Recipe round up

Thought I should post some of my favourite recipe links (all gluten free of course), to make sure I'll be able to find them again when I need them...

These protein balls are delicious. These felafels are cheap, easy and very tasty (and pretty much allergy free). I make these brownies every week to take to church and I don't think I've ever brought any home again! This stir fry is terrific - we're not tofu fans so I usually make it without - works really well with a packet of frozen stir fry veges for a quick lunch.

That'll do for now :)

New

Some good friends of ours have just had a most spectacularly gorgeous baby girl. She is seven days old today and I was very fortunate to spend the morning taking photos of her. Here are some of my favourite shots.

(she very obligingly modelled some hats for me!)

It is so lovely to finally meet this precious little person. Welcome to the outside world little R!

29 Feb

This afternoon was quite alot of fun. Although if you're 2 years old there is always something to cry about!

This was captured by Jeremy - maybe next time it's Feb 29 he'll have another crack at using the camera!

Some of my favourites...

Here are a few of my favourite photos from my ailing photo project (from Feb anyway). The gorgeous baby belongs to a friend - isn't he lovely?

Glowing

Well I'm up to a grand total of 21 photos out of 300 for my photo project... I think I need to seriously reconsider the number of photos I'm aiming for! Tonight the kids were in bed and I realised I hadn't taken a photo today, as I'd intended so I gave them each a glowstick and got some fun photos! It's now over an hour later and they aren't asleep yet... might be a one off activity I think!

Girl with glowstick.....

Boy with glowstick... these 2 photos say such a lot about the personalities of my 2 older kids!

Skinnamarink

My cute chubby, dainty looking daughter has a voice like a foghorn and a personality to match. She loves to sing all sorts of songs but one of her favourites is "Skinnamarink", esp since we've been watching ALOT of Sharon Lois and Bram this holidays. Enjoy :)

Family

I have a very cute,

cheeky

and funny nephew.

And we are absolutely loving spending time with him and his mum and dad :)

Xander is 5!!

Our dear boy is a whopping 5 years old!

He's as crazy as ever :)

He loved his Octonauts cake....

... and his Lego man cake!

I've never really got into the whole fancy cake thing (mainly because I never seem to have time - my own fault really for having ALL my children very close to Xmas!) but this year I thought I should get my act together, at least for the older 2 kids!

Five things I love about Xander:

* his great enthusiasm for music and books

* the way his voice gets higher... and higher ... and higher the more excited he gets

* his concern for people who are sad or hurt

* the way he thinks his "amazing" physical feats are actually amazing

* his very crazy and funny sense of humour

Happy birthday big 5 year old boy - we love you!

300 photos in 366 days ... can I do it?

I've set myself the challenge of taking at least one photo (and hopefully uploading it onto some kind of electronic device) 300 days of this year. I know I can't manage a photo every single day, but I think this might be doable. I'm hoping to stretch myself a bit and learn more about photography by giving myself a project to do.

Here are some I took today...

The enormous excitement of the garbage truck's arrival.

I just love how all of our kids adore books. Xander in particular will drop whatever he is doing and run to look at or read whatever book is going.

Toddler feet are just so cute!

It's not quite her birthday, but we had a family party tonight to celebrate :)

Catching up...

I've been meaning to write some kind of "year in review" sort of post in an attempt to round off 2011 and move forward into 2012 (and start clearing my backlog of photos) but I'm realising I don't have time.

So, in a nutshell, 2011 was hideous sucky and awful and I'm hoping and praying that 2012 is going to be a huge improvement on last year.

Year in review over, on with the photos.