Mini Zen Gardens

I love that Bunnings offer free DIY workshops for kids! It is so fun for them. On Saturday we went with their friends from school - we have another sibling set in the same classes as my kids - and they had the best time. The workshop was mini zen gardens and they loved it.

Joseph's is a home with a mini garage to the side and the girls made theirs into little sparkly gardens.

Best time! Thank goodness for Bunnings.

❤

a long day with mel and the kids

there are some friends who are no effort whatsoever. who when you're with, the conversation just flows and no matter what you're doing, you will have fun. who you don't have to worry about offending with your terrible (and often inappropriate in my case) jokes and whose kids your own kids adore.

this friend to me, is my friend mel. she's amazing and so are her kids and today we accidentally hung out for 10 hours. oops. at least it was a cheap date. we started at our local bunnings for the second day in the row, for another free event, watching al kazam the magic man. he is seriously the funniest. we have been to a birthday party before that he was at and i think the adults laughed as hard as the kids did, so as soon as i saw he was performing i was booking them in asap. 

we then hit up hungry jacks for lunch for their cheap as stunner meals (5 items for $5.95) before heading off to our favourite place...

the opshop mega barn in canning vale. it's the giant opshop in a huge warehouse, where none of the clothing is sorted, but instead thrown into huge clothing bins for you to pick through. to be honest, it's pretty gross (i am a huge germaphobe but love opshopping, go figure?!) but we love all the great stuff we find.

the most amazing thing i found, was actually a sketch book in one of the boxes of books, which i thought i would grab for maddie, as she never stops drawing. but when i opened it, i found this incredible picture that someone had drawn of the mega barn! i felt bad buying it and depriving them of being able to display it so i took it to the girls at the counter who were absolutely thrilled with it. the seemed to think it had been drawn by one of the girls who was working there and assured me they would definitely have it up and framed next time i came in. so cool.

alex had had enough by the end and fell asleep wrapped up close to me. i love that he's still small enough to wrap up and cuddle.

here's my finds from the day, all this for $21 - just 75 cents a piece. bargain!

the kids still weren't done playing when all of that was over, so mel called her husband who turned up for dinner and the party continued well into the night with giggling and rioting all through the house.

thank goodness for good friends and school holidays, two of the most wonderful things in life ♥

funning at bunnings

there is nothing, i repeat nothing, better than free local events to entertain kids during the school holidays... and our local bunnings has come up with the goods. after booking our kids in online, i met a bunch of the other mums from church there so we could gasbag while our kids participated in some easter fun.

but first, some silly photos.

the staff had organised some easter crafts and colouring followed by minute to win it games in their kids area. such a pity i can't upload videos to my blog, this one was a challenge to place an oreo on your forehead and get it into your mouth using only your facial muscles. what the heck.

just so you know, he did not manage to do it, but the oreo ended up in his mouth regardless.

these two nuggets had the time of their life trying to do it

failing miserably

and then laughing about it afterwards.

the easter bunny also arrived to hand out eggs and pose for photos. how i hope that if the easter bunny is indeed real that it is a magical rabbit (that actually looks like a rabbit) that hops around with a basket, rather than a horrifying looking adult in a bunny costume. yikes. the kids didn't seem to mind though.

mads and my little bub. so cute. 

today was a great day ♥