Basketball Babes

The big night finally arrived...after months and months and months...yes nearly a year the LONGEST basketball season in the world came to it's final game...THE GRAND FINAL!One can get quite nervous about these events...

The warm up...
PreMatch Undressing...
The pre match chat...
The awesome shooting...
The intense anticipation...
The lame umpiring...The enthusiastic crowd...

The Mexican Wave...


The five fouls with 40sec to go 'and i'm benched' pose...p.s that was the ONLY time all season that I got fouled off!
and...
THE WINNERS!!!

Complete with RED faces...
Left to Right...Rach, Me, Bek, Mel, Amy, Chels...Waiting for the trophies!



Congrats Chels! Great game!!

Esther's token Trophie...for playing over half the season with us and helping us get to the GRAND FINAL! Can't wait to team it up with you next season pes!
Congrats MEL...the THREE POINT EXTRAORDINAIRE!
and me!...Thanks to the crowd for cheering loudly at this moment...the trophie lady cracked up!
The kids checking out the bounty...

So who's up for Mc Flurry's?
...and that's it...AYC B grade premiers 2009...Next year A grade...after having only lost two games all season I think we're ready for the challenge!
Bring it!

Forthcoming Farewell

Hard post to write...sob sob...My little Sis is abandoning Tassie and moving to Geelong in two weeks...This weekend she came down to say farewell to the Hobart peeps...
She may be old and grey before we see her again cause she's moving SO far away...so thought we better get some pics...
and now a poem...
Jess Jess
She's a Pes...t
Always makes a mess
Put ya to the tes...t
You're the bes....t
I'll give it a res...t
love ya big sis...

yeah pretty lame...but the words don't come when i'm so emotional!

Hot Date with Jake...

Reports = Done!
Downhill run to the end of the year = WAHOO!
So time to head north and catch up with the long lost family...Seeing as the 'Gibson Girls' don't get out much anymore...what with three of us being tied down with husbands and two of us too old and crusty to date anymore...we decided we'd all go on our own trip to the movies...for a date with Jake...as in Jacob...as in how many muscles can be calved into one man...hmmm....unfortunately he was on the big screen and we were stuck in silly little launny theatre seats, with a bunch of launny bogans that reacted to every on screen moment...it did make the movie more interesting i'll have to admit... We were sitting in order...Jess, Me, Sim1, Lisa, Mumsy... and I wanted a pic...but this is all the iphone could manage...scary!...

Birthdays mean party time! Here is Jonty going for the present his favouritist aunty bought him...

hmm what could it be... How cute are these shorts!! Jonty loved them!
Check out this amazing cake!

Jonty couldn't believe it!
For me!...Oh BOY!!

Hey everyone! Come check out my MASSIVE cake!...Oh man! This is huge! How am I going to eat all of this!Well folks he tried his best! He LOVES THE CAKE!...
It's tradition in our family to sing the birthday song and then clap the amount of years that person is celebrating...birthdays like mums leave you with VERY sore hands! and usually it's a BIG build up...you know how it goes...

"HAAAAPPPY BIRRTHDAY TOOOO YOUUUUUUU....aaaah ONE TWO THREE FOUR"etc. Well we finish off Jonty's song and Sarra loads up with "aaaaannnnd.....ONE" It was SO funny...I guess you had to be there...but I thought it was pretty funny...she got a high five for that effort!

Jonty shared his party with Lisa...I was cracking jokes about the cake...so are you one? or fourty one? Sixty one?...I won't publish how old she really is...but all these ages were exaggerated! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!At some stage during the afternoon whilst Oliver was playing with my iphone...(surprise surprise) the dulcet tones of busy bee drifted away...this must have been the time he discovered the camera! So here is a photo montage of the afternoon through the eyes of Oliver...enjoy...

I think that's mums pants...and here's a close up ...

Maybe a favourite colour?

aaah his favourite Brother!...with his favourite aunty!

Look Simone! It's okay! Someone else likes your shoes!...

oooh me again! Def. a fav.

Also quite fond of himself...what IS that around your mouth Oliver?

...and again...this is a pretty cool shot actually!

ah Oliver loves his Nan!

Thanks Oliver! You made my blog post a MILLION times more interesting!

Melbs...

BIG weekend! Waiting in the Hobart airport.... On our way...
Excited to leave tassie!...
First Stop DFO Essendon...waiting ...waiting...waiting for Fi Fi to meet us so we could go home:)
Friday night....First Sesion at the temple...
The Crew...
Saturday after our Second Temple visit it was time to hit St Kilda beach...Supermodels?
Saturday night...catch up with ALEX!!
He took all three of us on a HOT date...
Including the AWESOME skyview lookout...

p.s NEVER go to Skyview...you have to pay! and the view is LAME!
Yes we rescued Campbell and Olan for this part of the night...and they also payed...for the lame view...sorry guys:)
Slurpee time!! After spending days looking for the BEST variety...we had to settle for Raspberry!
Sleeping beauties on a sunday morning...
Fiona writing a love note to Fiona...
Our family pic...
On the way home...(32 deg.)
Arriving to 9deg in Hobart town!
Shout out to Bink and Fia for having us! And taking us everywhere! ...and Alex for our Saturday night entertainment...Harbour Town for being open so we could check it out...St Kilda beach for being the BIGGEST gathering of Bogans in the world....Cold Rock for being COLD ROCK!! Melb 7/11 for NOT having apple flavoured slurpees...Eltham Ward for hosting us on Sunday...
Peace out.