365+1 {Week 3}

Week 3! Talk about busy! Plus the Internet was down for 3 days, so I DID fall behind a little! And I DID cheat on one of the themes...! :) Don't forget to keep up to date with specials and comps by following me on Face Book!

{15} 15/01/12 "Four" SO I was going to go the easy option, and just use my daughter who is 4 years old, and then I spotted my tic tacs... The kids and I had to polish off a few of them to get the correct number- but just goes to show that I suffer for my art! :)

{16} 16-01-12 "Grey" = Lucy! :)

{17} 17/01/12 "With a Prop" This is the photo I cheated with. I had to dig it up from an old shoot, but it fit with the theme so perfectly! Plus this day was in the middle of 3x 12 hour shifts and I didn't have time to even LOOK at a camera!!

{18} 18/010/12 "Sharp as a ..." Well obviously sharp as a tack! Another shot I've always wanted to try- wasn't totally happy with it- until I realised that the water balloon was in the shape of a heart!! Awww...! :)

{19/01/12} "Negative Space" Always thought of taking a photo of our lights, and here they are!!

Negative or 'white' space= "The space around and between the subject(s) of an image" (from good old wikapedia!)

{20} 20/01/12 "Masculine" I wanted to take a photo of Jaxon flexing his 'muscles' for this shot, but he was far too shy and wouldn't have a bar of it. Yet he'd let me draw a fake moustache on him and pretend to play with it... go figure!

{21} 21/01/12 "Geometric Shapes" I love bubbles- even at the age of only-just-twenty-something! No matter how sooky a kid is, bubbles always end up getting the best of them....! :)

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Lake Cootharaba Sailing

Yay for Summer! I love winter- I'm a snuggly kind of person- but it's so hard trying to keep kids entertained. In Summer though, we're lucky enough to be able to hit the beach/river and just relax while the kids run wild! This weekend marked my sons first trial run of sailing. The price difference between hoity toity Noosa and that of Lake Cootharabas Sailing Club was unbelievable- so we headed up to the big lake (and I'm so glad we did... as you'll read later on!)

First surprise of the morning was catching up with my mothers cousin (who happens to be commodore at LCSC!!) and his son! They come up from Bribie was to sail every weekend, and have promised to take us out on their big yacht when they next bring it up! It was great watching them scoot around in their little boat "Screw Loose" though. It was REALLY windy, so they were really moving! It was so windy though, that they decided not to take the learners out on sail boats today, but piled them into 2 rubber dinghy's and took them out on the lake in them instead. I've mentioned before that Jaxon is a very quiet and introverted young boy, but he's slowly beginning to come out of his shell. Which is why I was so proud when he jumped onto the boat and took off without a second thought!

So off they went, ducking around the sail boats out in the middle of the lake. The guy in charge -Charlie- (big hair and big beard- I'm sure you'll spot him!) taught the group some basic marine rules while they were out there- but it looked like a pretty good learning environment! Meanwhile, we were left to soak up the sunshine (when we could find areas out of the wind!) and build sandcastles, while watching some of the action from the other boats.

They were out there for over an hour before they finally started heading in. The boat Jaxon was in turned around and helped out a fellow who had capsized and was having trouble getting himself up right, but they finally made it back to shore.

I had to laugh when the stopped and everyone jumped out to push the boat in- Jaxon was the smallest there by far- but he jumped out with the rest of them to do his bit! I swear he would have only barely been able to touch bottom! But before I knew what was happening, most of the group was back on shore, Jaxon was back in the boat, in the DRIVERS seat, and was driving the boat back out to the middle of the Lake again...

Going...

 ...Going...

Gone!

They had headed back out to the same fellow they had helped out earlier- he was fairly new to sailing and the winds had picked up pretty bad that they had actually called in all the other boats and stopped sailing for a while. This bloke was having a lot of difficulty trying to get back in! So my Jaxon was in the rescue boat! :) They were out there for another hour or so trying to talk this guy back in! I was worried that Jaxon was going to be bored, and not want to come back again because it was all too much!

Just as we decided to order some food for lunch, the boat came roaring back in at full speed! Jaxon was being cuddled by the woman on the boat, and I thought it was just because he was freezing! But when they jumped out of the boat carrying him, I soon found out it was a little more than that! He had been holding onto the handles on the rubber boat, when the sail boat rammed them (rammed is probably a little too strong... perhaps 'bumped'!) into them, and Jaxons wrist was caught in the crossfire! He was very tough, and I was very proud of him, but he couldn't move his fingers, and there was a bit of worry about broken bones. A quick visit to the hospital, and he was given the ok! Once the shock wore off, the movement in his fingers and wrist came back! My proudest moment? Bundling Jaxon up into the car, and even though he could barely talk, he was nodding furiously that he loved every second of the morning (up until the accident!) and that he would be back next weekend! And now that he's alright, he's still talking about it, and can't wait to go back!

Now earlier I said that I was glad we had chosen  LCSC over Noosa- and to begin with it may have just been because of the price- but the way that every one out there wanted to help Jaxon was amazing. All very friendly and helpful! But the icing on the cake- Charlie (big beard, big hair remember?) went out of his way to find mums phone number to ring us and check up on Jaxon. As it was Jaxons first day, we hadn't signed any paper work or anything, so he had to do some great detective work to find us! We can't wait to go back!

Fathers Day Antics

Sunday 4th September 2011- Fathers Day! It started off raining and windy and horrible, but the weather soon fined up and held that way for us to have a great day. After the pressie giving (of course) all 4 of us took off down to Alex for a maternity photo shoot. The kids ran amok on the beach, while John helped me out. Once that finished, it was our time! :)

We had the kites in the car, and the hill we were on was PERFECT for kite flying! We had them both out as far as they would go! We had plans of stopping along the Maroochy river on the way home, but we were sidetracked...

By pure chance, we came across the Fathers Day 'thing' happening at Cotton Tree. And by even bigger chance, we found a nice close car park- so we had no excuse but to go in! We went on the big slides, made all sorts of 'sand' art, checked out the animals and some of the displays, and  listened to some great musicians. Such a great day had by all, not to mention a BIG day- the kids slept the whole way home (I have to admit I even drifted off for a bit!) :) Thanks to John and the kids for a great day- hope you had a good day too John!





My Favourite shot of the Day! Only to be followed by......................



 .....this! Kaylee has to 'wipe the kiss off', Jaxon's cracking about having to kiss his dad for so long while I got the shot, and John- well, that's just him! :)





Rainbow Photography is GO!

Good morning (or evening depending where you are)!! I'd like to announce that Rainbow Photography is up and running!! After lots of mucking around, I'm going to give it a go (in between Nursing!). You won't believe how cheap I am either! So go to my Page Rainbow Photography, click like, and message me! If you like what you see, don't forget to tell your friends to "like" as well- help get a small business off the ground!

Australia Zoo Part V: The Final Frontier

So here it it. The final installment!! All the photos that haven't fit in to the previous themes. Including ones of the kids (and JBV!)! They had a ball. Even though they drove me crazy! Jaxon had a map, and wanted to see particular animals at particular times- even if they were always on opposite sides of the zoo! I don't know how many times I had to explain to him "we'll get to them... we are going to follow this track and see all the animals along the way, and we will eventually come to the dingos...". But 2 minutes later... "Ok, I wanna go see the dingos now.."! Aaargh! I can see why my parents used to get so frustrated with me at places like this- because I was exactly the same- just like every other kid! :)

We've got the passes that give us unlimited entry until Nov 30, so JBV took the kids to Bindi's Birthday last weekend as well (while I was at work!!) so we've already got our moneys worth! But there's a few more 'special' events coming up that we'd normally stay away from, but because the tickets are free, we plan on going- Like "Steve Irwin Day" and then of course the new Safari section opening in September! We'll make SURE we get our moneys worth!! ;)

Australia Zoo Part I
Australia Zoo Part II: Where Crocs Rule (and lizards too!)
Australia Zoo Part III: Birds of a Feather
Australia Zoo part IV: Furry Friendlies

and Remember to check out these photos and heaps more in better quality HERE

Before the Rain

Today was the first day of my 3 day weekend. And its cold, wet and miserable! Just last week, it may have been bloody freezing at night, but the day in the sun was beautiful. So since there wasn't much else to do, I went through and found some photos from our fishing expedition last week! A bit of a mixed bag, from fish to birds to grass! :)

As always, don't forget to check out all my photos HERE!