A TOUCHING TRIBUTE

Well the funeral ended up being in Shepparton on Friday afternoon and it was really lovely. They paid a fantastic tribute to Pops life and Dad did a lovely eulogy with my uncle reading a great poem he wrote about pops life. There were many tears - as would be expected and then we went to the burial to watch Pop be laid to rest and at peace with Nanna Betty. He had a lovely bouquet of flowers made into an aeroplane which was very fitting as he had flown model aeroplanes for 40 odd years. I am very proud to also say that Pop had the airfield in Shepparton named after him the week before he died. It is now called the Ian Watts Flying field. Dad said he had a big smile from ear to ear when they took him out to see the big new sign with his name on it. It was in the paper in Shepparton and everything. I have a copy but can't work out how to scan it onto this page. Anyway I will keep trying. I am just glad he had the pleasure of knowing that he is a name sake rather than it happening once he had already gone.

We ended up having a few drinks and went out for tea with all the family after the wake and it was just lovely to spend that quality time together. We had breakfast with dad and headed back to Melbourne on Saturday morning as we had to get back to the kids and ready for a 30th birthday on Saturday evening. We all had a great night at the 30th but as usual I drank way to much and we got home at about 4am.

Chloe had a bad hair day on the last day of school where they donated a gold coin to charity to wear their hair "BAD". Here are a couple of photos. We did purple and glitter hair spray with pipe cleaners. It was a great day and all the kids looked great and enjoyed getting ready for it.

We had a terrible scare on Sunday with a phonecall from Coreys brother to say they had rushed his dad to hospital in the Ambulance with a suspected heart attack. Corey and Darren went and sat by his side as Di (Coreys mum) was at the Lion King and we couldn't get on to her. He stayed in over night and they did heaps of tests but thankfully it turned out to be vertigo - not another heart attack. He came home Monday lunch time so that was a big relief as we really don't need any more sicknesses or deaths at the moment.

I also meant to tell you all that I had my hair cut and coloured last week. I simply forgot to mention it with everything else that has been going on. It is Chocolate brown with blode peek-a-boo foils and I also had it layered and thinned out. I FEEL LIKE A NEW WOMEN!!! Anyway here is a picture of me, Chloe and Bailey at Chloes 5th birthday yesterday. It is really dark. I also had to have my eyebrows tinted as they were blonde and it looked ridiculous.



Anyway thanks to everyone for their support and kind wishes. I am sorry I did not update any sooner but with the funeral plans, 30th Birthday, Coreys dad and organising 2 parties for Chloe's 5th birthday it has been a very hectic week. Talk soon, kys