Valentines day and Bradley's second birthday.

On a rainy valentines day in Queensland, neil had the great and spontaneous idea of cooking breakfast outside! It took 15 mins to gather everything together before heading to Wappa Dam, which is a park by a reservoir only 5 mins from us.









Bradley celebrated his 2nd birthday on Saturday 21st, he woke up to a balloons and presents followed by breakfast at Mooloolaba. As last year he went out for pancakes for his breakfast so we thought it might become tradtion so pancakes again this year!

I am 2!!!



My new garage Daddy built for me



Wow a lawnmower, thanks Nan and Grandad!





My pancakes!





Bradley's birthday treat was a trip to Underwater World, an aquarium in Mooloolaba that we hadn't been to before.
Bradley loved it and was a very happy boy spotting all the fish, his Mummy and Daddy struggled to keep up!

Fish spotting with daddy.



Watching the seal show.



The underwater tunnel full of sharks!





Daddy and Bradley exploring!



The highlight was watching the seals in the underwater viewing area. We caught Bradley on a movie!




Watch out behind you!



The walk back to the car, boat spotting on the way!



Bradley was ready for a long sleep after that! While Mummy and Daddy decorated his birthday cake!

We went over to Grandma and Grandpa's for a bbq and for the birthday cake!!

Wow, my cake is a train (decoration was down to Daddy!)



I can eat the wheels!



Man, this is messy!


Only 8 weeks till our new baby is due, so hopefully we will be doing lots more blog posts then!

Christmas and New year camping trip.

Well firstly the news from the ultrasound suggests we are expecting a baby girl but she was only 80% sure so so far have resisted buying too many girly clothes and are trying to think of a boys
name for back up!

We have had a very busy summer/christmas season for the business, thats the problem with Oz both busy things fall together, the kids have there long summer holiday over christmas. Turnover was greatly up on the previous summer which was great but poor Neil worked his butt off keeping up with printing and framing a lot of photos.

Christmas was a lovely day but all over too fast, as we had markets Christmas Eve and Boxing Day!

Bradley had a great day and had to be coaxed to keep opening his presents as he was quite happy to play with what he got! The little mite was utterly spoilt!

We had a relaxing day with an early walk at Wappa Dam, a swim in the pool, lots present opening and a late afternoon Christmas dinner.


First presents at home.



Neddy!



My new bike, thanks Uncle Ian and co, at Grandma and Grandpa's house.



Cooling off with a xmas day dip!





My new megablocks sets from Mummy and Daddy!



Lost in the wrapping paper!







Neddy gets spoilt too!



Then on the 29th we headed off away from markets and framing before we went nuts to Lamington National Park. We had booked a safari tent for 4 nights, they are permanent tents with proper floors, proper beds and proper lights! Luxury camping! It was the perfect combination between roughing it and a easy life. Also they had a tea room that served espresso coffee and hot meals!

Unfortunately the heat was the worst thing as it is 5 degrees cooler up there but as it was 38 degrees at sea level it was still over 30 up there. We have to confess we missed our air con!

You basically go bush walking so in the heat with a toddler and a pregnant wife neil had his hands full!

The first walk Bradley walked a whole 1.2km in the rainforest without being carried at all.







I think Bradley decided that was his walking for the whole holiday and travelling on Daddy's shoulders was so much more fun!

Some shots from our tent on the first night.










The first breakfast! Little boxes of cereals have so many uses!


Next day after doing the short walks we tackled a longer one, 5km to some caves!











It was a lovely walk but Bradley decided to fall asleep so poor neil had to carry him over his shoulder a long way!

The afternoon was spent going for a drive to civilsation in the air conditioned car!A play on the park for Bradley in a local town and coffee and cake for Mummy and Daddy.



Next day we tackled the big walk, 12km, after an early start on New years day(yes we were in bed by 9pm the night before!)We took it nice and slow and made it the whole way but our muscles were very sore the next day. Bradley fell asleep half way back so Neil carried him a while but we found a bench for him to finish his nap before being woke again and put on Daddy's shoulders!







A few more snaps from around the national park grounds.