Day 365 - Resolution complete!

Well, the day has come to finish my Project 365. New Years Eve. The girls and I were ready to go to our friends, Teresa and Ian's place for dinner. We put our party gear on, got our desserts ready to take and took the opportunity to take a few happy snaps.

It was a tough choice to pick my photo of the day today. Ian took a lovely family photo, Olivia took a pretty good photo of myself (amazingly), but I couldn't go past this photo of the girls and I. We don't get many of these because usually I am the photographer! Thanks to Shane for taking today's photo.

I am feeling a little nostalgic this week with the Project finishing today... but luckily the next Project is right around the corner! Only this time it will Project 366!

Day 364 - Very cool dancing fun

This afternoon after we took the Christmas tree down, Ava asked if we could listen to music. So we turned the iPod on and the girls happily danced around together in a circle. In between songs, they put their glasses on, strutted around singing along to whatever songs came on and dancing together.

I captured this photo of Olivia while she was dancing. I couldn't pass this photo up, it isn't often she poses happily and smiles!

Day 363 - Play time

The girls spent all afternoon in their room playing with their new My Little Pony collection together. Sometimes play time gets very confusing because I hear them call out 'Mummy' and I assume they are talking to me, so I answer them and they both giggle at me and say 'No Mummy, not you... Mummy Pony!' and then continue to happily play together. It's lovely to listen to their imaginary play.

Day 362 - Getting my bake on

I am finding myself looking for reasons to bake just to use the Kitchen Aid.

Today I thought I'd make a Jam and Coconut Slice - you can find the recipe here -  to use all the 'excess' coconut in our cupboard.  Shane and Dad are enjoying my baking without any complaints, not surprising really. I figure I have to try and make the most of it before going away for 2 weeks and going back to work not long after returning from our holiday.

I can see my bananas ripening, and I might just see myself making a banana cake shortly too.

Day 361 - A relaxed gathering

Today was a very hard day to choose just one photo for.
We caught up with Jen, Jodi, Julie, Brett and Cohen. When choosing my photo I could have had one of the girls dressed up in their pirate costume, the kids playing on the trampoline, the family eating and playing but instead I ended up picking this photo of Cohen. I picked this photo because his body language represents everything our gatherings are - good food, interesting conversation and just generally relaxing together, which I think the gorgeous Cohen is doing a wonderful job of here.
Thanks Jen, Jodi, Julie, Brett and Cohen for a lovely afternoon and for giving me an excuse to use my Kitchen Aid for the first time.

Day 360 - Babies

Yesterday I mentioned how much the babies were a successful present for the girls. Today Ava asked me to wrap her baby up as she needed to go to sleep. I can see lots of fun is going to be had with these babies.

Day 359 - Merry Christmas!

Christmas Day arrived very quickly. The girls were amazed at all the presents that awaited them from Santa in the lounge room. Ava quickly ripped into her presents while Olivia tore one strip of paper at a time and delicately gave Shane her rubbish. The babies were a hit, this afternoon after their nap, the girls got up and fed their babies their bottle. I just loved this photo of Olivia, she just looks so sweet feeding her baby. It was a lovely day spent with family and friends.