day FIVE | Year EIGHT | 2017
This studio/office is meant to be MY space… but school holidays and my day job have given Xan the perfect opportunity to move in… if I can’t get her out soon, she may just get squatter rights!
day TWO | Year EIGHT | 2017
Russ and Willow, are working together on the beginnings of a veggie patch (and berry vines, so I’m told)… they love to plan these projects together, then head off to Bunnings for supplies, then build (read: over-engineer!) the Taj Mahal of structures!
day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY FIVE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Another perfect Canberra sunset… taken from my front porch.
day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY FOUR | Year SEVEN | 2016
She may look just like her dad… but the state of this room is proof that she’s mine… oh, that and her glee over the container of Butter Chicken she has in front of her!
day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY THREE | Year SEVEN | 2016
I think Marty might have missed me… he won’t leave my side <3
day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY TWO | Year SEVEN | 2016
On the way back home, and this little snuggler keeps moving her way to the front of the bus <3
day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY ONE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Uh-oh… Pa got caught out cuddling the kitten! Not even the self-proclaimed cat-loather can resist the charms of Gertie <3
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY NINE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Christmas Eve at Nana Pat’s house… more tradition… more family… more fun!
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY EIGHT | Year SEVEN | 2016
Home to Bendigo for Christmas… it was time for the traditional family Kris Kringle… Bronte had me this year, and she hit it our of the park with a gorgeous heart necklace <3
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY SEVEN | Year SEVEN | 2016
Time has come for Xan’s home bleach job to go… I guess the girls at Rockabilly Boutique did an ok job 😉
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY FIVE | Year SEVEN | 2016
The annual Christmas tradition… a quadruple batch of Rum Balls!
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY FOUR | Year SEVEN | 2016
I like having a husband at home to cook me dinner… I hope his leave lasts forever!
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY THREE | Year SEVEN | 2016
My last little newborn for the year…
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY TWO | Year SEVEN | 2016
Our home bleach job… Xan is not too impressed… but I love it!
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY ONE | Year SEVEN | 2016
All set for my work Christmas Party… wearing the finest of Walmart couture!
day THREE HUNDRED and FIFTY | Year SEVEN | 2016
Our new Christmas wreath… perfectly perfect!
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY SEVEN | Year SEVEN | 2016
The final leg of our long trip home… on the bus from Sydney to Canberra and we see water in Lake George… I’ve never seen water in Lake George before <3
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY SIX | Year SEVEN | 2016
Here’s where we had to give back the day we gained heading over to the US… *poof* gone!
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY FIVE | Year SEVEN | 2016
We tried to forget that we had to go home, by spending our last morning at California Adventure Park … it worked, for a little while… but then we had to head to the airport 🙁
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY FOUR | Year SEVEN | 2016
If there is one us Bingley girls know how to do, it’s shop!… and there is no better place do that than the Citadel Outlets!
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY THREE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Legoland is probably better suited to a younger crowd, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t have some awesome fun! … in one ‘playroom’ we found some shelves with some lego creations made by other visitors to Legoland… one shelf had a number of country flags on it – but the most important one was missing! That was simply not good enough, so the girls got busy building the Australian Flag… I wonder how long it will stay on display? I’d like to think that Aussie visitors for years to come will see what my girls created <3
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY TWO | Year SEVEN | 2016
Today it was off to Universal Studios… we saw super-stars and dinosaurs and Harry Potter World… Jaimi even got to meet an owl!
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY ONE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Next to Disneyland, this was the thing I was most excited about on our holiday to the USA… our photoshoot with my favourite family photographer of all time – Tara Whitney… I can’t even express how much I love every one of the amazing images she captured of them, of me… of US! I love them all.
day THREE HUNDRED and FORTY | Year SEVEN | 2016
We took a break from Disneyland today and headed off to Hollywood instead… we jumped onto a bus tour to Hollywood Boulevard via beautiful Santa Monica Pier… there was The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, Man’s Chinese Theater, awesome street performers, Hooters for lunch (yes, you heard me – HOOTERS!) and finally – Madam Tussaud famous wax museum, where we may have gotten a little carried away – especially Darci! 😛
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY NINE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Disneyland AGAIN?? Ok, sure! … and still not sick of it!
Among other things, today we checked out ‘It’s a Small World’ and the ‘Indianna Jones’ ride… we even tracked down the illusive Club 33 to see where the lucky one get to go!
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY EIGHT | Year SEVEN | 2016
DISNEY BABY!! The planning was exciting, the wait was agonising… but nothing can compare to the feeling of walking up to the front gates of the very original Disneyland with my family… and Disneyland did not disappoint! We were there when they opened and didn’t leave until after dark, yet somehow the girls still had enough energy for a swim back at the motel (keeping in mind that it is winter in LA right now!)
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY SEVEN – AGAIN | Year SEVEN | 2016
So, we actually gained a day in transit to LA… we left Australia at around lunchtime on Friday 2 December 2016… then after 18 odd hours of travel and stop-overs, we arrived in LA at around lunchtime on Friday 2 December 2016.
Exhausted but running on holiday adrenalin, we decided to stay awake by heading to the closest WallMart for a sticky-beak… it was amazing… and lots of super-sized junk food was bought (the danger of shopping tired and hungry)! Unfortunately, the giant blow-up Santa Mickey and Santa St Bernard were left on the shelf 🙁
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY SEVEN | Year SEVEN | 2016
OMG… we are going to AMERICA!! I am pee-my-pants excited!!
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY SIX | Year SEVEN | 2016
… and just like that, Xanthia graduates Year Ten.
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY FIVE | Year SEVEN | 2016
#yearoftheselfiebecauseikeptforgettingtotakemyphotoaday
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY TWO | Year SEVEN | 2016
“I’m just smelling her, mum… I’m not gonna eat her”
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY ONE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Do you think she might be trying to get my attention?
day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY | Year SEVEN | 2016
More Gertie spam… she has taken a shine to my desk and runs across my keyboard to settle herself in for a nap on the other side, under my lamp :/
day THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY EIGHT | Year SEVEN | 2016
#yearoftheselfiebecauseikeptforgettingtotakemyphotoaday
day THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY SIX | Year SEVEN | 2016
Check Zoe out… flying off the mark as first runner while Darci backs up in goals.
day THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY FIVE | Year SEVEN | 2016
Poor, poor Gertie… this is the downside of have an overly-attentive, germ-a-phobe mummy… bath time!
day THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY THREE | Year SEVEN | 2016
How many opposition indoor hockey players does it take to shut down a Bingley… well, more than this apparently, because next minute, Xan had cut through the lot of them!
