Those of our avid regular readers (right!) will remember that Kel and I took a trip to Mudgee in Jan 2006... we enjoyed it so much we headed...

Luca is a remarkably good baby, cries on average less than 5 min. each day. He is super happy little boy full of smiles. On the rare occasio...

Sunday Luca was baptized at the Catholic church here in Curl Curl. Similar to church services in Australia, it was short and sweet, at times...

We took a well earned break from painting, cleaning, unpacking and re-packing to get away for a couple of days three hrs north of Sydney in ...

Luca was perplexed when I told him Aunt Tiffany was a Cougar fan. Then I told him her and Uncle Jeff would some day (hopefully soon) have c...

This weeks milestone with Luca has been smiling. He is ticklish under his arms and smiles all the time. He weighed in today at 5.24 kilo...

Today was the first family swim for Mark, Luca and I in our new pool. As you can see from the photo, Luca might not have had as much fun in ...

It has been a crazy 5 weeks! I never could have imagined how my life would change so dramatically with Luca's birth. Mark, Luca and I ar...

Life is getting back to normal - not there yet but directionally we are happy with where it is heading. Three days before Christmas we had t...

It was all about Luca and moving in to our new house this year. Even through the craziness we have made time to take a few small walks to en...

We brought Luca home to Mark's parents on Friday. We are all three doing well, getting some sleep and looking forward to moving into our...

The happiest person in the world on December 5, 2006 had to have been me. Kelly and I are beamingly proud to announce the birth of our son L...

Here are a few new pictures of the house, we are making progress, hoping to be in the house before Christmas. Also one picture of the Green ...

Apple Cup 2006 proved to be a great win for the Huskies! (Huskies 35 Cougars 32) Mark and I have an annual bet and this year I actually won ...

Some American friends of ours here in Australia, threw a HUGE Halloween party over the weekend. What do you dress as for a Halloween party w...

We have lived here for 1 year and 3 weeks, I thought I had mastered the language, was convinced they did speak really speak English in Austr...

Bluey is the Blue Tongue Lizard that lives in the back yard of our new house and our neighbors house. Apparently all of the construction in ...

As we have been going through the remodel I have realized there is a whole Aussie language just for construction. Here is a small sample of ...

My last Xbox business trip so I made the most of it from the start – I managed to fit four movies into the plane ride over, (Nacho Libre, XM...

September is going, going, gone and not a single blog entry – it’s not that we have been doing nothing it has actually been a crazy, crazy m...