Horrible Children

that's what I'm thinking of mine anyway. I was dying to take them out for a photo shoot to give the new camera a run, but would they comply???? No!!, well not the girls anyway. It all started with the girls not wanting to do it and it went down hill from there.I'm not a happy camper at the moment........grrr...... Usually they love to come out for photo sessions, I'm not sure what was up with them.



Oh well will have to try again another day. But I did get another nice one or two of Piper :-)She's such a sweety.

Christmas Cheer

OMG OMG OMG !!!! I must have been very good this year, look what was under the tree for me this morning. It was a huge surprise, thanks darling husband of mine.



I had been looking at it and wanting it for a little while now. Can't wait to get into that diploma this year now!!!!!! It's quite a bit bigger than my old one, but hopefully it won't take long to get used to it.

Merry Christmas Everyone

We got a new tree this year and after depositing all the prezzies under it tonight I decided to take my camera and tripod out and play with BULB setting, to get all the lights nicely. A little touch up in photoshop and how nice is this?!!?!



Well it's very late or early really so I hope everyone out there has a really wonderful Christmas.

Schools over and now it's the Silly Season

Well another Graduation for us recently with Katelyn finishing Primary School. Off to Middle Years College for her next year. Boy they grow up fast, I remember her first day like it was yesterday. They had their ceremony directly after school on Thursday of last week. Then the kids and teachers had an informal BBQ and final get-together. It was a fun night, no tears as Katelyn is lucky most of her friend are going off to the same campus as her next year, so the transition should be smooth.



The Silly season is upon us!!! But I love Christmas I truly do, all of it!! the rush, the excitement, the enjoyment, all the planning and preparation. It's like a wedding every year, all this work, effort and money goes into this one day. I love it. We did our annual Ginger bread House making today, the kids love to do it and have been begging me to do it for days now. Tia and Tenika were here as well so it was extra fun.




Piper is 8 weeks now and she is such a doll, she is smiling and giggling and talking to us. I got some photos of her today smiling and talking to her tiger on her play gym. It was great to finally get photos of her smiling, each time I try when I or her Dad or one of the kids is talking to her as soon as I bring the camera close she goes all quiet and looks at the camera. But today I sat back in the chair out of her direct line of site and snapped some of her, here are some of them.

6 weeks old

our little Piper is now. That tiny new born is gone and in her place is a bright as a button infant. She had her check up with the doctor today and she is doing fine. We have to keep up the fortnightly weighing, just to make sure she doesn't slip backwards at all, and I have to keep up the comp feeding as required. I'm just too busy and my body can't do it all the doc says. But I'm not going to feel guilty or upset by it, whatever is best for her I'll do it. It is a nice opportunity for Dad to feed her as well which he is really enjoying. Here is a photo I took of her yesterday after her bath.



I have been doing a little bit of Digi Scrapping. I have used a kit I purchased for 2peas to do this little album. I've enjoyed it heaps, very quick and really nice too. I have changed some pages around a bit and as I get better at digi I will expand it even more, but for now I'm having fun with it. Here's some pages already completed, all in little over 1 day!!! I can't do that with paper. lol.







I have printed them 8x8 and have put them in a little Making Memories Noteworthy album. It's really sweet I think, can't wait to do some more.

Happy Birthday

it was for my sweet middle girl Tahlia. She turned 11 last week and had a sleepover party with a couple of her friends on the weekend. We all went to McDonald's for dinner then it was off to see High School Musical 3. Which all the girls loved.



We then came home and she decorated her cake with her friends, she had a pavlova for her cake.



Then they attempted to sleep outside in a tent, with lots and lots of mucking around and giggling fun, with glow sticks and things. But in the end they came inside and watched a DVD and fell asleep. We wound up the party with McDonald's brekky. She had a great time.

Piper is doing wonderfully

She had a slow start with her weight gain which gave a few weeks worry, but she is now heading in the right direction and at 1 month old she is back to and above birth weight. She fits into our family so well everyone loves her dearly and can't get enough of her, well except when Ethan is watching a TV show and she is crying he politely says 'can you please stop her crying', which of course I would gladly do if I could?!!? I have many willing helpers when it comes time to get dinner ready or something, OHh not with getting dinner, no, with holding the baby or keeping her amused!! Here is Katelyn last night keeping her entertained while I was busy. Hmm not sure if watching DVDs is the best entertainment but it worked so we'll go with it.


















My Cert 3 Photoimagaing course is officially finished, we had our Exhibition on the weekend with the opening night on Thursday. Unfortunately I didn't get anything finished in time to go on display (feeding, expressing and giving comp feeds to Piper took all my time)The exhibition was great though and all my fellow class mates did a truly wonderful job pulling it off. The artwork on the whole was outstanding and there were plenty of sales on the night. I'm looking forward to being a part of it next year. Many of us from this year are going back to do the Diploma course.....Hmm not sure what I'm thinking but I really would'nt want to miss it, this year was fantastic and I really want to learn more.