As Requested!

Shouldn't leave this so long I guess, now I've got too many photos to share! So here's just some from the past few weeks.



These are from this week in Melbourne, we took Jordy out in the pram to see everyones lights around PomPom's house. I also got a few crazy ones using bulb (shutter stays open as long as you hold it) and moving the camera around, they might be fun to use as overlays on layouts. Didn't actually get PomPom's lights coz she didnt have them up til yesterday, oh well. The globe thing in the middle picture is actually huge, you can see it behind Jordy in the side shots.




The smoke from the bushfires has been shocking, both here and in Melbourne. You can see the smoke in the above one. The fires are not near us but its scarey none the less, the smoke got so thick in the middle of the night before we went to Melbourne, we actually opened the curtains so we could see just in case there was one closer. Worries me living right next to the forest that we could have no warning if there was a fire, particularly when you see campers having fires in there when they aren't supposed to. Thinking of all those living near the current fires and those fighting them.



Got a stack more photos from Melbourne, lots of lovely ones of Bianca and Jesse





If you're reading my sister I'll put more up soon here or flickr.

So we finally got all the materials for our house (We paid NO INTEREST thanks to our solicitor finding a flaw in our contract which was a huge relief because it had clocked up to almost $10K!!!), the power pole and transformer went up today (but not connected yet so subdivision cant quite be finalised). Obviously we are now going to be delayed further by Christmas holidays but at least we are starting to see some progress. Makes a massive difference to our state of mind!

More photos (what a suprise!!!)

Some from the past week.

















The chair in the photo was just sitting at the beach all by itself, so I thought I'd try and get some of him sitting on it since it happened to be there! He didn't want to for more than a second though, no suprise there!

Annette asked what I did in PS to the pics in the Stomping lo, they were just adjusted in Adobe Camera Raw, contrast upped and vignetting, that was actually it on those (one of them is second from the top).




Was going to post a layout too but I'm being summonsed! Next time.

New Camera!

Keep meaning to update this but I've been a bit scattered! But thought I'd pop another couple of pics on. Finally got me a DSLR! The Canon 400D, love it!





Getting grumpy with the camera!


Thats enough Mum!

Jordan has been telling me for a while that I can take photos with my silver camera, not the black one (before I got the new one!). So I thought I had better get a silver camera! I think it may have been a bit of a ploy though, he knew I didnt have a silver camera. When we bought the new one he said "But I thought you were getting it for Christmas"! He must have been thinking oh no now I have to actually let her take my photo!

And a layout - everything in this one is from Yvette Keohuloa's beautiful The Lucky Stars Kit at Scrapbookbling.com.

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More than Words

I just can't seem to get any words down at the moment so I give you pictures instead.

Square One

Well we're not really back to square one, it's just how it feels today. Lots more promises, no real action yet and the house company are breathing down our necks massively (we were supposed to be ready 2 months ago and they are charging huge interest every week we are late). So more of the same for us - stress and waiting. We've been almost at the point of giving up but we are too far in financially now and have to keep going. I went down the back before to remind myself why we are putting ourselves through this and thought I'd share a peek -






This is what we will be able to see from the front of our new house (well we can see that now I guess but only through one tiny window!)
But the view from the other side is really the reason for all this, the reason we moved here at all -




The Mighty Murray. The water level is ok at the moment but actually pretty low for this time of year. No water flowed through the forest at all this year, partly because of the drought and partly because the low level was maintained while the new bridge was built (the levels along the Murray are artificially regulated by controlling the flow through the weirs along it). Its definately extremely dry up here, though you woudn't know looking at the irrigated parts of land.

Jordy lightened our moods today when we were talking about the subdivision stuff, he started saying to himself "Believe you me", repeating it a couple of times as if trying to work out what it meant, then said to us "Believe you me - thats a funny word"!! (One of us must have said it!) Well tis a funny saying but believe you me, we will get this land chopped in two, this house done and it will be worth it. And it better be soon!!!

Some layouts

The duck park near PomPom's, the idea inspired by Annette's beautiful layout with the ducks.



The one that I was trying to upload last entry!







These 2 are of my niece Emma, done the other week.Same photo I know but I wasnt sure which style they'd prefer. I made evevrything myself for them, I reckon I made a whole kit worth! (Thats the good side to not being able to sleep - you can get heaps done!)

And things are looking more positive with the subdivision today so fingers crossed it keep rolling smoothly!

Mr Determination

He really is a sweet and loving kid, just dont try and dress him, groom him, subject him to loud or high pitched noise or feed him unacceptable foods (which encompasses most food according to Jordan!)!!

The positive side as Joel and I agree - he is so strong willed and determined - no-one will ever walk over him!!