Archive for November, 2009

Meet gorgeous little Isaac, and his proud big brother Ben, and sister Holly. This little man was just such a delight, and I think he has me clucky again (although my hands are pretty full already). Once again I tried to narrow it down, but couldn’t. So here is a rather large sneak peek of this fun session.

Matt and Lisa, thanks so much for comming to see me again. Congrats on the arrival of your new and very gorgeous little man. I will have your gallery details for you very soon.

I can hardly believe Amelia is 10 months old now! Where oh where has the time gone. She’s doing really well, her heart medication is working beautifully (we have another checkup at Royal Childrens next week). She’s a cruisy happy little thing. Not much bothers her. She’s just started to ‘growl’ if someone takes something off her and it’s the funniest thing to hear this placid little baby explode with this primal growl LOL. It stops us all in our tracks. She’s rolling everywhere, comando crawling and almost sitting up without toppling over unexpectidly. After taking a loooooong time to warm to solids she’s finally loving them, but she has decided to give up on a bottle, which is a bit of a pain. She just wants to breastfeed, so being a working mum takes a little juggling, but I’m lucking I have a fabulous hubby who takes everything in his stride :) She has 5 teeth (3 top, 2 bottom) and she’s weighing in at 7.5kg. She’s just a little dot, but that’s to be expected after her early start to life. To sum it up, she’s doing wonderfully.

So some pics to celebrate Miss Millie’s 10mths – chasing banana around her highchair tray until she finally managed to grab those slippery little suckers and chomp them up. Yum yum.

My beautiful neices. Brett’s sisters bubbas. Hannah is Ethan’s bestest friend in the whole ‘massive’ world. Jessica is 3mths to the day, younger than Amelia (hehehee I said younger, not smaller!) I love that they are so close together in age. I’m sure they’ll grow up with such a special bond. xx

Sneak peek part two of Leoni and Grants wedding day.

Leoni and Grant married on 31st of October at Dromana Foreshore. Because of the date, they decided to go with a ‘touch of halloween’ theme for their special day. Although the weather predicted rain and thunderstorms, in true Melbourne style, we got the total opposite. The bright glary sunlight was a bit of a challenge, but we got through it and captured some beautiful shots of their ceremony.

So here is part one of their sneak peek:

Grant and Leoni congratulations!

Liam’s 8th birthday

November 16, 2009

Melbourne Cup day was more than just a horse race in our house. It was also Liam’s 8th birthday. EIGHT! Wow, I so clearly remember my own 8th birthday and here I am now celebrating my sons.

Each year the preparation starts early. The boys choose the theme of their party themselves, and this year Liam chose Monsters Vs Aliens. We finally found an oline party supply store that had Monsters Vs Aliens goodies in stock and sat together selecting what we needed and placing the order, followed by both Liam and Ethan stalking the letterbox for the next two days until that magic package arrived. We send out the invitations, made up party bags, baked a ‘Bob’ cake (thankyou soooo much Liam for choosing the easiest character!), made Bob jelly’s and cut out a huge Bob figure to play ‘pin the eye on Bob’, and we decorated the house in blue, orange and green. Oh and there was also a little birthday pressie organising going on too.

And finally the big day arrived.

Poor Ethy didn’t stand a chance, he couldn’t even reach his donut – hahahaaaaa.but a helping hand from Daddy made all the difference :)

I didn’t get a whole lot of photos as I was busy being a mum and didn’t want to miss the day because I was behind the camera all the time. Happy 8th my gorgeous boy. You are the best and we all love you dearly. xx
Part two:

Was such a pleasure to meet you Mel and Andrew, and capture your special day. xx

A few weeks ago I teamed up with fellow photographer and great friend of mine Connie Hatch to shoot our first wedding as ‘Sweet Love Wedding Photography’. Our gorgeous couple of the day, Andrew and Mel, gathered all of their loved ones together at Hickenbotham of Dromana winery for their special day, and it was just perfect. Even the weather played along nicely. These two are so madly in love, and it was such a pleasure to capture that love and their special memories in a way that can be treasured forever. I’ve had lots of trouble trying to narrow down their sneak peek (to a peek LOL), and in the end just decided I had to share a mammoth post – I’m sure that won’t bother anyone though :)

So here is part one of my photos from the day:

Andrew and Mel, congratulations on your perfect wedding day. xx

Meet miss Ella and her beautiful mum and dad. Ella and my Amelia were both born the same day in the same hospital! Hows that for coincidence! We started Ella’s shoot in the studio and her (four legged) ‘big brother’ Boris came along. Well he is part of the family :) I have to say he was THE most well behaved dog I have EVER met! After a few shots we headed down to the beach to finish off the session. Ella just loved being in the water. I thought she might have found it a bit cold, but she’s a true little water baby. What a gorgeous little girl she is.

Pam and John it was lovely to meet you. Thankyou for brining Ella (and Boris) to me for your session. Enjoy your sneak peek. Your full gallery will be up very soon.

I’m so overdue for an update. So where have I been and what’s been keeping me busy? Well I’ve photographed two weddings in the past two weeks with my beautiful friend and fellow photogie Connie and I’ve been a busy little bee editing lots of pics for those, some of which I will share soon. Then Liam had his 8th birthday (more pics I will share soon). Ethan’s started orientation days for school (he’s also doing pre-prep next year, like Liam did). And to add to it all that gorgoeus girl of mine is not sleeping a whole lot during the day anymore :( Life is busy, but busy is good.

Now it takes me a while to get personal photos edited and up here. They always get put to the back of the line (I don’t get paid for doing my own kids LOL). But back in August I took the kids up to my favourite park for a quick little session. Unfortunatly afternoon sessions do not work well for Miss Amelia, so I mainly just got the boys, but that’s what I needed anyway. Amelia gets lots of photos taken of her while the boys are at school and kinder, but I don’t often get the chance to do them. So… long story short – here are some (kind of) recent pics of the boys. (They’ve both since had haircuts too).