1. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL:
This was my youngest's first day of Big School. He was so very excited to be there! I enjoyed the idea of not having to race around for the preschool pick up/drop off... He had the perfect teacher for his personality. One I'd preferred not to have for the girls. Surprisingly - I wasn't sad about my "baby" going to school. We always take a photo on the first day of school. Until 2007 it was always taken out the front. We changed it in 2008.2. TURNER:
Turner was actually my middle dd's Christmas Present for 2006. It was all she wanted! Ordinarily we wouldn't give a pet as a present, but she really didn't know what else to ask for. We organised him through a friend and arranged to pick him up after we returned from holidays in January 2007. We wrapped a picture of him to give on Christmas Day. This photo is from the day we picked him up. He has made himself a big part of our family. He loves to go out of the yard, especially running around the oval, exploring the drain. He attended "Puppy Pre-school" early in the piece and we plan to take him to dog obedience school in 2008.3. NEW CAMERA:
I bought my first digital camera in Camberra, a 2MP mini camera just to try out. To see what I liked, didn't like and/or needed in a Digital Camera. After some playing around I bought a real one from Harvey Norman...a 7mp HP camera that I loved. I replaced it a few times, but one day at netball it was dropped by somebody and the screen broke. It was time for a new camera :( I used hubby's Olympus for a while, but really didn't like it. The flash was too bright and the images were very "digital". I bought my new camera at K-mart, on Sale. It's a Fuji, FinePix S5700. I love it. I love that it takes two different types of Memory Cards. The zoom is awesome and so is the shallow depth photography on Auto. The only thing I would say I don't like, is that sometimes inside pics are a bit grainy. I took this pic of our elder dd when I first got the camera. I was just playing around with the settings :) But as I don't have a picture of the camera, I thought I'd post our dd instead!! My camera has inspired my sister and mother to buy new cameras. They both bought different versions of the same camera.4. TENNIS:
Tennis is another big part of our family life. My dh and I met at a friend's house and began playing tennis together before we became more than just friends! We have played tennis on and off through the years. All three children have had some tennis coaching. Our elder dd is hooked. She has coaching 2-3 times a week as well as playing in a regular competition, School Sport comp and tournaments. She had an awesome year, winning tournaments left, right and centre. She even won her age group in a tournament interstate! She has had a few different coaches, but Craig is her favourite. They've had a few "ups and downs" but she's so much happier about her tennis when he's coaching. Thankfully he has agreed to fit her into his already busy schedule for 2008!5. CLIMBING MOUNT GILLEN
Mount Gillen is beautiful. We can see it from our front door (see pic at the top of my blog page) and have often climbed it. Hubby more than me! In fact he used it as training for his trip to Kokoda in 2006. On July 10, 2007 we climbed with the kids. It was fun to do it with them and they did it fairly easily - in fact our younger dd ran quite a lot of it!! Coming down was harder than going up - it's very steep and there's a lot of loose rock, but the view makes it all worthwhile :)6. TENNIS TASMANIA
This was my first year as a Manager for the School Sport NT Tennis Exchange Team. The bonus was going to Tasmania. We flew from here to Melbourne, where we spent the night before our train on the next day. Our train on consisted of taking a train then walking to the Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne park, where the kids trained on the practise courts! It was a great experience for them. After a cold wet day and a couple of tram trips we made our way to the Spirit Of Tasmania for our overnight trip to Tassie. A few of us (including me) didn't cope too well with the sea travel. Thankfully we had beds to sleep in for the night. We spent the week in Burnie, with games being played at Burnie and Devenport courts. Our tennis team had the best Result for an NT Tennis Exchange team to date!7. CHRISTMAS
Christmas day was rushed, as usual, but very enjoyable. We visited my mum and sd before breakfast then had breakfast with my sister and her family at our house. I was able to use the self timer on my camera to take this photo, meaning I could be in it too! We rushed around to book into our cabin at the McDonnell Range caravan park, before heading out to lunch at the Barra on Todd restaurant. We wanted to stay at the restaurant but would have had too book two rooms, so we took the cabin at the caravan park instead. After a large lunch and a few drinks we headed back to our room for the night. The kids did some exploring and found a big air pillow for us all to play on. After a VERY cold swim we played on the pillow until it got dark. After spending some time in the games room we returned to the cabin for a dinner of cheeses and dips and biscuits. This year I think we'll do dinner at the restaurant, instead of lunch, so that it's not such a rush. PlayStation 2 and Mel's DS Lite were the presents of the year!
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