I got this photo of Tate in my email today from Jared. I think Tate is the cutest 2 year old I know.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Short Liner Posts
One of the ladies in our ward, whom I LOVE, was so nice to make my sister this wonderful banana cake which was soooo yummy! It had all of the Aussie sayings on it.
"Barbie"
"Struth" {means: ah crap!}
"Maaaate"
"Fair Dinkum" {means: yeah, sure}
"Crikey"
"Aussi - Oi Oi Oi" - Remember the song from AC/DC (TNT- Oi Oi Oi)? They are from Australia.
Tate "helping" with yard work.
Me & Stef-man on top of the black mountain tower.
The "boys" on top of Black Mountain/Telstra Tower.
There is a field over by Costco here in Canberra that you can go see the 'roos' at dusk when they come out. Joey & the Roos.
Me in my PJ's with Jer & Stef.
Jared & Hisa with Steffan for his birthday.
Making dino-balls with the boys to play with. {cotton balls, flour, water & food coloring/baked}
This little ham gets into EVERYTHING right now. Look how happy he was when I found him.
Here are some pics of our house. I had to hurry and take them. Our house was clean and 'manicured' for our 6 month inspection which is government law here to inspect ALL rentals to make sure they are in tip top shape. It's hard to clean sooo much and keep it that way until they get there when you have kids!
We took Kiley to the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve yesterday and there were some really cool wallaby's that were just coming up to us. Turns out the LOVE bananas. :)
It was nice to have Kiley there to take a family pic with a "small wallaby" in the background. Now if I can only get them printed and handed to people BEFORE Christmas... otherwise I will be changing it to say, "Happy New Year 2013". :)
We are having so much fun with Kiley here. I don't want her to go home. If we can only talk her into coming to school here... :)
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Updates and Updates
We have been soooooo busy and have all been SOOOOOO sick! {ear infections, coughs, sore throats, fevers, heat rash, roseola, vomiting... you name it!} I've never been sick so often in my life until we moved here. Is it because we are in a new country?
The first week of November, Jeremy was gone in Sydney all week for a training at work. The boys and I drove up there and picked him up on Friday and stayed the night in the temple accommodations since it was the Young Men temple trip that weekend and Jeremy was going to go anyway to do baptisms. We also got invited to a dear friend's sealing later that day in which I was also asked to take photos (and felt very honored to do this as it has been a 'journey' to make the 'temple goal' for their family). It was so awesome to be a part of that!
A couple of days after that, Jeremy's friend Joey flew in to visit us {and just in time to get totally sick from all of us}. I felt so bad that we weren't feeling well while he was here and even worse that he brought our sickness home with him. There's nothing like the Australian Flu to bring home as a souvenir. Hopefully we hankered (sp?) up all of the energy we could muster to provide a fun time during his 10 days. It was really, really nice to have him here and I even took the time to actually find the Southern Cross constellation with Joey while he was here. {It only took us an hour: ahem} If you know Joey, being sick doesn't slow him down. One day he said he was going on a walk to see the neighborhood and I looked outside 10 minutes later to see him mowing our lawn and pulling our weeds. I had even mentioned to Jeremy that we needed to get that done before he came, otherwise he'd go out and do it for us and I was right! ha ha Our house looked like the ShangriLa by the time Joey left. He spent more time at our "Home Depot" called "Bunnings" here and got my husband to come home with all sorts of power tools and yard tools. I guess that's what Jeremy's gets for having a General Contractor as a best friend.
Isn't this picture awesome! It's up at Black Mountain Tower.
Jeremy is on the wait list to see a specialist for his stomach issues I mentioned in a previous post.
Steffan is still having a bit of tummy issues himself. I hope he grows out of it. But I will say that it's getting better! We celebrated Steffan's 1st birthday (sick)... I mean... with Joey and Thanksgiving dinner (as good as I could throw together with a fever that day) and pumpkin pie instead of a traditional birthday cake, which Steffan LOVED {thanks to my sis and mother in law for sending canned pumpking along with Joey}. Hisa and Jared came over and made up for the lack of cake and brought over a cake (and it was gooood).
As for me, I thought I was going to get away with not getting too sick until this last week, it was a downward spiral. On top of Jeremy not feeling well either, I had to go to church and speak in sacrament again and teach my lesson in Relief Society the same day. I actually love doing stuff like that and I will never drop something like that on someone else at the last moment, because I'm just not like that and don't have it in me to do that to someone else no matter what shape I'm in. Also, I have just been taking photos and editing away. Jeremy got me my early Christmas present on it's way (thank goodness for friends that work at Adobe)... Photoshop and Lightroom! Woo hoo! I can't wait to start editing with Lightroom. I took a Photoshop class awhile back with my dad, so hopefully I will be able to pick it back up.
Tate hasn't stopped talking or hurting himself. Joey learned really fast why we didn't fuss much when Tate hurt himself... It's because he hurts himself every 3 seconds. It's like he never learns the first, second or third time of doing something. I don't get it.
Teagan is about to turn FOUR! We are in contact with people to try and enroll him in a private school here next year (because it is so much cheaper than going to public school when you are not a resident here). He is LOVING Angry Birds right now. We had an Angry Birds Family Home Evening one night to talk about how to deal with our "anger" and other emotions and he has been obsessed with it ever since. He wants his birthday party to be "Angry Birds". Honey Lona sent him an Angry Birds shirt recently and I thought it'd be cute to do a photo shoot with it for his birthday invitation... but, I couldn't get that kid to smile. I said, "Ok, SMILE Teagan! Pretend like you're having fun!" Teagan looked at me and said, "But I'm NOT having fun Mom." Uhh... ok. Needless to say, the photos didn't turn out as good as Steffan's 1st birthday pics.
I'm thinking of using this one for his invite because it is the most decent one with Angry Birds on it.
Then Teagan didn't want to wear his Angry Bird shirt, he wanted to wear his Superman cape and undies. :) ...and doesn't he look 'so happy'?
The first week of November, Jeremy was gone in Sydney all week for a training at work. The boys and I drove up there and picked him up on Friday and stayed the night in the temple accommodations since it was the Young Men temple trip that weekend and Jeremy was going to go anyway to do baptisms. We also got invited to a dear friend's sealing later that day in which I was also asked to take photos (and felt very honored to do this as it has been a 'journey' to make the 'temple goal' for their family). It was so awesome to be a part of that!
A couple of days after that, Jeremy's friend Joey flew in to visit us {and just in time to get totally sick from all of us}. I felt so bad that we weren't feeling well while he was here and even worse that he brought our sickness home with him. There's nothing like the Australian Flu to bring home as a souvenir. Hopefully we hankered (sp?) up all of the energy we could muster to provide a fun time during his 10 days. It was really, really nice to have him here and I even took the time to actually find the Southern Cross constellation with Joey while he was here. {It only took us an hour: ahem} If you know Joey, being sick doesn't slow him down. One day he said he was going on a walk to see the neighborhood and I looked outside 10 minutes later to see him mowing our lawn and pulling our weeds. I had even mentioned to Jeremy that we needed to get that done before he came, otherwise he'd go out and do it for us and I was right! ha ha Our house looked like the ShangriLa by the time Joey left. He spent more time at our "Home Depot" called "Bunnings" here and got my husband to come home with all sorts of power tools and yard tools. I guess that's what Jeremy's gets for having a General Contractor as a best friend.
Isn't this picture awesome! It's up at Black Mountain Tower.
Jeremy is on the wait list to see a specialist for his stomach issues I mentioned in a previous post.
Steffan is still having a bit of tummy issues himself. I hope he grows out of it. But I will say that it's getting better! We celebrated Steffan's 1st birthday (sick)... I mean... with Joey and Thanksgiving dinner (as good as I could throw together with a fever that day) and pumpkin pie instead of a traditional birthday cake, which Steffan LOVED {thanks to my sis and mother in law for sending canned pumpking along with Joey}. Hisa and Jared came over and made up for the lack of cake and brought over a cake (and it was gooood).
As for me, I thought I was going to get away with not getting too sick until this last week, it was a downward spiral. On top of Jeremy not feeling well either, I had to go to church and speak in sacrament again and teach my lesson in Relief Society the same day. I actually love doing stuff like that and I will never drop something like that on someone else at the last moment, because I'm just not like that and don't have it in me to do that to someone else no matter what shape I'm in. Also, I have just been taking photos and editing away. Jeremy got me my early Christmas present on it's way (thank goodness for friends that work at Adobe)... Photoshop and Lightroom! Woo hoo! I can't wait to start editing with Lightroom. I took a Photoshop class awhile back with my dad, so hopefully I will be able to pick it back up.
Tate hasn't stopped talking or hurting himself. Joey learned really fast why we didn't fuss much when Tate hurt himself... It's because he hurts himself every 3 seconds. It's like he never learns the first, second or third time of doing something. I don't get it.
Look at this little ham. Tate wanted his picture taken with a cape on while I was taking pictures for Teagan's 4th birthday stuff.
Teagan is about to turn FOUR! We are in contact with people to try and enroll him in a private school here next year (because it is so much cheaper than going to public school when you are not a resident here). He is LOVING Angry Birds right now. We had an Angry Birds Family Home Evening one night to talk about how to deal with our "anger" and other emotions and he has been obsessed with it ever since. He wants his birthday party to be "Angry Birds". Honey Lona sent him an Angry Birds shirt recently and I thought it'd be cute to do a photo shoot with it for his birthday invitation... but, I couldn't get that kid to smile. I said, "Ok, SMILE Teagan! Pretend like you're having fun!" Teagan looked at me and said, "But I'm NOT having fun Mom." Uhh... ok. Needless to say, the photos didn't turn out as good as Steffan's 1st birthday pics.
I'm thinking of using this one for his invite because it is the most decent one with Angry Birds on it.
Then Teagan didn't want to wear his Angry Bird shirt, he wanted to wear his Superman cape and undies. :) ...and doesn't he look 'so happy'?
Monday, November 26, 2012
Gravity: Brittany Cairns
I put this up awhile back but people from the US weren't able to hear it. Now that it's on YouTube you should be able to hear it. I get chills from this girls voice. I LOVE it!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Day in Sydney
We picked Jeremy's best mate up yesterday from the airport (Joey)... After a few "hold-up's" (*cough/ahem - that's all I can say), Joey made it in to the country safe and sound and ready to begin his trip.
We decided to start his first day here FULL of stuff to do to keep him awake and help him adjust to the time change. We walked around at Darling Harbour and went to the Sydney Wildlife Park and Sydney Aquarium. We drove past the temple to show him, but are bummed we won't be able to take him through a session during his stay because it is closed for cleaning the entire time he is visiting. :(
However, when we went to the Aquarium, they had manatee's there today! Isn't that so cool! I LOVE manatee's. I have always loved them and have always thought they were so cool, but have never actually seen one in person. If you didn't know, I always wanted to be a marine biologist growing up and the only reason I didn't go off to San Diego State University is because I could've never afforded the out of state tuition after high school. But I have always kept a love for the ocean and all animals in the ocean. On a side note, I also love that Joey was there to take pictures of my family that actually included ME in them. :)
I have to admit. Seeing a crocodile in real life is extra cool also. I think they are a lot more fascinating when you see them up close.
We drove home and talked the whole way and stayed up talking to Joey until late. After we got home I kept thinking, "Holy Cow! Someone we "know" is at OUR house." ha ha We have sure missed hanging out with our friends and family and it is SO NICE to have Joey here. I really wish Nadia and Sophia could've made it with him. It almost feels like we are home. :)
*In three weeks from tomorrow my sister will be here!*
We decided to start his first day here FULL of stuff to do to keep him awake and help him adjust to the time change. We walked around at Darling Harbour and went to the Sydney Wildlife Park and Sydney Aquarium. We drove past the temple to show him, but are bummed we won't be able to take him through a session during his stay because it is closed for cleaning the entire time he is visiting. :(
However, when we went to the Aquarium, they had manatee's there today! Isn't that so cool! I LOVE manatee's. I have always loved them and have always thought they were so cool, but have never actually seen one in person. If you didn't know, I always wanted to be a marine biologist growing up and the only reason I didn't go off to San Diego State University is because I could've never afforded the out of state tuition after high school. But I have always kept a love for the ocean and all animals in the ocean. On a side note, I also love that Joey was there to take pictures of my family that actually included ME in them. :)
I have to admit. Seeing a crocodile in real life is extra cool also. I think they are a lot more fascinating when you see them up close.
We drove home and talked the whole way and stayed up talking to Joey until late. After we got home I kept thinking, "Holy Cow! Someone we "know" is at OUR house." ha ha We have sure missed hanging out with our friends and family and it is SO NICE to have Joey here. I really wish Nadia and Sophia could've made it with him. It almost feels like we are home. :)
*In three weeks from tomorrow my sister will be here!*
Junk in the Trunk
Monday, November 12, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Mae-Mae Goober
When Tate was just starting to talk he always called any car that had to do with "Cars" the movie, "Mae-Mae" after Mater. Now he knows all their names but sometimes, even still, we find all of us calling characters in the movie "Mae-Mae". When Teagan had these skates, he wanted nothing to do with them. I tried to put them on him and Teagan didn't like how unstable he felt in them. He wore them once and never asked to wear them again. I've never tried putting them on Tate, but today Tate brought them to me and asked me to put the Mae-Mae skates on him. Surprisingly he wore them for about 30 minutes around the house and didn't really fall in them (which if you know his nature of constant falling or hurting himself is in and of itself a Miracle). He was still wearing his pajamas when he asked me and luckily it matched perfectly. ;) Plus he is such a little poser. He makes me laugh! I just love this little tato-bug.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Steffan's 1st Birthday Photo Shoot
Jeremy left yesterday to go to Sydney for the week for training at
work which means a "LONG" week for me. Fortunately I have awesome ward
members who have offered to bring me dinner, have me over for dinner and
let me drop my kids off for a few hours so that I can have a break. I
am SO THANKFUL for them. I couldn't have asked for a better ward to be
in. On Friday I am driving up to Sydney with the boys to pick Jeremy up
and stay in the temple accommodations overnight. We were invited to our
friend Sofia's sealing on Saturday and it just worked out that Jeremy's
Young Men's group will be there Saturday morning to do baptism's. And
then we will go back to Sydney again next Tuesday to go pick Joey up.
Yipeee! Our first visitor!
Back to my week... to start my Monday off, I decided to do a little birthday photo shoot for Steffan's one year birthday coming up in a couple of weeks. I set it up in our dining room today and I might have well have set up a "Don't Touch" war zone because the boys wanted to play with it all day. I even Skyped with my mom so she could watch the whole thing. She even helped get the boys attention in telling them to smile. It was like she was here with me. :) I think the pictures turned out so dang cute! I really love them. I even turned one of them into a birthday invite.
Back to my week... to start my Monday off, I decided to do a little birthday photo shoot for Steffan's one year birthday coming up in a couple of weeks. I set it up in our dining room today and I might have well have set up a "Don't Touch" war zone because the boys wanted to play with it all day. I even Skyped with my mom so she could watch the whole thing. She even helped get the boys attention in telling them to smile. It was like she was here with me. :) I think the pictures turned out so dang cute! I really love them. I even turned one of them into a birthday invite.
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