Just because

Not much to say, just wanting to share my photos of my gorgeous girls and wanting to catch up with my photos.

I love this one, she is really starting to develop her personality and as you can see she loves to laugh.

Joy

No, it didn't rain today, this is from a few weeks ago, but I am still behind in my posts and I wanted to share.

This little Princess of mine has been waiting for a long time to get her little hands on this umbrella, as you can see delayed gratification can be an awesome thing:)

Learning to walk

No, not cutie but the rest of the family. All our walking while away in NZ encouraged us to take a walk up at Mt Tamborine. 

The girls (and their mum) had lots of fun playing on the rocks, although it was too cold yet for a swim.

I LOVE my family, that is all.

Great warm weather and great friend

So happy to be greeting the warmer weather, I am so looking forward to this summer, I know in Brisbane its hot hot hot and humid but I don't mind being hot especially when we have such fun ways of cooling down.

I know there is one little girl missing but just wait a few more months and I am sure she will be in amongst them.

These two are off to school next year, I know they won't be much trouble because they are both good girls but I imagine some giggling may cause the teacher to separate them on more than one occasion.

New Zealand

Not long after Princess' birthday it was time for our trip to NZ. After troubles from previous years some may think that I was not too keen to go on this trip and if you asked me before Juicy Lucy was born they would have been right, but after baby was born and a chance to get away for awhile I became keen. Of course I didn't realise I was headed to this weather but I think it was just great in the end because it gave us all a chance to just spend some good time together as a family.

There was lots of chances to do some hiking. So glad Ebay provided this awesome backpack. Two little girls appreciated it. And we have now decided that since Princess coped much better than we anticipated that we would now try to go on more hikes at home now. Pics of this to come.

Another avid photographer:)

Just hanging out with the family in a cute little village of which I can not remember the name.

Most of these photo are either taken by this young lady or by her new camera. She really was such a joy all holiday to us.

 This is her and one of her best buddies in their ski school. Unfortunately we don't have one photo of her skiing, which is sad but she remembers the experience well and has a desire to try it again. That makes her daddy happy because he will have a companion on the slopes in years to come.

This was my cup of tea. Jet boating! This was the plan once we arrived and it was just so awesome, for me it was the best experience of the holiday and I would most definitely recommend it to anyone, although some may say the rain which felt like rocks being thrown at your face added to the experience I would suggest that without the rain may save some bruising.

What was really lovely was just for us all to be together and enjoy our families. The children had such a lovely time together and it was lovely to see their relationships blossom.

So now I have been able to wipe all old NZ memories from my thoughts and now I think that its an amazing country, just don't ask me about their border security:)

wow- big break

Aaaaah, that was a big break wasn't it. Some may believe it may be due to the fact that I had nothing to write about but really that's not true, we have had a few goings ons but I haven't had the internet on my very own computer and so all my lovely photos have not been able to see the light of my blogging day.

Clearly I can not load too many photos so I will take myself one step at a time.

Princess turned 5!

It was a Princess and Pirates party



The cake which looked a lot better than it tasted but isn't that the norm.


Our big pirate, his princess would prefer not to be photographed


Statues


Pass the parcel.


Back at the beginning of September our firstborn hit a big milestone (for us), she is now 5 years old. I can hardly believe it, I can still remember so much of my pregnancy with her and then my little tiny baby who had the loudest scream I had ever heard. And then my chubby bubby, then she became my toddler who could throw the biggest most animalistic tantrums and now slowly but surely you have become a little girl, or little lady as daddy calls her.






My little Princess,
I can not believe just what a beautiful girl you have grown into. I love that you have grown in confidence and ability more than I could have ever imagined. I just remember how cautious you were and now you are so excited and adventurous. You really are becoming a beautiful rose in full bloom. You tell us stories but now you also tell us jokes, and they are funny, you make us laugh not because your our daughter but because you are funny. You love to talk, you have such a gift of language. It's just so amazing how you can use a vocab that is larger than many adults and if someone uses a word that you haven't understood you are so quick to ask for its meaning and within the next few days the word becomes apart of your everyday vocab.

This year is going to be such a big adventure for you. Starting school has us so nervous and yet so excited, I know that you with bloom even brighter but it also brings tears to my eyes at the thought that you are not going to be with me everyday, chatting away asking me questions and more questions and more questions (your teacher had better watch out:)).