Happy birthday tooooooooooooooooooo Miss 11

Our middle child has now turned 11!! In typical Law style we have already had a massive sleepover pamper party, intimate family celebration (including day out with Mum... chick flick... lunch out...) and finally we have a small gathering coming up (home made pizzas... yum!) to finish off marking this occasion. It has been fun watching this beautiful young lady grow up, getting so tall and yet still so innocent... Looking forward to seeing where the next 11 years takes this sweet daughter of ours.

The other thing that is on our minds at the moment is a happy gathering we are planning to celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary. If we pull our crazy idea off my darling wife and I will be throwing the funnest bash that the Bridge has ever seen. It doesn't bother us that our actual anniversary was in June. It is taking us a few extra months to throw it all together. I for one cannot wait for August to roll around...

Musical surprisingly entertaining - aka That Man Can Sing!!

Last night we finally sat down and popped on The World's Greatest Showman. My gorgeous angel and I attempted to watch this on our wedding anniversary weekend away but with no TV and no DVD player it was not to be. Our busy lives have given us few opportunities to watch it on our own so we decided that this was going to be our family movie night with our trio and two friends. Three out of the five kids seemed to suggest they would happily sit through this film again with the two Miss 8s retiring to another area of the house to chat and play games instead. All in all I think P. T. Barnum would be happy with that result and so too Hugh the amazing Aussie actor who can sing and dance to boot.

I kind of knew the Barnum story from when a local theatre group performed it years ago. It was still interesting though to see how it all unfolded. More risks than I remembered and this movie had a lot of wonderful morals which the three kids that sat and watched with us all seemed to get. All in all a great family film and a very enjoyable night.

Now on to something more light hearted and... Incredible too...

Amazon I love and loath you

Great news!! I have stopped looking for a traditional publisher and have bitten the bullet... My first novel, The Eleventh Tome is now available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book or a hard copy can be ordered as print on demand (POD). The only problem with this exciting news is that Amazon no longer ships to Australia so I can't tell all my local friends about the POD... I can't work out how to upload the POD to amazon.com.au, something I wrongly assumed would load automatically to all sites over a period of time...

Amazon you have been my launch pad but you have only flung me so far... If anyone knows how to activate POD for Amazon's Australian site I would love a comment at the bottom of this post...

And of course if you are after a fantasy novel written in a unique way please give my novel a go... If you like perhaps purchase a copy... Check out https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Prophecies-Andrapaal-Book-ebook/dp/B07F62VWKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531550161&sr=8-1&keywords=Eleventh+Tome if you are interested...

Just another Saturday morning

So much fun was had by all who attended the Murray Bridge Library this morning. As part of our July holiday program we hosted a cards and Cosplay event which a few kids from the community attended. The fun though came from the professional Cosplayers I was able to arrange to attend on the day... We had Star Wars storm troupers, a combative Red Riding Hood (with real chain mail along with a basket of axes), a Ranger, a pretty Princess and a couple of Orcs and Goblins as well as a vampire from Elizabethan England and so many others... All these amazing costumes put my Batman outfit to shame.

I wish that every Saturday could be filled with costumed chaos and craziness. The best bit?! Although we did not get a hoard of kids come along with cards (we did get a few creative costumes from the kids too though) all of the Cosplayers were talking about the next time they came back again... Orc was suggesting he bring a treasure chest along and have the kids search the dungeon, vanquish the Orcs and Goblins, save the Princesses and find the treasure... Sounds like epic fun!!

A Jurassic review

We have been lucky enough to get free tickets to see the latest dinosaur phenomenon, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom... An awesome movie with enough thrills and excitement to get the heart pumping... Since watching this film I heard they went back to using the original style of robotic dinos rather than CGI... If you have not seen it yet it is well worth a watch...

Since seeing Fallen Kingdom we caught Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World... Funny to see these two films after the latest edition... Puts things into perspective...

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - 4 big dino teeth out of 5!!!!

Holiday fun

It has been a hard slog for the kids to make it to the end of an eleven week term and hard for us too. It is nice to be able to let them sleep in now while I potter around getting ready for work. School holidays tend to be a busier time at work too, magicians, science for toddlers and a Cosplay event... So much fun for all ages.

Something else I really look forward to is the family movies. Already we have seen the latest from Adam Sandler (always brilliant as The Count) and the MARVELlous Ant Man and the Wasp... The other flick I (and many more) have been waiting about a decade at least for is the new adventures with that fun fuelled family of super heroes. From those who have seen it already Incredibles 2 has been worth every one of those years of waiting... For a lack of better words I can't WAIT any longer to see it...

Enjoy your holidays everyone...

A wonderful escape

What a weekend...  After my beautiful wife worked seriously long hours over the past week we needed a weekend away to relax and recuperate... Toy sales are crazy so it was great to take the last few days as a chance for family movie nights, spa baths and mini golf...

The Laws ventured forth to check out the Big 4 caravan park at Port Willunga... Thanks to the amazing staff, a strangely quiet park and some unusual generosity we all had the best weekend away...

We also stumbled across some of the cheapest petrol we have seen in quite a while and an awesome, organic Farmer's Market...

I can truly recommend this park as a great place to stay and I am sure we will visit again... There is much about Port Willunga, Aldinga and surrounds that we are still to explore... The Laws vow to return...