February hasn't just seen visitors; we've also had a homecoming. The Bells are home from their adventure in London. Yay!

We picked them up from the airport at some ridiculous hour (You know I'd forgotten that the sun isn't up yet at 5:30 am. It's been a while since I've been up that early.) When we dropped the Bells back to Erko, some of Oscar and Leo's friends were sitting on the front verandah. They had made a huge Welcome Back sign for Oscar, Leo, Richie, Annie and "Baby Foetus". It was very sweet.
I think we'd been in the house for all of ten minutes before Leo stripped down to his undies declaring "It's so hot!". Well certainly compared to London. Top of 31 degrees in Sydney today compared with a chilly 4 degrees in London.

Glad to have you home Bells!

I'm sorry, wonderful readers but I just have to get a little mini-rant out of the way first.

Can you believe it? My sister and her family have up and moved to London. The city that we just moved home from. The city that we moved home from so we could be closer to our family. My brother lives in Hong Kong and now my sister lives in London. I'm an only child! wah!

Ok... now that's out of the way.

Annie, Richie, Oscar and Leo have moved to London and we're really happy for them all. London is such an exciting city to live in and they will have so many fantastic adventures. Richie has new opportunities at work, Annie gets to take advantage of the continental mini-breaks and the boys are going to love all the trains! We're sure that they'll enjoy living there as much as we did.

To farewell the Bells there was a little party a couple of weekends ago. The plan was to hold it in Pirrama Park. The weather had other ideas though. In the morning, it was a beautiful, sunny 27 degree day. Unfortunately at 2pm, as the party started, so did the rain, the thunder and the lightning. I was watching the thunderstorm from Mum and Dad's balcony and I saw several lightning strikes hit the park. Luckily Mum, the queen of organisation, had booked the station as a back up in case it rained. The party moved to and continued at the station.

Have you ever tried to take photos of groups of kids who are more interested in running around then sitting still for a photograph? I don't think I have a single photo from the event where everyone is looking at the camera. With the Bell family photo, I had to create a collage of photos. Each person is looking at the camera in at least one photo in the collage.

Good luck in London Annie, Richie, Oscar and Leo! We miss you already.

More photos (slideshow) on Flickr.