FAMILY

~Week 9~

 

Family

 


 Here is mine!

 

Here is a duck family at Emily bay.

And here are some family photo shoots I have done on the island.

 

Happy Mothers day 2013

Here is my Mothers day collage.
I laughed so hard at everything today which I needed to, there were many funny family moments.
The kids artwork on my cards was fantastic. The presents were my favourite kind, handmade from the heart. It was the first time Jasper really joined in and made things at his (& my) preschool.
The night before I was ordered to stay in bed in the morning, of course I was up 2 hours before anyone else, so made a sneaky cup of tea before going back to bed to wait.
I got fresh scrambled eggs for breakfast in bed plus a handful of parsley and a hibiscus picked fresh from the garden and plonked on my lap. For the first time in 10 years, I had a dog to cuddle in bed.
Such a blessing to be surrounded by my beautiful children wanting to spoil me.

We forwent lunch at a restaurant as I preferred a picnic any where on scenic Norfolk Island, we chose Cockpit waterfall as we had to deliver some new pet chickens to the preschool just up the hill.
Again many more laughs especially when the kids had a running race and they kept bettering each others time trial by one second so kept on going to try and beat each others record. In the end Ted stripped down to his undies on this cool autumn day to try and get the fastest time. His little sister still beat him by one second.
My loving husband proudly informed me prior to leaving that he had packed the whole picnic with no help from anyone else. I though at the time 'that's nice' instead of alarm bells ringing to check the baskets.
So we enjoyed one of those special men packed picnic lunches that consisted of Coffee but no milk (forgotten), cheese with no crackers (forgotten) Oranges and avocados that we couldn't open without a knife (Forgotten!)
But even with my black coffee that I could hardly drink and my funny lunch, I still had my favourite people to keep me company. My little family.

Friday Favourite ~ Family L♥ve

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Baby Photos

There are several reasons for this post

1. Jasper has entered the Bonds baby search and I wanted to show these cute photos that I took of the children, inspired by Mila's daydreams creator Adele Enersen.

2. Everyone has their opinion about who Jasper does and doesn't look like, so like I did on this blog when he was six months old, I will give you a few 1 year old photos to compare the children to, then you can make up your own mind if he is just like his brother and sister or himself.

Teddy at 1 year old

Sienna at 1 year old                        Photos coming soon.

Jasper at 1 year old

 

3. I posted this photo of me as a young girl posing while singing into a skipping rope, this was the photo that I really felt that she could have been my twin in both looks and personality traits, performing at every chance is in the blood.


Me aged 5



my daughter Sienna aged 5


 

Vote for Jasper in the bonds baby search here
*voting closes on the 17th of March 2011

I could have entered other better photos of him in his bonds suits, but liked the quirkyness of his Koala shot as it was 'different'.

Here are some photos of baby Jasper that could be his baby model shots, he is such a naturally smiley baby with such a nice happy personality, very easy to photograph (even if I wasn't his mother☺).

Welcome, here we are.

We all have to start somewhere, and here it is.
I want to add lots of photos for you all to see why we are here in the beautiful Norfolk Island.
We are Cristina and Brandt and together with our two children, Teddy 3 and a half and Sienna Rose 18 months, we made the move here from our house near Noosa in Queensland.
Together we are the live in managers of a accomodation complex called Fletcher Christian apartments. It is a beautiful place, we are very lucky to live on 6 acres of lush, sub tropical gardens and fruit trees, right in the centre of town.
We are a very social couple, so are the children, we love having guests stay here, and when they move on at the end of their holidays, we get another set of new friends move in.

After bouncing around a few names for this blog, everything Brandt suggested had the word Brandt in it, so when finally he suggested Heaven on Earth, I jumped at it, not only because it was the only suggestion without his name in it, also because that is how we feel about this place.
We feel extremely lucky for the opportunity to be here.
We miss our family and friends, but we will certainly have no regrets when it is our time to leave.
We hope through this medium, we can keep a record for all our dear family and friends to keep track of what we are up to.

For those that know us, they know that we live life without wasting a moment.
We hope to post some more photos soon, watch this space!


In the meantime, have a look at these links.
http://www.fletcherchristian.nf/

http://devonhouse.blogspot.com/

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