Happy Christmas Eve

Hopefully everyone is having a fantastic Christmas eve and are getting ready for an even better Christmas day with family and or friends.

We had a pretty quite Christmas eve enjoying some lovely Tasmanian Salmon that a customer through work flew in for us.


Usually I'm not a huge salmon fan (mainly scarred by bad packet salmon from the supermarket) but this was sensational, so very rich.


Of course prior we enjoyed a lovely selection of cheeses and wine and of course the mandatory watching of the carols on the tv.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and I'll be sure to update our Christmas day going on's at some point hopefully even with some SebTV.


Here's a pic of Seb keeping cool the other day :)

Turning 29....

What an eventful year!

My 29th Birthday was a nice relaxing day home with the family. Deb, Sebastian and the boys (dogs) Amare & Farley.

Kicked back and enjoy the NBA double header - although my boys the Phoenix Suns lost by three points :( also enjoyed a lovely home made brunch of bacon and eggs.

We took Seb for his first cruise in his Hummer - oh wait up it's a Jeep - close enough. So off to the park with Seb in his Jeep pram (took a few folded towels under neath him so he'd fit - he so little :)

   



Amare and Farley loved playing fetch whilst Deb, Seb and myself relaxed under the shade of a tree.

Deb made the best tasting brownies EVER for my birthday cake and whilst there are plenty left I'm sure they won't last long.

   

Thanks to all for the lovely birthday wishes via email, sms, card etc and of course thankyou all for the fantastic gifts.

Keep well.

SebTV - Read On...

Welcome to SebTV! Well not quite but with the way the net is going these days.....

Below are some clips from the last few days that I have uploaded to YouTube.

Before we get onto the YouTube clips, this first one is from a relatively new site called UStream which gives users the ability to record (stream) live from their phone onto the net, that's right LIVE! I can sit here recording the goings on of life and you can all kick back anywhere in the world and tune in. Ok the quality isnt amazing, but considering what it is achieving I'm pretty impressed. Oh and of course the recorded streams/clips are archived for viewing at anytime.

So here is my first UStream attempt recorded earlier today.



Hopefully there will be plenty more UStream to come. Be sure to bookmark my UStream page for archived and LIVE streams/clips.
UStream - anewman13 - SebTV
Of course all of these usefull links can be found under the links on the right and via the icons at the very bottom of the blog.


Now onto the YouTube Clips - YouTube offers a better quality but obviously isn't live and requires a bit of time and editing to upload, whilst the 'good moments' will still be uploaded to YouTube more and more on the fly recording will be done through UStream purely for the ease and speed in which the clips can be up online for all to see Live or archived.

So keep the YouTube page bookmarked as well http://www.youtube.com/anewman13/

Of course all of these usefull links can be found under the links on the right and via the icons at the very bottom of the blog.



Day 8 - Bottle Feeding



Day 14 - Hiccups



Day 14 - Mr Happy, Mr Stretchy



Day 17 - Hometime



Day 18 - Settling in at home

Pantry World

What to do whilst waiting for little Sebastian to come home, why build a pantry of course.
Ok truth be known the pantry building was planned before Sebastian's arrival with the folks coming over for my birthday, a early Christmas and for me to utilise dads tools and skills in building a fully fledged pantry to replace our shelving unit. A unit which was custom built some seven years ago for a totally different house and space, it has served us well and will continue to do so - but now as storage shelving.


Thanks to dad for lugging his tools all the way over and his hard work on the wall/door frame and getting me started on the shelves.
Thanks to Ann for being my slave girl in holding shelves and for all her crazy sanding and first coat of paint on the walls.


I'm extremely happy with how it turned out, now that it's all painted (two coats) it looks awesome. Of course it isn't totally complete with a door handle to go on and door to be painted at some point, but it is definetly usable.




Now for the fun part of re-stocking it, working out what to put where (the fun part).

Oh and of course the iminent trip to bargain bulk shopping at Costco :)