My new camera!

Well after along time drooling over slr cameras and reading other inspirational blogs filled with the most breathtaking photos, my husband has finally given me the best present I could ever ask for, my very own canon slr 600D, I will probably spend the next couple of years without any presents, but I don't care as this is the best present ever and every time I turn it on it feels like Christmas to me anyway!

So after two months and one adult education class(I kind of know my way around the camera when placed on manual), I feel I can finally unleash myself on the world, well my little pocket of the world anyway!  I am taking my teachers advice and trying to practise, practise, practise and I am trying my hardest not to use the automatic button any more!  I am sure there will be times lol!  I still have a lot to learn and I am not sure how long it takes to get to that point where you feel as one with the came but I am going to give it a good go, even if I drive my two year old crazy pointing the camera at him all the time and dragging him to every corner of the world looking for fun locations!

It is so lovely to have a passion for something again, it seems like such a long time ago that I felt this excited about something, something just for me!  Now I have to try and live up to all my hype, hopefully, and the biggest reason for wanting the camera is so I can take photos of my gorgeous children to cherish in years to come, even if they tell me to go away!!!!!

Sports Day!

Well it was sports day yesterday for the preps through to the year 3's and what can I say but a good day was had by all! My heart was in my throat I was so nervous for her, it is funny how your past can bring up all these memories on days like these! I think I was more nervous than my daughter was!

Expectation, is such a hard thing to handle as a parent, you don't realise when you are a parent how hard it is to hold back on what was once your successful sport(yes hard to believe but I was once a good athlete and sports days were the highlight of my year at school) or subject that you loved and succeeded in may not be where your child's talent and love is! So I find it one of the hardest things as a parent to just step back and be thankful that they are enjoying it so much and that it doesn't matter where they come or how well they do as long as they love doing physical activities and learn about how wonderful it is to work as a team and that the skill of sportsmanship is so much more valuable!

Amber is certainly like me, and not a sprinter so I think her time may come in a couple of years when there are longer distances to contest but if it doesn't that is ok because that was my joy not necessarily hers! So no records were broken but damn she had a fabulous time! They year 2's only had a 60m dash and a fun rotation of ball games, high jump and long jump, with a super tug of war challenge against all the rival house colour teams at the end!

I could not be any prouder as a parent when you hear your child go up to another child and congratulate them on racing so well! And my wish for her in the future is that hopefully one day she will get to experience something like that and if not she has already learnt a beautiful thing that no matter where you come she is a winner for giving it her all and being so gracious in defeat and well I couldn't be a prouder mother because in my eyes my daughter is a winner and my star and she always will be!

Memories!

I was looking for a photo for my daughters show and tell last night and I came across this video, its not the best quality, but it made me smile! It seems like a life time ago that Amber was little, she is such a grown up young lady now!

It has reminded me to stop being so slack with my son and get the camera out and in his face, even if he is not that keen on the idea, he will thank me later lol! The kids were just glued to the videos last night, asking me to play them over and over again!

Rock on Amber, your mummy loves you to bits and your sweet voice just melts my heart!




As a final note I just had to post a picture of my daughter in these pants from last winter I just love them to bits and I wish sometimes, just sometimes that she would enjoy wearing jeans, but she is a dress girl through and through which I dearly love but just once in a blue moon would be nice lol, I guess I at least got them on her once!

Earth Hour!

Well Earth Hour is nearly upon us here in Brisvegas and we will do our bit and turn the lights off for 1 hour! Lets hope the kids think this is a fun activity on a Saturday night! I wonder how many people will turn there lights off in Brisbane, it might be a fun night to do some star gazing!

Happy Earth Hour for any one who is joining in!

http://www.earthhour.org

Skate night!

Well this is one event my daughter does not allow us to miss on the school calender, she just loves roller blading and our little one doesn't like to miss out either! Aidan had his first try at the big rink instead of the safe carpet this time! I think I am going to have two children hooked to blading very soon lol! I think my baby looks so cute in the tiniest little roller skates that they can make, just gorgeous!

Now they will have to work on me, I loved the excuse of having to stay on the side because Aidan was too little, I will have work on a new excuse lol! That will be a laughable sight, as lets just say me and wheels on my feet are not a good combination at any time of the year!

Thank you Cathy for allowing me to post some gorgeous photos of your devine daughter Rosanna, she is so photogenic!

Gorgeous free shabby things!

I just had to share this site with my fellow bloggers! I just adore all their free buttons and pretty things for my blog and everything on their blog is free!

Take a look and share in all their yummy talented and beautiful art and photography!

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The hard part is picking which one to use!

So much for turning over a new leaf!

Well that leaf well and truly shrivelled and up and died lol! What a year, I can't believe it has taken me a full year to blog again! It has been a strange year, in which I was struck down with a cold that took me 9 months to shake off, this left me uninspired to basically do anything except sleep in my spare time, as Aidan has truly slotted well into his position of an active 2 years old, throwing up many challenges in the process, it has not left much time for well anything else really. I am certainly not complaining though as I have two very healthy and most of the time happy children.

Amber is loving year two and has the most adorable, sweet and utterly gorgeous teacher! Now I just need to convince her to move to year three next year with us and life will be super perfect lol! I seem to be spending a good majority of my day up at school helping with various things where ever I can! I am sure Jacqui is well and truly sick of seeing my face! Aidan's fan club is increasing constantly with a new gaggle of groupies this year adoring his every move! I don't know what he is going to do when the attention and the cuteness goes away!

Well Amber's after school activities just seem to keep growing, which is not helping her poor mother in any way! We have decided that we are going to cut back on a lot next term, to give her a bit of a break and so basically she can just be a kid and play a little more, or maybe its so I can get something else done besides driving her around!

We started Little Athletics last year and Amber just has the best time, I have to admit, I have also had a wonderful time and it brings back some wonderful memories from my childhood when I used to run and and race walk as a sport! We had our final club day this afternoon which finished in a pizza party and a trophy and certificate presentation!

It was a lovely afternoon even if it rained and we spent the whole afternoon in the club house and too my surprise and to Amber's also she won a trophy for most improved athlete in the junior division no mean feat as per attendance she had the most personal best times than any other girl athlete in the u6's, u7's and u8's, I am so proud of her as she tries so very hard every week and even though she is usually some where near the back she works hard and is always at training and has been improving nearly every single week and most importantly she never gives up!

I am so proud of my baby and she is the one that has inspired me to start blogging again and deserves a big mention in this post! So congratulations Amber we are all so very proud of you for giving everything 100% effort all the time, may the sky be the limit in everything you do!

The icing on the cake and what was a big surprise this afternoon and something I still can't believe is that, I myself received an award for best volunteer parent award for the 2010/2011 season for little athletics for all the marshalling and help over the season! What a surprise as I do it because I love being part of my daughters life and it is a whole lot of fun plus the kids are just great!

Well like always I can rattle on for pages about all the things that have and haven't happened over the last 12 months, but I will save everyone the pain and just be thankful that we are all a little older and hopefully a little wiser and looking forward to a fun and busy 2011 and maybe just maybe I might manage to blog more than once a year lol, don't hold your breath!