DD day 31

OOPS! I missed it! I can believe that I missed the last day of the month.... grrr oh well more next month!!

DD day 31

OOPS! I missed it! I can believe that I missed the last day of the month.... grrr oh well more next month!!

DD day 30

The War memorial in Canberra. We didn't actually go in there today but decided to go shopping in stead. another day with more time on our hands.

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The steps of the War Memorial. I thought it looked pretty cool they lines of them!

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This is the fountain on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Of course it came over icky weather wise when I wanted to take photos! But it did work out for a monochromatic type photo!

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enjoy J

DD day 30

The War memorial in Canberra. We didn't actually go in there today but decided to go shopping in stead. another day with more time on our hands.

Sony A200 DSLR f11 ISO 400 1/160s

The steps of the War Memorial. I thought it looked pretty cool they lines of them!

Sony A200 DSLR f7.1 ISO 100 1/125s

 

This is the fountain on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Of course it came over icky weather wise when I wanted to take photos! But it did work out for a monochromatic type photo!

Sony A200 DSLR f9 ISO 800 1/4000s

 

enjoy J

DD Day 29

we are getting to spend some D and J time without children for a couple of days so off we go!!

Sony DSCN1 f2.8 ISO 64 1/500s

 

enjoy J

DD Day 29

we are getting to spend some D and J time without children for a couple of days so off we go!!

Sony DSCN1 f2.8 ISO 64 1/500s

 

enjoy J

DD Day 28

Great job! D threw his hand in the photo pot today! love the detail!

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Hopscotch - introducing the joys of jumping around!! we loved it

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enjoy J

DD Day 28

Great job! D threw his hand in the photo pot today! love the detail!

Sony A200 DSLR f8 ISO 100 1/125s

Hopscotch - introducing the joys of jumping around!! we loved it

Sony DSCN1 f4 ISO 64 1/640s

 

enjoy J

DD Day 27

Today its about building and curly straws!!

 

Cutie #1 with his M&M straw from America! - love the cheeky look!

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Cutie #2 with his M&M straw from America! - love the chubby hands!

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Look what I did!!

usually it is the kids doing the building but today it was Mama! the request was a tractor and here it is!

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enjoy  J

DD Day 27

Today its about building and curly straws!!

 

Cutie #1 with his M&M straw from America! - love the cheeky look!

Sony DSCN1 f4 ISO 80 1/50s

Cutie #2 with his M&M straw from America! - love the chubby hands!

Sony DSCN1 f4 ISO 80 1/50s

Look what I did!!

usually it is the kids doing the building but today it was Mama! the request was a tractor and here it is!

Sony DSCN1 f2.8 ISO 100 1/50s flash fired

 

enjoy  J

Good times

The last couple of days have probably been one of the best Christmas' we have had in quite a while. Usually there is either tension and squabbles or outright fights, tears etcetera but this year was lovely. We were awake early but C was fantastic in waiting for T to wake up and coming in for a snuggle first to us then G'ma and Papa. Presents and playing was had by all. Lunch is usually a big fussy affair with a lot of food everywhere and kids are cranky and everyone is tired from being up early. This year we just picked at food when we were hungry - I just had a prawn roll... mmmm yummy! The boys had ham and cheese, cabanossi and bickies. Everyone else had what it was they wanted form cold ham and salad to prawn rolls and of course followed by chocolate.

Daddy, C and T got out the slip and slide....

We didn't even get the pav done until after dinner. This Daz was in fine form in the kitchen today with cooking a perfect roast Lamb and pork - superb crackling! We set the boys us their own special Santa table at the end and they played on their computers till dinner was ready! WE were a bit looser on decorations this year because Papa forgot to bring the crackers and we were too lazy to wash the Christmas plates up.

everyone gearing up for dinner.

After dinner Tyler-in-a-Santa-sack!

and this was followed up by Boxing day being much quieter. we tried to keep the boys a bit quieter today because they are just exhausted and they were better for it. they love the dominoes train that they got for Christmas and that kept them entertained a lot of today!

here it is all set up ready for them to wake up! They love just playing with the train and a small amount of dominoes on the kitchen floor though!

just a glimpse of our last couple of days..

enjoy

J

DD Day 26

The pile and the tree! we ended up with MOUNTAIN of presents and we could decide what to use/play with first. here is out tree and a little bit of the surprises!

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enjoy J

DD Day 26

The pile and the tree! we ended up with MOUNTAIN of presents and we could decide what to use/play with first. here is out tree and a little bit of the surprises!

Sony A200 DSLR f5.6 ISO 400 0.4s

 

enjoy J

Merry Christmas

Wow! it is here and has nearly gone... Christmas day that is. WE had a wonderful day full of fun and laughter, presents and good cheer. The kids scored really well from both family and friends and Santa as well. I think we will have to almost build a new cupboard/room just to put away the toys!

We just got back from 5 nights at the beach in Merimbula on the South coast which despite only being low 20's weather wise as well as windy was really nice. The boys went swimming in the beach but I have to admit that there was only one or two times that I got more than a toe wet!

There were some lovely sights and I really enjoyed taking photos while i was there. I kept up with the Daily December album - although I will admit I am only up to day 24 at the moment. And considering that today as Christmas Day between the three digital cameras we had between us we took A LOT of photos!

ok some POTD... from the last few days and of course a Merry Christmas to you!

T discovering the beach!

on the Snowy Mountain Hwy

C being introduced to beach play! at the Lake just across from usOur walk along the boardwalk Bird... loved the bird, the reflection, and the shadow!

Lookout at Tathra.

The trawlers at Port of Eden.

A cool metal pelican sculpture.

first shell...

and the Christmas...

the present of the day - the Whipper snipper and mower

the Spiderman suit

the bubbles from the bubble machine!

us!

the tree

C opening the first of many...

T opening the first of many!...

ok enough!

more later from the beach

enjoy

J

DD Day 25

Merry Christmas to you all!

We had a bubbly kind of morning with the kids getting a bubble machine. The sun hit them just right this morning!!

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I had my nails done just before we went away and in the Christmas spirit Rudolph the Red nose reindeer deceided to visit on my pinky! the kids love looking at it and I like the little bit of Christmas that it there!

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enjoy  J