Hi Everyone!!

How are you all?!? Good I do hope :) Soooo sorry it's been such a long time since I last updated the blog, things have been busy around here! I realize that i have made it most of the way through the year with only one or two blog posts....I hope to make them more regular once things settle down!

I have started a new job after the old one got moved to the state above me (queensland) - I did go up there for a few weeks but in the end turned the job down and found another! So that has been keeping me busy.

It was Nan's birthday at the beginning of the month and my friend Lara made her the most wonderful cow cake! I'll put a pic on the blog, it was simply amazing! :) We also celebrated Ga & Pa's 60th Wedding anniversary - they had a dinner at a local pub and then everyone went back to their house for cake and speeches! 60 years is quite a feat!

So that's it from me, will try and post more often...hope alls well with you all.

Lots of love,

jess xoxo

Nan's amazing birthday cake!

Meish & I with Ga & Pa for their wedding anniversary

Meish and I looking nothing alike!

Whitney, Meish and I dressed up for a day at the horse races

Meish looking pretty and drinking champas at the races!

Clouds out of the plane window on a trip to or from queensland

YAY! haha...Nan excited to blow the candles out on her birthday cake

(we had this cake on her actual birthday)

Happy Birthday Nan :)

Hi All!

How are you? Good I do hope! Clearly I am a bit behind schedule with my blog posts...it's Easter Sunday and I am putting up photos of Dad's birthday and St. Pattys day but oh well!?!? We celebrated Dad's birthday by going fishing off the rocks at Avoca Beach and then we had dinner at a Belgian beer bar in the city.

AND Terry - these photos are for you! I made my own soda bread based off the recipe you gave me! Impressed?!? hehe. It wasn't as good as yours but it was still yummy! I thought you would like some photos so here they are! =)

That's it from me! Hope everything is well with you all!

Lots of love,

jess xoxo

Hi Everyone!

How are you all? Good I do hope! Well last weekend Chris and Simone, two of my great friends from school got married! It was really awesome that I was able to be back here for it and part of the celebrations - if we can do our math right we have been friends for 14 years!

The wedding was a great day and night, everything went off without a hitch and Simone had such a lovely bride glow about her! Both her and Chris just looked so happy!

As always I'll put some pics below for you all to take a peek at, hope everyone is well!

Lots of love,

jess xoxo

Bridesmaids!

Getting Sim into her dress

Lara, the Matron of Honour, and I

Sim's dress looks blue but it's actually purple the color of our dresses

Kacy and I

The Happy Couple

Amy and I

Sim, Chris and Myself!

Hi Guys,

How are you all? Good I do hope! Well here is a (very) late Australia Day post! As I said in my last post we had a bbq with some friends - it was actually a lovely day weather wise, so we had a swim and then went across to the park to play some cricket! The game was perhaps slightly hindered by the fact the majority of us there have lived out of australia for most of our lives and not only can't play cricket but are not too good with the heat/sun/bushland! It made for a hilarious game! =)

Ga & Pa came down for a late celebration of Pa's birthday - we gave them tickets to go and see Mumma Mia so they went and saw that and had a good time.

Aside from that Meish is enjoying her job, I am still working my two jobs while I try and decide what to do next...and Mum and Dad are landscaping the garden at the moment! =) So we are all keeping busy and out of trouble!

That's it from me, hope you are all well!

Lots of love,

jess xoxo

The gang in the pool on Australia Day

Matty and Alessandro being anti-pool activities

Our giant island...it took forever to blow it up!

Miss Whitney Jane

Matty, Nan and I

Biggest Pavlova Ever!

The Whitehead/Hill Gang

Dad with Ga and Pa for Pa's Birthday!

Hi All,

Happy 2010! I do hope the year is treating you well thus far =)

Things are moving along here, although the weather has been extremely fickle -- yesterday it was 42C (108F) and today it is misty rain and 22C (71F)! Meish started her new job at MediaSmart (http://www.mediasmart.com.au) last Monday, the position works with the digital advertising world and so far she is really excited to get into it. =)

This coming Tuesday is Australia Day here, so we shall be having a barbecue complete with a cricket game or two! Hopefully I shall get some shots and post them faster than I am posting the photos below!

Mum and Dad went to Orange to visit my grandparents for my Grandpa's birthday last week (they live in the country) and as they were driving back over the Blue Mountains they stopped at one of the many roadside fruit stalls and brought up big! So today Mum and I have made peach jam, stewed peaches, the nectarines are stewing now and we have to make a peach cobbler and perhaps something with plums before the day is out! Since it's pretty crappy weather out it's a yummy way to pass a Sunday!

Okay then, hope alls well with you guys. =) I shall pop some photos below for you too look at!

Take care,

love jess xoxo

Me playing with a Kangaroo! He was just wandering down the street....hahaha not! he was at a zoo =P

Meish and I on New Years

It's not a great picture...but that's Meish's fireworks face! hehe.

The midnight fireworks from my friend's apartment on New Years

Meish, Andrew, Whitney, Chuck & I did a day trip to the Blue Mountains...this is the rock formation called the Three Sisters

Lots and lots of nothing =)

Oh hi. we are trouble.

The gang, and just in case you are wondering...Meish is holding Whitney's head up because she was tried! hehe.