BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS (armie style)

On the 2nd of August 2008 Hayden and I started our Vege patch again. Only this time it wasn't in polystyrene boxes. We decided to plant everything that we ate!!!. The first pic, we planted all our root veges...carrots, onions beetroot, chives and pumpkin. Strawberries, in the poly boxes and on the right side we planted our greens...Spinach, chinese cabbage, pak choy, lettuce, coriander, garlic, honey snap peas, Roma and hearty beef tomatoes.

SO CHECK THIS OUT!!!

THESE PHOTOS TAKEN OCTOBER 15TH 2008

NOVEMBER 5TH 2008

Harvesting the veges was soooo exciting!!!


Bottled Beetroot

Spinach and Ricotta Pie

(Spinach from the Garden)

Gardening for our family has always been a great way in teaching Haydee about how things grow and what we can do with the veges when we pull em. Its also been a great time for gospel teaching moments. As well as the many water fights we've had. Much to our dismay though,Haydee doesn't eat veges or fruit. Thank goodness for Deceptive cooking!!! and puree. Spinach and Ricotta pie is about the only healthy thing she will eat. I add bacon to my pie and she loves bacon. And because she loves bacon, and the whole pie tastes like bacon, she's none the wiser. We are really proud of our efforts and by the looks of it, we will be inheriting alot of Tomatoes and about 50+ Pumpkins. "So lookout Molly Mormon" the Armies are in Town.

CANADA!!! HERE HE COMES

Elder Matthew Ryan Armitage, departed our fair city of Perth for the Calgary Mission, Canada. We were so excited for him that we met him at the airport at 4.30am. Well some of us were there at that time...aye steve n pip. Elder Armitage was so prepared and we are all so proud of him. It was great to hang out at the airport and treat the kids to an aeroplane take off. And this was he looked.

BON VOYAGE ELDER ARMITAGE!!!

WE LOVE YOU.

HANGING WITH THE B's

Headed to the Pines for an all you can eat buffet. And judging by the photos this is what food can do to you. Its always fun mixing with the family and it was great to see Manousso and to finally meet his lovely family. Lots of fun and laughs.

HAYDEE'S 4TH B'DAY PARTY

The big Day has finally arrived. Haydee's birthday party!!!! Yay!!!She has been talking about what she wants to have happen at her party since August. And the day has finally arrived. We sent up the tent and gazebo in the backyard for all the kids to hang in and run through. They decorated wooden frames, played pass the parcel, hit the pinata and smashed the cake. Haydee wanted a chocolate m & m pyramid cake. So half was chocolate cake and the other half were choclate boxes filled with chocolate money. My best cake decorating feat ever!!! There was lots of chocolate, screaming, painting, presents, friends, chocolate and she loved every minute of it.

By the end of the day, all the kids were filthy. But they were happy, she was happy and thats what counted.

BIG BROTHER ESE

YOU'D THINK BY NOW THAT HAYDEN WOULD KNOW HOW TO DO THIS ALREADY.

NOTHING LIKE BIG BRO TO THE RESCUE.

think this is a cute pic.

haydee absolutely love sitting on the computer and playing Dora Games. In fact she is a better navigator around the computer than her father. Who would thought huh? and at 3yrs?

Charlie's Angels

These are just some random pics of Haydee.

The girls were bored on a Sunday Afternoon, so we decided to take some photos...cute pics

Look out Charlies Angels, watch out for Haydee n Ady

the band aid on Haydees head was from sharing time. Its a reminder of repentance.

more ARMITAGES

Jarom Armitage rec'd his Melchezidek Priesthood on Sunday at Stake Conference and so we were able to catch up with his family who arrived in Perth from New Zealand last Friday. It was fun hanging out with them and we were able to get to know them better, do some shopping and show them around Perth.

Kings Park seems to be a ready attraction for any visitor so we decided to have Family Home Evening and dinner up there. Some one invited all the mozzies...not happy jan.

Hannah, Uncle Simon, Aunty Diane, Uncle Peter, Aunty Templey with Hayden n Haydee back there. All hanging out at the whispering wall. Lets keep those sweet nothings to ourselves aye Uncle Pete...

Couldn't stop Aunty Templey from snapping away photos for Nana and Grandad Armitage.

Jarom, Orewia, Tane, Rebekah, Ady, Hannah on the ledge, Matt Thomson and so on to uncle Si.

Uncle Pete always seems to have his head turned...Work with me here...

Thats a bit better, but Uncle Si...whats that...the chicken dance. hahaha

Ady baby...its way past your bed time huh?

Sorry Stevie, a bit of fuzz, Bit hard taking a photo in the dark and ya can't see what ya taking. Still like it though....mwah mwah

THE MOVE BACK TO PERTH

Ok so we lasted 6 months in Canberra. You thought the move to Canberra was huge. Check this move out. Murphys Law...mate. All we could say was....GOOD TIMES!!!

Heres how it went.

We decided to move on Saturday night, Hayden advised the Bishopric the next day at PEC Sunday Morning, that Sunday night Hayden rang his Dad to let him know of our decision to move back. He rang back 2 hours later (3pm) to find out how long it would take us to pack our furniture and to see if we could pack it in a day. By 8pm Sunday Night we had the whole house packed and ready to go. Dad rang back at about 9pm and advised that we could use his truck to move our gear. Monday, we finished packing the kitchen and Hayden flew back to Perth to get the truck. By Thursday night, He and his brother Matthew had driven back to Canberra driving without stops.Along the way Matt recieved his mission call. Canada Calgary Mission!!!

Kate and Damo arrived into Canberra Thursday night and came to help us load the truck on Friday. By Friday night we had returned the keys and started our drive home approx 4000kms.

Check out these photos:

Our adventure wasn't without its woes

We had the car on the car trailer and about 50 mins into our journey the cops pulled us over advising of a blowout, no fine. This happened just south of Yass. So we spent the night in the truck on the side of the road in Yass and the next day travelled back to Canberra to get 2 2ndhand 69 Valiant rims and and new tyres. Get back to the truck to find that the stud pattern on one of the rim didn't match. AAAAARRRRGGH!!! So we kept driving without a spare. We had driven about 10 minutes past Gundagai 5 hours outta Canberra and BOOM!!! New tyre blew. Problem was we were blowing out the rims because we couldn't feel or see the blowout until cars tooted.

So we managed to pick up a spare Rim at a wreckers a minute away and decided to spend the night in a motel in Gundagai. It was soooo nice to lie down on the bed and have a hearty steak meal. The showers were more of a spray. Felt like someone was standing above me with a spray bottle. We rang a guy who came out that night and changed the tyre from one rim to the other. Nice people these country folk. So that meant that I was to drive the Nova and we would rotate and share the driving 3 ways. Don't ask me how we did it but we did.

These shots were taken crossing the Nullabor. There was blood everywhere from all the dead kangaroo carcasses that lay on the side of the road. I must've counted at least 150 dead. OK gruesome i know. But all apart of the experience. Haydee and I had no stereo in the Nova so we got by hours in the car singing primary songs, playing eye spy, playing with her bratz dolls, taking photos and singing more and more primary songs over and over and over again.

These were taken on the other side of the 90 mile straight.

Haydee still in good spirits and we discovered a lil talent. She became quite a good lil photographer.

We arrived in Perth on Tuesday night around 11pm. It was so good to be home, to have a shower and lie on the bed. But one awesome experience that I hope never to repeat. If I do it will be on a plane or in a comfy 4WD with a bed in back.