Thoughtful Friday

monkeying around

 Little Possum turned 9 and what better way to celebrate than to go to the TreeTop Adventure Park?

 (no words required..... face said it all!)

 sometimes a helping hand was required

 the Big Boys were on the more advanced tracks

 Peter coming down the zipline of the "Black course"

A fantastic day out!

We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ!

October's Ensign will be dedicated exclusively to the Book of Mormon, its origin and its purpose.
I have been wondering and pondering what to do with my blog and when I stumbled across this blog and the above inspired forum coming up in the month of October, I have decided that I will participate. Will you?

obedience and airplanes

Lucky me, I get to teach the Young Women in our ward! My special group is the 'Beehive-class', the 12-13yr old girls. This week's lesson was on obedience (to the commandments) and as always they impressed me with their thoughtful comments and questions.
There was a doozy of a question of whether I would sacrifice my children if God required it of me....   obviously inspired by the story of Abraham and Isaac.

For a handout I used this idea here . I loved the quote by elder Robert D Hales using airplanes as an example:

"Just as aircraft pilots must obey certain rules to avoid disaster, there are laws, ordinances and covenants we must understand and keep as we go through earthly life if we are to reach our goal of eternal life. As important as it is for an airman to develop an automatic response to warning indicators on the instrument panel, it is even more important for us to learn emergency procedures to the warning lights that go off in our personal lives".

("Return with honour" Ensign Nov 2001)

I'm grateful for all the preparation that pilots do in the simulators preparing for worst-case scenarios. (Hopefully) you'll never see pilots in an emergency situation completely unprepared, frantically flicking through the manuals trying to find a way to avert disaster... a great lesson in how it is better to Prepare and Prevent than to Repair and Repent.

My little squadron of airplanes ready to take off......   so much fun to make.

Thelma & Louise (minus the cliff bit)

Little Possum and I took a roadtrip to Canberra for a few days last week as a little adventure while the boys and MOTH had "guy time" (lots of movies and pizza)

We had a lovely time staying at Last Stop Ambledown in one of the 3 converted train carriages. The owners Jenny and David made the best cooked breakfasts, and made sure we were looked after in every way.

 Nearby Cockington Green Garden miniature village.

 Our converted train carriage accommodation was fantastic!!

The neighbours were nice

This trip had a science and discovery feel to it...

First the CSIRO Discovery Centre

And then Questacon....

 Dressed up for dinner at the Green Herring Restaurant.

Views across the lake to the War Memorial

cleaning up for Christmas

With the last couple of days being very windy our gumtrees were dropping bark, leaves and twigs until there seemed to be more on the ground than on the trees.

So, a little cleaning up for Christmas was necessary!

Here's Little Possum hard at work with the broom

while Turtle used the leafblower

 But all work and no play makes for very dull boys, so.....

let's see what else this leafblower can do!

 blowdrying your hair

 stimulating the circulation to the skin....

 and demonstrating laws of physics ...



'nuff said