place yesterday and took some clear pictures of it.

~smily

2 Comments:

• Had this problem the other day.

  Ant-rid = bye bye ants.

  Comment by Aaron — March 2, 2009 @ 8:32 am

• Truebie…we’ve been using a normal bug spray but they kept coming back. Looks alright now that we’ve put the potplants back outside but you still see a few wandering around here and there. They’ve already done their worst damage…my poor kettle

  Comment by andy and smily — March 5, 2009 @ 9:14 pm

Happy 20th birthday Malisha on the 28th of February from your big sister and big brother-from-another-mother.

We’re going out for dinner on Sunday night, watch this space for pics of those.

In the meantime here’s a pic of baby Malisha drooling and me looking all cute.

~smily

A big welcome to the world for little baby Mia Ivy! What a really beautiful name too. Me and Andy are very excited about being and uncle and aunty and are hoping to go see little Mia and the folks soon.

~smily and andy

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• Thanks Aunty Smily and Uncle Andy! Mia cant wait to meet you.

  Comment by jo jo — February 25, 2009 @ 10:47 am

New Years was fun this year, the kids spent it at Amila and Khris’s where Khris had made a really nice Thai curry and my mum had sent over some cheesy lobster for us as well and we brought over some jello shots to complete the night so the meal was good. We ended up watching Dark Knight on Amila’s Blue Ray Player and gigantic screen until the fireworks came on. All in all it was a good night topped off by the fact that it was a short 100 metre walk back to our apartment afterwards. I was waiting until we got pics before I published this but realised we don’t have any pics…

2 Comments:

• Update already.

  Lazy people.

  Comment by Aaron — February 5, 2009 @ 2:05 pm

• Haha fiiiiine i’ll do something today, Andy’s got an excuse cos his computers in 100 pieces right now and my excuse is nobody reads my posts so why bother……

  Turns out we do have pics of this event on Mal’s camera so stay tuned for those.

  Comment by smily — March 1, 2009 @ 9:12 am

Hey everyone,

I had my 28th birthday the other day!

Had a great day itself, smily bought me guitar hero, Dana gave me some cash (which was promptly invested in puter bits) and i got some phone calls from SA which was sweet.

On friday Me and the Fernando Clan went out to celebrate at a place in Rouse Hill. Very nice food but the customer server was a little… wierd… They were incapable of doing 7 entree’s, had to be an even number…

Anyways, enjoy some pics!

Christmas pics are up!

This Christmas we drove to the Fernando’s and had Christmas there which was lovely. Dana and Rod’s present had arrived at the house by then so it was nice and convenient. Thanks Andrew and Mala for the awesome new printer and Dana and Rod for the games, DVDs, handbag and throw rug, Malisha for the egg boiler/poacher and the waffle maker, Amila and Khris for the griller, Jo, Wayne and Bob for the aquarium and everybody else who sent us cards and warm wishes they were well appreciated.

Dana, Malisha loves her new bag and Mala and Andrew are hogging the almond biscuits but we’ll steal some when we go for dinner mwahahaha. Jo we’ve decided between two places for your pressy and settled on the bedhead so we can use it as a bedside lamp thing:

The preparations for Christmas lunch was very efficient this year and all teh food was delicious. The company decided to give us a ham for Christmas this year and it turned out very nicely.

Thank you everybody who celebrated Christmas with us this year. For New Years we’re chilling out at Amila and Khris’s place, stay tuned for pics/blog.

~smily

3 Comments:

• So, I subscribed to your blog (finally) a couple of weeks ago, and this is the first post I’ve received through my viewer at it appears to be a week late…hmmm…not sure about that one.
  Anyway, I’m totally stoked to be able to reply!
  It looks like you had a really nice Christmas. Great to see the pics.
  Hope your New Years was good, and we should catch up again soon!

  Comment by Andi — January 10, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

• doh that was my fault, i actually wrote this post a while ago but forgot to publish it until yesterday… Yeah we should totally catch up, this time of the year it seems we don’t see each other much. I’m going to get Andy to write his birthday blog now…

  Comment by Smily — January 11, 2009 @ 8:54 pm

• Yay, glad you like the pressy. It looks good! Did I tell you I am using one of those fish thingies for the baby’s night light too! Not long now and you will have another niece. (four weeks to go) The girls back in Bordertown throw me a baby shower the other week which was awesome. Bloody long drive though.

  Comment by jo jo — January 19, 2009 @ 8:17 am

We were invited down to Terrigal recently to stay at a beach house with Simmy, Jonathon and some of their friends (including Eric from Ruse and Angela who works near where I do – small world!) Angela and Simmy were the organisers and the house they picked was pretty flash with a great kitchen, nice big TVs and plenty of beds.

The traffic wasn’t too bad – the drive down was far too short, it’s only an hour or so away from Syd but that’s perfect for a short trip.

Fun was had by all on the beach (Simmy and co made a…mountain!? with a…moat??) and in the town, mini golf in Mingara, Tumbi Umbi was great even when it started raining at the end and the pizza place we went to was delish. Hopefully we’ll get some pics from the mini golf later.

 

Me and Andy (mostly Andy) made chicken schnitzel one night but we were under a lot of pressure to measure up to the other gourmet meals the others had made earlier! Speaking of which, Simmy and Jonathon’s Japanese Takoyaki balls were very nicely done. The mini-trip ended annoyingly when the car was bombed while we slept with flour and eggs. The gloop was really tough to remove as it had baked on pretty hard in the sun. Tip: use the pan from a plastic dust pan to scrape it off.

 

It would have been nice to stay for longer as we were having a lot of fun (even with the people we’d never met before! Those of you that know how socially awkward me and Andy are will be amazed by this) but yeah we had to get back for the Fernando Family Christmas Party and help prepare. Stay tuned for pics of the Christmas festivities and possibly New Years pics if we remember to take them.

~Andy and Smily

2 Comments:

• Wow that looks like a great little break. I’m jealous. All I have been doing lately is working working and more working.
  Hey I wanna see a pic of where you put your chrissy present!
  Have a great new year,
  love and miss ya MWAH

  Comment by jo jo — December 31, 2008 @ 7:59 am

• Pics are up Yeah its good to take a short break every now and then if you can but soon you’ll be having a huge long one!

  Comment by Smily — January 10, 2009 @ 2:44 pm

IBM had it’s Christmas party at Luna park this year (again!) so Andy stayed at home this time while me, the folks, Malisha and Nadine went to enjoy the rides that Andy hates hehe. It was open from morning until 9pm so we went after dinner. Fun fun:

above left: Nadine and Malisha freaking out on the Ferris Wheel of Doom, also known as the Ferris Wheel. above right: the view from the top

above: me, Malisha and Nadine on the ride that goes around and around really fast…let’s just say centrifugal forces = squished and sore Smily. I seriously thought I was going to be crushed to death by the girls.

Anyways that was fun, IBM christmas parties usually are, no party bags for us now though we’re all grown up. Looking fwd to the next one.

~smily