Daily photo challenge - week 49 is complete

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New Lynn Santa Parade - 1.12.12

Christmas is almost here!!!

New Lynn Santa Parade and Street Party

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Week 48 is complete

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Week 47 is complete

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Daily photo challenge - week 46 is complete

Another week of photos ..........

another week closer to the end of the year.

And to be honest, I'm starting to struggle again with ideas and inspiration.

So that means this week's pics are a mish-mash of

hits and misses.

17.11.12 - Instructions

16.11.12 - Christmas work do

15.11.12 - Old school vase

14.11.12 -Shower time

13.11.12 - "Super high" with Poppa

12.11.12 - Horizontal sleeper

11.11.12 - T-i-m-b-e-r!!

Daily photo challenge - week 45 is complete

Our week.......

It's been pretty average, pretty normal......

Too much work, Brian's football, too much work, 

RSA dinner, too much work, Sarah's football.

On the plus side - tonight is night one of Sarah being in a big girl's bed.

After Sarah's football this morning we went shopping for girly bedding

and this afternoon we hit the shops and bought her a bed.

So far the night is going just like any other night.

But I'm sure the fun times will come.

10.11.12 - Reflecting at Soccer for Tots

 9.11.12 - Veggies for Sarah and I

 8.11.12 - Lolly jar -

It's almost shopping day

7.11.12 - High heel practise

6.11.12 - Football

5.11.12 - Silent baby monitor despite 

the BANG BANGS of Guy Fawkes night -

Whew!

4.11.12 - Spring garden

(Oh how I love our garden at this time of year!)

Daily photo challenge - week 44 is complete

A little less drama and excitement in our household this week.

Drama #1 - Sarah and the dog collided

 and Sarah face planted the deck.

End result - one cut fat lip.

Ouchy!

Excitement #1 - It was my birthday on Friday!!

I got well spoilt with presents, phone calls, 

texts and Facebook messages.

I sure did feel the love.

 

3.11.12 - Cuddles for Grandad

2.11.12 - Happy birthday to me!

1.11.12 - Birthday cake 

(a day early)

31.10.12 - Insect hunt

30.10.12 - The Bunky Chollox return

The 7-aside football season is back

29.10.12 - The short attention span of a 2.5 year old

28.10.12 - Watering the new additions

Daily photo challnge - week 43 is complete

This week has been full on.

After months and months of not being able to
open our laundry doors smoothly,

we finally figured out the cause 

of the cork tiles bubbling and lifting from the floor.

On Sunday Brian lifted the tiles and discovered a rather widespread leak.

 Turns out there was a slow leak coming from the 

tap/hose going to the washing machine.

It could have been leaking since December last year!

A week after the discovery, the damp and musty smell still hits us 

every time we walk in the front door.

But we are slowly getting used to the 24/7 hum 

of the dehumidifier which is constantly sucking water.

Monday was our 7th wedding anniversary and

everyone kindly took the day off to help us celebrate.

Ok - it was Labour Day, but we'll take the day off and claim it as our own!

We decided to make our celebrations a family affair.

The three of us headed out for breakfast

(although Miss 2.5 was in a rather demanding mood 

so it wasn't the relaxing meal we had planned) 

and then we headed off to Hearon Park

(but the weather gods had other ideas so that didn't last long either).

 Brian and I headed out to see Taken 2 (awesome movie) 

and five days later he won tickets to the movie.

(Isn't it ironic - don't you think?!)

We topped the day off with drinks with our mate Callum

and dinner with mum and Steve.

It was a lovely day and a nice way to celebrate

seven AWESOME years with my man.

This week Sarah made a new discovery.........

a water pistol!

It's fair to say there has been lots of 

screaming, laughter and water 

in our backyard the last few days.

Saturday was a FANTASTIC day.

We started the day with Sarah's Soccer for Tots class 

where Sarah was named 

Player of the Day!

I'm sure every kid gets named Player of the Day at some point, 

but it's fair to say that this week

 we're a rather proud mummy and daddy!!

Sarah was so enthusiastic, tried really hard, 

listened well and followed the instructions (most of the time).

That afternoon we pulled out the sunhats and sunscreen 

(what a treat that was) 

and headed to a nearby primary school where all three of us 

went nuts at the playground.

Then we headed down the hill for icecreams on our beach.

Sarah prooved that Rachel Hunter was right about one thing - 

"You can't beat a Trumpet".

27.10.12- Crazy slider

26.10.12 - Escaping the water pistol

(I got lots of great water pistol shots, but this one 

is my fav because of the spray of water

Sarah is running into.)

25.10.12 - Afternoon light

 24.10.12 - Running

(Me playing with shutter speed settings)

23.10.12 - Our laundry :-(

22.10.12 - Anniversary swing

21.10.12 - Thanks for the flowers Tony

Daily Photo Challenge - Week 42 is complete

This week was a fun week!

We caught up with friends,

made pizza, galloped around the yard,

the sold sticker on our rental FINALLY went up,

we went to the opening night of Mary Poppins

(red carpet and everything!),

we spent HEAPS of time on the toilet (well, Sarah did),

and we took advantage of a fine Saturday morning

 and headed to our beach.

 Here is this week in photos..........

 20.10.12 - Laingholm Beach explorer

19.10.12 - Another visit

 

 18.10.12 - Red carpet!

 17.10.12 - Finally

16.10.12 - Galloping

  

 

15.10.12 -  Sprung - Part 1, 2 & 3

 14.10.12 - Bookworm

 

Daily Photo Challenge - Week 41 is complete

Another week ticked off the list.....

This week was a bit full on - to say the least.

Our rental property that we were trying to sell 

finally went unconditional on Friday.

That was a huge relief 

considering the stressfull Thursday we had with 

both Brian and I back and forth on the phone to 

the lawyer, real estate agents and the building inspector.

But it all worked out in the end

And this Friday we will be saying "goodbye" 

to the first house Brian and I owned.

It was a gorgeous little house.

On Saturday we took Sarah to her first Soccer For Tots class.

She loved it - and so did we.

It was nice to see her in a group environment - 

something we miss out on seeing during the week.

She was pretty cautious at the start, 

but by the end of it she was following instructions 

and very enthusiastic about taking part 

without one of us beside her.

13.10.12 - Yay!

More Soccer For Tots pics here

12.10.12 - Big Ted 's backyard adventure

11.10.12 - RSA view

10.10.12 - All in the name of progress

(Great North Rd, Waterview)

9.10.12 - Mastering the pedals

8.10.12 - Bubble spray

7.10.12 - Mucking in in the veggie garden

Daily photo challenge - week 40 is complete

This week was a mixed bag.....

A couple of great pics, 

a couple of very ho-hum pics 

and one epic fail!!

On 3.10.12 I took some photos......and a few days later

I deleted everything off the card thinking I had already downloaded them.

Turns out I hadn't.
(Yes, Jason O - I can hear you saying "I told you so"!)

So I am one pic short this week.

Oh well - it wasn't that great a pic anyway.

30.9.12 - Off to visit Great-grandma

More pics here

1.10.12 - Back rub for daddy

2.10.12 - Just checking

4.10.12 - Icecream - RSA style

5.10.12 - Dinner time

6.10.12 - Movie time

It's cold and windy outside 

so we're watching a Muppets movie