Hindmarsh Island holiday pictures

We all had a great family holiday! we came home yesterday well rested.

The house we stayed in was really nice and quiet, there was a forest behind us and a vacant block of land next to us so we were pretty secluded, thats Bethany climbing on the rocks there with Ella on Marks shoulders in the background.

We quickly realised we had very frequent visitors which we fed at their demand! there were a couple of magpies and 3 ducks that stayed around until they were fed! the kids loved that especially Bethany! thats Ella and Bethany feeding the ducks, I took that picture on the last morning we were there, it wasnt even 7am yet and those ducks kept quaking and walking around the outside of the house so me being the mother duck I am I got up and we fed them!

We visited Urrimbirra wildlife park, I think that was the highlight of our holiday! we had a great time there with the kids plus there were only a few other people visiting! thats Jake with a couple of emus behind him.

Bethany loved feeding the Kangaroos, apart from this Kangaroo who was a bit impatient with Bethanys hand feeding, so he grabbed the Kangaroo food bag from her and tried to feed himself - there were quite a few tears from Bethany then! We saw crocodiles, snakes, Koalas - heaps of wildlife animals!

Here is Ella, Mark took this as we were leaving the park, we think she didnt want to walk through the bird cage again!

We didnt do too much else, took a couple of drives but we mainly just relaxed, which is what should happen on a holiday!!

another month gone...

sorry about that! these days just seem to fly by!

A few weeks ago we celebrated baby Ellas 2nd birthday! and boy is she a feisty little thing! thats her in the first layout here titled adorable, she looks like a sweet little toddler but really shes a little miss bossy! I have given myself a little break for a few weeks by not taking her to the shops anymore - she really is a handful! she is starting to be rather unkind to her big sister at times and I have to deal with Bethany complaining about Ella hitting or pushing her around, so I am hoping she will grow out of this! she must get this attitude from her father as anyone who knows me knows just what a placid girl I am!

Next layout is another one of Ella titled 'Lifes a beach' this is one I did for Pencillines, in the school holidays I took the kids to the beach for a bit, we only live a few minutes away from there but we hardly ever visit the beach, so one nice afternoon I took them for a bit of a play.

next one 'Hes my funny dude' is of Jacob and I, I did this for another sketch site but I never got around to posting it in.

'she doesnt get that frown from me' is of Ella and myself, she has a real big frown in this photo, I know my Mum would say that she definately has my frown but I think its another thing she got from her Father!

Last up is an old photo of Bethany 'shes a day dreamer', I did some hand stencilling on this one.

Well thats a handful of layouts, I do seem to be getting my mojo back again, I just need some fresh photos and everyone seems to be less willing to be photographed! we are going on a family holiday on Monday for a few days to Hindmarsh Island, down by Victor Harbour, which we are really looking forward to, then in another few weeks I will be in Queensland on the Scrap of Faith retreat, which I am really looking forward to aswell!