Friday, January 23, 2009

Holiday plans and family news

Ten months ago we were hoping to be going to London for Krissy and Glen's wedding and then traveling on to Italy for a long holiday. Then after we found out we were pregnant we reduced the holiday to just going to London. When we found out we were having twins we had to cancel the trip to London as it would be too late in the pregnancy. Instead we decided we would go on a holiday to Fiji in early February. Then the rains came to Fiji and we read stories of people stuck in hotels or stuck in the airport. So we canceled our holiday to Fiji and now we're going to spend a week in Noosa. We can't wait.

In baby news Meeks is doing well, she's having more success sleeping after having problems a couple of weeks ago. The babies are kicking lots. It's weird to think there are two of them wriggling around in there bumping in to each other. Mitchy is getting into the idea of having little brothers, but I'm sure doesn't really understand that they are in mummy's tummy.

Mitch is growing up fast. His speech has come along a lot recently. He used to be mute when the phone was presented to him. Now he understands that there is someone on the other end of the phone and that he can talk to them as if they were right there in the room. He has two new sayings. He likes to say, "Check it oooooouuuut!" and "Awwwww, come on!". In fact he talks a lot and asks questions, lots of questions. Neither Meeks or I are terribly verbose so I don't know where Mitch gets it from. He's also becoming really imaginative. The other day he was making imaginary snow men in imaginary snow and throwing imaginary snow balls ... it was 30+ degrees!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The reception

I'll let the pictures tell a story.


Bill is very animated when he speaks


Thanks for inviting me. I had a great time!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Ceremony

Robyn and Bill's wedding was under a huge tree in the gardens. The rain mentioned in the previous post had stopped by the time of the wedding. There was a tiny bit of rain at the start, but nothing for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

The Happy Couple

Out of respect for the official photographer (who if you look carefully in the above photograph you can see her flash on the left side of Bill's head) I didn't get "the kiss" because I was trying to get out of her way.
Signing the Registry

The (now married) couple are presented to the gathered family and friends


To Robyn and Bill (and Anne Daisy) I have a lot more photos of the ceremony and the ones here are low quality shots for the web. I'll make up a contact sheet (which is just a picture with lots of little pictures) and put it on the web somewhere and you can look at it and tell me which ones you like and I can clean them up and send them to you on a CD.

Next post, the Reception!
Who knows what shots I'll put up?

Driving to Millthorpe

On the weekend I drove out to Millthorpe which is near Orange for cousin Robyn and Bill's wedding. I was by myself because Meeks was staying home with Mitch. As a result I made a few stops and took some photos that I might not otherwise have been able to make.
Firstly there was the Mt White lookout, looking out over the Megalong Valley

Next was a random farmstead on the road between Lithgow and Bathurst

Then it was up to the top of Mt Panorama at Bathurst. It such a weird experience to be able to just drive your normal car around the race track and stop and take photos along the way. The speed limit is a strictly enforced 60km/h even on the main straights where it feels slow, but on sections like the dipper, 60km/h feels quite quick. It must take some serious guts to do it at racing speed. Sitting in the car the track dips and twists and actually disappears from view as it goes down the hill.

As I was approaching Orange (where I was staying) the weather started to close in and shortly after this it started pouring. The rain didn't look good for the wedding, but that is a story for another post.

On the way home on Sunday I stopped at almost the same place and took this one.