Natalie's birthday videos

Hello all. Natalie has started her day well. Presents and letters to open AND not one, but two special videos songs. Check out her video from Uncle John here and her brilliant birthday song from Uncle Chris from Bath here. Natalie went to school very excited about being able to celebrate her birthday with her class mates. I guess she'll vlog about her day at some point, and I am madly trying to get some videos up (because it has been SO long).
Love and hugs to all.

Natalie's Party

Hi all. I would have put this up sooner but with all the storms around we have been without internet for most of the weekend (oh my goodness, Stuart and I almost died!!!), but we're back in touch with the world now.

Natalie had her birthday party on Saturday. She has made a vlog about it if you're interested, click here. In the end she had 8 little peeps to swim with her, one friend from school, a couple of other girl friends from church circles and all three Stotts. It was a great party because all we had to do was sit, drink and watch.
After the swim Amber and Hayden came back and made pizzas for lunch (yum) and had birthday cake and a play. Then Hayden went home and Amber stayed over for the night (yes, Natalie's first ever friend to sleep over). Was very cute, Natalie and Calvin went to sleep very quickly, Amber took a little bit longer, but she slept fine after she'd climbed into bed with Natalie!
The wind here was unbelievable Saturday (there is some video of it in Natalie's vlog).
Natalie survived her weekend though I suspect that she is not 100%. She has gone to school today but I foresee an early night (for all of us). Stuart has flown off to Adelaide for a meeting today and we'll pick him up from the plane at 5pm so that he can rush back to school here for a tea and parent thing! He's discovering that being AP makes you very busy, but he's enjoying the work. Calvin and I are still recovering from illness. I think Calvin is almost better, but with the party and leading church Sunday night I'm still a way off from being healthy.
At this stage we're planning to go out for tea on Wednesday (Natalie wants to go to a restaurant). Six years has come around very quickly.

Hope that you are all well.

Um Hello

Okay, I don't really have alot of news, but I figured it was about time to put something up, just so you know we are still alive!!!

We are in the process of looking for a new home as we are getting kicked out of this one! We only have a few weeks to find somewhere and we have not had alot of luck so far. We saw one place that was quite cute but small :( So we are still hunting! And it will be nice not to be living on a building site! :)

The six day work week thing is going okay so far. I had a good day down in Tyre today, I'm teaching music to Grade 1 and Library to 4 & 5 this year. Different but good! The kids have settled back into school routine really well which has been great. They both have good teachers, an answer to prayer. Errrrr... Church is going well, lots of new families and kids, youth group numbers are up and we are having fun, surviving without Ian and Ackie much to our surprise. We have an All Night Event coming up soon (see church blog for photos in a couple of weeks!!) where sleep is optional! Could be interesting.

Okay, that is about it for the Masri update. If I remember anything else interesting, I'll let you know :) Lots of love to all and sundry xx mwah (as we say on Facebook :) )

YouTube Update

Hi all.

We are pleased to announce the launch of an all new YouTube Channel (Click here for advert).


Natalie has gone global and she is loving the idea that 'the whole world is watching me'! You can see her channel here and see her first vlog on her holiday and impressions of Colin here. It would be great if Grandma and Grandpa subscribed, hint hint. AND any one else who is on YouTube. Hint hint hint.

Not sure how long the enthusiasm will last (and how long mummy and keep the pace to edit twice as many videos!) but it is a bit of fun while it lasts.

Also, for those interested in family stuff check out here the comment left on Uncle Trev's memorial video from ... Trevor Cozens of the UK! I'm keen to find out if there is a connection dad. Freaky that all the names match up!

Love and Hugs

Our Holiday movie (Shorter than a slide evening)

Howdy folks,

just wanted to let you know that Debbie has put together a movie from our trip to Victor this week. Click here to watch it.

(I know I could embed it in the blog, but if you watch it at Youtube you can sign in, rate it, favorite it, and subscribe to Debbie's videos. It's important to rate videos because that gets them onto the first page in the category, which makes them more likely to be viewed by lots of people.)

Come on Hoggies - you've got the new computer - when is the Youtube Channel starting up?

Victor, Colin and a visit from the gift angles

Hello everybody.

Hope that you are all well. We are home (and almost unpacked) after a week away. Just thought that we'd share some pictures with you.

On our holiday we visited Granny in Crystal Brook and she seemed to be going very well. We visited Isabelle's garden. We had lots of fun staying at Nanna and Poppa's with cousin Michael (and Heth, Jacob and Sam). We enjoying going to the animal park again. Like the smiley turtle? And we had lots and Lots of fun at the Colin Buchanan concert. Natalie even went on stage to wave a flag for Colin (while he sang 'The Lord is King').

Will be posting a video of our holiday in the next day (I hope). Also on Youtube news, Natalie is keen to start her own channel and vlog (mostly she is keen to have the camera to herself and talk about stuff). Will let you know when that goes up.

And the photo of us on the swing chair was taken in our backyard on OUR swing chair! The gift angles (Mr and Mrs Noonan) left it as a lovely thank you gift - owww, isn't that nice. Now I have somewhere to lie and recover from the wedding.

Love and hugs to you all.

the Big Wedding

Well we managed to meet all our deadlines and enjoyed a great day at the Byerlee wedding. Your mother looked stunning in her dress, even had one girl from Victoria come and say when she knew that Rita had made it "I what to take off 5 days and come over and get you to make a dress like that for me" Many comments on the service the phototogapher from Adelaide said he had been doing weddings for 22 years and this would have to be the most emotional and best wedding he has been too

Hoggie's might recognise the music group who played wonderfully. We also got to sit on table one which was very nice. A much quieter week this week.

Weekend activities

Here are some photos of some of the things that made last weekend such a busy but very enjoyable weekend. A couple of future Rally drivers went through their paces on monday morning and a couple of photos taken at Manoora. Have a busy couple of days, have a church newsletter to produce, a sermon to write, a wedding plan to finish and lambs to draught for market, so better keep this short. have a good week.

Happy Birthday Stuart

Today is Stuart's birthday and his sneaky wife organised for John Green to make a video for him (and he actually did!!!). See! Also, the kids and I made a little video for Stuart here.

Not a lot of plans for the day. Rest is high on the agenda, but it should be a good one.

Here are also a couple of pictures from the Noonan wedding on the weekend.







Love and hugs to all.