Daily photo challenge - week 25 is complete

Whew - I made it through the week!

This week felt like a week of snap-shots.

A week of "oh-no - I need a photo".

And on Saturday morning 

I flipped through my pics so far 

and thought "Really? Is that all I've got?".

Thankfully the photographic week ended

with a visit to Tangiwai Reserve

in gorgeous Laingholm/Titirangi.

It was awesone on two fronts:

1) Brian, Sarah, Fletcher (the dog) and I all had so much FUN!

Us humans donned our gumboots 

and all four of us headed 

for the muddiest, wetest 

part of the park we could find!
Sarah (our tomboy of a daughter) had a blast going
"squish squish squish"
and hunting out more mud and puddles.

2) I got to put in to practice a few things Belinda
(click here to see her blog)

taught me a couple of weeks ago 

when she gave me a photography 101 training session.

So here are my pics from Saturday's visit to the park

(plus a few extras because I was so pleased/relieved with the results!)

and the rest of my snap shot/ho-hum week.

23.6.12 - red on red
Click here to see the rest of the pics from Tangiwai Park

22.6.12 - Kebab reflections
(literally a reflection - I'm sitting in the restaurant
with my camera pointing out the window)

21.6.12 - Relaxing

20.6.12 - Not a nice night to be out

19.6.12 - A shower that turned into a bath

18.6.12 - Money money money
- to pay for the new car

17.6.12 - Somebody on the iPad
One of Sarah's favourite songs at the moment
is Kimbra's
Somebody that I used to know.

Daily photo challenge - week 24 is complete

Week 24 is done and dusted.

It started with an AWESOME family day at Butterfly Creek

and then we went plane spotting out by the airport.

We had so much fun!!

(check out the pics here)

The rest of my photographic week was spent 

documenting what happened during the week.

Nothing majorly exciting - just a week in the life.

16.6.12 - Corbans

 15.6.12 - Winter's treasure

14.6.12 - "Hello Nana"

Sarah approves of my new phone

(Thanks to Brian for buying it for me!)

 13.6.12 - Winter shadows

12.6.12 - Family favourite

(Spag bol)

11.6.12 - Winter buddies

 10.6.12 - plane spotting

Daily photo challene - week 23 is complete

My photographic week started out with a
photography 101 course with Belinda

 Our two families caught up at Onepoto Domain on the Shore.

Us girls talked photos while the dads and the kids 

had a blast exploring an awesome playground.

For me, most of this week was spent away from our princess Sarah. 

I mised her like crazy, 

but I did get to spend some time doing some amazing things.

I was in Wellington Tuesday to Thursday on a work course.

(Thanks so much to Brian for doing a great job
looking after our girl while I was gone.)

Then Brian joined me in Welly on Thursday afternoon and

we did the tourst thing before coming home on Saturday morning.

And on Saturday afternoon we headed off to tick something off Brian's "bucket list"

- we went to Eden Park to watch the All Blacks play Ireland. 

What an awesome experience.

Wow - what an amazing few days!!

I'm looking forward to life returning to normal and seeing our girl again though! 

I've missed her HEAPS!

Thanks a million to mum and Steve for helping us out these last few days.

xo

9.6.12 - A young AB's fan

Click here to see pics from the All Blacks VS Ireland game

8.6.12 - Sparkly Welly
Click here to see some more pics
from our day as tourists in Wellington

7.6.12 - Office view

6.6.12 - Wintery Welly from the 23rd floor

5.6.12 - Don't touch

(The mini bar)

4.6.12 - an audience

(Watching daddy change the flat tyre)

3.6.12 - Swinging around

Click here to see pics of Sarah and Ashton
at Onepoto Domain

Daily photo challenge - Week 22 is complete

There was no official theme for our group this week

but without even trying I ended up with a theme:

Family

Celebrating, remembering, enjoying

2.6.12 - A family visit 

Catching up with Tim, Violet and our grandson Mika

1.6.12 - cousins

The girls fill in insurance forms at Grandma's retirement party.

(My step-mum retired after 25-years at AMI)

31.5.12 - wood work

Visiting my mum and step-dad's place of work.

Thanks for letting me visit White Cliffs Timber

30.5.12 - Happy birthday Nana

Today would have been my Nana's birthday. 

Sarah never had the privilege of meeting one of the most beautiful woman 

I have ever known.

29.5.12 - Sunday night chores being done on Tuesday

28.5.12 - chocolate cupcake for desert

- thanks Wendy

27.5.12 - Happy Birthday Poppa

To celebrate my step-dad's birthday we went to Devonport - 

click here to see pics from our trip