The Gibbons are on the Move!

In only 4.5 short weeks we'll be moving in our first (owned) house! We're beyond thrilled and can't wait to put some paint on the walls and hang our photos. Even though we've been renting for the last three years, it still feels like we've been living out of suitcases, and this is definitely feeling more settled. There's a good reason for the move, we're expecting more out of town visitors next year after the arrival of our first baby! So much excitement in our lives at the moment. We get the keys to our new digs on January 20th, which is the day we find out the gender of the baby, AND its' our 5 year wedding anniversary! It can't get any bigger than that!!

We'll be posting more about the house soon, but until then here's a photo

Hurra for Syttende Mai - Norwegian National Day celebrations

Last weekend we went up to Warburton to take part in their Nordic Festival. I made up a thermos of hot chocolate and made some "pepperkaker" or gingerbread cookies and we braved the cold weather. I wore mitten made by my grandmother knitted in Norway. They had a Viking village, market, art gallery (we purchased a painting by a Finnish artist of Birch trees in winter), and stinkin' cute shops. A fun time was had by all!

A couple weekends ago Cam and I skipped down to the Swedish Church where there was a special Church service in Norwegian followed by a parade around the neighborhood in Toorak, and concluded with Norwegian food and fun. Many people wore their national costumes to celebrate Norwegian National Day.

Mt. Beauty

More photos of our Easter weekend up at Mt. Beauty. It's Autumn here in Australia so the colours of the trees were electric.

and YES those are Sock Monkey mittens, courtesy of my dear niece Laurel.

Easter Weekend

Cam and I went up to Mt. Beauty, Vic for the Easter weekend. The weather couldn't have been nicer! Cam even got to fly his kite in the high-country.

Cam's Kite

We went back to the States for a few weeks for my parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary. I know, it was a big deal! It was also Cam's birthday while we were over there and I decided to get him his very own stunt kite, since he bought a little worthless kite here and he takes it with him everywhere and it doesn't get 2 feet off the ground. We went down to Barwon Heads, VIC Australia yesterday with Cam's brother Michael and Cam finally got to take his kite for its inaugural flight. It was so much fun... until he crashed it into me!