Roadtripping

Yesterday we welcomed a new family member to our home.
He (I think he is a boy) is six years old, and has taken up residence in my driveway, He is a huge unit, drinks like a fish, is very powerful, and is a ginger to boot.

It's Christmas, it's Christmas Time!

In eight minutes it will be Christmas Eve. I am awake because I am cooking a whole heap of things for Christmas Day because we are hosting Christmas at our house. I am cooking things and The Man is washing dishes.

So far I've made

My blog looks freaking awesome!

I've totally been neglecting Ninja Midgets. I am so ashamed. I haven't even visited in months! And I just came here and saw how freaking awesome my blog looks, and its completely out of date.
So sad!
But you know, life gets in the way a bit sometimes. Life and work, and little people. We are heading into birthday season - both little people's birthdays are within a month of each other, so expect a birthday post or two.
I've decided that as of October 1, I am back on the FatMumSlim Photo wagon. I will be up to date with photos by the end of October. I WILL BE UP TO DATE! *checks where she actually stopped* It seems that I need to go back to the beginning of June. So here is a list of what I need to take pictures of:

and this:

and of course this one:

and last but not least, the current month: 

As well as October's prompts which are yet to be revealed. Do-able? Maybe. Will I have a crack at it? You betcha.

I'm throwing down the gauntlet here and now - I will be up to date with my FMS photos by Friday 31st October.

Photo bomb - May 22 2014

May 21 - FREE

Photo bomb - May 15 2014

May 15 - FROM WHERE I WALK

This is the bottom of the hill at my work. I walk up here every time I get the train to work. They are doing some work in there and so I have to walk up towards the right instead of the left.

Photo bomb - April 15 2014

April 15 - I'M READING THIS 

Nothing. I was bad and didn't return my library books and I'm not allowed to borrow until I pay my fines.

Photo bomb - April 13 2014

April 13 - MORE PLEASE!

My new love is hot jam donuts. Yes they completely go against my healthy eating pledge from the beginning of the year.
I just found an empty box of them in the freezer.
More please!

Photo bomb - April 12 2014

April 12 - ON MY LEFT

I took this at H&M at Melbourne's GPO. I'd spent all day at work and my cold was getting worse and worse. I'd lined up to get into the shop and got lost before finding the kids clothes and bought Honey a parka and was trying to get out of the shop without losing the plot.
Then I saw this bag (and it WAS on my left where I was standing texting The Man, telling him what a bad idea it was to shop after work) and I laughed, took a photo and continued trying to escape the shops.

Photobomb - March 28 2014

March 28 - NOSTALGIA

Once upon a time, Honey was a tiny little girl and was as sweet as sugar. Now she is almost a teenager (by her reckoning) and told me to 'shut off' today.
I sincerely hope that she meant 'shut up' and not something else...

Fully aware that I am behind on my photos

I know, I have not posted photos over the last few (THREE!) days.
It is a side-effect of my self-imposed challenge to only use my DSLR* to take photos.
It means I need to go and get my photos off the camera and the other day I just had a serious case of the CBFs, but tonight when I get home from work I'll get my photos off the camera and put them here and I'll be right back to where I need to be.
SO this week I have been to a little tiny town called Llanelly where my dad and brother were in a motorcycle rally. The Man and I crashed their Saturday night dinner and I've convinced my dad to take Buddy and Honey for a ride on one of his motorcycles. I went for my first motorbike ride when I was three months old and its time that they had a go.
And in other news, I am thinking about my 'challenge' for the month of April. What do you reckon I should do?
Opposites?
Songs that the prompts remind me of?
All in black and white?
Having a little Lego man in each of my photos?
I don't know...

*listen to me talking fancy about photos and such. A DSLR is a digital S... L... er... R camera.

Photo bomb - Feb 28 2014

February 28 - REFLECTION

Today was Red Balloon Day in Victoria (or Australia - not sure), a day to remember and pay tribute to the emergency services who volunteer their time to protect their communities during fire season.
I spent all day trying to think of a 'reflection' photo for the prompt, and finally just before it went dark I drove around Bendigo looking for a red balloon that had survived the day to take a picture of.
This was not my first balloon. I found one in town and took it home when I pulled into the driveway saw that it had duct tape on it, so tried to peel it off gently and it popped. So then I went out again and found this balloon tied to the fence at BUPA in Holdsworth Road.
Less a photographic technique, I used an app on my iPad to make the red really vivid.

New Year's Eve

Oh dear, 2012 flew by at warp speed didn't it?

This time a year ago I was walking around Alexandra Gardens with The Man and my brother, conducting an experiment (information about it can be found here and here on my other blog) to see how many boobs we saw out and about during the Melbourne NYE festivities.

Right about now (11pm) a year ago, we were walking to our ultra-exclusive vantage point to see the fireworks, and if I'm not wrong, I was eating a twisty potato on a stick and drinking fail lemonade. I have very particular preferences in lemonade, and so the fact that I was drinking the wrong kind on NYE stuck out in my memory.

We went to 9:30 fireworks in another town
because Bendigo didn't have kid-friendly
NYE activities and The Man stepped on

something and cut his foot.

Eeew. 

But wow, the year that came in between was pretty full on - we finished moving out of our unit and into our first house, Honey had surgery on her eyes (horrible, wouldn't wish anyone to have to send their kid for surgery), cooked Buddy, underwent an interminably long pregnancy waiting for him to be born (they added days ONTO the pregnancy - that is just plain rude), The Man turned 30, I helped organise a huge market night fundraiser that raised over $2000 (not tooting my own horn, just really happy that it raised so much funds), organised a wedding, gave birth to Buddy (and whoa ho! the story of his arrival waits for another day), The Man's brother and sister-in-law got married (which having a three week old and trying to organise two under two to be at the wedding, dressed without me looking like a swamp monster was an amazing feat), underwent a massive wedding dress drama, got married a month ago, and now... waiting for the next big thing to happen. I should have finished university too, but didn't. Looking back at my list of 2012 accomplishments, I am not sure how I could have fit completing my course into my busy schedule!

And that's just me, what other huge things happened in the big wide world: Gangnam Style. One Direction. an Austrian guy jumped out of a space shuttle and sky-dived back to earth. Queen Elizabeth's queendom turned 60 years old. The Twilight movies finished. Julian Assange is hiding out in a South American embassy. The Olympics where Usain Bolt won the 100m - again. Barack Obama is voted leader of the free world again (such a jauntier term than 'president') and almost ending with the loss of 27 innocent souls at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and the death of Tony Grieg (cricket celebrity of some importance) just days ago.

I'm not going to continue listing world events because that's boring, but good gravy that is a lot of stuff to pack into a year, and that is only stuff that I noticed in my pregnancy-induced haze of inattentiveness.

But really, all I want to say is that I hope everyone out there's 2013 is all they want it to be. Me, I am hoping that as we've packed so much into 2012, that my family's 2013 is quiet and relaxed and I spend more than my fair share of it chilled out with an interesting book and a glass of something bubbly (probably Coca-Cola given my current breastfeeding status).

And now because I have carefully scheduled Buddy's feeds, I am off to the backyard to hopefully watch midnight fireworks and drink moscato...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!