I'm thinking it's all in the genes...

I'd like to say that it's just my kids...

But that would be a lie now wouldn't it?...

A little peek...

Let me give you a little peek into what it's like in our house when friends come to stay with us...we often have friends and family come and stay with us...like at least once a month...and we love it...we often get comments like: 'Didn't you just have people staying with you?'...or...'Do you ever get tired of having people stay so often?'...The answer is always...NO!...I mean, really, how could anyone tire of having someone else for the kids to climb & jump all over? :)

Let me introduce you to our guests:


This is Jeanney & Matt...

Jeanney & I were mission companions in Idaho (yes I did serve my mission for the LDS church on Temple Square in Salt Lake but I was sent to Idaho Pocatello Mission for 3mths as part of that). Jeanney was known in our mission as the 'Deer Slayer' simply because she...well...she ran into a deer...and nearly wrote the car off...so I was known as 'the Deer Slayer's companion'... anyway she loved being companions with an Australian soooo much that she decided to up and MARRY one...which suits me just fine...because that means she visits downunder every couple of years and I get to see her much more often than any of my other comps.


So Jeanney got to know my kids this visit...she left her two daughters with her mother-in-law in Brisbane for a few days...she was missing her kids...so I let mine climb all over her...just so she didn't miss her own too much...you know because I ALWAYS think of others feelings before my own....ALWAYS!


Jeanney even gave her some flying lessons...

My son, being the clown of the family and having the unique ability to make things that are NOT funny, FUNNY, decided this would be his new trick...


and then he thought better of it and decided to use them in a more appropriate manner...


...and he still found it funny...

What??? MY GUESTS throwing snotty tissues at me??? what did I ever do to deserve that????

...well I must say Matt...the snotty tissue was definitely worth it...

Been Busy...

We've had people staying with us the last fortnight...so I've been busy enjoying the company, catching up and taking advantage of having my friends visit...and by that I mean...new subjects to photograph!

So last week my friend from QLD stayed and I caught her boys in action...doing only what boys can do!...

We had fun with Aleigha, her daughter...my camera ADORED her!

My kids get soooo excited when people come to visit...they especially love sleep overs - they tell me where everyone can sleep and who is sleeping in their room etc...sometimes their 'carefully' planned sleeping arrangements aren't always the best plan for actually SLEEPING!!!...so there are often some minor adjustments to their sleeping arrangements!

If it's not one child...it's the other...

Another black eye...and a bit of blood...

this is the damage a Nintendo Wii controller can do when her brother is totally engrossed in his game and she steps just a little too close!

Just because...

...that's what my little girl says at the end of most of her sentences...because....it is or because...that's why...I love it, it makes me laugh...and that has absolutely nothing to do with these photos...which are of my friends little girl...




50mm f1.8, f/1.8, 1/8000, 400iso

I'm just blogging...not because I really have anything to say but because we're getting our ducted air/con in today and I'm hiding out in the study with gyprock falling down ontop of me...so I thought I'd post a few photo's...I have been taking alot for friends lately...(I like to say 'friends'...my husband likes to call them 'clients' because he's a professional you know and I'm just a housewife and all...we like it that way)...



50mm f1.8, f/1.8, 1/6000, 250iso



50mm f1.8, f/1.8, 1/1250, 250iso