Cooking . . . Lydia Style!

Mummy thought it might be fun to cook brownies with little Lydia. Mmmm . . . chocolate and a 21 month old!! Not a good combination :)



uh oh!!



Chocolate . . . contains cocoa . . . which is a laxative I believe.

. . . not your usual wedding

So got a call from this super couple last week. Getting married at VERY short notice as the Bride is off to join the Marines . . . next week! Wow!! Had the great pleasure of doing some very quick pre-wedding formals for them before they all went off tie the knot at a church in Warwick. Hope you had a great day guys. Good luck with basic training too! We shall be thinking of you. Here's a few of the shots. As you can tell, they liked to kiss alot! :)

Cruising . . . Carnival Style!! (?)

So after a crazy work year Sara and I decided to take a nice relaxing break. Going on a cruise would not be my first choice. Now let me preface this by saying that Sara is a 'Cruiser' . . . i.e. she has cruised before. I have not. And there is a reason for that.

She has been trying to convince me for some time that a cruise would be a great little vacation, though my reply to her was always "I'd rather boil my head . . .". I eventually caved in on this one occasion. It also happened to be a friend of ours 30th birthday celebration, so there would be a crowd of cool people going. It was also incredibly cheap. I was up for it. Eating and drinking 24 hours a day, no land in sight, a bedroom with no windows . . . and games like the 'hairiest chest competition' poolside EVERY day. Class! Remind me to tell you about the sting ray excursion we went on in a hurricane; and a drinking game where you all pretend to be chickens!! Good few days though. Lots of laughs. Now seeking new liver please. Here are just a few pictorial highlights.

Hotel in Tampa. Scene of first nights drinking games.



. . . ever wonder why traffic is bad in Mexico??


Authentic Mexican clothing



Authentic Warrior Head Dress


Love this shot



Thats quite enough culture for one day . . . on with the drinking!! Here's Lindy (birthday girl) already struggling to sit up straight.


'Bucky' showing us some of his 'flair'


More


She had heels on too!



Our ride

One for the Grandmas . . .

Lydia Clarie Whiteley, 18 months old, the most important item in Mummy and Daddy's world . . . and she knows it :) So bathtime is always a fun event. One week after the doctor put tubes in her ears and everything is great. I swear she can hear so much better, though she still chooses to ignore us when she is being naughty! Selective hearing is the name of that condition. Not curable as far as we know. Anyhow, as you can tell, she loves bathtime and is now completely OK with us washing her hair (she used to hate it). Probably the numerous ear infections.




don't you even think about it!!






errr . . . awkward camera moment



. . . and how else would you celebrate such a wonderful time in the bath?? By drinking the dirty bath water of course. Nice!