1 more sleep!!!

Can you believe its tomorrow!! I just can't wait! The wedding of the century! I am so excited to see what Kate is wearing. She will look amazing I am sure.
We are going to my parents house and my sisters and mum will be watching it - I think I am going to wear my wedding dress! Or maybe just a wedding outfit - I know I know I am nuts but I am so excited. I remember watching Williams parents get married when I was 7!!
Yay!!
One more sleep.
Will you be watching?????

Oh how I love to laugh!!

And this sure makes me laugh!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone from our family to yours!

The Easter bunny came to our house!

Tuesdays around the world

Today we had Amalie's immunisations! I know - we were late with them - only by 7 months!!! Can I tell you - it was not fun!! Oliver took the photos as a distraction but I dont think it really mattered. She did do really well. One in her arm and one in her leg. The arm one really hurt and it felt terrible to feel her stiffen up when the needle went in. she was very brave and we then went to the bakery for cakes and Ice slushy!!
Hope your Tuesday was a bit brighter than ours!
come on over and see what my friends all over the world are doing.....

Today on this wet wet Saturday

Amalie decided she would test out some poses for New Zealands next top model 2023!!
Oliver went to rugby with Greg and I got a text about 20 mins later saying his tooth was out. He fell and it got knocked out! thankfully it was already wiggly and I can see the new one coming!


What did you get up to today???

Take more photos!!!

I read today on a friends facebook page to "take more photos". Her sweet little Cait passed away http://thecrazynessthatisme.blogspot.com/2010/12/cait.html and she said that the pnly family photo they have is with her in a coffin. I was so sad to read this. So often I am the one taking the photos so a) I am never in them and b) we are never all in the same photo. So today I took a photo of Amalie and I (excuse my hair - I was actually thinking it was looking awesome when I took the photo!!!) I wish I knew how to strech out the background as i think it would look better more to the side than it is!
So I also took the photo for another reason. Amalie is getting very chatty about adoption. She knows she was not in my tummy but in Erin's but I don't think she "gets" the whole concept. I had made a simple book for Oliver with photo pages saying things like "Here is Mummy" "Here is Sarah. She is my birth mother-mum" etc so I plan to make Amalie one tomorrow.
School holidays start tomorrow. Oh my house will be trashed!

Not at all the result we were after....

So those that have been following my blog know that while we were in Rartonga we learnt of a friends murder. http://thecrazynessthatisme.blogspot.com/2010/07/holiday-wedding-and-funeral.html
It was terrible and it has continued to be in the media with family pleading for the person to come forward.

On Friday they arrested someone and charged them with the murder of Scott. Great news right??
Wrong.....
This person they are charging is Scott's brother in law.
His sisters husband.
This is not the result anyone even dreamt up in their wildest imagination.
It is surreal.

Black and White Wednesday

Before i was a mom

Author: Unknown

Before I was a Mom I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom - I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.

I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.

I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put them down.

I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom - I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.


(first feed with Oliver - 7 hours old!)


I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom - I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
Nicole Kidman
Adoptive parent

Before and After

So I had some people (well one person) ask how I edited this photo of Amiee. So I thought I could be super fancy and do a before and after series!
So here is the EXIF data (Exchangeable image file format)
Before:
Canon 450D
50mm
1/800
f/2.8
ISO: 200
Mode: AV

Edit:
Porcelain Retouch @ 44% found here: http://prophotoshow.net/seim_effects/2009/11/14/hollywood-effects2-free-actions/
Define and Sharpen 70%
Quick Edge Burn 30%
Sponge tool on saturate at 11% on her hair

So there you have it. Pretty easy really and not much of a difference but just made it Perk up a bit!!

Dad - two Stents later

And he feels amazing already

Note: He is not doing the "peace" sign he is telling us he got 2 stents!!