Kitto Backyard Blitz - The movie - (plus Remembering Isabelle)

Finally here is the movie of our backyard makeover.

I have also finished a "Remembering Isabelle ~ 2 years on" video which you can see here.


Love and hugs to all.

HAPPY late BIRTHDAY JESSIE :)

Hope that you had a fabulous birthday Jessie. Would love to hear about all that you did to celebrate.
If you don't mind celebrating you birthday twice in one year, we would love to party with you when you are here with us in Australia.
Much love and many hugs to you (and your wonderful family)

<3 Aunty Debbie, Uncle Stuart, Natalie, Calvin and ...

Girls day/nght out

Natalie and I enjoyed a day and night away on Friday traveling to Alligator Gorge, Black Rock and Orroroo, and as a result Natalie has her first vlog in months!

Had fun doing all things girlie (though the public holiday stopped us from shopping).

Hope that you are all well. Thanks again Grandma Jean for the drinks, chat and rocking chair, and thanks Hotel De Grandma & Grandpa.

Love and hugs to all -Debbie

2008 Seeding program has begun

After a morning where everything that could go wrong seemed to go wrong we finally began seeding for this year. As the photos show dry seeding oats for sheep feed.

As you can see from the photo with Natalie on the bike my beard has grown quite long.

The lost is found

Managed to track down the missing cords so now I can bring you some more photos. Your mother is not that impressed with the wiring for the internet but at least it works. At least I still get a great view out the office winder and

Our Backyard Holiday Makeover

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AFTER:





There is still a bit of mulch to spread out around the side and next holidays we hope to put in the chook shed and some plants (and maybe even some fluffy chooks!).

Hope all is well. See some of you very soon, and some of you a bit later than that.


Love and hugs.

We are finally here now

After a very long hard day we are now ready for a good night's sleep at 3 Park Tce..Could'nt sleep so up at 5.30 and have been flat out all day. Was going to show some more photos but can't find where I put the camera lead .It has got to be here somewhere. Had a bit of trouble setting up the internet. There is a phone plug in the office but it is not connected, have a wire strung across the kitchen for the present.

We have roses

Made good progress today still seemed plenty to fit in and not a lot of room , but i am sure we will fit it all in, a quick look at the front garden.

Next blogg will hopefully be from the new house cheers.

Who would like to see the new house

Got the keys to 3 park Tce today. It seems to have got smaller since we last saw it. Hopefully will start moving a few things tomorrow. More photos later in the week

Australia sings to Lebanon

Found this. Thought you might like to see what was featured on the Australian YouTube page today Lindy.

Watch 'Australia Sings For Lebanon' here. :)

Love and hugs -Debbie

Finally ....

A video updating Debbie's 18 week scan.

You can see it HERE. Or on the nerdfighter ning! I can not believe that John posted it on the front page!!! He's such a girl's blouse for babies!

I'm feeling the boy move now which is nice, though I can see that in a few months time I might be getting my insides kicked out!

Love and hugs to all.

Our latest holiday in Tyre.

Hello again, once again we managed to escape to Tyre for a day to enjoy some familiy holiday together! The weather is unusually hot so we got down to the beach!! :D

Kitto Easter

Hi all. Hope that you have all had a fabulous easter ("He is risen" "He is risen indeed")

We spent our first easter in Whyalla - weird! Doesn't really feel like easter if you don't travel. Annie, I can't wait to hear how your easter was. What did you think of camp? I miss camp. Camp is great! And I hope that the rest of the Hogben clan had a good weekend back in Adelaide.
Masris... Do anything interesting for easter? Hope that you all had a good weekend. Hope we can hear about it soon.

Friday started with an extremely packed ecumenical service at Bethel (with the baptists, the AOG and the salvos... and the Everetts (sp?)). Went really well and the kids had fun playing with Grace. The rest of Friday was getting the house and food ready for people to come for a shared tea, after which we played wii (nice to borrow one to get the desire out of our system). Saturday was great weather and we managed to go out for tea to friends. Sunday was church and church, the second of which I lead, with a chocolate egg hunt in the middle of the afternoon. And Monday daddy let us into the school gym and we had fun playing all kinds of ball sports.

Thanks Hogben's for the kid's easter chocolates. Natalie also managed to score a new dressing gown from us (white like Annie's) and Calvin not surprisingly was happy with Mars lego (which Natalie put together for him.

Will be great to have mum here next weekend. The kids are very excited and are already making plans (plan A, being that Natalie will keep her room very tidy so that Grandma can sleep there and Natalie and Calvin can have a sleepover in Calvin's room).

Love and hugs to you all, mwah mwah,
-Debbie

Stunningly Beautiful Song

Hey Dad... remember a while back I showed you a Tripod gospel song? I found it on YouTube.

Listen to Tripod and Eddie Perfect singing 'Middle of the Air' HERE.
Oh so amazing. I will make it into a MP3 for you if you like. Might have to use this at church one day.

Hope you're all well -Debbie

Introducing ...

Hi all. Had my 18 week scan today and everything is NORMAL - exceptionally normal. The sonographer even predicted that this kid would be a NORMAL 8 lbs, hurray.
And we were also able to discover that HE is growing and developing very nicely.

Calvin is VERY excited about all the things he is going to tell his little brother, including how to be a superhero. Natalie is also very pleased.
This little son of ours does have a name, but we have to keep some things a surprise ;)

I'm really looking forward to introducing you, Masri people, to your newest cousin and nephew. Hope that you are all well. God bless and lots of hugs.
-Debbie

What to do if your gas bottle catches fire

Today the local CFS had a practise run on how to switch off a burning gas bottle. This will be part of a Combined Services day at the School Gym that the local Road safety group are organizing . Will give a summary after the event. Here is a few photos, Should look quite speccy in the dark.

The situation regarding the house is quite depressing . Having had our hopes raised that Aunty Daph's house may be available for rent, but after keeping us on tender hooks for two weeks we were told that he didn't want to rent at this time. As there does not look like any other options available the thought is that we will have to retire back at the farm.

Dust and more dust

About 4.00pm today as we looked out to the south west we saw this dust storm approaching over the hills. Not a lot of wind with it and it passed over very quickly and left us with cooler temps and blue skys. They are not predicting any rain til late March, so will have to be patient for a bit longer

The Hunter and The Bruised!

Whyalla update:

Last (last) Saturday Stuart went out fishing at 4am with the other Assistant Principal. And the hunter not only caught a fish, but he cleaned it and then cooked it for his family for tea.

Also, last Sunday night I lead worship and was playing tambourine for one song. This is what my leg looked liked after the service!!!

I hope that you are all well. Big hugs and kisses to you all.

The OFFICIAL Post

We are having a baby. A real live for real baby!

Details so far. I will be 14 weeks on Tuesday. My due date is the 19th of August. I have already had one scan in Adelaide back on the 4th of Feb and they told us that so far the baby looks completely NORMAL (we love that word). This is a photo from that scan.

I am having another scan in Adelaide on the 17th of March, where they will be able to check the baby over in greater detail.
I have made a video for our internet friends that you can see here and now I am very tired, because I sacrificed a lot of rest time to video myself having rest times :P



Love and hugs to you all. I hope that you are all well. Looking forward to hearing some positive news on the house hunting front mum and dad. Hope that everything falls into place for your visit Lindy/kids. Really exciting that you could be here in August. God bless,
-Debbie

My other little spot of fame!

Hey there everyone!! Guess what I finally found?? The YouTube copy of the music video clip that I played violin in!! (You didn't know I was so talented did you?) Here is the link so you can enjoy it for yourselves. Spot the faker :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R30ghp_39bM

We have another Soul Connection Concert coming up in two weeks. Resident Alien is playing again and some of you may be pleased to know we are doing another Switchfoot song, We Are One Tonight. I know we didn't get any video of the last ones, but you never know..... maybe this time : ) Love to all