18 years young

Janine and her friend Anna celebrated their 18th in style with a combined party at Anna's place north of Roma. School friends from near and far with some uni. friends joined them and they kept warm by moving between the outdoor drum fire and the gas patio heater in the shed with some dancing in between. They were all still going strong when Graham and I left at 1am. When we returned for breakfast the next morning most of them sitting up to the table bleary eyed and tucking into bacon, eggs and sausages. It was a birthday to remember!

Fancy an Arnott's Biscuit anyone?

The job searching is over...before it really even begun! About 6 weeks ago I submitted my first and only application to Arnott's Biscuits at Virginia for a graduate position and just yesterday found out that I got the job! Yes I will be learning to make the dough! I will also be learning about all the machines and the different sections of the factory floor...the job is a 12 month training program in which I will rotate through various sections of the business including finance, HR and quality improvement. I am really excited, I think it will be really interesting and challenging. The aim of the program is that I will become a Team Leader at the end of 12 months looking after 10-15 people on the floor.

I had a factory tour on Tuesday and literally got my hands in the dough - fortunately for you all we threw those pieces of dough out once we'd had a squeeze to test the consistency!!! I then proceeded past the 75meter long ovens and grabbed a hot freshly baked choccy biscuit to taste - not bad at all!!! I am a bit worried because they say everyone puts on about 5kg after 6 months of working there! I HOPE NOT! I have 3 more weeks holiday before I start my first full-time job on the 4th August!

Life House

Hi all! I just thought you should know that the Walton's, Koch's and Cunningham's have all up and left their old church and now attend Life House Christian Church...(that is, we have officially changed our church name)!

Yesterday, and all last week Steve, Pete, Anna and I spent hours working on special celebrations to bring in the new church name yesterday and we had such a lovely celebration...Steve edited some special video clips up (a favourite hobby of his), Pete and Anna structured the service, and we arranged confetti cannons, a church family photo, a special toast to the new church (Grapetiser of course!) and a ladies bake-up resulting in a sweetilicious supper. (For the record, mum's cooking...eh...how do good ladies say this?...ermmm...kicked butt!)

Praise God, for everything went smoothly and we had a lovely memorable time - there were a lot of technical things that could have gone wrong!

maggie island adventure

Here you go Aunty Merryl... this is just for you!

After both of our exams, Lauren flew up with our friend Kaitlin from Brisvegas after spending a day and night there. I showed them round lovely Townsville, went up Castle Hill, ate the yumiest icecream in the world and we spent an afternoon on Magnetic Island with a friend from uni aswell. We hired out bikes, went swimming and watched the beautiful sunset. awww. and ate pizza. yum. And the most exciting part was riding the bikes down and up very steep hills with only the moonlight to guide us!! Then on Sunday we roadtripped to Emerald and stayed with my friend Sara before going back home the next day. I love holidays!! Here are some piccies... Love Lauren and Janine

holiday happenings

hello everyone,

Nana has asked for a photo of the house under construction. We have been waiting for the roofing contractors to arrive all week. Apparently its Friday they are coming ..ther goes another $1000 in scaffolding hire!

Mulgrave Adventures is going well. Our artist did 19 of these figurines to hang all over the church - each was doing a different sport - really clever. Tomorrow is the last day and the killer fun evening that follows.

Hope to hear from the western queenslanders soon on the blogger.

Love to all