Webber family portraits

I said to these guys as I was leaving that their photography session was just perfect. And I don't always say corny things like that, I meant that we had perfect light (around 5pm), a great setting, an entire family that is not only very chilled out, but also super-smiley, up for anything, and full of energy. The boys, Chris and Adam are very into their football, cricket and rugby, and new addition baby Seren didn't stop grinning once. I have also never seen a 6 month old stand up for such a long period of time - she must have been standing bobbing around for about an hour - amazing! We had a great time, and got some relaxed family portraits as well as shots of everyone playing sport. On to the images!

Phillipa and family

These are Phillipa's gorgeous grandchildren, Bethan, 3, Corum, 2.5, and Phoebe, 9 months. Corum and Phoebe are siblings, united with their big eyes and the longest eyelashes I have EVER seen! Bethan is a real girl, and loves her teddys, twirling in her dress, Angelina Ballerina and arranging things in order. Corum her cousin is a real boy and is very laid back, loves cars, tanks and chaos (i.e. destroying the line of teddies that Bethan is carefully laying out). Phoebe is like her brother - very chilled out and just hangs out blinking at the world with her big eyes. On to the photos:

Corum:




Bethan:



And Phoebe:





Bethan looks like an accomplished flamenco dancer here:




And Corum looks like he's trying to reverse out of a difficult road traffic incident here:





Boo!



What is it Phoebe? Is it your older cousin coming to attack you with a spider....??





Ha ha, I put a photo of Phillipa on my blog!













Thanks guys, it was great fun xx

Our house!

Thanks to my clever husband and talented friend Matt Phillips, here are the first plans for the structure of our house in New Zealand! I think it looks GORGEOUS. Its a simple design (as you can see), a wooden open plan structure that will have strawbale infill walls. That sticky out bit is part of the bathroom and front porch, and the large floor space upstairs will be one of the bedrooms. This time next year it should be built! Stay tuned for more house news as I'll post anything interesting on the blog.

My beautiful friend Rhiannon

We did a photoshoot just for fun, but also because Rhiannon will look AMAZING on my website. She's even better looking in person! Not to mention clever, elegant, creative, adventurous, generous, confident, hilarious- I could go on. Its quite hard to capture someone you know so well, but good fun trying.

Nia

This is Nia who is just 8 months with her parents, Simon and Kate. We did a photo session in the house and then ventured out to the park. Nia was struggling with a cold but was such a little trooper, now and again she would find something random really funny and have a little giggle.











Reading about ducks, which can be worrying of course:



Getting ready to out - how cute is the green coat?!





Hanging out with mum and dad. I love these, and hopefully in years to come Nia can look at photographs like these and see how much her parents loved her from the start:











Bye!



What a gorgeous baby - I think she looks so patient here - "thanks camera lady, I've put up with you long enough but now I need a nap." Thanks guys x

A list of how I could do so much more with my day...

1) Get up earlier
2) Don't check my email 14 times a day
3) Ignore Max when he drops his toy football at my feet and stares at me longingly
4) Finish one job before I start another one
5) Stop staring out the window and daydreaming about all the things I have to do before we leave
6) Don't visit the fridge every 20 minutes and then eat one grape/bit of cheese/peice of chocolate
7) Trust the Ipod to choose music rather than getting up after every song to choose the next one
8) Remember why I walked into the spare room
9) Remember why I walked back into the living room
10) Stop writing lists on my blog and do at least one of the things on my things to do list...