Insta-life {November & December} 2014

The last two months of 2014 went by fast! I have finally made a collage of my instagram pictures from these two months to share here. I can't believe that i (almost) kept up with it for a whole year. 

November - 

1. James came to visit and had nowhere to sit :p 

2. Charlie thought that the Christmas stockings i sewed were for him

3. The canvas that i ordered. Glad to have such a special moment up on the wall. 

4. This lemon is the size of the cyst that was removed from my ovary! 

5. Sheets day

6. The Christmas stockings i sewed us

7. A bit of tennis with Asha

8. Gavin building a cubby house for daycare. 

9. The finished cubby house, can you spot Gavin?

1. Mum's birthday. 

2. My little friend :)

3. Asha was bored in the bridal shop!...

4.... so we went and had lunch together

5. Lots of effort to bite into a meringue! 

6. The lighting of the Christmas tree in Launceston. 

7. Our first Christmas tree! 

8. Some presents wrapped and ready to go under the tree! 

9. A daytime shot of the tree :) 

December - 

1. Kiara's birthday 

2. My advent calendar and nativity 

3. Off to Melbourne for the weekend! 

4. Yum churros 

5. James was such a good boy while we shopped.

6. The only way to feed - while having a massage! 

7. Still can't believe that my sister has a baby! 

8. I spy some Christmas pressies for me ;)

9. Delicious crepes!! mmmm

1. Cute beanie for a cute boy! 

2. The reason we went to Melbourne - for Gavin & Alex to go to stereosonic (a music festival).

3. Telstra had some cool Christmas window displays! 

4. Out for tea at Nandos. 

5. The love lock bridge <3 p="">

6. Happy boy to be going home! 

7. Just a few pictures of what me and Morgan got up to while the boys were at Stereosonic. 

8. Exhausted! 

9. We bought our first big TV! 

 1. Asha! 

2. Glad to have my car back and to have a dad who is a mechanic, otherwise this bill would've been a whole lot more!! 

3. Asha wrote his own name :) 

4. New linen (insert heart eye emoji)

5. Daycare Christmas pressies all done! 

6. Officially on Holidays so i did some cooking :) 

7. Jack family Christmas at the park. Sarah did so well in her highland dancing competition :) 

8. Jack family picnic.

9. Three of my cute nieces at our picnic. 

 1. Santa is coming! 

2. Merry Christmas :) 

3. Two cute boys in their new hats. 

4. The oldest and the youngest at Christmas dinner - James junior, and James senior, senior!

5. Christmas dinner at mum & Dad's. 

6. The trifle that i made! My first attempt turned out okay. 

7. Gavin testing out his Christmas present! 

8. Boxing day - helped Asha build one of his presents - Minecraft lego. 

9. One of my Christmas presents, a recipe folder that mum filled with family recipes :) 

Insta-life {September & October} 2014

Now that 2014 has finished i have to quickly play catch up with the last of my instagram photos of the year!

September -

1. Helping Morgan & Alex move house

2. At the park with Asha

3. Park with Asha

4. Happy Father's Day 

5. More appointments 

6. Anyone else's husband eat this much food!?

7. Lego with Asha

8. Throw back Thursday to when we got married

9. Clever cookie school of blog

1. Weeding Nana's garden

2. New Harry Potter books with beautiful covers 

3. Mr Whippy

4. Pretty bed linen 

5. Cuties! 

6. Running under our new sprinkler

7. Swag

8. My old and new HP books

9. Asha found an A for Asha! 

1. Meeting Aussie santa at the Christmas shop. 

2. Finger painting fun! 

3. I love my job!

October - 

1. Chey and James at Dad & Morgan's birthday

2. Dad's 40th birthday bonfire 

3. Asha found a ladybug at daycare

4. Tulip farm 

5. My not so willing model 

6. Stand out from the crowd

7. Chey taking some photos at the tulip farm 

9. Taylor Swifts new cd (which Gavin surprised me with!)

1. More tulips 

2. He posed for me once! 

3. At Morgan & Alex's Halloween party 

4. James - the cutest little pirate! 

5. Halloween monster door at daycare

6. Halloween party at daycare 

7. Slime fun at daycare!

Insta-life {August}

August was still a bit of a quiet month with me still recovering from having surgery. I was still really sore and not up to doing much. I did only have surgery on the 24th July. The surgeon said it would take about six weeks to start to feel better again. I was still off work, so it was just a quiet month of taking it easy.

Left to right, from top to bottom. 

1. Gavin looked after me so well while i was in pain! Very grateful to have him. 

2. Little flowers from the garden. 

3. Being so sore was a good chance to catch up on some reading. 

4. James' first biscuit ;) 

5. Fresh orange juice. 

6. The only way to shop. 

7. Nana's fish pond. 

8. Spring starting to appear. 

9. So sore that i couldn't keep up with the mess in the kitchen. 

1. Cuddles with my nephew. 

2. Rasta Chey on his birthday. 

3. James having a cuddle with Asha in bed. 

4. James having a cuddle with Jory. 

5. Asha is getting so good at building lego on his own. 

6. At a dermatologist in Hobart looking for help for Gavin's eczema. 

7. Nandos. 

8. Cold rock ice cream. 

9. At our hotel. 

1. Me at Nandos. Feeling so sore and knocked around from surgery. 

2. Breakfast at the hotel. 

3. Cute bubba watching me pack his nursery for their move. 

4. Cutie pie! 

5. Just love him! 

6. Asha at city park. 

7. Jory & Asha at city park.

Insta-life {July}

I've been super slack with posting my Instagram photos lately, but i am catching up now :) i love these small snippets of our months. I'm @makayla_jack if you want to follow me. 

Left to right, from top to bottom

1. Gavin meeting James. 

2. I got a letter with a date for surgery! After over a year waiting. 

3. My new books for while i am off work for surgery. 

4. Picking olives for Grandad. 

5. Olives that we picked. 

6. Beautiful day at Grandad's. 

7. We picked about 15 buckets this big of olives. 

8. Family time. 

9. Jory's 11th birthday. 

1. James' first movie ;) We saw 'sex tape', so hilarious! 

2. Quick day trip to Hobart. 

3. Hobart warf. 

4. Asha at Hobart warf. 

5. Asha. 

6. Nandos. 

7. Waking up after surgery. 

8. So glad surgery is over! 

9. I can finally eat again after surgery! 

1. They had no 'get well soon' balloons, so Gavin brought me a 'happy birthday' balloon to the hospital. 

2. Came home from hospital to my bedroom full of balloons. 

3. A little box of sunshine from a sweet friend. 

4. Baby James came to visit me! <3 nbsp="" p="">

5. Recovery reading. 

6. So much pain during the night from surgery. (i got it sorted though). 

July was a pretty quiet month with me going to hospital to have surgery, but i am glad that it is over and i have recovered. The year is going too fast! :) 

Insta-life {May & June}

I keep forgetting to post my instagram pictures, but i love having them in collages as it is then so easy to print them as 12x12 inch photos for my project life album. I love instagram for daily life documentation. I probably post way too many photos on there, but i am always glad that i have them. I am makayla_jack if you want to follow me.

When i made these collages, i put some photos out of order, which didn't bother me at the time, but it is bugging me now. I might go back and make new ones, but probably wont. So these photos are mostly may and june combined! :)

Left to right, from top to bottom.

1. Nana's birthday (which was actually in April, i wanted the pic in my instagram feed). 

2. Gavin trying to win a minion at the cinema (he didn't!)

3. Gavin's reply when i said i would like to get this bike, he knows me so well!

4. Asha being crazy on a walk. 

5. Spending the day with Asha. 

6. Asha swinging. 

7. Learning about Aussie animals in pretty, morning light. 

8. Pretty morning light!

9. Happy mail! 

1. Great coffee table books from the post office. We are big Downton Abbey fans! 

2. We had a thermomix demo. 

3. My new couch cushions arrived! 

4. 3am - me, awake... Gavin, snoring! 

5. Our kids will be worth the wait (more like the health issues). 

6. Worst. job. ever. 

7. Second worst job! 

8. Morgan's baby shower. 

9. Every time we open the dishwasher! 

1. Took off to Hobart for the weekend. 

2. Gavin's Hobart wish - Nandos. 

3. At MONA. 

4. Gavin's other Hobart wish - a sausage mcmuffin. 

5. At MONA. 

6. Out for lunch with Asha. 

7. Waiting for my appointment at the hospital. 

8. Updated my blog. 

9. All the rainy days remind me of our honeymoon! 

1. Asha left a teddy in our bed for Gavin to snuggle. 

2. Our thermomix arrived. 

3. First dinner creation in the thermie. 

4. Leaves all over our backyard! 

5. The thermomix can make a cake in less than 5 mins. 

6. Visiting the ANZAC memorial with Asha. (this was from the start of may). 

7. An amazing book! 

8. 7 years since my Unlce Stuart passed away (May 27th). 

9. Waiting at more appointments. 

1. Frost, frost, frost! 

2. In my backyard. 

3. On our way to see Morgan's baby. What are his uncle & aunty for?? 

4. Cuddling James, my first nephew!! 

Insta-life {March & April}

Time is going so fast! These past two months have been busy with work & lots of birthdays. 

Left to right, from top to bottom. 

March - 

1. Asha & Jory testing out the new sandpit. 

2. Sister Tauti & Sister Adams at Tasmazia. 

3. Happy wife, happy life! 

4. Gavin, being Gavin, at Tasmazia. 

5. Sister Adams first Golden Gaytime! (she's american)

6. Taking Sis Adams to the airport. 

7. Saying goodbye to Sis Adams & Sis Vermulen. 

8. Anniversary dinner at Hogs breathe (a month late!). 

9. Anniversary dinner. 

1. Asha playing with the antlers. 

2. New side table. 

3. Playing Blokus with Jordan & Hannah. 

4. Sprained my ankle! So painful! 

5. Love watching Asha play & learn. 

6. I never normally clean up after Gavin, but this was a once off - worth it for a tidy bedroom! His bedside table was out of control! 

7. Ordered the groceries online, in my pjs, and they were delivered. Never going to the supermarket again. 

8. 25 cent polaroid camera from the tip! Bargain of the century. 

9. Love watching Asha play. 

1. Sister Tauti's birthday. 

2. Happy Birthday Sister Tauti! 

3. My daycare kids making me some 'soup'. I love my new job! 

4. Happy mail day - love the pattern. 

5. Playing lego with Asha. 

6. Asha begs to check my mail every time he is over. 

7. Asha & Frankie. 

8. Love my job. 

9. An oldie of Gavin & Asha that i wanted in my feed. 

April - 

1. Meal organisation. 

2. My current reads. 

3. Begging for mashed potatoes! 

4. Warm enough for ice cream. 

5. Enjoying ice cream at the park. 

6. Gavin & Asha. 

7. Sunday arvo walk. 

8. Poser ;) But i love this pic. 

9. Us :) 

1. New Nike runners! 

2. Lucky that we have a watch cat. 

3. Licking the bowl from Alex's bday cake. 

4. Relaxing bath with a cup of tea & a good book. 

5. We were heart attacked by the sister missionaries. 

6. Nana turns 78. 

7. Uno with Morgan & Alex on Easter morning. 

8. Easter brunch with my whole family. 

9. Jory on Easter. 

1. Easter egg hunt in our backyard. 

2. My Easter pressie from mum & dad. 

3. Us on Easter. 

4. Took some maternity photos of Morgan & Alex. 

5. $15 doona cover = love. 

6. ANZAC Day in Deloraine. 

7. Gavin & his mum on ANZAC Day. 

8. Us on ANZAC Day. 

9. New arrivals in the mail! 

1. Gavin's birthday. Spoilt! 

2. Very excited about lego chess. Such a child ;P 

3. I hope our future babies get his dimples! 

4. Morgan made him a great cake. 

5. Cake thief! 

6. Brunch. He wishes Morgan & Alex would stay more often ;) 

7. I posted on my blog about something important. 

8. Sue's 60th birthday. She loved her gift. 

9. Received an email from Sister Stewart! 

Can't believe that it is May!!

Insta-life {January & February}

January and February we were blessed with such great weather! It was so hot and sunny. We tried to make the most of it and enjoy it while it lasted. 

Left to right, from the top. 

January - 

1. Sunset on New Years Eve. 

2. Jory at Binalong Bay.

3. Asha ready for the beach. 

4. Hanging out at the shack. 

5. Gavin building a sand castle for Asha (Binalong Bay). 

6. Chey at Binalong. 

7. Gavin's first time at Binalong. 

8. Chey photo bombing. 

9. Hanging at Binalong. 

1. Everyone together at the shack. 

2. On the way home from St Helens. 

3. Night swimming at the gorge. Still 30 degrees at 10pm! 

4. Night swimming at the gorge. 

5. Hot days at in home care!

6. Twin photoshoot. 

7. Picking Gavin up from work. 

8. Came home to a made bed and washing folded. 

9. Our cartoon drawing.

1. My birthday presents from Gavin (spoilt!). 

2. My birthday cake - a apple crumble cheesecake. 

3. Pancakes at the raspberry farm for my birthday brunch. 

4. Asha and Frankie. 

5. Nana meets Frankie. 

6. Gavin meets Kiara's rat! 

7. We took things that weighed us down in 2013 and threw them into the ocean, 

'letting them go'. It felt like a huge weight had lifted! 

8. Selfie on the beach. I love this picture so much. 

9. Sunset at said beach. 

1. Me, Nana & Papa on my birthday. 

2. Birthday presents from my parents. 

3. Selfies with Asha on my bday. 

4. Underwater selfies with Jory. 

5. Richard & Kiara, Me & Gavin. 

6. Dad, Jory, Asha at the gorge. 

7. Asha & Jory. 

8. Me & Gavin. 

9. Gavin's brother drove down from QLD and brought all of his stuff 

from his mum's place. 

1. Mask found in Gavin's stuff from QLD. He stood in the doorway and scared me! 

2. I started using my project life scrapbook stuff. 

3. Project life. 

4. Newborn twins photoshoot with Morgan. 

5. Asha's new pillow ;) 

6. Breakfast at the hotel (hobart for the Peppa Pig show).

7. Walking to the Peppa Pig show.

8. Excited for the show to start!

9. Enjoyed the show :). 

February - 

1. Sunset on the way home from Peppa Pig. 

2. Packing to move house. 

3. A new car for Gavin to run from our house to work. 

4. Chaos at the new place! 

5. That's better ;) 

6. The cutest moving helper we had ;) 

7. A house warming/anniversary gift left at the new place for us. 

8. Moving in! 

9. We love our new place, so peaceful and our neighbours 

are a lot further away than our old place. 

1. Making playdough with Asha. 

2. Making caves for the animals with playdough. 

3. Put these masks on to try and scare mum & dad at their window in the night.

4. Gavin gets so bored in spotlight. 

5. Making cookies with Asha. 

6. Finger painting with Asha! 

7. More finger painting. 

8. The sister missionaries helped us clean out the sandpit and put new sand in. 

9. Clearing branches and chopping logs at Grandad's place from the 10 gumtrees he had cut down. 

Can't believe that it is march! :) 

Insta-life {November & December}

The last two months of the year were crazy busy, and i have been slack with blogging. One of my new years resolution is to take more pictures and blog more! So now it's time to play catch up.

November

 {left to right, from the top}

1. Jory and Asha came to play while Morgan graduated college.. They wanted a 'sleep over'.

2. Gavin hates my new rug and made us get this one. 

3. Went to Jack & Jess' engagement party. 

4. The days got warmer and we played more outside during in home care. 

5. Jory had surgery and recovered well. 

6. Our niece, Emma, turned one. 

7. Emma likes our birthday present for her. 

8. Emma's first birthday cake smash.

 9. Gavin and i had a busy few weeks (with opposite shifts) and finally got to spend some time together.

 1. The sun was out so we went to the beach in George town. Gavin showed me where he used to live. 

2. Crab at the beach. 

3. More beach. 

4. Asha came to play.

5. A Christmas decoration that i found in a shop that i just love. 

6. Raspberry farm for lunch, for mum's birthday. 

7. Christmas tree in the mall + Asha. 

8. Healthy juice. We still love our juicer. 

9. Charlie models for Christmas photos. 

 

1. Gavin weeds the garden and keeps the roses alive. 

2. Our first Christmas tree. We made it (if you can't tell). 

3. A lovely nativity that is hand made in Sri Lanka (and the money from buying it goes to people in need in Sri Lanka). 

4. Cleaned out some cupboards and found my wedding dress. Wish there was somewhere else that i could wear it, love it so much! 

5. Gavin picked me a rose. 

6. Found an easy no cook play dough recipe for in home care. 

7. Finally got some instagram pictures printed into a poster.

8. Charlie naps on our bed. 

9. I had tonsillitis for a while and it really knocked me about. I was glad to start feeling better! Gavin did such a good job of taking care of me. 

And that was November!! 

 

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December 

1. My bestie, Kiara, turned 21. 

2. Asha being crazy at Kiara's party.

3. Asha had a robot & rocket 4th birthday party. 

4. Asha enjoying his rocket birthday cake. 

5. Asha loving his George teddy from Peppa Pig. 

6. We got curtains! 

7. Daddy pig, Mummy pig, Peppa & George go to Batman's batcave for tea. 

8. Took Charlie in the car to pick up Gavin from work. 

9. Charlie says hello to Alex's fish.

1. End of year staff dinner for Subway. (Theme - country & western). 

2. At the work dinner. 

3. Gavin gets 'best senior sandwich artist for his store. 

4. Someone please tell Gavin that Movember is over ;) 

5. Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

6. I got a new car. 

7. Also got a new laptop. 

8. Jacqui's baby, Nate, was born. 

9. Having a cuddle with Nate. 

 

 1. Christmas sewing. 

2. Hit my first animal in the new Ford Focus. 

3. The Christmas jammies that i made. 

4. Christmas Eve together. 

5. Fondu on Christmas Eve. 

6. Our first Christmas together. 

7. Gavin's present to me - polaroid camera. Love it so much. 

8. Riding Asha's new motorbike 'that the elves made'. 

9. Christmas Day rides. 

1. Playing in Asha's new cubby house. He told me to take my shoes off because 'there's carpet inside'.. i said 'oh, is there?'.. he said 'it's not real Makayla, just pretend!'

2. The nativity scene that i spotted before Christmas dropped to half price in the boxing day sale! 

3. Christmas Day selfie from my polaroid camera.

4. Me & Gavin, Kiara & Richard at greens beach. 

5. Morgan & Alex at greens beach. 

6. More of greens beach. 

7. Our Christmas present from mum & dad - a tv cabinet. We're slowly getting some furniture! 

8. At the shack for a few days in St Helens. 

9. New years eve on the beach in St Helens.

And that's December! November and December both flew by!

Insta-life {October}

I can't believe that October is over already and it is half way through November. 

I am still loving instagram, it is such a good way for us to document our busy life. I am trying to make more of an effort to record our pictures on the blog and also to print them, to look at in the future. I'm @makayla_jack on instagram if you want to follow me. 

{left to right, from the top}

1. Charlie was playing in my prop highchairs. I swear we don't pose him. 

2. Subway got flat bread. And it's here to stay ;) 

3. I bought a rug for the lounge room and Gavin hates it. Charlie loves it. 

4. I bought Gavin and i awesome drink bottle. Motivation to drink lots more water. p.s. they're awesome and we use them everyday. Well worth the $12.95.

5. Very first year i didn't miss out on the Frankie journal! Excited. 

6. I made my first pastry pie. Chicken & leak - yum. 

7. 10 minute chicken, broccoli & cashew stirfry - super yum. 

8. Went to guide falls with nana and papa & agnes and pete. 

9. Went to emu valley rhododendron gardens. So pretty. 

1. Asha was so cute when i went to visit. 

2. Went to the movies to see Turbo with our nieces & nephews. Gavin found his best mates. 

3. Found a new perfume that i love. It was on sale - bonus. 

4. Ate snakes for breakfast on the way to church. 

5. Put Asha to bed and read him a story. He seems so little still. 

6. Morgan turned 18. 

7. A friend came by with their whipper snipper and did our lawns without us asking. 

8. The lawns look awesome. 

9. Went to a best friend's baby shower. Can't wait to meet her baby. 

10. Went to explore a photo location. 

11. Gavin walked an Alpaca at the Alpaca farm. 

12. Went to the Tulip farm with mum & Asha. 

13. Pretty tulips. 

14. Asha was being so ridiculously cute at the tulip farm. 

15. More tulip pics. 

16. I took way too many pics there. A whole post coming soon. 

17. Charlie still loves the rug! 

18. I started a new job as an in home carer for NCN. 

Time is going so fast!

Insta-life {September}

September was good to us.

Here's a wrap up of our September. All photos were taken on instagram, everyone who knows me knows that i am addicted to that app! Such an easy way to take photos and share them. I am @makayla_jack on there if you want to find me. I downloaded the photos to my computer from this website and made them into a collage with pic monkey.

{Left to right from the top}

1. We bought a juicer and started making our own fresh juice. 

2. Charlie loves the sunny spots in our house. 

3. The blossoms are out! Yay for spring! 

4. Asha snuck onto Chey's xbox and started to talking to his friend. 

5. Gavin bought me a gift 'just because'. 

6. We got a Christus statue. We always imagined having one in our house, and now we do. 

7. We bought some new furniture! 

8. Charlie always climbs along the fence like this. Makes us laugh! 

9. We started trying to drink only water. 

1. We went to Hobart for the weekend. Gavin had a snow cone for the first time ever at Salamanca market. 

2. Enjoying our time in Hobart. 

3. We went to Zoe's mission farewell. 

4. Our new bed set up. (also new doona cover and cushions) 

5. I got my first aid certificate. 

6. We took Asha on a date to see Planes. 

7. We made our first green smoothie. 

8. More new bedroom furniture. 

9. We got a heat pump. Just in time for summer! ;) 

 1. Took Asha to the beach after we watched Planes. 

2. Eating healthy.

3. Charlie naps on our bed every day. 

4. I dusted off my sewing machine. 

5. Bought our first Christmas decorations! 

6. So. Much. Washing. 

7. Charlie naps on our bed. Again. 

8. The cushions i sewed!

9. Christmas decorations start to appear in shops. (already!)

And that was September! Crazy to think that it's October already! 

Queensland in Instagram

We were in Queensland for three lovely weeks. I have SO many photos to sort through and edit. I shot in RAW and am wishing i shot in JPEG so i could just blog them and put them on facebook, but it's too late now :) As soon as i have finished this major photography assignment for TAFE i will be starting on the QLD ones.

But for now here is a small snapshot of our time there, from my iphone (in no particular order). All pictures are taken and edited with the Instagram iphone app- which i am obsessed with. (You can find me on there and follow me as mickey_maranda)

Asha's new shoes...

Sunset in Bundaberg...

How i eat smarties...

Asha's party trick at wet n wild...

Morgan at Surfer's Paradise...

Eating biscuits in the car while everyone is at the beach...

Pelicans at Surfer's Paradise...

Crazy seagulls at Surfer's...

The Scooby Doo coaster at Movie World...

Penguins at Seaworld...

Asha playing in a hotel...

Wiggles World at Dreamworld...

Draculas Cabaret for Morgan & Dad's birthday (which was awesome!)...

Asha drinking a milo...

Cold rock ice cream...

Asha trying a hat in Big W...

Racing a car in a shopping center...

Morgan with a tiny hat and a giant rat...

And home again... Hello Tasmania :)