The Doylies

April 22, 2011

Good Friday

A wonderful day at warnbro beach.
A happy Easter to you!

2 year old feet :)

April 20, 2011

April 19, 2011

Dolly get's a bath...

Billy enjoyed this so much.It is still warm enough here for waterplay.Fun!:)

April 17, 2011

April 13, 2011

My first born turned six years old on the 7th april.I was up untill midnight baking cupcakes all so he could take them into class on his birthday.That was his request.Well,that and the game UNO.He was so excited weeks before his birthday!!Gee,to have that sort of enthusiasm again aye?.
Jasper recieved some wonderful gifts from family.Thanks everyone.Our boy had a great day.We now have a 6-year-old boy.Soooo exciting.We want to buy him a world map or globe because he loves geography and can draw accurately the map of australia,NZ + SE asia!He also draws and names planets in the solar system.It is so fun learning all this stuff again through the eyes,ears and heart of our six year old....I just love saying that...SIX-YEARS-OLD.Sigh.

March 24, 2011

Cromwell...Then+Now

This is the town of Cromwell.Pop:3.5 ooo-ish.Located between Queenstown,Wanaka and Alexandra in the central otago region of the south Island in New Zealand.It is the furthest town from the sea in all NZ,which is saying alot as we are a small island(S) in the the South pacific and are never THAT far from the sea.Cromwell is also the town I was born in.The above photo is how Cromwell looked in the Seventies when I was born,before the Clutha Dam was created,flooding the Clutha+Kawarah rivers and creating what is today Lake Dunstan...The photo at the very top is how the town looks today.How it looked when we wed here and had our two oldest children here.Cromwell is a special place.It has a pull that is irresistable,ask my sister-in-law who upon visiting from South africa met and married a local!They still Live here with their little boy.Cromwell is Home.That's why in august this year we head back there to live.Permanently!We are going to be Country Bumpkins again.Hooray.

Oh yeah...A BIG belated Happy Birthday to our niece Katie for the 8 march.Happy 3 sweetheart!.

February 3, 2011

Birthday's

A special welcome to Grace,our niece.Born on thursday the 27 January 2011 in CapeTown,South africa.
To Rob..dad..you are so special to us.Happy birthday for the 6th January.
To kyla.Our beautiful niece who is full of cheek and attitude but who has the kindest soul of anyone I know.Happy 17th!eekk.now I feel truly old.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.XXX

Ruby begins pre-primary.

where does the time go?...

January 29, 2011

Quote~

'Find ecstasy in life,the mere sense of living is joy enough.'
~Emily dickinson

Loving...

Etsy
Matchbook mag
South america
Old picture frames
Cold gingerbeer on hot,hot days
my ipod nano
iphones.

January 15, 2011

2011.

This is Chica.A spanish name which means girl...for obvious reasons.She was our christmas gift,appearing on our doorstep,hungary and in need of love.She has not been claimed so,I guess she is our's.

December 5, 2010

First haircut.

Before I get swept away on more errands i wanted to put a couple pics on of my baby.Billy went for his first hair cut last week.All his curls?GONE!I know,iknow...it's terribly sad but rest assured they WILL grow back!.I even kept one of his baby curls for his baby journal.Sigh.When did my chico get so big?.
Ah well,back to the lead up to christmas and all the CRAZY that goes with it.

November 6, 2010

School concert.

Well,here we are motoring to the end of another year(I'm convinced every year goes a little faster the older I get!?).I'm 36 next march so excuse me for freaking out abit!!,how is that possible when i still feel 25..ish??.Anyway,so begins the end-of-year School events.Last Tuesday(on the hottest day we have had this season)jasper's pre-primary class performed a song for the rest of the school and the parents.It was sooo cute!They sung "The Lion sleeps tonight".complete with lion masks.they performed really well,i mean,these are little five-year-olds!!They were so brave to sing to the whole school.It was delightful to watch and I was a very proud mummy.

October 2, 2010

Colours of spring

The facepaint was a gift from their grandparents...

Billy's artwork.

September 24, 2010

Ruby's bouquet that she created for her dad.They come from a bigger bouquet that mom+dad gave us recently on their vist.Spring is here in a big way in perth.It lifts the heart to see all the life in bloom.Magical.