Sometimes..

she takes my breath away.

Had a lovely weekend at our friends house (hey Kimmy *wave* thanks for a great weekend!). The kids were occupied, the food was great, the weatehr stayed nice for us and the scenery was just beautiful.. autumn colours in every direction.. a photographers dream and yet I only took a handful the photos the whole time!

Anzac Day

This is a scan of a picture Ethan drew about Anzac Day



He was fascinated by Anzac Day this year. His teacher had obviously done a wonderful job of explaining to them what Anzac was all about. He was asking lots of questions about the soliders and where they died and did everyone die etc so we took him along to the Anzac Day Parade so he could get a better understanding of what it was all about.

In death there is beauty

Sweet Little Gemma

This is Gemma at 2 weeks old. This was my first experience photographing a newborn and it was a wonderful experience. Gemma was such a sweetie and peacefully slept through the whole session, making my job very easy. Thank you so much Kim for letting me have this opportunity!

Phil & Liz get married

and about time too! Two soulmates that took a little while too find each other.

It was a pleasure to attend and photograph our friends wedding. This was my first time photographing a wedding and I enjoyed the experience. You knew a wedding between these two was bound to be fun and it didn't dissapoint. We had a wonderful time and it was wonderful to see these two finally tie the knot. May you have many many happy years together.

Mumma got a new toy...

I've upgraded my camera to a bigger better model.... which probably isnt that exciting to some of you, but I'm excited.. and its my blog so I am posting about it..ROFL! I'm still learning all the new buttoms and dials but the quality is so much nicer than my old camera. Emma and Ethan stopped for 5 secs and let me get a couple of shots, other than havent had much time to really play (pout).

Unfortunate sign placement....

I got a laugh out of this.

Teddy

When he was just a little baby dh and I bought him this Theodore Christmas bear in Myer. He quickly became attached and "teddy" went everywhere with us. It use to have alittle scraf that he would hang on to and carry Teddy around by. I remember when we first washed him and he sat patiently watching him dry on the line.. asking every few mins if he was dry yet..lol
I love that he still wants to sleep with his "Teddy"

Me

After taking a little back step in photography (ie hardly picking up the camera at all for a few months!) I have been feeling the need to get back into it and to get more creative. Normally I don't show much of the more "arty" stuff here but have decided to start posting more. After all its part of me, and while others may not get it, it makes me happy :)

Away from the ordinary..

because

jumping on a bed is fun..





and laughing is good for you

We are having a lazy Saturday at home.

Last night we joined with others to help friends celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary last night. Congratulations Dawn and John, you are such an inspiration.. 50 years .. WOW such an achievement.

Anyway.. before we left for the celebrations we loaded and turned on the dishwasher.. some hours later when we got home.. it was still going.. humming away the way it does when it is pumping water... uh oh. I secretly began having visions of getting a nice shiny new dishwasher but the ever clever Dh pulled it out and fixed this morning.. bummer.. ;) So it lives to wash another day.

And that is about as exciting as the day gets I am afraid, its raining and I have grand plans to stay inside and cook, so here a few pics form the week..

The remainder of the cupcakes that didn't get eaten by the dog...


Some pretty flower buds..




and a pretty little girl I found just swinging about..

Light

We had the willow tree in our backyard lopped on the weekend.. who knew our friends son was a qualified tree lopper and just happened to have all his gear with him..lol
I do love our willow tree but it gets messy with falling twiggy branches if it gets to big, mind you all the leaf it drops in autumn makes great mulch for the garden!
Not sure that it gets this messy though!

and what do boys do with lots of tree limbs and branches lying around?

You build a teepee of course!


We also finally traded little old wooden outdoor setting that has faithfully served our growing family for the past 5 yrs for a BIGGER new outdoor setting. I love it.. the table is 5ft square and fits us all so comfortably around it. We love eating outdoors in the warmer months this setting will make for some much more comfortable meals.


and the part I love most about a spring is all the beautiful flowers starting to bloom.

Orange Moon

Bring on Spring and away with these stupid cough, sneezy, can't send the kid to school bugs.......

And thats all I have to say on that.

I know I know.. must remember to blog.. must remember to blog.
We took a trip on the Saturday to see my dad and decided to take the long way..lol We stopped at our favourite little honey shop which has every flavour of honey imaginable..
Unfortunately...

But we had a little fun anyway..



and saw this... isn't it beauitful!



Then we went onto Cradle Mountain. I haven't been back here for 14yrs, when Dh and I spent a night at the lodge on our honeymoon and prior to that my last visits was during my teens (when I was somewhat fitter..lol) and I use to hike through snow and rain (usually!) with a group to the mountain the base.



Another rainbow. I saw a rainbow nearly every day last week.. is that a good thing??!


and this sign just cracked me up. From a distance (and if you have bad eyesight.. ahem)It looks like kangaroos tow cars away here.