A trip to Slaughter Falls

We ventured out to Mt Cootha on Saturday up to Slaughter Falls. It was sooo lovely and had forgotten how nice it is to get out into nature. I took the camera of course :)

Here are a few pics of Chloe as Vannah was not in a photo mood :)









More pics on my flickr stream

More pics...

A few pics that I absolutly love of Chloe in her Pettiskirt that you would have seen in my last post...





And a few pics taken today with my new camera...

Lucky I left bread crumbs...

or I may just have never found my blog again :)

Been a long time since I last blogged and it sure has been busy around here.

I have been emursing myself in a new found love for photography and photo editing and finding this a great way to create and let that brain of mine to stay a ticking.

There are way too many pics to put up right now but will add a couple of my faves as well as link you to my flickr stream so you can check out some more. So here are a couple of recent pics:

Ok I really could keep adding more but that will do for now!

A milestone

This morning saw a huge milestone for my baby girl, Chloe. Yesterday saw three nights in a row where she was dry in the morning so last night we went cold turkey with her wearing undies to bed.... AND she woke up DRY!!! YAY so proud of my little girl and hope that they dry nights continue. She is also very proud of herself and prides herself in telling EVERYONE she has come across today that she sleeps in undies just like mummy :)

What have I been doing?

I have been a bit MIA on my blog of late. So where have I been and what have I been doing???

I have been a little sidetracked with my camera and learning the ins and outs of using it and also getting a grasp on more of the PS CS4.

So here are some of the photos that I have taken and been working with. All of the photos I have put into storyboards created in CS4 so that I am not bombarding you with an image heavy post :) The first two storyboards I am getting printed on 20" x 20" canvas' to hang in our house and can't wait for them to be finished. The last two are photos from my first session that I did on manual mode, still soooo much to learn but enjoying every moment.

Some photo editing...

Here are some edits of prints that I have been playing with...

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In honour of full day Kindy

Tomorrow my baby girl starts her full two day Kindy program. I made her a sheet set and a bag to put them in. She is very excited to be having sleeps at Kindy tomorrow. So here are some photos of the drawstring bag. Pattern can be found here.

Pettiskirt

I picked up one of my pettiskirts from Princess Ratbag on Friday and since then I have not been able to keep it off Chloe. Who can blame her it is sooo cute. Although an overcast day today I just couldnt turn down the chance to take a few photos of her in it.

The many faces of Chloe:

First day of Kindy

I just dropped Chloe off at her first day of Kindy. She has been very excited about being a big three year old and going to big school. This morning she has been buzzing around and asking every 5 minutes if it was time to go.

Some pics of before we left (had to do something to pass the time)

And some photos of her settling into her new classroom

I am so proud of how brave and amazing she was this morning. Hope you have a great day baby girl.

Love Mummy.

Happy Birthday Chloe!

Albeit a little late for my post I wanted to blog the celebration of Chloe's third birthday.

It has been two days of celebrations. On Friday the celebrations started off with a play with lots of her little friends at a local playcentre and then topped off with dinner at her favourite restaurant, Sizzler, with family. She was extremely spoilt by everyone. The following day the festivities continued with a visit to the pool, then a street BBQ with more swimming and playing and more cake. We all then had a little seista before heading out to a summer buzz festival at Springfield Lakes where the girls loved watching the DORA live concert, riding on the train, having fish and chips for dinner and then kicking up our heels to an awesome live band. We all grooved along to the music and enjoyed an icecream before sitting back and enjoying some wonderful fire works. I use to not be able to take my eyes off the sky when watching fire works now I tend to spend the time wathcing my girls faces as their eyes light up at the amazing sight.

It truely was a great two days but we are extrememly exhausted for it also.

Here is something that I put together of some photos from Chloe's birthday dinner at Sizzler. There are so many more photos from the weekend but will have to come back for that.

Can it really be?

This morning it finally hit me that my baby girl will be turning 3 tomorrow. Around this time 3 years ago whilst having a well deserved rest after a long walk around the shopping centre I felt an unfamiliar trickling feeling. Chloe was not due for another two weeks (EDD 10th February 2006) so off to the hospital we went. After being monitored at the hosptial for several hours it was decided that I would go home and sit tight and see what happened overnight. Being my first pregnancy I was very anxious and worried and exited all at the same time. Scared at the prospect of the impending labour but so excited to finally meet our beautiful baby.

I will come in tomorrow at some stage and share more of my memories from Chloe's arrival 3 years ago.

A challenge for me

I am teaching myself how to use photoshop CS5 at the moment and having so much fun so I am going to try and challenge myself to take more photos of my gorgeous girls and family and have fun with that. Here are a couple of photos I took yesterday :)