Doom Island

"Let's go on a family drive!"

"YES, lets..."

We agreed that while all the family were down that it would be nice to go on a family drive. So somehow it was decided that we would go to Brunie Island to spend the day and for Pud to have a go at surfing! La de daaaaaa, how fun crossing over on the ferry...

How fun looking at the nice sights...

How fun posing for the camera...

But then... driving, driving, driving to find some waves...

We get to Cloudy Bay to find...

Nick was hopeful and thought the storm would pass...

But WRONG! It hit and Minol went surfing anyway. Poor Pud got her wetsuit on, took the board out but didn't get to the water! I stayed in the car the whole time (I got a baby to look after!) Everyone else went to find somewhere to eat lunch but ended up back in the cars soon after when the rain started!

It was about this time when Anker renamed Brunie Island to Doom Island as we sat in the car waiting for the rain to ease and Minol to return from his crazy surf. We were joking about being stuck on the island like in the horror movies!

But alas, the storm cleared up a bit and we carried on, looking for somewhere to have our picnic lunch. We found a nice camping ground which led to a nice beach where the kids could explore. And pretty much that was our day. Happy Australia Day.

Family

Estella was blessed on Sunday 24th of January which was very special as we had all the family down from Brisbane! Grandpa Fuglsang performed her blessing with the three Uncles... Uncle Ankie, Uncle Mick and Uncle Nick along with Bishop Docking. We also had extended family and lovely friends to enjoy the day with! Bink and Mum did a super job preparing afternoon tea and Chels took some pics to remember the day!

TADAAAAA!

So here she is... check out her hair!! Just a few iphone pics... no doubt more to come. Supposedly she looks like Minol when he was a baby. She certainly gets her hair from him. And also like his mum. We'll see how she pans out! Just love this little girl!!

Little Stella

Photos to come of Estella Ruby Tavares Tutida... born YESTERDAY! Only a week early, lucky me!

just a few Christmas pics...

This was Minol's first Christmas in Aussie (last year we were in Brazil) so it was fun getting ready for Christmas even though Minol isn't quite with it on the whole Christmas thing yet. But what he is with is- BATMAN! It was so nice to have some good friends give him a pressie which turned out to be awesome and his favourite present from Christmas (Big Minol and I didn't get him anything to top that!!)

This is Minol with his little friend Brock!

Minol didn't care about Santa, just the lollies.

randoms

when daddy changes a pooey nappy


when daddy brings home a new dog (or two)

when daddy takes us to the beach hoping for a surf but there are no waves

This is your skinny photo Nick

this one photo...

Ok, so I discovered this ONE photo of Binky from our trip, taken on the phone so not a great one, but nevertheless it is indeedy a snap of the skinny Binky!! (Like I said, not a great photo). So looking forward to some Birthday pics from ya Bink! Seeing as Bink has just had a birthday I must say LOVE YOU BINK!

Fun in Queensland

We had a lovely week in Queensland, shame to come home to all the rain and COLDNESS! It was great to spend time with the family and also to have a couple of days on the Gold Coast. Minol had fun playing/competing with Ollie! Big Minol had fun trying out his new surfboard. And I had fun hanging with my gorgeous sisters and bro (and bro in-law who found some great knots in my back, thanks Nick!!!)

Undie boy

One little boy is very good at copying. He really wanted to wear a pair of daddy's undies but unfortunately they didn't QUITE fit! So Minol bought him some little boy undies which he was happy to pose in (and wear over the top of his nappy of course)!

Blooming

I can't remember if it was blooming or blossoming, it was one of the two... Anyway, someone commented that I was "blooming" which makes me chuckle to myself. It makes me feel like a flower and not a big heffa which is SO how I feel right now. Slower to do everything, big belly always in the way, SO tired! I guess it does make a good head rest for little Minol. Is 2 and a bit months to go too early to start the count down?!

Ok, so I've got months of catching up to do... I'm sure one day I'll get round to doing it but for now I'll start with a few pics. Firstly my sweet boy picking me weeds (he went on to picking leaves, lucky me)!

Then here is the little poser. I'll have to put up more of his "posing" photos. As soon as the camera is out he puts on his charming smile (as you can see in the next pics).



Because I did some work during the last week of October I wasn't able to make it to the playgroup halloween party which was such a bum for me. I LOVE halloween parties! So I hooked Minol up with Grandma to take him along. I would have dressed him up as Batman (as you can see on the tv in the background), he has been though a bit of a "phase" and every morning for about a month he would wake up and want to play batman. "MA-MAN, MA-MAN" is all I would hear, nevertheless we decided for the quick and easy alternative of a cowboy. I heard great reviews about the party which made me even more bummed that I missed it!