30 Day Challenge_16_Glow

#glow

Been taking on the challenge this year to learn to use my camera to it's full extent. I took this photo using a technique called bokeh! This was my first ever attempt and I think it looks so pretty. I just created it by using my Christmas lights that I still have up.

30 Day Challenge_4_On The Move

These little guys were so hard to photograph cause they are forever on the move...

This was my favourite shot out of the lot that I took!

Just hanging out!

Just hanging out with this little guy while enjoying a yummy coffee...

Cappuccino 

Heheheee look at that expression on his face!

Day-6 A Sacrifice!

At the moment I am pregnant with baby no.2 and to me for the nine months I think there are a lot of things I have to sacrifice. So many yummy foods I have to give up at this time like sushi, medium-rare steak, soft cheeses, chocolate mousse, a runny egg ahhhhhhhhh the list could go on forever. Well that is for me. I try my best to stick to the lists on all the handouts I get from my midwife to only eat fresh cooked meals and all the rest of it. How many pregnant woman actually do what they are told who knows!!!

Also people tend to love to ask about morning sickness... Did you have morning sickness? Who cares, that only lasted for so long for me... it's more the rest of the time when you get bigger and can't think of what to wear? How to tie your shoe laces? How to bend down to cut my toe nails? Having baby-brain and starting a conversation and halfway through the sentence not knowing what you were actually wanting to say! Being really forgetful! Sitting in a comfy couch and taking forever to get up out of it. Having to go to the toilet what feels like every 5 minutes. Don't even mention trying to roll over in bed when you need to go in the middle of the night LOL.

I know totally sounds like I am having a moan!!!

But it's a good sacrifice to me because it only lasts for so long and then you have these little people surrounding you that need you 24/7 and it doesn't matter, because you just love them so much in a way that you can't explain.

Levi giving my 34 week bump a kissie...

Was trying to take a pic of my bump with my feet sticking out the bottom and all this while standing on my bed. But Levi thought we were meant to be jumping on the bed. I took so many pics, but this was my favourite!

Photo-a-day-countdown! Day-1

A photo that I found to begin this lovely journey of pics with a few of my friends... a way for me to get to use my Sony a390 everyday for 30 days straight! 

1. One of your greatest blessing

I took so many pics of things that I could think of that are blessings to me, but this guy has got to take the cake. My beautiful Cleo! He turned 13 years old this year and has been one of my best buddies ever. We came to New Zealand from South Africa 14 years ago. Exciting, but also a very sad time for me... Took me a while to adjust and love being here. I had a cat back home that I loved dearly, but sadly enough had to leave him behind. I cried so much the day we took him to the SPCA. A year after being NZ my cousin gifted me with a tiny gorgeous black cat that I fell in love with straight away and yes there was an instant bond. He is just the sweetest thing. Animal lovers would sooooo totally understand :) We have had a few moments when we have thought it was his last few days, but he is still around. Don't even want to think about what I am going to do when he is no longer here.