This is Ben in action
and now "out" of action 
Can you believe how time has flown so quickly!!
I hope you have a wonderful day today! 
Happy Birthday Cathe!! 
These couple of photos were taken last year when we were living out at Mum and Dad's place, where you can see behind me that I left a legacy of Marigolds..
Oscar is awfully fond of going to the beach - it is about the only time that he will "smile" for a photo. The rest of the time he looks very serious, or dare I say, "GROUCHy"?
Austin is our other big black and white dog, he even comes when you whistle, he is rather pathetic and gets beaten up all the time, if not by the neighbours cat "Saturday" then its a hiding from Elizabeth. He and Oscar both share the laundry at night so everyone else can get some sleep. But he is a big beautiful boy who is scared of everything - most especially CHANGE!
Megsy the oldest and definitly the grumpiest in nature of our little family... this is her at her best - she smells food and is asking for a share so she isn't snarling into the camera. All kids have been advised not to go near her - no matter how sweet she looks.... looks can be decieving (just like her really)
Elizabeth is a sweetie... she acts like a little teeny weeny scaredy cat, when really she is the bravest of the lot and is very very sneaky and stirs trouble with Megsy all the time - I believe some work is at play to "dethrone the queen" - so watch out Megs! Lily-beth is also a scammer, she likes to make out that she "cant possibly jump that high" I don't know what thats about as quite clearly as this photo shows.... she can jump just fine!!!
I cant finish off without including a picture the very bestest animal in the house, and it is my Monkey boy husband - Dave!
I know,.. scary isn't it?
Well I finally made some time and have loaded some more photos from our Bangkok honeymoon adventures... I absolutely love the gold background to the top photo - We are standing at the base of a Golden temple, its absolutley stunning. All the temples are built by hand, down to the tiles and ceramics. They say it takes ages to build these temples, but thats fine by the Thai people,... they are in no rush, when it gets done, it gets done - unlike us Westerners who want everything done "yesterday" 
This guy here was one of my favourites - he was one of a dozen "monkeys" carrying a mountain.... there is a story behind why he is carrying the mountain - but I did not retain that information!! typical of me really.. But I do know that the colours on the monkeys (and most temples) represent the jewells found in Thailand,
Red = rubies Blue = Saphires Green = Emeralds
Hence the colourful post as a tribute!
This is the reclining buddha - and as mentioned in the earlier post - this was something that I really wanted to see while in Bangkok! It was sooo amazing! The Thai culture is fascinating and the people are great. I learnt in Bangkok the value of doing the little hands together "like you are a child prying" and and nodding with the words of "sawadee ka" to say hello or "kopoomka" to say thank you - I found that it made things a lot easier!
Thanks for checking in... "kopoomka"
This is the reclining buddha - amazing
The next project, aside from expanding our little family, is getting the garden looking smicko, as I didn't spend all my holiday money I had a little spend up at the nursery in Perth and brought home a carload of plants.... mwhah ha ha ha!! Now we need just a little bit more rain and things will start looking great!
Anyways I gotta get back to work - Hi to everyone who has a look at our blogspot from time to time... Hope you all like it.. if there is anything you want us to put in and update - let us know!
Ciao! Rae
We found this fantastic spot on Rawaii Beach, on one side of the road are BBQ's and little shack type cafe's and then across the road on the beach are these little short legged tables on mats. The view is fantastic and the seafood is really cheap - their fried rice was DELISH!!! Lots of locals seem to eat there too.
This little guys name is Charlie - we met Charlie after our Elephant ride, he and his girlfriend come down from the tree's everyday (usually when there are Banana's on the go) He apparently was taken from his Mum and misses being preened by her - so he gets you to do it for you!! Very strange - but cute!
Scooter time!!
This is Patong at night - where I think the place looks a lot better - during the day time you can see too much - but then again there are times at night when you can see tooooo much!! If you know Phuket - then you know what I mean!
And Dave likes my chocolate croissants
- note to self - I should eat them instead of taking photos of him devouring my food!!!
Only one week to go before we head to Perth to go off on our Honeymoon. We collected our tickets from Censina, our travel agent at Flight Centre, yesterday, she was great - gave us some choccies and bubbly (I "baggsied" the Chocs of course!)
yesterday was a bad day..... 
