We enjoyed fresh cherries and cheese - despite temperatures above 100 degrees.
2 Responses to "Sunday sunshine :: picnic"
1 | MuM
Hard to believe…above 100 degrees;
Especially when we feel we’re about to freeze!
MuM/Grandma
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2 | Jen
Fresh cherries and cheese sounds like the perfect picnic!
Jen´s last blog ..Potato Candy 
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- month in review and September goals
- mourning
- kiddo quotes
- we'll miss you, Grandpa
- Vi’s birthday breakfast
- celebrating Vi
- three-two-one
- Vi eats a banana
- supersonic scarecrows
- moving ahead
- our first attempt at vegetable gardening
- the box room is no more
- the ABC song: violin and drum duet
- kiddo quotes
- the latest train track creation
- science with Baba: relative and absolute time
- Nikki is reading
- free range Vi
- lunchtime learning with sandwiches
- Michael, could you throw the ball to Mama?
- catechism review
- Nikki’s first performance
- ► Jul 2010
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- month in review and August goals
- baby in the mirror
- the pen-scoop method
- begin again
- hi, scooterist!
- Ben's rich and creamy cheesecake
- bowing and bowing
- torso back carry
- cheesecake and the wonders of coulis
- offense vs defense
- more intentional in prayer
- a parenthetical expression
- kids prepping pancakes
- drummer girl
- homemade yogurt
- Vi moves to her own bed
- simul-poo
- sleepy oatmeal
- Independence Day Fair
- baby gate
- month in review and July goals
- ► Jun 2010
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- The Beach House Kids Fun Centre
- clean, fresh diaper
- paint stripping
- lunar eclipse
- Vi in a red dress
- homeschooling close-in-age siblings
- learning to read and write
- her name is Sakioroma
- clapping and giggling
- making even more tracks
- spit coughs
- look at that...
- Bible study with littlies
- do not be anxious
- making tracks
- Nikki's first babywearing demo
- triplex nursing
- woodfired birthday pizza
- Vi signals to be picked up
- who am I? my name is Ned
- June goals
- ► May 2010
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- the Versatile Blogger award
- a slice of the three kiddo life
- autumn leaves
- simultaneous story time
- around and around and around we go
- quiet reading time
- reading
- cruising
- shoe organisation
- Michael's drum kit
- afternoon rest time
- cheerfully marauding wherever she goes
- Jake the Pillow Snake
- giant potato feeds family of five
- beginning chores
- purrfect perch
- ► Apr 2010
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- how I spend much of my time
- the conductor game
- one satisfied wearee
- Michael's first swimming lesson
- three-day weekend
- ode to eatmeal
- reading aloud with littlies
- the entertainers
- Red Bull air race :: Perth 2010
- live in central Perth
- one way to delay eating her peas
- and lorikeets dropped by
- seven times
- siblings and a sand table
- day trip to the Pinnacles
- an artist's interpretation
- spinach dip in a homemade bread bowl
- DIY whilst babywearing
- virgin peach bellinis
- a bit of a bite
- happy Easter
- come on out, percussion!
- three kids and a cat
- ► Mar 2010
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- the longer I live...
- swimming lessons: jumping in
- Carrie and Michael's wedding
- tiny loo
- Vi is on the move
- kids' adventures in babywearing
- Vi is feeling...
- croup!
- Seeds CD worldwide giveaway
- two front teeth
- neighbourhood cat
- Vi's chat show :: episode one
- homemade baby wipes
- proms in the park
- drink pink
- watercolour painting
- artisan bread in five minutes per day
- pink and blue stripes
- jam session
- the spoon is better than the food
- Michael Foreman's Nursery Rhymes
- ► Feb 2010
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- learning from Jonah
- have you any S-N-O-D?
- Vi's chat show :: promo pictures
- reading together
- Pear Budget
- memorizing catechism
- Vi's first bite
- sharing
- Nikki likes the LIKEaBIKE
- sitting up
- unconditional love, unconditional respect
- dedicating Vi to the Lord
- at least he gave it a try
- on the play mat
- Michael turns two
- Sunday sunshine :: Point Walter
- Child Basic Resuscitation :: Australia
- Child Basic Resuscitation :: choking
- Child Basic Resuscitation :: restart the heart
- Child Basic Resuscitation :: DRABCD
- Child Basic Resuscitation :: introduction
- ► Jan 2010
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- Nikki's first swimming lesson
- five minutes with Michael
- toilet training Lex
- picture this
- Australian redback spider
- sunbeams
- at Catherine's birthday party
- "you need to talk to him about it"
- homeschooling thoughts
- Sunday sunshine :: photo shoot
- potty training power
- blessed beyond words
- homemade bleach wipes
- this year I resolve to...
- Vi is like a box of chocolates
- ► 2009
- ► Dec 2009
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- 2009 cuteness in motion
- Vi's first ride in the Ergo
- Sunday sunshine :: tennis trainer
- Vi's first Christmas tree
- early days of homeschooling
- let it snow
- Our God - music and lyrics by Nikki
- Sunday sunshine :: picnic
- Vi's blue eyes
- she's on a roll
- Sunday sunshine :: a break in the driving
- Vi holds Baby
- happy feet
- quite possibly the noisiest swings in Perth
- handling endless requests
- Vi has her passport
- ► Nov 2009
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- holding Vi on our laps
- Sunday sunshine :: playground near Lake Monger
- sunhat
- nursing infants and toddlers
- immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine
- playing together
- for mamas and babies on the go
- look who's three months old
- Sunday Sunshine :: Inaugural WA Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race
- Nikki plays the "violin"
- the end of a busy week
- the Honest Scrap award
- until the red disappears
- applying for Vi's passport
- shuttling back and forth
- Sunday sunshine :: garden gate
- happy homeowners
- researching internet service providers
- exuding joy
- moving in
- catechism for young children
- driving the dining room chairs
- Sunday sunshine :: The View, Fremantle
- splash!
- today
- ExeLoo automated public toilet in Subiaco
- playtime with Baba
- two balloons
- never too early...
- Sunday sunshine :: arched bridge in King's Park
- ► Oct 2009
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- until next time
- Grandma's lap, Grandpa's lap
- the 3:10 to Grandma
- UNO® strategy with Grandpa
- first trip to the dentist
- shocking events at the Perth Mint
- climbing fun in Freo
- grandfather, granddaughter
- at a farmhouse in Pemberton
- Beedelup Falls
- Grandma talks to her hat
- Pemberton Tram
- traipsing through the treetops
- Apple FunPark through Michael's eyes
- grandmother, granddaughter
- photo shoot with Vi
- ► Sep 2009
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- Sunday sunshine :: Smoke Free Perth Royal Show 2009
- impeccable timing
- safe, snuggly, and sleepy
- numnums
- Vi's delight
- newborn secured high back carry
- rest and well-being
- sleep
- Wishpot - online gift list
- first dictionary
- hand knit happiness
- Sunday sunshine :: Serpentine Falls
- Nikki bakes a cake
- dollhouse unveiled
- sleepy celebrant
- Nikki turns three
- Nikki holds Vi
- the joy of sliding
- Vi waves "hi"
- snail mail
- coastal playground
- Dr Michael
- new sippy cups
- ► Aug 2009
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- newborn babywearing
- Vi in black and white
- father, daughter
- big brother, little sister
- wearing Baby
- Michael reads 'Mr Greedy'
- sisters
- Vi's birth story
- welcoming Vi
- matching and counting with dominoes
- sharing communion
- Sunday sunshine :: boardwalk
- 7 quick takes: natural pregnancy and after birth remedies
- double puzzle
- birth preparation: the birth room
- tea set tablecloth / play mat
- birth preparation: "Our Water Baby" by Amy Maclean and Jan Nesbitt
- Sunday sunshine :: Heirisson Island
- Michael is 18 months old
- dollhouse for Nikki's third birthday
- stack of napkins
- Lego® / Duplo® play mat
- gifts from the new baby
- week 38: name game
- fun in the sun
- 37 week bump at 32 degrees south latitude
- ► Jul 2009
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- got it!
- Michael's first sentence
- week 37: nesting
- celebrity chef, Baba!
- 7 quick takes: winter cold edition
- playing quietly
- week 35: midwife Nikki
- "my shoe is off, my foot is cold..."
- girls' night out at the orchestra
- Nikki says "I love you!"
- tug, tug
- celebrating the 4th in Perth
- how cold is it?
- Nikki's prayer
- ► Jun 2009
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- phone conversations
- Sunday sunshine :: rocky coast
- 7 quick takes
- super stripey singers
- favourite pregnancy things - volume 3
- celebrating ten wonderful years
- 30 weeks: visit to backup hospital
- Baba's special drink
- wrap up from Ben's parents' visit
- music class - class action photos
- Sunday sunshine :: at the playground
- Fremantle shadows, anchors, and statues
- date night
- City of Perth Library story time
- Cottesloe Beach and Indiana Tea House
- New Norcia - Australia's only monastic town
- ► May 2009
- ► Apr 2009
- ► Mar 2009
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- we'll miss you, Grandma
- Michael's first steps
- heard at the dinner table
- week 18: first midwife appointment
- where is Michael?
- the secret is in the sauce
- 7 quick takes: living green edition
- potty regression and recovery
- planning a home birth in Perth
- favourite house features: laundry room
- make a joyful noise
- "Mama, are you normal?"
- I won!
- favourite house features: east-facing view
- food preferences in pregnancy
- Michael demonstrates the playroom
- ► Feb 2009
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- Nikki's new bed
- expectant
- favourite house features: under the sink
- cute clothes for breastfeeding mamas
- a year of tandem nursing
- fun at the playground
- how did you spend your Valentines' Day?
- boxes, boxes, everywhere - and no path to our sink!
- foods we choose: Nikki edition
- first birthday
- music
- foods we choose: Michael edition
- ► Jan 2009
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- Nikki loves letters
- Me [take] rake downstairs?
- Subi Church is our church
- Matisse
- add your picture to your comments
- church hunt: Subiaco Church of Christ
- why I don't Facebook
- church hunt: Riverside
- grapes
- church hunt: Grace City Church
- smiles
- church hunt: Metro Church
- please, mr postman
- church hunt: churches near us in East Perth
- shiny new things
- at the playground today
- moving right along...
- welcome to the new Blissful E
- happy new year 2009
- ► 2008
- ► Dec 2008
- ► Nov 2008
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- 30: Wait a Minute... Which Nation?
- 29: Greater Understanding of the World
- 28: Designing Furniture is Fun
- 27: Faith Without Works is Dead
- 26: Safety Rules, Unsafe Execution
- 25: As You Like It
- 24: Foot Washing is More Than Symbolic
- 23: Spelling is Optional
- 22: The Story of Koshari
- 21: Mail Forwarding Enables Global Internet Shopping
- 20: Forms of Fasting
- 19: 'God Willing' can be Taken Too Far
- 18: White Board = Better Communication
- 17: Don't Hesitate to Pray
- 16: Why I Am Here
- 15: Be Restrictive at First, Then Loosen Up - Not the Other Way Around
- 14: Friends Who Keep In Touch Across the Globe
- 13: Our Apartment Was Bugged
- 12: Dirt is Not Too Dirty
- 11: Some Ants Can Be Ignored
- 10: Kids Believe What You Say About Them
- 9: The Art of Reciprocal Friendship
- 8: Children are Blessings
- 7: Missionaries are People, Too
- 6: Home Remedies for Common Childhood Illnesses
- 5: Having a Maid Can Be Hard
- 4: Having a Maid Is Great
- 3: Temporary Accommodation is Great for Mobility
- 2: Potty Training Really Is Possible
- 1: Mums are Better Together
- ► Oct 2008
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- Michael's first Halloween
- NaBloPoMo 2008
- the kindness of strangers
- on the terrace at sunset
- first tooth
- strange facts about E
- Ben's favourite things
- last visit to Dr Omar
- bread from scratch
- newborn
- streamline and simplify
- clapping technology
- first hair accessory
- scrumptious Cyprus
- entertaining two
- technological breakthroughs
- ► Sep 2008
- ► Aug 2008
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- UNO® with Nikki house rules
- a diaper too far
- breastfeeding challenges: blocked ducts and milk blisters
- El-Borg
- a hungry caterpillar's tale
- fun with food and hat and shoes
- dominoes
- a new continent
- Michael's first meal
- singing
- six-month stats
- half-birthday at the beach
- Michael's half birthday
- role play
- 60-hour outage
- little deuce coupe
- ► Jul 2008
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