Gorgeous Little Things...

My sister lives literally 5 mins from all this!!!

This little town is absolutely brimming with history...if I remember rightly it's where Arnotts (the biscuit co.) first started...the houses both large and small are beautiful..the whole area is beautiful...this little shop front simply summed it up for me!...and just in case you can't read it...it's called 'Gorgeous Little Things...'

This is right across the river....

...I have a thing for grass lately...paddocks of grass that is...it's sad, I know...

...and I love seeing fields of crops growing...this corn runs along side the road...

and you see lots of this...

And if you're concerned about it 'being in the middle of nowhere' it's really just a perception...because if you travel 30 mins east...you're at the beach!...if you travel 15 mins - 1 hr west you're surrounded by beautiful vineyards, olive groves and occasionally lavendar farms...if you travel 1 hr-2 hrs south...you will be on the central coast and then Sydney...if you travel 1 hr north...well then you really would be in the middle of nowhere...!

My idea of a pefect location is definitely this! Beauty, history and space like this....yet still within 15-30mins of large shopping malls and 30mins within a beach...

Attitude on a Swing...

This is her favourite thing to do at the park....

Toughness

This is my little 'attitude' with her cousin who is only a month younger than her...sometimes a video camera would be quite handy...since I didn't have one on me...I'll repeat the dialogue that
was going on between these two when I took these shots...

Cousin: 'I can lift my bike up real high...' Attitude: ' I can do that too...see'

...'real high'... Cousin: ' well I can do it even higher...'

and I'm sure it would have kept going like this if Attitude's big brother hadn't come along to distract them with better things to do...like climbing high up on the rope net and getting stuck!

At least she's not actually spitting...

I love this girl...she's alot of fun...

Nothing interesting to say...

To get the umbrella shots I shoved her out in the rain...with her umbrella...

while I sat in the car and took photos....

...ok so I'm kidding...it hadn't actually started to rain yet!

Me...DANCING??? What the....?

So a friend of ours...every time I see him, he looks at me he can't stop laughing and shaking his head....he seriously thought this was me!!!

His wife and I were watching it today having a bit of a laugh...the ONLY people that I ever dance is in front of is my kids...because they love me regardless of how retarded I might look doing it...and A. if you're reading this...the only way you will ever witness this is if SINGSTAR becomes DANCESTAR AND THERE IS ALOT OF MONEY INVOLVED!!!

The Human Body part 2...

I was doing something with this ball of wool the other day and my son came in and looked at it...got very excited and then said...MUM it looks like a.....



....BRAIN!!!! mmm nice!

The Human Body...

I have a 5yr old boy here that is VERY curious about the human body...he's constantly asking how everything works and where everything is placed in the body...the lungs, heart, bones etc...he's constantly asking how the blood got inside his body...tonight he brought a piece of paper to me and asked me to draw him and all the bones inside his body...so I did and he left and I didn't think anything of it...until I heard some strange grunting noises with taps running in the bathroom.

These photo's really don't do it justice but I found pen/ink ALL over his body...he'd copied my pictures as best he could and physically drawn his bones onto his body...so he could see them...these photo's are after I found him trying to 'scrub' it all off, suddenly concerned about how the heck he was going to get all of it off before the facing the wrath of his mother - needless to say...J. had two baths tonight!

Cowgirl...kinda

I love these photo's of my little cowgirl...but I have a problem..I take soooooooo many photo's of my kids, some of which I want to print out and frame...but I can never decide how I like my photo's best...between all the options I have on my camera and photoshop I can't help but play with them and try different effects...I'm forever trying to decide...which one do I like best???? For eg...the following has more of a washed out vintage look to it...

...but then again do I love the really saturated colour?


washed out vintage look?...


or more colour???...




and yet again...


then I changed the white balance setting on my camera and came up with the following difference...


I guess it's a matter of personal opinion really, just when I think I've made a decision...my husband will walk in and just LOVE the one that I had decided NOT to print! He tends to like nice warm colours...I find I tend to lean toward cooler colours...


The result????....I hardly EVER print the photo's I take and display them...they stay right here on my pc and blogpage...I did a photo wall months ago in the kids area and hung all the frames up....printed out a few of them and decided there was something not quite right about the colours for my liking...so I never put the rest up...so I have empty photo frames on my wall...sad really....but until I get over my indecision...they're going to have to stay empty!

How mean am I?

I love the drive up to my dad's place in the Hunter Valley. The F3 is just so boring that we always go over Mangrove Mountain...the drive is soo much nicer. We've been having a lot of storms of late and the kids have been getting increasingly scared of them...especially my little girl...so what do I do??? There is a huge thunderstorm literally about to break upon us on our drive up and I see a great photo opportunity...I drag the kids out of the car and start snapping away...check out the expression her face!!!...that was just after a nice big clap of thunder!




J. is slightly concerned about it as well and keeps checking behind him!



She's now begging to get back in the car!


He thinks its funny.

and is enjoying it.

Grass can be lots of fun...

see, you can stick it in people's ears...

and it tickles...

There are sooo many places along the way that I have been wanting to stop and take photo's for so long...so since it was my birthday I pretty much made us stop every 5mins!...this is an old car that I ADORE..and drive past every time wishing I could take pictures of my kids with it...since it was literally about to start pouring with rain, thunder and lightening...and I had already tortured them once...I settled for a quick roadside shot...maybe next time!

Then after we got to grandpa's house and the storm was gone we went out to feed grandpa's cow...whom we affectionately call....'cow'.

They love 'cow'...little do they know that Grandpa loves the kids feeding 'cow' so that he gets nice and FAT...once he gets nice and FAT...I'll then have Grandpa explain why & how 'cow' came to be in his freezer!