My amazingly talented Aunty Lynn sent us this beautiful painting for Christmas.
It’s a picture of Ella and me entitled “Paddling With Daddy”
I thought I’d show it off here. It is now proudly hanging on our living room wall. You can see a few more of her paintings here including the full size picture version of Paddling With Daddy.
Thanks again Lynn, it was the best present ever.
Boxing Day at the Mcauleys
We’ve been having a lovely Christmas, mostly taking it easy with our newest family member.
Great to have Mum and Carlton here, as its making everything a lot easier while we get used to being a four member family.
We dropped in at the Mcauleys earlier this afternoon. They got the Nintendo Wii and the game Rockband for Christmas, so we all had a bit of a laugh pretending to be rock stars. It was a lot of fun.
New pictures up on flickr of Mums visit so far.
Hello All, Val here,
My first post on this site. Just to let everyone know I am now the proud owner of a ‘Permanent Residency Visa’, at long last….. It was a pain in the butt to get organised, especially as we were simultaneously moving house but it was all worth it now and a big thanks to everyone who helped me with the paper work.
We are looking forward to Christmas, celebrating it with Granny and Grandpa Henry and Brissy friends. And I think Simon is getting more excited than the girls about Santa coming and the Christmas morning opening of presents.
We wish you all a very safe and happy Christmas.
After much name debating, we would like to introduce the world to:
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
Big thanks to everyone for the texts, comments, emails and phone calls.
It all went well, just took a while as Ella did.
Just had 3 hours sleep. Now I’m off to pick Ella up and go back to the hospital. Very excited to introduce Ella to her new sister.
Should have some more pictures of all that later.
oh, and as you can see I’ve made some changes to the website, and having a few problems with the format of the page (one post running into the next. Hope to get it fixed in the next few day.
Update – Site now fixed.
