Marion Bay 2011

Our annual photo in the same spot! 

Marion Bay 2011 was so much fun this year.  Catie, Kath, myself and six kids rented a holiday house for the October long weekend to catch up with our gorgeous friend Jess who lives at Marion Bay on the York Peninsula. 

We've been holidaying annually for about seven years now, so its a great tradition and our families are ever expanding with eight kids running a muck. 

It was really full on during the day with kids running around and the house was not that kid friendly outside because of some large stone steps and no fences so I had to really keep my eye on Owen who is only 18 months and accident prone. Charlie has really grown up now, so he is keeping up with Mia and Samuel the older kids and Charlie and Jarrah were playing nicely too.

So we just spent time with the kiddies and then at night we would have a few drinks.  Our first drink was on arrival with Kath opening a bottle of watermelon flavoured champagne. Too bad Catie was so jet lagged from her trip to London, she kept falling asleep at night early.  I drank lots of alcohol that weekend.  Too bad I feel asleep on the last night quite early.

The ever expanding mob

We had a visit to the beach, play ground, visit to Jess and Ryan's house to play with chickens and watch the kids climb trees.  We also managed dinner at the local pub to but it was run and eat  as quick as can be when going out for dinner with so many kiddies.

Girls fun after the kids have gone to bed.

Loved this weekend and cannot wait for next year. The girls are also planning a strictly "Girls Only" weekend at Victor in December/January so will look forward to that for sure!

I feel so blessed to have such beautiful friends like Catie, Kath and Jess. They are totally amazing, intelligent, down to earth, easy going and a lot of fun too!