Isaac's First Year at School

I was more than thrilled when Isaac arrived home in his last week of school with his folio, which included a CD of more than 300 photos that his teacher had taken over the whole year!

Loving photos as much as I do, it was the best thing ever!
I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye looking at them.
I can't believe the year went so quickly.

Here are some of them in a slideshow...

2009 In Photographs

I've been reading blogs, tweets and Facebook status updates about the year that has almost come to a close.  I was thinking ours was pretty uneventful...nothing much stood out, no family births, deaths or marriages.  Then I thought I might let my photos from this year do the talking for me...and it seems we did do a bit in 2009...

JANUARY

Rob took Isaac for his first bushwalk.

FEBRUARY

We went on our first date in years on Valentine's Day.

We went to the beach, Ava's first time.

We visited the Evanses holidaying at the Sunshine Coast.

MARCH

We visited the farm.

APRIL

The Easter bunny visited.

We went to the beach...again...and Ava thought she could ride Isaac's bike.

MAY

We visited Australia Zoo for Mother's Day.

JUNE

Rob, John, Michael, Nat & Dave attempted a climb at the Main Range

I had a college girls' overnighter at Caloundra with Melina, Joanna, Jane, Katrina, Bronwyn, Nicole & Toni.

JULY

Rob walked to the Kondalilla Falls with Elaine, Zoe, Mark, Beth & Carolyn.

AUGUST

We had a play at Kenilworth...

...and then went for a walk to the top of Kondalilla Falls.

SEPTEMBER

Ava turned 2.

Isaac turned 5.

We went to Sea World.

We had a joint birthday party for Louella, Ava & Isaac at the farm with the cousins.

A dust storm rolled into town.

And we had our trees lopped!

OCTOBER

I attempted to climb Mt Cooroora.

We went whale watching.

NOVEMBER

'The Police' came to visit Isaac's kindy.

DECEMBER

We put up the Christmas tree.

We went to Carols by Candlelight.

We visited Mum & Dad's new unit at Coolangatta.

We went to Geoff & Annette's wedding.

We woke to Christmas morning at home...

...spent Christmas Day at Caloundra...

...spent Christmas night at the Crown Plaza...

...and Boxing Day at the farm...

See?  We did do quite a bit, 2009 was a good year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!