SNOW in the Pilbara: Good Friday

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Good Friday

It was so nice to wake up on Good Friday and not have any plans! No school, no work, no rushing...just a quiet, relaxing day of making and eating homemade hot cross buns, Easter cupcakes and playing with the kids. The kids woke up early of course (6am is the latest we can usually sleep in until) so I made my hot cross bun dough in the thermomix (super quick and easy) and then left it to rise while we walked to a nearby park for the kids to have a play (before it got too hot). My hot cross buns were so yummy straight out of the oven with butter!

Harrison and I then made some cupcakes to take to the Pilkington's house late that afternoon - they had an Easter party at their house. Grammie had sent the kids some really cute cupcake cases and cupcake toppers so I wanted to use them. The kids also made more Easter crafts from the stuff sent to them from Grammie and Aunty Bindi. They were seriously spoilt by Aunty Tam, Aunty Bindi and Grammie with amazing Easter packages. Aunty Tam sent Harrison some Lego and Sienna some princess dresses (because it's too hot to send chocolate here) - they were both super excited! Aunty Bindi sent all sorts of Easter craft stuff and little toys - my kids were in heaven,
they LOVE getting packages.

Meanwhile, as all this baking was happening Clinton was busy doing lots of stuff around the house, he's not really one to sit around doing nothing. Everything in the Pilbura is covered in red dirt so cement pavement turns a dirty orange colour. We have paving around our house that's stained orange so Clint decided to try water blasting it to make it look a bit cleaner. He was able to blast a tree picture into the cement!! Welcome to Ktown!

In the afternoon we went to the Pilkington's Easter party. We had a BBQ dinner and lots of yummy desserts. The kids played in a blow up pool and sprinklers and ran around together all night. Amy and Rifka organised a great Easter egg hunt too.