I've been planning to update you all on our South West trip - but I just haven't quite got around to it yet! I've been putting some photos up on Picasa - just email me if you'd like a link.

Needless to say, we loved our trip and though I was pretty tired we stayed well and still got to see quite a few things! The weather in Margaret River, Pemberton, Walpole and Denmark was lovely but the second day in Albany it turned very overcast for Bremer Bay and Esperance. We managed to run into plenty of people we knew - even Phill's boss from Kal happened to be waiting at the tourist tram in Pemberton!

In February we had visitors from Perth - Natalie, Lauren and Caitlin, which was great fun. We took in a few of the sights - the Town Hall, Boulder Sweet Shop, the Superpit and of course the Hall of Fame with its underground tour and gold panning. We also got to enjoy a free concert by the Fab Four (Beatles Tribute Band) at Centennial Park 13-18 February 2009

In March we had Dad S up for a few days for work, so that was great to see him, though Phill had 2 days of shutdowns and a trip to Perth, so he didn't see too much of his dad, we did manage to catch up for dinner. Plus I enjoyed a couple of lunches at Bliss Cafe. I love the fact that we have such a great cafe just down the road. Literally 2mins drive!

Last Saturday night some friends from church all went to the last Sunset at the Soundshell Concert, it was a fun night, with lovely weather, great company and an awesome bring and share dinner.

The weather here is cooling down (27-30 most days) so Phill and I are going for a walk most evenings, sadly the hospital doesn't have enough interested mums to run their usual exercise classes at the moment, but I'm on the list, hopefully it will start soon. We've started antenatal classes and I managed to make it through the first one without fainting! Phill's finished making the change table, we've just got our basinet set up and I'm just itching to get everything set up. But as Phill says Pebble's not due for 11 more weeks so I'd better leave some stuff to do then!

At the moment Phill's away for work, but he's able to get a quick trip to Townsville in to see Grandad which is a great opportunity, as we probably won't make it to Queensland this year - strangely enough we have something else happening in June, when we usually go! :)

Studio Matters - Impressions of Heritage

 

I got blogged for my Wedding Day Layout at Studio Matters:

I created this layout with Impressions of Heritage using Wendyzine's Template, Flergs Alpha and Ziska's Mini Kit

Here's the larger version of the layout:

My grandparent's wedding day,
12 January 1946. They married at Prahran Methodist Church, Melbourne in Royal Australian Airforce and Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Forces uniform. Both served in Signals during World War 2

Franziska's Scrap-Blog: Vintage Flowers!

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Franziska's Scrap-Blog: Vintage Flowers!

Christmas 2008

As seems to be the tradition we were back Perth a couple of times in December, with Simon and Angela's wedding  on the 13th and Phill's 27th on the 14th. We were back again in time for Steve's birthday, and a lovely dinner of free fish and chips due to a mix up! It was also great to see Kath as she was in town.

After Christmas day morning at Mum and Dad Okely's with present opening and a roast lunch we spent the afternoon at Shanhun's - Les's Christmas pudding was too good to refuse so I had to have some of that too.

We headed up to the Turnbull's for Okely extended family Christmas BBQ which was fun too! It was great to have Angela and Simon there (the newlyweds!) and see all the Okely rellies.

My dear friend Sarah got engaged to her boyfriend A Spencer on Christmas day so I flew back for the Engagement party on New Years day. On my arrival on New Years Day I got picked up from the airport in style as Dan and Amberley just got their very cool new XR6 and got to celebrate the new year and Lauren's 18th

We had our 20 week ultrasound and everything seems to be going well with the baby (or Pebble as it is currently known). We are really looking forward to our holiday down south as Phill has had a really busy year. We will be taking the 'scenic' route home to Kal via Margaret River, Albany, Esperance and a few places in between.

Remembering our Christmas Traditions

 

I've been thinking about what made my Christmas special as a child:

• One new Christmas decoration Mum would buy each year
• Putting up the Christmas tree on December 1 while listening to the cricket on the radio/TV
• Putting up Christmas lights on the house
• Opening doors on the advent calendar (nope - no chocolate just a picture behind each door)
• Wrapping presents on Christmas Eve (to avoid any poking or prodding)
• Opening some little gifts from Father Christmas from our personal red felt stocking to keep us amused and leaving Mum and Dad to sleep peacefully!
• Mini cereal boxes for breakky on Christmas morning
• Waiting until after Church on Christmas day to unwrap the presents
• In later years, going to a Christmas eve service and coming home to a midnight snack of hot chips!
• Grandma's roasted stuffed sausagemeat
• Backyard cricket on Christmas day
• Catching up with the family
• Watching the Boxing Day test (OK did I mention we are a cricket loving family?)

More Double Jeopardy

I just could not resist telling you all about Set 2 of Double Jeopardy. This one is Christmas themed - Double Jeopardy: Holiday Edition. It included seven Christmas 24?x12? papers, to make seamless double page LOs. I just can't wait to put them to use.

To give you an idea of how wonderful these 24�12? papers are, here's a Christmas page I created last week using Double Jeopardy: Bright Basic Solids and Prestige & Holiday Prestige Bundle.

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