Olivia's 10th Birthday

Melinda & Michaels Wedding

On the seventh day of the seventh month, of the year 2007 Melinda and Michael were married. It was a beautiful ceremony held in St Johns church, Geraldton. Being a July wedding the weather was possibly going to be a worry, but with 07,07,07 considered to be a very lucky day it seemed almost fate that the weather was immaculately perfect, no wind, and not at all cold. The day was magic.

The bride to be, being a master event planner, had thought of everything and had created many gorgeous details, from bowls of pink marshmellow hearts and pink and brown M&M's, pearl earring gifts to fireworks on the night, nothing was too much for this event!! However, being told that you're to do a speech moments before the bride arrives, does make one wonder about some of the planning for the bigger details!!!! (thanks Mel!)

The venue was spectacular, giving visitors to Geraldton a view of the beautiful beaches and sunsets from the balcony of the brand new surf club, the food was great, the MC, Lou, was the best - with his hysterical poems about the happy couple, there was lots of dancing, quite a few games, speeches and fun - and after the speeches the lucky bride was told, as were we all, where her secret honeymoon destination would be - Vietnam.

It was the perfect wedding that any girl would dream of... We wish much happiness to you both!

pre & post wedding fun

Mel's Gero Hens Night

How long have we all waited to get our revenge on this "queen of cringe" the "instigator of shame"

... too long

and I am not sure we're all quite finished yet..

Check out my Slide Show!

Just testing this to see how it works.....

Oscar loves Dandaragan!

this little pooch was so excited when he knew we were pulling into Dandaragan, .. his home away from home!
As Margie's garden is so great to hunt bugs in, and chase birdies and generally have fun free reign!
Freedom that includes, flying across the golf course, or up the street to say Hi to the all the neighborhood dogs, peeing* on the big Alsation's fence... the fence that keeps the Alsation from eating Oscar....
(*kinda like going "Nyah Nyah Na Na Na!!" in dog language)
Yes Oscar likes to live on the wild side..... however posing with pretty rose bushes is not really high on his list of priorities - so consequently he doesn't look so pleased with me.... BUT HE LOOKS SOOOOO CUTE AND ADORABLE

I might send a copy to the Alsation down the street.

Mothers Day weekend at Dandaragan

We headed south to the farm this weekend to spend Mothers Day with Margie. We joined Helen, Dene and Jordan - all of us staying with Margie & Hazza.
Colleen, Johnno and the girls, Emily and Amber came for tea on Saturday night
Early Mothers Day morning while Margie and Hazza went to church - the boys organised a "Berrington" Breakfast (pancakes on the BBQ) After a little refinement of the recipe (by Hel's) they did very well and were very tasty
afterwards we went out to the farm and had Emily and Amber drive us around

we fed the cows

and looked at the sheep

and at the fig tree!!

Margie said she was very happy to have all her chicks around her for Mother's Day - and it really was a lovely weekend!

:)

Oh! While we were there we finally cut the top tier of our wedding cake!!

nearly a year gone by...

Next Tuesday (24 April)

we will celebrate our very first

Wedding Anniversary.

awww happy days..

Easter Campin'

We went camping over the Easter Break - we headed up to a prime camping spot at Buller River, 10 mins north of Geraldton on the beach.

Although we went with Neil and Sarah, folks come and went over the whole weekend, it was great, Cathe and the boys stayed one night, as did Mark-o, who entertained us brilliantly with his guitar and singing around the fire. kevin the "jet motorcyle man with the funky hair" came for a visit on his new bike. Pete Ange Kyle and CHanelle came out for a couple of hours and to test their new Prado....

(I hid Jake and Levi's Easter Eggs... unfortunately they were too easy

for them to find so I missed out... doh! )

Of course no camping trip would be quite right without some attempt at Fishing, and although we were not overly inundated with fish, the boys did catch a couple. Including this spectacular sunset display! (The best catch by far)

Mark-o again entertained us (and the rest of the beach) when he and Dave managed to construct a long tow rope off the back of Neil's 4 wheeler and risking Neils board to 'skurf' along the beach. I think he managed to do this once or twice successfully and this is when I got my photo! (note the dog Dozer in the background frantically trying to keep up with his master!)

happy birthday chanelle

Happy Birthday Little Miss!

Little miss Chanelle celebrated her very first birthday

she did it in style cutting her own cake

(the knife was bigger than her)

and then helping herself to the best bits of her cake!

Summer & Daniels Wedding

Today Dave and I drove to Dongara to attend my friend Summers wedding to Daniel. The day was perfect, lovely backdrop and, of course, she looked stunning.

We were spoiled when it came to eating - the fabulous food just kept coming!! Even when the time came to leave, we kept delaying our departure, just to see what was coming on the next platter... even though we thought we were full, I know I still managed to make room for "just one more merengue"

look at this fantastic cake!!

GRADUATION NIGHT!!

Dave and the rest of his class (Neil & Suzanna) had their Graduation ceremony last night!

It was one of the shortest Award nights I've ever known, and for that I am extremely grateful! Dave did incredibly well (as I knew he would) and recieved an "Outstanding Acheievment Award" for his class.

Julie-Anne & Stuarts Engagement Party

We went to Perth just recently to celebrate my Cousins engagement. Whilst being incredibly warm, it was a great afternoon.

Dave and I haven't seen most of our Rellies since our wedding nearly a year ago. It was great to catch up with all my Aunties and Uncles and cousins.

We also really enjoyed staying with Ian and Tracy and the kids, We all had a nice sunday lunch at the Deep water Point Cafe.

ben n dave peruse the menu.

Young Caleb had acheived an amazing one kilometre swim earlier that day at the pool. We were really impressed with that massive effort! Well Done Caleb!

Summers Hens Night

My friend from work, Summer, had her Hens night recently. It was an Op Shop cocktail party... I took a few shots before the night took a turn for the messy!


How gorgeous does Jaquie look in her "frock?"


Savannah, Summer and Jacquie (the girls or Sister/Bridesmaid, Bride and Mother of the Bride)

Rae n Bec

Tracey showin em how!!

(how we cheated and won this game!!)

good times.

My Birthday Lunch!

Its a while ago now - but I had such a lovely birthday lunch I had to show you what a gorgeous day it was!

I went with Cathe

who had the most yummiest looking dessert,

and of course my birthday wouldn't be complete without Davie!!!

Trish and Anya looked after us brilliantly as always.

It was a wonderful day = I love birthdays!

Guess what I got for my Birthday!

Yes I got a new car!!