Happy Birthday to the Queen!!!

The Aussies love days off!  So there are plenty of public holidays when school is out and the city shuts down.  Of course, Lex doesn't get them all off, but this one-- he did!  And why not?  It is the celebration of the Queen's Birthday!!!

Some of our friends, the Orths, have property about an hour West of Brisbane and they invited us to go out for dutch oven dinner and celebrate the day on their beautiful property.

We had heaps of fun.  The kids got to go on the trailer to pick up wood for the campfire.  We cooked meat and potatoes and roasted pumpkin in the pots over the fire.  It was absolutely delish!  Love me some roasted pumpkin!  Gonna miss the pumpkin here.

The older girls took care of my little girls all day.  They let them help feed the cows and after dark, all the kids got to play night games.  They used torches to play steal the flag and hide and seek.  There were quite a few kids and Park had a blast hanging with the older boys!

Here are our friends, the Orths and the Pearses.  They are so much fun.  We loved spending the day with them and their families.

Michelle Pearse, me and Angela Orth!  Love these ladies.  Such good friends.

They had all kinds of cool "toys" to try.  Like bow and arrows and real Indiana Jones whips.  Oaks loved the bow.

At the end of the night we had yummy biscuit dessert with cream and the kids did sparklers.

This was such a fun day.  It was great to see some of the countryside of Queensland.  It was such beautiful country.  We loved celebrating with great food and great friends....LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!