day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY EIGHT | Year NINE | 2018
Check out this selfie! I have eyes!!… and I didn’t even have to photoshop them in!! … I wish I could figure out how I did this!
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY FIVE | Year NINE | 2018
Happy 26th Birthday Jaimi! I’m glad YOU love that creepy red-back!
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY FOUR | Year NINE | 2018
Work is starting on my new office/lounge (notice my beautiful new wall on the right – this is the outside of the walk-in-pantry)
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY THREE | Year NINE | 2018
Check out my gorgeous family… we scrubbed up well for the Mother’s Day High Tea at Fortuna Villa today <3 <3 <3
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY TWO | Year NINE | 2018
A quick trip to Bendigo for Mother’s Day, but first we get to celebrate Russ (today) and Jaimi’s (15th) birthdays with pizza and cake at Nana Pat’s house!
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY ONE | Year NINE | 2018
Check out who I was allowed to photograph today… Matt & Gaenor’s new Golden Retriever puppies! All NINE of them!
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY | Year NINE | 2018
An updated family photo of Darci, Fred, Gertie… and now Gina!
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY NINE | Year NINE | 2018
Zoe & Alex are getting their apartment all sorted in record time <3
Photo Credit: Zoe
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY EIGHT | Year NINE | 2018
Caught another sunrise, thanks to the gym…
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY FIVE | Year NINE | 2018
This is it… the bus is packed with as many of her worldly good as we could squeeze it… and she is heading to Melbourne to start the next chapter of her life… *sigh*
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY FOUR | Year NINE | 2018
Dinner at Goodberry’s, minus Xan who was at work… just because.
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY THREE | Year NINE | 2018
It’s Star Wars Day tomorrow! Time to take our annual Star Wars photo <3
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY TWO | Year NINE | 2018
Getting up early to go the the gym does have some benefits <3
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY ONE | Year NINE | 2018
Tonight was Zoe’s last hockey training with Old Canberrans, before she moves this weekend to Melbourne… so, of course, Krispy Kremes were in order!
day ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY | Year NINE | 2018
So our personal trainer, Kim, has had Xan and I using this ‘wheel of death’ during our sessions every week… for some reason, we thought it was a good idea to get one for home… what was I thinking!?
day ONE HUNDRED and NINETEEN | Year NINE | 2018
Xanthia and her friend, Erica, are off to ‘Groove in the Moo’ at Canberra Uni… Xan’s first music festival <3
day ONE HUNDRED and EIGHTEEN | Year NINE | 2018
Another stunning Canberra sunset…
Photo Credit: Darci
day ONE HUNDRED and SEVENTEEN | Year NINE | 2018
I am so excited! This is the beginnings of my new walk-in pantry! We are turning the tiny ‘dining area’ of our front lounge/dining room into an extra large walk-in-pantry… and I can’t wait!
day ONE HUNDRED and SIXTEEN | Year NINE | 2018
We seem to be making a habit of these late night movies… but it’s the only time we can all get together! Tonight’s bill – The Avengers: Infinity War.
day ONE HUNDRED and FOURTEEN | Year NINE | 2018
Today the ADFA hockey cadets (see: Freddie) played an exhibition match against a visiting team of British cadets from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst… it was a hard fought game that came down to a penalty shootout, but the British team came away with the win.
day ONE HUNDRED and THIRTEEN | Year NINE | 2018
Using the setting sun for a different kind of selfie…
day ONE HUNDRED and TWELVE | Year NINE | 2018
Another Canberra sunset, taken from the Tuggeranong Hockey Centre… the sunsets are just so stunning right now <3
Photo Credit: Zoe
day ONE HUNDRED and TEN | Year NINE | 2018
Zoe has been working out again… at least one of us is 😉
Photo Credit: Zoe
day ONE HUNDRED and NINE | Year NINE | 2018
Xan practiced her braiding on my hair… and was pretty happy with the results…
Photo Credit: Xanthia
day ONE HUNDRED and EIGHT | Year NINE | 2018
I’m not sure why Zoe was taking photos of her t-shirt… but she was.
Photo Credit: Zoe
day ONE HUNDRED and SEVEN | Year NINE | 2018
Here it is… my final four entries in the ACT/NSW AIPP State Photography Awards… packaged up and ready to go… to late to chicken out now!
day ONE HUNDRED and SIX | Year NINE | 2018
Choosing a filter… the stakes are high and the struggle is real 😉
Photo Credit: Xanthia
day ONE HUNDRED and FIVE | Year NINE | 2018
This photo is the perfect representation of Gertie and Gina’s personalities… Gertie is quiet and calm, while Gina is crazy and frenetic! lol
day ONE HUNDRED and FOUR | Year NINE | 2018
Today we participated in the Canberra Running Festival by completing a 5km run/walk in the name of Heartfelt <3 I love these guys for jumping in to support me without a second thought <3
day ONE HUNDRED and THREE | Year NINE | 2018
My ranga bought me a flower… my favourite flower of all <3
day ONE HUNDRED and TWO | Year NINE | 2018
… and for entry number three… I give you Perriwinkle!
day ONE HUNDRED and ONE | Year NINE | 2018
Today Gina helped me out with my second entry for the AIPP Photography awards…
day ONE HUNDRED | Year NINE | 2018
A beautiful sunset shot of the beach down near St Kilda… Zoe and Alex are looking to move to the are in the near future if they can find the right place to live.
Photo Credit: Zoe
day NINETY NINE | Year NINE | 2018
Darci sent this to me as an example of her #adulting… making blue jelly, wearing her Stay Puff apron and hat… #adulting? I’ll let you be the judge 😉
Photo Credit: Darci
day NINETY EIGHT | Year NINE | 2018
… and now it’s my turn! Taking up hockey at 46 years old… what was thinking!?
day NINETY SEVEN | Year NINE | 2018
It’s blurry… but you can still see her smile – hockey is back on! First CL2 (second grade women) game of the outdoor season for Xan.
day NINETY SIX | Year NINE | 2018
Darci’s very first car has been off the road for a few months now… the engine was cooked beyond repair… but today we finally said goodbye it.
day NINETY FIVE | Year NINE | 2018
I have been working on my very first entry into the AIPP State Photography Awards… I have decided to put on my big girl panties and finally enter! … but to ease my way in, I decided to skip the Newborn category and enter the Pet category for this first outing… Dexter was my first (reluctant) model… doesn’t he look grand!
day NINETY FOUR | Year NINE | 2018
It’s a beautiful day and Jaimi is at her Pegasus riding class so I am taking the opportunity for a walk in the sunshine…
day NINETY ONE | Year NINE | 2018
What an amazing voice my niece Jade has… she sang in Rosiland Park, with her school choir, as part of the Bendigo Easter Festival <3
day NINETY | Year NINE | 2018
It’s been a few years since we’ve watched an Easter parade in Bendigo, but Mikayla was walking with her Girl Guide Troupe for the Twilight parade so off we went… and what a fantastic spectacle! I forgot how wonderful these parades are!
