On the banks of the Bowen River, we celebrated the christening of Mia Alexandria Cormack. This beautiful young lady was the star of the show, with her flora frock and cowgirl boots!
The proud mumma
Cheeky little miss
Just looooove these little boots! Especially with the frock!
The Cormack family: Christian, Mia, Melissa and Darcy
There were a few pairs of lovely boots on parade!
It seems that with the distance and time between visits, it's not that often that we get a nice family photo. Unfortunately, portrait photography is probably an area that I need more practise.
Chillin with my baby!
Ozzie, Darcy's little pup did some photo bombing!
Garrett's pretty laid back though luckily!
Cousins
Got time to do a few photos down in the River while J was fishing and I was pretty happy with them. I have a pretty cute subject though!
Took a few night photos but hard to find the angle I'm looking for.
We are very lucky with Master G as he is a brilliant traveller! Goes to sleep as soon as we head off which made the trip to Collinsville a breeze although still long, having to stop for feeds all the time.
Poppy and Nanna caught up to us on the way home and we had a few laughs while G ate some rump steak at the servo.
Back Home.
Was doing a photoshoot with Master G and dad thought he would join in!
Caught these three stoodgers keeping guard in the forestry.
Planning to do some wood turning with some old rosewood posts, but I'm needing to get organised.
In the kitchen.
Rum balls because I had left over condensed milk, and what else do you do with it?!?
My helper!
This merengue isn't bad mum!
Caramel slice!
Town trip for much needed groceries and plants for death row! Guess who's a big boy now and can sit up in the trolley...... and grab everything!!!
Cheif, my crawling incentive officer! G was quite determined that he was gonna get him!
Mint..... because it's better than chewing on leaves we find on the lawn.
Yum!
Food/ Play time!
Out and about.
Our first calves this year were unfortunately stillborn twins. This put a bit of a dampener on our spirits, but soon enough our other ladies began to calve out and these are our first babies of the year.
We tried to get a photo of G with this little 'planted' newborn, but mum pretty soon arrived and our efforts were thwarted.
Someone like to play with mums hat.
Cheeky monkey
In other news!
I left my twenties and became 30! I'm excited! I think the next 30 are going to be the best 30!
Birthday cuddles with my boy! Unfortunately my other boy was away working, but Grandma came for a visit to keep me company which was nice.
I inherited this ring for my 30th which used to be my grandma's as a gift from her favourite aunt, handed down to mum and now to me. It is extremely special and I'm so lucky to have it... not to mention gorgeous!
Birthday cake... or should I say pie! Pecan pie..... that was actually walnut pie! Yummo!
My offsiders having a paddock side dinner.
Mum posing for my portrait photography practise. Helps when you have such a gorgeous model!
Selfies in the front of the ute!
Was a bit squishy with bucket seats and a baby seat and me on the console!
Great help this one was while we fixed leaking pipes!
Nothing like a bit of orange with your smoko! Here's to the next 30 years.
It would seem that lately all I seem to get is cold tea. I must say, I've developed a bit of a taste for it. Not because I particularly enjoy cold tea but more because of what it represents in my life and every time I drink it I feel grateful. I'm grateful, because the reason that my tea has gone cold is because I'm too busy looking after my beautiful baby boy. The first thing I do in the morning after I breastfeed is make a cup of tea and sit down to express more milk for bub's farex. It just seems that for one reason or another I never seem to be able to finish that cup without it going cold. I am up and down like a yo-yo and it's not hard for me to do an average of 6,000 steps without even leaving the house once for the day. I'm not sure what I do all day and I have no idea what we did before we had a housewife (must have lived in a pig-sty with unfolded clothes, how terrible), but I do know that every minute I get to spend with that gorgeous little man is precious to me and every cup of cold tea is worth it.
There haven't been too many picturesque evenings this year which I think it partly because of the lack of cold weather.
This one is from on top of my the windmill.
Got some photos of the beast being quartered the other day. We normally do a paddock kill, but we thought we would try it this way this time. I should have taken the photos more often, but you get the idea.
This little gremlin has become a very messy eater! I have changed 3 sets of clothes today!
When I first saw these mesh, food eater things, I thought they were weird! But he absolutely loves it and I don't have to worry about him choking!
It's ok dad I'll be good for you!
My roses are flourishing at the moment.
I actually managed to grow this ranunculus
Trying to bribe people to come to the meeting for our local Rec Club, I made some fairy bread and sausage rolls...... The things you have to do!
Out and about.
Last week I decided I would try out a couple of new recipes, get a bit tired of the old ones. I made a ginger cake (behind) which was very nice, and I made a cardamom, rosewater cake with pistachios . The flavours were nice but it still need some perfecting I think.
Great Uncle Alan and Aunty Kaye bought Garrett this lovely book and shirt. They know him too well, the shirt matches his eyes and he is most certainly a very touchy feely boy, so he loves his book!
The other thing that has made me appreciate my cold tea lately; a friend of mine recently had a baby girl via caesarian. She had been unwell for the week prior to delivery and afterwards had been refusing antibiotics so that she would be able to breastfeed. A few days later she ended up in a very serious condition in ICU and the Drs had told her husband to prepare for the worst. She had influenza A and another nursing friend of mine who saw the chest Xray commented that they had not ever seen anything as bad......
I am so pleased to report that she is now in the recovery phase and although she still has a long road, we are all very relieved! I'm looking forward to having a cup of tea with her when she is out of hospital!
