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    A Portrait A Week – March 2nd Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2014   1. Bella, 8 weeks     2. Bass keen to read like the everybody else     3. Jem with Bella, they have a special bond     4. Jack Jack is rapidly gaining reading confidence   5. Jem, Bella, Jelly Bean and Princess Cuddling together 6. Anna Maria, our gorgeous girl, back at College, missing her already Linking up at Practising Simplicity for 52 Weeks of Portraits

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    A Portrait A Week – January 28th Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2014 1. Family portrait. This was ‘the day,’ the day to take formal family shots worthy of enlarging and framing, our recent Christmas tradition.  Yes we’re a few weeks late this year, sadly not of the same calibre as of the other two.     2. Our Beautiful Girls:) Inside and Out 3. The requisite Bella on her own shot;) Couldn’t resist, what can I say, gorgeous     4. Our Larrikins They were hamming it up through the shots, age doesn’t change them   5. All ten Reached our limit Mum, photo shoot is over If you have…

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    A Portrait a Week – January 21st Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week in 2014 1. Bella in her Baptismal Gown 2. Bella with her parents and godparents   3. Our Bella’s Baptism   4. Our new Deacon’s first Baptism, he was so excited and honoured to baptise Bella, we were delighted to have him give her this precious Sacrament   5. Bella with her godparents, big siblings Michelangelo and Princess 6. Two of our girls with their Dad, couldn’t resist sharing this one   7. Family shot, all of us together:) 8.  Home again, after the big event. Photo credit all goes to Anna Maria Linking up at Practising Simplicity for 52…

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    A Portrait A Week – January 6th Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2014  1. Bella’s First Photo Shoot. With Mama that is, had lots of fun playing around this afternoon. My personal favourite. 2. Can we have too much of this girl? PC’s personal favourite.  So hard to choose I took so many. The following photos are admittedly from two weeks ago but I really wanted to share the children meeting Bella for the first time.  The excitement and joy on their faces!:) 3. Anna Maria and Bella 20 years between these sisters:) Our family tradition is first nurse goes in birth order, the youngest have a long time to wait……

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    13 for 13: Favourite Photos for 2013

    Joining Pam in sharing my favourite 13 photos from 2013, a photo for each month, either ones shared previously or unseen gems.  In the interest of speed (for myself) I’m sharing previously shared photos from my blog posts. Though after completing this I wondered if I should have shared favourite pics of each child rather than favourite photos from each month. Something to work towards next year, ‘take more photos of each child.’ January Preparing for and assembling our pool, a family effort. This project was nearly our ‘Waterloo’. March Beginner readers enjoying the journey together. April Two brothers sharing a birthday week May I rarely remember to take photos of…

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    A Portrait A Week – November 4th Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013     1. Our annual local fun run yesterday. Over 300 participants, Michelangelo and Princess competing in the 2km race, a tie when I caught this shot. Michelangelo came 5th in his age division, Jelly Bean 3rd place in hers.  She was disappointed to not take home first place this year, having won the three previous years, however as I reminded the children training would be an optimum idea!   2. Jack Jack pulled out all stops, ran on his own this year, so proud of him, he has grown in confidence. Placed 6th in his age division.…

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    A Portrait A Week – October 28th Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013 1. Einstein has been PC’s ‘right hand man’ this week whilst building the verandah. 2. Bass is my biggest blog fan, he loves having the blog settings on photographs and screams with delight when he sees himself.   3. Princess has been enjoying the spring days reading in the hammock. Taking a break to brush Gandulf.     4.Jelly Bean and Jack Jack are rapidly, and more importantly, happily learning their times tables thanks to youtube.     5. We were delighted yesterday to find this koala in a tree near the house. All but four of our…

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    A Portrait A Week – 21st October Edition

    A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013   1. Our three oldest, all dressed for the Ball   2.  Gorgeous, just simply gorgeous   3. Our three with three of my younger siblings 4. Michelangelo, at the computer 5. Princess hard at work laying the timber verandah   6. Jelly Bean, showing her hand   7. Jack Jack, taking it seriously   8. Jem, engrossed in a game of his making (Bass missing, no great shots of him this week, alas) Joining in with Jodie this week.