Thunderstorm

Ethan and Emma were out early this morning watching a thunderstorm that went overhead, from the safety of the deck of course!

A new chapter

I am sitting at the computer.. the house is quiet.. ALL the kids are at school. They will all be at school everyday now. No lunchtime pick ups, no 2 days a week. All week. I delivered the eldest to his first day of school some 12 years ago and this year he headed off to college (Year 11). I have had children at home with me ever since. I was a SAHM mum for 10 of those years so this is quite an occasion.. a new chapter of our lives.. of children becoming increasingly independent of me.





I'm sure some would expect me to say I am sitting here with a box of tissues, a blubbering mess, but lets face it.. 5 kids.. 12 years.. I was VERY ready for this day to come. If anything I am sitting here proud of having raised 5 children who are confident and independent and who were excited about heading off to school and waved ME off without a tear. I was ready.. and so are they.

Emma's 5th Birthday

Ethan's 7th birthday

Look who lost his first tooth!

Sisters Beach

Today we took a drive to Sisters Beach. I haven't been here since my teens and I have to say its still as beautiful today as it was back then!

Easter 2009

Wishing you all a Happy and Safe Easter 2009!

We spent a lazy day at home, while Emma and Ethan enjoyed an egg hunt in the garden.

A day out

We took the tree youngest with us yesterday and went for a drive down the coast. It was a beautiful day and we had a nice time stopping by the beach and building sandcastles and eating icecream before heading back home.

Ethan discovered he has a loose tooth.. his first.. he is quite excited. Not that that is any reason to actually let mum take you're photo, so I had to sneak one.



Emma, on the other hand was a little happier to be in front of the camera.

Easter Bunny..

Loving this song..

Eric Hutchinson "Rock & Roll"

I had grand plans to catch up the past few months of my blog, but honestly, it's not going to happen. So I am starting fresh from today. I've been challenged to do a "photo a day" for the month of April and its a challenge I need to get the camera out and taking pictures again..

MAKING time to do it instead of saying I have no time..

There was absolutely NO WAY Emma was going to be in the picture. She would not go near him at all.. happy to watch from a safe distance..lol

So here is Ethan.. with the Bunnings Santa.. yep no fancy Myer Santa shot for us.

Picture courtesy of my best friend.. the iPhone.

Grade 10

Highschool wasn't very memorable for me. I was shy and just one of those kids that you remember as being there.. but dont really remember them.. if that makes sense! I vaguely remember grade 10 and I know I went to the "Leavers Dinner" and I don't remember it being what a Grade 10 leavers dinner is today! Fancy cars, dressed to the nines, dinner at the casino...the whole works...! Wow! (I dont remember looking that old and sophisticated either!) Kinda makes me glad I am the mother of four boys and a girl and not the other way around ;)!

I had the wonderful pleasure of photographing Georgina the week before hand on a little location searching shoot and then her and her friend Nick before their big night. Both of them looked gorgeous and I hear had a fab night!

Down the river

A few weekends back we were invited (along with about 20 others!) to join some friends on a river cruise to help celebrate a year of milestones in their family.. a 60th and a 40th birthday.

It was a lovely cruise, with a stop along the way for a bbq in the beautiful bush surrounds. The children were entertained on board with face painting using old aboriginal methods... including making there own paint brushes with some of the foliage from the bush and playing a didgeridoo.

Mell's big day out..

I took the day off work today.. a migraine hit me yesterday afternoon and I battled with it most of the night, finally after pulling out the "serious" meds I was able to sleep but woke up this morning feel hungover and just plain tired. Its lunch time now and I am feeling alot better. So of course I decided to go through some pics and back up some files and realized that I haven't yet blogged my trip to Sydney! This was back in September, I am even further behind than I thought.. so here it is my girly weekend in Sydney with Kris and Leonie..

I left the artic chill of Tassie (ok exaggerating slightly there.. but not by much!) and arrived to a beautiful warm Sydney day.. boy did we pick the right weekend! Leonie picked me up from airport and we headed to Kris's.. but not before picking up some Krispy Kremes (we ate some in the car on the way but don't tell Kris ;) was a good thing we took the LONG way so we had time to dispose of the evidence hehe )

It was such a delight to meet Kris's gorgeous kids..

The very friendly J... ;)


The gorgeous Miss S.. fresh from dance class.


and sweet little Miss E


That night we went out to dinner with Jamie, Yvette, Lynny, Lyn and Ang from the June 04 Baby group.

Only took a few pics.. the food was too nice to miss out on ;)





The next day we headed into the city and checked into our hotel room and then hit the shops!











There was no way we were going to miss visiting the Lindt Cafe.. so much choice.. I need to go back again..lol









Then it was on the monorail and off to Darling Harbour where Kris and I terrorised poor Leonie with our cameras, where the seagulls terrorised us while we tried to eat our dinner and fend them off, a cruise on the harbour to the see the sites at sunset.









Then it was back to the hotel where we giggled (and choked) our way through cocktails.



had a GREAT time girls and can't wait to do the big 40's next year ;)~