Pets, Vets and Jaffles

Tuesday 25th September 2012 

We have a beautiful child by the name of 'Bron' who this week had to undergo surgery to remove a growth on his eye. The surgery was a success but poor Bron has to stay in a head cone for the next 10 days! Poor little guy hates it and has been Mr Glum for the past day-and-a-half. Fingers crossed the next 9 more days are breezy. 

To pass time we decided our luck at making antipasto jaffles and fruit juices. The antipasto jaffles were amazing (pesto, salami, sun dried tomato, eggplant and mozzarella), and the juice didn't quite turn out 'juicy' instead we ended up with (apple, blueberry and raspberry) sorbet in a cup!

Overall a good day in the Jitterbug household.

City of lights

Tuesday 11th September 2012 

Brisbane Australia is considered one of the 'sleepy' cities of Australia, yet it's hard imagine during September every year as September means the festival season. New years in most cities are the biggest times, with fire works and celebrations. Instead, every September, Brisbane put on a festival so big, it puts New Year celebrations to shame. 

Living so close to the city means we get a piece of all the action right on our doorstep. A couple of nights ago we went to see the 'SANTOS City of Lights', and although only 10 minutes long, was absolutely amazing. 

We (Jittney and Jess) set up a night time picnic beside the lantern walkway, which looked absolutely beautiful as the sun went down. With our hot wood fired pizza and home made lemonade we were set for the festival!

Sextant...

Saturday 8th September 2012 

Today our family celebrates fathers day, yes we are a week off, but its one of the few days EVERY family member has off work and can come together. Our parents had us and our older sister when they were young, so our parents have always been our role models and friends. Today we celebrated by watching 'Little Bud's' last soccer game of the season and tonight an amazing feast. 

Today we were also going through some old boxes of "junk" that a family friend was going to sell at an up coming garage sale, we found some amazing treasures! One of those treasures was a very old and very rusty sextant. We have been spending so much time restoring it back to its shiny old self. Most weekends we go to antique stores and see what little trinkets we find. Our favorite things to collect are old books (our favorite being an extremely old copy of Peter Pan) and little treasures like old scales and what not. Seeing the Sextant in the box made us almost cry with excitement. They are so beautiful and to learn how to use one, would be a tick off the bucket list! 

Most days we have off work and study, we find ourselves fiddling with things we find and wondering how things work. All we can say is, life gets that little bit more interesting when you try and figure something out!

Thank you John Campbell for inventing the Sextant!

Jitterbugs

Entertainment and Decisions

Wednesday 22nd August 2012

Today was an eventful day with a trip to the hospital to be there for our Nan's chemo treatment (PAST HALF WAY!) and a trip to the shops to find the perfect outfit. What for.. you ask?  We made it through the next round of an extremely important job opportunity for our nursing careers.

The day was (as usual) sunny and dry... It hasn't rained here in over 60 days! We all piled into our family mini and made our way down to what would be the 5th last chemo treatment for our Nan's cancer. To be there is an event in itself, as our Nan is one heck of a character and our Grandfather is determined to keep himself distracted so he doesn't have to watch our Nan making each visit extremely entertaining. . After 3 hours.. all was over and we headed back home. 

Shopping is a girls best friend, but when there is twins and another two girls, it makes it an experience :D Jitterbugs has gone through life with the constant comparisons... which we cant blame those who do for we are very alike. This in mind, the shopping trip lasted much longer than it needed to as when one would buy an outfit/item the other must follow our very strict rule...

JITTERBUGS RULE: 

MUST NEVER EVER EVER IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE (EXCEPT IN UNIFORM) MUST WE EVER WEAR THE SAME CLOTHES!

 

Prime example: Shiny shoes and non shiny shoes to be worn on the same day...... accepted 

Jitterbugs

We Popped our Blogger Cherry!

Saturday 18th August 2012

The morning started like most others... a stroll to the markets (where we devour our favorite Frankfurt in a bun!), walking our partly blind and deaf dog Bron, and relaxing with the family. The family consisting of a wonderful mother, a hilarious father, an amazing older sister and us... "The Twins". 

Today was extra special. Not only was the weather great (except for the gale force winds), my Grandparents came up from out-of-state to watch our little 'Bud' play in his under 6 soccer game. 

 




My grandma is currently going though chemo treating cancer and due to the cold Ekka winds was too risky for her to watch the game. Instead we managed to mix the old generation with new technology and my grandma Skyped for the first time in her life, with a long lost friend. It almost brought us to tears to see her face light up when her friends face appeared on the screen. 

It was a great day full of happiness and laughs. 

Jitterbugs