Today I am Grateful for:

Friday, September 23, 2011

Hard Rock? Yes please!

Shannon's second trip to the Hard Rock Cafe culminated in a delicious devouring of a brownie hot fudge sundae.







Gal Pals

We went to the park the other day and Shannon and a 4-year old we had never met before bonded.  They stood around hugging for minutes at a time...


 And spent some quality time relaxing together....



It was the first time Shannon has ever really spent any solid amount of time wanting to interact with another kid :)

Poor duckies

I walk past this place all the time and the sign always cracks me up.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

3 Kind Men

I'm walking towards a crosswalk pushing Shannon in the stroller, when a man yells out his car window something I don't pay attention to/understand (I still struggle with the Aussie accent from time to time). And I must admit I thought it was probably something obscene as it is my experience that most things yelled out of passing car windows are.  Then waiting at the crosswalk, another man keeps looking around, then looking at me. I do my best to not to think anything of it.  Eventually he says, "I think that guy said you dropped something back there. Maybe a shoe."  And sure enough Shannon has ejected her shoe from the stroller. Then as I express my gratitude and turn to retrieve it, a third man give me the universal stop signal and says he'll get it for me. He jogs back to the shoe and brings it to me!
Thanks guys! I love when people surprise me and prove my less than flattering assumptions wrong.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Bridge to Brisbane

Gary and I ran our 3rd annual Bridge to Brisbane on Sunday.  Calling it that makes me feel like a bit of a fraud as we only ran the 5k (instead of the 10k) which means we did not in fact run over the namesake bridge.  But still, it was a good time. Shannon cooperated this year by sleeping through the whole run so we could actually run, and then she partook in the post-race fruit!

Pre-race hot chocolate (you dont do that?)

Free Hats!

Kelly pushing for a photo op.

Gary pushing 99% of the race.




Friday, September 2, 2011

A new park.

We found a new playground/park so SUPER close to our place. We dont even take the stroller! Shannon can climb up and come down the slide all on her own. AND there is a cool tube to climb through where we get to peek at each other and make fun faces:)







Thursday, August 25, 2011

Day done

It was fun....but alas, the daily picture taking portion of this blog is concluded. it has served it's purpose. Perhaps I will continue in some other form, but it's yet to be decided......one last photo that brings me great joy....



Monday, August 22, 2011

Day 205

breakfast with the fam at Le Bon Choix.


Day 204

homemade cheesecake. MMMMmmmm!


Day 203

Fun with farm animals.


Thursday, August 18, 2011

Day 202

Shannon keeping her hat on for 95% of our playground time! A record by miles!




Day 201

Australian holidays in the middle of the week to celebrate the country way of living that allow Gary to hang out with us!


Day 200

Big W letting her "test drive" this stroller for over a half hour in the store.


Day 199

freeze dried apples.


Day 198

relaxing on the couch.


Friday, August 12, 2011

Day 197

Shannon FINALLY keeping her hat on!


Day 196

a lunchtime picnic in the park.


Thursday, August 11, 2011

Day 195

whatever this is on my hand not hurting.


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Day 193

amazing smelling flowers.


Day 192

the fact that the teenagers Shannon wandered into at this park still had their clothes on in their make out frenzy among the rose bushes.




Day 191

meat pies. mmmm.


Day 190

An alternative to Chocolate Kiss Cookies in the Hershey free country of Australia.


Friday, August 5, 2011

Day 189

help with the laundry.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Day 188

landmarks.

Day 187

death not being the end.


Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Day 186

public water fountains.

Day 185

Wildlife letting us get up close.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Day 184

time to play with other children's toys.

Day 183

hiking with my favorite people.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Day 182

Parks being free.

Thursday, July 28, 2011