Pregnant Photos

Hi all, hope your all well! Heard from most of you over the hols and got lots of chrissy cards with updates, which was really great! Thanks! Just another update on the belly. It seems to have grown quite a bit in the last few weeks, all is going well we're really just waiting to go in to labour now! Somehow it doesn't quite feel like the real thing - I know that will change in a hurry!

Brooke comes home in about 2 weeks and Mehdi may follow a few days later. She has 5 days here so I'm trying to get baby in to the right frame of mind (hope it's working). Mum is coming to visit us and help me out around the house (getting ready) on Thursday and Grandma and Grandfather have also decided to come to mum and dads in about a week! All very exciting, can't wait to see G&G, we haven't seen them on the GC for ages! Ayden is back at work and getting prepared for the arrival as well - or so he tells me. I'm still not sure how cleaning out the shed and organising his tools/machinery is preparing :)?

My girlfriend, Debbie has a flash camera and took some great photos for us. Thought I'd share some of them with you! Thanks Deb they are really great xx

Love to all and we'll be in touch!

Ayden, Jess and Barkiss xxx

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! We have just come back from a great 10 days with mum and dad up on the Sunshine Coast. We had a really great time eating (too much of course), drinking and swimming! Below are a few photos to illustrate. Hope you all had a great holiday xxx

The second night up north we had 'tree setting up night', complete with egg nogg of course.

Ayden and I getting through the tree.

Dad pretty much supervised the whole time, decoration placement was very important :)

Putting the finishing touch on the tree - the Angel. It was mum and dad's turn this year.

The finished product - beautiful!

Mum and I found these Reindeer ears (they light up and play Christmas tunes) at the $2 shop and couldn't resist. Dad wasn't so happy!

Barkiss wasn't so sure either :)

We packed up the table and chairs from the pool area and decided to have our Aussie Christmas down the back amongst the trees, it was really nice and cool!

We had all this beautiful food - enough for 20 people, we managed to put a descent dent in it though!

Mum looking gorgeous as always - wearing a Christmas present (pearl necklace).

This was our setup - you can see the chook house in the background.

Getting ready to start the feast!

Happy New Year!

This was our possie for new year - we had packed a picnic and gone down to the river at Noosaville. It was a really nice night - we ate and drank (AGAIN) and watched the sun go down.

We were all wishing this was our boat - anyway the night sky was just as nice :)

Dad enjoying the view and the beer.

All our home made dip and goodies to get us through the night.
Unfortunately I couldn't last all night - we ended up seeing the fireworks on the telly at home for our new year (sorry guys).

Thanks for having us for Christmas mum and dad, it was a great holiday xx