happy winter day

hello everyone! yup, i am indeed still alive... amongst the cold fluey season, moving country, making friends, finding schools, house hunting, working part time at a timber yard, and editing weddings.... i am well and truely missing my photography and missing this blog.

New Zealand is beautiful. winter has been cold... and snowy (yes... that i do need to blog! -- it snowed the second week we arrived!), still crashing at the in laws (loving it and loving not having to cook everyday)...

I promise i'll be good and do some more blog... my hubby just went pass and clapped his hand saying bravo to me for doing a blog after so long! oh my.

here are some pics of a gorgeous little family i knew back in the Gold Coast.

don't you just want to chomp her cheeks? hehehehe. i did. once... (with her mommy looking at me weirdly hahaha)

my kitchen helper

there she goes sitting down on her "helping spot". Every time after we finished the mess seems to accumulate around that spot.

My little princess, can't believe she's so grown up. love her to bits.

Sorry about the slack on posting blogs. Life has been so full on with moving country. Golly gosh! and it's not easy being apart from the hubby (who seems to pick up my slack during wedding season big time quite immensely)

hello number 9.

funnest family session!

a family of 11. Mom + Dad and 9 beautiful kiddies later... still in LOVE as ever!

no matter if its high tide, raining and massive waves, nothing will stop them from having the bestest fun (this includes climbing the rocks... yup, and that's also mom holding her newborn bub climbing all those rocks)

introducing... little miss number 9. isn't she beautiful!

hubby-sick

so we said our goodbye to the coolest bestest daddy ever... My husband.

He's off to New Zealand already while the kiddies and I enjoy Australia just a wee bit longer.

yup. i am hubby sick. (kinda like home sick but i don't even know if that's even grammatically correct) missing him so much! anyway... These pics were some snippets just an hour before we had to go... no one wanted to pose for me. gosh.

until recently, i never knew living so close to the beach is just pure awesome. seriously.

Our new pad // temporarily

So here is the big news... we are MOVING to New Zealand!!!!!

yup. i've said it!

we have packed our whole life away in a container and it'll be ready to ship across the Tasman sea soon soon soon. We are temporarily living the Gold Coast life right in the heart of Surfers Paradise! sooo nice. the kids loves it. beach right across from the hotel, seaworld is just 5 minutes drive, take away food around the corner... and as for me, i've had bubble tea 3 days in a row! heaven!!! haha

oh, that's right. so yes... we don't take this decision lightly but we are so excited about the adventure God has put right in the front for us! I am still coming back to the Gold Coast for photography so don't worry to those who have booked their wedding and family pics... cos i'll be back for them. yay! *really... it's an excuse for me to come back to see all of your beautiful faces xxx

heart

three in a pod.

locks of curls and blue eyes

from a recent session with a family full of love.

my little maestro

have i told you that i love my kids? sooooo much!

these two played the piano (more likely to smash them really....) and it was B's first time playing it and he loves it!

my little 4 year old

i can NOT believe 4 years ago i was sitting at home trying to work out my (then) new Canon 400d and have a newborn baby at home. i was definitely very trigger happy with my (then) newborn princess.... who's now 4 years old! my goodness! where did all of the time fly to?

her latest trick: trying to get our wedding photos out of the wall so she can hang it up in her bedroom. "This will look good next to my baby photos in my room..." - Tavé

and this isn't the first time she tried to do it. mmmm.....

bless her. bless her indeed. such a sweet heart.

little toosh

hello! we had such a wonderful weather here on the Gold Coast... perfect for a mini commercial shoot this afternoon. no... not a cute bum commercial... hehehe you wish!

this little man is so much fun! such a little man.

sand, water and mischief! who else if it's not Hay-nay!

cubby house.

someone special really wants me to build her a cubby house. so she can have a nap in it.

she went through the linen cupboard and pulled anything remotely pink to build it. bless.

and of course... this is how much she wants me to build one.

at this moment... she's camping out in my room. bless her cotton socks off. my little darling.

rusk. rusk. rusk

teething rusk. first day of it today... the camera was just there beside me thus these photos. i think there's this tooth just peeking around the corner..... i hope B just sail away smoothly with teething time like his older sis.

IT IS the last day of winter! yay

grey weather today, we stayed at home. Tavé and I did some paintings in the morning while Benjamin had his morning nap. one of the paintings she did was this swirl of mixed colours (which looks like interesting mushy fungus green) with a splash of pink, brown and purple.

me: "Tavé what are you painting?"

Tavé: "not poo"

bahahahhahahahhahhahhahaa

ps. i have to show you the paintings next time. quite interesting really, different titles too. one of them was "angry chinese girl" hmmmm... yes..... as i said before. interesting.

1/2 year.

Guess who's 6 months today? little mister mister as Tave calls him now. hehehe.

little pork chop just got over his cold fluey thing he got from oh dear sissy.. which now passed on to me. not nice. not nice.

ahhhh he melts my heart! xo

His first meal.

with baby rice cereal. nom nom nom.

these pics are totally unedited. what do u reckon? trying to edit with photoshop with my mac and got frustrated cos the shortcut are totally different from my lappy. hmmmm.... thus. raw images.

so big sis is trying to feed her baby brother.

how did it go? went ok.... but i think baby brother is abit annoyed. thus. the last image.

priceless.