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ONLY 8 Days to go

Well, with just over a week to go, 8 days to be correct, the excitement is building and the kids are coming out with some funny questions........Noah wants do know if we are going to be fed on the plane, I am guessing that is because on the cheap flights we take to see his GreatGrandma you don't get fed :O) Katie is wondering if the Airhostess will let us sleep or do we have to stay awake for the pilot sake :O) funny........and Jack just keeps signing "Plane" every 2 seconds LOL.......
I am more worried about the practical things like getting us all though the USA customs and passport control and Tony is worried about the actual flight length in regards to the kids. Last night I had a nightmare that they wouldn't let any of us though passport control in the US........Silly, but I guess its just us getting closer and excited for the kids (erhhh and us LOL)
Locky is being Mr cool about it, I mean at 13 do you really show that your still excited to go on a holiday with your Parents LOL......
SO thats it, 8 days to go............I will check on over the weekend and update,
Hugs Nicki

count down has begun

Well the count down has begun to several big events in our lives, not only are we going on the US trip with Katies Make a Wish, but my Dad (Rob) is arriving from South Australia to come live with us next weekend and Our new house is finally going to start being built within the next 4 weeks, all the paper work, bank approval and council building approval is done and we are just waiting for the builders to cut the block and start the build.
WE are going to have a HUGE second half of this year.
Our new house is at Wamuran, a small semi rural area about 35 minutes from where we live now, we have 1 whole acre to build on and we are building our forever house............we are never building again!!! its so far been a very stressful and money consuming exercise and I can't see it getting any better for at least a few months ;o)

My Dad is building a "granny Flat" type thing off our Home, he has his own Garage, own entrances and basically he will live as if he was living on his own............only he has us next door LOL.
The kids are over the moon that Grandad is coming..........I sure that everyone will need some time to settle in to a new normal, my Dad and I haven't been this close for over 16 years so its going to be different for all of us.
Anyway the countdown to the trip has begun in a huge way, I got suitcases out and I just had a call from my Mum that she has brought us a new set of suitcases to go with.........cool..........so 11 days it is till we are flying off to our dream holiday,

Katies Wish Trip

As I have previously posted Katie is going on a Make a Wish trip to Disney World in Orlando Florida in May, we Leave Brisbane on the 8th (My dad is house sitting for us) and arrive 17 hours later but also on the 8th in Orlando(got to love the time difference). Katie and our family are so very grateful for this wonderful chance to have a once in a life time family holiday to Disney World.

The Make a Wish foundation is an amazing foundation who grant wishes to children with life-threatening illness's, the wish' are granted on a case by case basis and it seems to us that NOTHING is do hard for them(I know I know with some exceptions)

If you can remember Make a Wish next time you are thinking of donating to a Charity I am sure they would be over the moon to recieve a donation.

https://www.makeawish.org.au/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=204&srcid=237

When we are in Orlando we are staying at another amazing place that works closely with Make a Wish to provide accomidation to families on Wish trips.

Give Kids the World is another Charity that supports children and families who are living though a Life threatening illness, Please check out there amazing website for yourself.

http://www.gktw.org/

We are almost as excited about staying in this place as we are about going to Disney World and Nasa.

The Make a Wish foundation has done so much to make Katies wish even more special, this past weekend Katie was presented with her wish and got a program of the up and coming trip, the Wish Fairies who came out to our home brougth party food, gifts and an amazing amount of love and compassion which they showered on all that where at the "wish Party"

I can't say enough about this amazing group of people, the "wish Fairies" are doing this for love, not money and are voluntees who give up there time to come and make the wishes even more special for the wish child and their families.

Here is some pictures from the Wish Party

Hi everyone

Hi there, well I have finally taken the Blog plunge and created a blog for all of our family and friends to keep track of us and also so I can keep you all upto date with the kids medical issues and OHHH our amazing trip to Disneyworld in May.

As some of you know Katie was granted a Make a Wish, wish from the The Make a wish foundation here in Australia http://www.makeawish.org.au/
Katies wish was to Go to Disneyworld and Nasa to see a shuttle take off(they can't grant that but we are going to Nasa), well they have granted her the wish and we her family get to got with her all 6 of us. We leave in like 12 days and we are over the moon with excitement.

Katie for those that don't know has a complex cardiac condition called Hypoplastic Right heart Syndrome(HRHS), its not a condition that can be cured and it involves many, many years of medical and surgical procedures.

Katie has had a pretty good run lately and is stable, but we know that Health is not something we can take for granted with HRHS so we are eager to get her on her trip so she can enjoy it while she is so stable and happy.

The other kids are doing well, Jack, Locky,and Noah are doing awesome in school and Jack got his first ever Student of the week award last week, she slept with the certificate!!!!!

Locky is doing awazing at his new love Tae Kwondo and has gained two belts in a very short amount of time, he is nearly on to his 3rd belt and he just loves the sport.

Noah has had a amazing start to Prep and he loves it so much,