Blessings from Above

Happy New Year! Isn't it amazing how another year just went by like that? hopefully 2010 will be a better year for everyone! the year started on a positive note for us so far - we managed to sort out the childcare arrangements somewhat and at the same time, found ourselves an (bigger) 'interim' home! looking forward to the move! we spent the first day of the new year watching birds... :P the lazy gal just refuses to walk when dh is around the penguin enclosure more coming up...

how can a holiday to australia not include visiting their native animals, right? as planned, we drove an hour+ north to the lone pine koala sanctuary . after five days of relatively mild winter with temperatures hovering around early twenties... i decided this was how claire should be dressed and what do you know? the rains came falling down and the temperature went below 20 degrees... our 1st stop was the barn animals - claire was really excited to see the animals - she couldn't stop squealing in delight and kept pointing at the animals for us to give her the names so we didn't manage to take many shots of her looking at the camera! and after a while, her hands felt really cold so i took off my jacket to let dh 'wrap' it around her. a photo with the free roaming skippies - you can't actually tell that it was raining but it was! many, many skippies! close up of a skippy - can u spot the joey? daddy & bb tan with the other key res...