Saying Sorry

Saying Sorry - Cute Animation

Cool Turtle

Cool Turtle

jurrasic fart!!

jurrasic fart!!

Hippo Thong Song

Hippo Thong Song

My Sister - The fully sic waker chic!

I'm so proud of Courtney because she's found a hobby that both she and Adam love and they are both so passionate about improving their skills. Wakeboarding is not predominately a girly sport because it's physically hard and hurts like hell when you cop a gutser. The above photos were taken when Court was visiting us for Izzy's birth and as you can see she's working on perfecting 'jumping the wake'.

HMAS Ballarat

This is going to be Alex's home for the next five months at least - which I wasn't happy about at first because when we got posted down to NSW from the NT it was suppose to be a shore posting and that fitted in great with the little miss just being born!! But what can you do when you've got an able bodied sailor sitting around doing an office job and the Navy needs them at sea. With any luck Alex will get to see some countries that he's never been to before and when he's there hopefully he'll remember his two lovely ladies at home who love pressies!

One Full Couch!!

Just before Isabella was born my parents and sister came to visit. Being from North Queensland they all found the weather to be quite crisp. This would have to be one of the better photos captured during their stay. From left to right we have: Turbo the Terrific, Mallee, Poppi, Honey, Tazmin the Wonder Dog and underneath them all my sister Courtney - who says you need an electric blanket in NSW during winter!!

Wedding of the Year.

Now this news is a bit old considering my sister has now been married for nearly a 1 1/2 years but I couldn't have a blog and not put on there about how great her wedding was. The day was perfect, the location (Hamilton Island) was gorgeous, the bride looked beautiful (but what bride doesn't on her day) and the groom looked thankful that all of this would soon be over (Just kidding Adam in case you ever read this!). Isn't it funny that whenever someone is getting married it just makes you want to smile. While we were cruising the island looking for suitable photo locations they were even accosted by some tourists who wanted a holiday snapshot with the bride - bit weird if you ask me! I will tell you one thing though - Weddings are big business on Hamilton, I think there was no fewer than 5 weddings on the weekend my sister got married and I'm being conservative with my guesstimate.

Leaving the Territory

Alex was so happy when his posting to leave Darwin came through - not that we have anything against that lovely part of the country. For him it was being posted to boats that were constantly breaking down on top of a new rotating crew routine (The weather wasn't all that peachy either). So on the drive down we just had to stop on the QLD/NT border so Alex could do the 'Toyota - Oh what a Feeling' jump to show just how happy he was!!

Welcome to our world!!

On the 3rd of March 2008 @ 12:29pm we welcomed Isabella Grace to the world, and boy was I glad that she was finally here!! At week 28 I found out I had developed gestational diabetes and had to go on a modified diet by week 32 my fasting blood sugar levels were deemed to be too high so I had to start injecting myself with insulin every night - not a very nice thing to have to do to oneself. By week 38 I had developed high blood pressure and while she was in the right position she was not moving down, so I had to start having CTG's every couple of days. I was then admitted to hospital because of all of the above and she still decided she wasn't ready to come. In hospital I was so bored and basically laid around and did nothing so my blood pressure went down and they released me but this only lasted until my due date when my blood pressure went back up and I was therefore instructed to go back to hospital - with the little miss still happily camped in my womb!! Hearing the screams and moans of agony coming from the labour ward across the hall was doing my imaginations no favours in what I was about to experience! The constant reminders to oneself that billions of women have done this and lived to tell the tale so you can get through this were not helping. Finally on the 2nd - God (my obstetrician's nickname - as deemed by one of the midwives.) decided that I could be induced, but after three applications of the hormone they use to induce labour and 12 hours I was still not progressing and the little miss started to crack a tanty so off for an emergency C-Section went I and the rest is as they say history. Weighing 8lbs 8oz she was a good size a not affected by the diabetes much to every one's relief. My next surprise came when it came time to start feeding - no one tells you how hard it can be or much it can hurt! Over the next few weeks we had many trials and tribulations - all of them coming back to one little misses determination not to have to do any work for her food. For any new mum who has sat up at 3am with a breast pump clonking away - I feel your pain! Needless to say the easiest path for all involved was to put her on formula which she happily accepted and guzzled down at every feed like there was going to be no tomorrow. I found out later that Gestational Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and C-Section all contribute to slowing down milk production so with all three occurring to me it's a wonder my boobs didn't just pack in the towel and say see ya later sucker! For our first child though I'd have to say things went pretty well and in a couple of years after a few too many drinks we may stumble blindly down this path again.......