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Emily's Graduation and Formal
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Emily School Formal & Graduation
Well the last 2 weeks have been a very busy time in the Frater family house. After 13 years Emily has finally finished school. The week started with Tracey's mum Debra (Nana to Emily) arriving from Christchurch on Wednesday morning and straight into preparations for her school formal that night. I had taken the afternoon off as per request from Tracey "she told me I had to" we arrived at Springfield Lakes for the photos along with everyone else and another school so parking was at a premium. My best description of the chaos was "its mad down here" . Once we had taken some photos of Emily and her friends (group photos) we decided to beat the traffic and proceed to the formal venue at the Indooroopilly Golf Club. A couple of drinks later the rest of the graduating class had arrived. The best arrival vehicle of the night by far was a Mack truck or Optimus Prime for those who know what I'm talking about. I have to admit Emily was looking very beautiful in her traditional formal dress as opposed so some other students who opted for the less appropriate evening wear.
After the formal Emily went on a mystery bus tour that the school had organised, this included mini golf, Time Out arcade, Wet' n Wild theme park and ended on the beach at the Gold Coast for the sunrise. Emily was the only one who stayed up all the night as she informed Tracey who picked her up at the school (9am) for a well earned sleep on Thursday.
Friday was a day off for me but no sleep in as a early start was required. Emily was dropped off early to prepare as she has two songs to preform during the graduation. Once I parked the car and Mathew and I walked back to Tracey, Lauren and Debra for the start at the school. There were 8 classes graduating this year and through out the graduation ceremony Emily sang 2 songs. She sang them beautifully, Tracey, Debra (Nana) and I were very proud of our Daughter (Grand Daughter).
After the event was finished it was back to the high school for the graduating class final walk down the spine. All the classes came out to clap and cheer (even the drums were getting into the action) for their last day at school.
We left for lunch after Emily caught up with her friends and signed their final year books, then headed for ice cream (gelato).
The Saturday morning was off to an early start as Nana was flying back to Christchurch, Emily and Tracey left in the afternoon to Melbourne. The weekend was quiet and I had some good nights sleep (no snoring from Tracey) but getting going on the Monday and Tuesday mornings was a bit hard. Tracey and Emily returned on the Tuesday afternoon after a great weekend away in Melbourne. They spent some time in the markets and went to the Zoo, then a show Aladian. By the time they made it home they where both very tired and needed a good nights sleep in their own bed "Emily complained Tracey kept her awake with her snoring".
I have a photo collection of all the events here and some video to upload soon.
This is one very proud dad now onto those P plates
Andrew
Happy Birthday Tracey
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Today is Tracey Frater's 48th birthday, Tracey and I have been married for 21 years this coming holidays and have been together for about 26 years. While we started out in Christchurch then moved to Auckland in our 20's, When our first child was Emily was born we decided to move back to Christchurch to be closer to family. After another 2 kids, 10 years and 3 devastating earthquakes we made a life changing decision and moved to Australia and settled in Augustine Heights South West Brisbane. We have been living in Australia for 6 years and loving it.
So a Happy birthday to my wife of 21 years love you Andrew
Happy Birthday Emily
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Today Emily Frater celebrated her 17th birthday, I cant believe I have a daughter that is now 17 and a young adult. The day started off with Tracey and I waking her up with a happy birthday song LOL. Then she received her birthday cards along with birthday money, She is the sensible one and saving for a car. The off to school. For tea tonight Emily decided to go to Zeus (a favourite restaurant of Emily's) then Home for a good nights sleep
Happy birthday Mathew
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Today is Mathew Frater's 15th birthday, It seams not that long ago he was a toddler and his big sister keep'd pushing him over while he was trying to sit and watch TV. Also while he was younger his big sister Emilywas playing with the cooking pot lids and decided to banged the pot lids against his head (yes he did cry) to see what would happen I very grumpy mommy is what happened. Another time I had a panic phone call at work from Tracey on how to remove permanent marker ? Again Emily had drawn cat whiskers on Mathews face.
Now how times have changed Mathew is much taller than his big sister and is applying for a job just like his big sister, it won't be long until I will need to start to teach him to drive. Tonight we all went out to Grilled for Mathews birthday tea then back home to some cake with candles.
Today we went Solar
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Well Today we had 24 Solar panels installed along with a battery ready Inverter (well I think it is). Not going into to much details but the system is a 6.5 kw and that's as large as you can go on a residential property. This has just come in time for Queensland summer and as most of us know its going to be hot so we will need the air conditioning system running most of the time. The weather coming this weekend is going to be hot, Forecast for Sunday is 37 already time to get the pool up and running. Just as Aunty and cousins are ariving next week for a visit.
Looking forward to a couple of days off next week and bring on summeer plenty of swims and then before we now it will be Xmas YAY.
Andrew
GKR Karate Instructor
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Well Finnaly after a couple of years finnaly got my GKR Karate instructors certificate. Ive been teaching GKR Karate now for a couple of years firstly at Windaroo Dojo and now at Marsden Dojo on Friday nights 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
