A lovely girl friend of mine gave me (and a few others) a chrysanthemum on Valentine's Day. So I took photos of it since I have nothing better to do. I also baked cookies but you don't need to see those. :D

I love these kinds of flowers, aren't they beautiful?

I decided to be nice and give you photos of a select cookie I baked today. :) Here is Isaac, posing.* 

They are chocolate cookies with chocolate chips (the more chocolate, the merrier, I always say).

*Note: to get him to pose, I gave him the cookie. Now aren't I a nice big sister. ;)

In which I get my room back... sniff

Hi people! Guess what? Josh, my biggest bro went back to Christchurch on Saturday so... yeah. Miss you already, Josh. You're a pleasure to have around, always bringing a smile to someone's face! :)

We had an amazing brunch before Josh left. Bacon, eggs, pancakes with blueberries, whipped cream, maple syrup, the works. 

The Family photo. I think this one's nicer than last year's! I'll show you last year's as well and you can compare. :)

Just Klazingas doing Klazinga things... 

A Birthday

It was my sister Irene's birthday on Sunday!! She is a teenager now... scary. She's got glasses now. Doesn't she look great with them? 

We went ice skating on Monday for Irene's birthday and it was fun.

Josh is going back to NZ on Saturday. :( We'll miss you, Josh!

Experimenting with low shutter speed. :)

Cherish priceless life!!

So today we went to a rally for life. The first photo makes it kinda obvious, aye? :) This was the second time we've gone to one. We got to listen to inspirational moving speeches, meet friends and wave balloons. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon? And... there were no protesters protesting a baby's right to life. Great! :)

This photo is kinda awesome because Mum's shirt matches the balloon and the other balloon matches Mum's umbrella. How cool is that?

I really like this one of Caleb. I just love his smile!

The Balloon Release

Thankfulness

I'm titling this post "thankfulness" because at the moment I'm very thankful for power. I'm an airconditioned room and typing at a computer! I'm full from food from the fridge and I had a nice hot meal this morning (I do have a nasty cold at the mo though). Praying for those who still don't have power!

Here's what happened at our place during the storms! Let me illustrate:

Church was cancelled due to the weather so to keep myself busy I did Irene's and Mum's hair.

 Poor bubba, all huddled in a corner to keep away from the rain.

The pool during the rain, nearly full.

Just look at that rain comin' down!

 The pool as it was overflowing! 

After the storm we had to cook our food on the BBQ! Mum's a pretty good cook so everything tasted just delicious as usual.

The pool after the storm.

Pea soup, anyone?

Rainy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day! Now that I've gotten that off of my chest, I'm here to tell you that it rained today. So I took a few photos. They didn't turn out as great as I'd hoped they would and I only got a couple that were reasonable, but I felt obliged to give my wonderful viewers a little something for their money (because time=money).

Irene was a nice person and posed as we were taking the dog for a walk. :)

The next two are from a different rainy day from a while ago.

Today I saw Les Miserables, so I'm depressed and joyful at the same time. It was amazing and frightening and soul-tearing, but I won't give away anything else.

I didn't take any photos today but I thought I'd give you one that I'd taken before that kinda capture the way I felt during the sad bits:

And here's a photo Mum took. This is what I wanted to do during the whole movie: