Ridiculous - its been another 18 months...

But I suppose blogs are out and facebook and tweets are in.  But think I might need to resurrect this somehow.

How long has it been?

Ridiculous! Its been 2 and half years since I posted on this blog. I blame facebook. I wonder if anyone is still subscribed? Do email me at stephen.wilkinson@gmail.com if you get this update! I only wentr to the blog site as we are now looking for a nanny\au pair as Rachel has returned to work fulltime as of last week and we are struggling!

Jemima is here!

For those who do not already know Jemima was born on Friday 14th, weighing in at a healthy 9lb 6oz.

I would have posted this earlier but for the last 3 days we have been internet denied at home.

All is well. Rachel came out of hospital on Tuesday and Jemima has slept well for the last 2 nights - obviously waking for feeds but only 3 times per night which is manaeagable (so I am told... I am asleep !!!)

Photos are here on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10490034@N04

and on Facebook.

We'll try hard to keep posting on her progress as I should think time will fly by with 3 little ones now in the house!

Cheers

Stephen

Really need to post soon!

Will get off fat bum doa proper post v. soon. Baby number three due 14th September so will definitely get some piccies up then! Apologies!

Quick pic of the girls watering veggies in the garden...

Maddy's Birthday Weekend

Maddy's Birthday weekend in June...

The Cake (or lots of little cakes...)

Making the cake...

Can anyone else see Catherine in this?? ("I'm sitting down to enjoy my lunch...!")

A spot of Golf whilst...




Daddy and Uncle Steve play some golf

Feeding the animals at the Brookfield Show

Fair ground at the Brookfield Show

Some photos - Easter and 4-wheel driving in the bush...

Girls ready to hit the beach at Casuarina at Easter
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The beach...

Imi keen to get in the water!

With Kirrily and Peter - they have the Rangie...

The Sunshine Coast Hinterlands

Bunya Mountains

We have just had a lovely weekend in the Bunya Mountains (about 3 and half hours north west of Brisbane) to celebrate Mum's 60th birthday.

We headed off on Sat morning and stopped off in Toowoomba on route for lunch and to give the girls a bit of a run in the park. This is where Mum was raised and it brought back lots of memories of childhood visits to the grandparents.

The Bunyas were great. Stephen was impressed by the drive out there with the long, straight roads (some still untarmaced) and very dry countryside. We drove through some real one horse towns - some without even a local pub!

We stayed in a lovely four bedroom house with fireplace and pool table and a lovely view over the valley. There were wallabies everywhere, many with a joey in their pouch.

On Sunday we did a lovely 4.4 km walk - Maddie walked the whole way! That evening we went our for dinner to celebrate.

So a lovely weekend. The nights and early mornings were very cool but we had beautiful warm days. Thinking of it as a possible location for our Xmas in July as it has even been known to snow!!