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She's asleep!  Mostly during the day, but she is getting better at night (apparently)

 Natalie's starting to smile, not quite captured here but it is awesome to see her making big steps forward.  She putting on heaps of weight too (as you can see)

What more can I say, all the details are in her mug shot!  Cute little mug though hey!  Natalie, born at 1.32 this afternoon after a 3 hour labour from my beatiful and amazing Wendy!

 The proud, and emotional dad.  No apropriate photos of mummy and baby yet, but will post them when Wendy choses one she is happy with.

WOW!  They have done it again, they have made it bigger and better every year for a few years now, and they have done a fantastic job again.  If you think you've already seen it, you havn't because it looks and feels completely different.

The Live shows on the beach front are a great change this year, to sit down on chairs in the sand and look out over the water, and have some of the best musos and singers in the city present the Christmas story in song, again WOW!  Just needed to keep an eye on my kids though as they wanted to go and push the limits with the upcoming tide.  But Kiera (2) got up in front of the stage and had a dance, she is a cutie, and we all had a great time.

It was a long night for Wendy though, she is so very pregnant at the moment and am expecting hewr to give me the nod anytime now to take her to hospital.  I have a gut feeling it will be just afte I go to bed sometime, just so I get the no sleep thing.  Looking forward to the safe arrival!  Wendy does not want it to be tomorrow though, as it is Kiera's 2nd birthday.

Wendy had the cervical suture removed today and is in hospital overnight for observation.  Everything seems to have gone really well, and we saw many specific prayers answered one by one during the day!  So anytime now, and we will have our 4th bundle of joy and we are really excited to have her born into our family.  God is awesome, and His blessings are amazing!

So theres a bub on the way, but she doesn't have a room yet!  The house is progressing well though, and we have some fantastic trades people helping big time to help me continue to be able to make progress.  Vince, our electrician, and Peter, our Airconditioning pro, have been fantastic and really accomodating!

We have the outside of the extensions almost complete, besides finishing touches and paint.  So at least everything is weather proof leading into the wet season.

I have finally finished (almost) the bathroom, after many years of stops and starts, and only have a couple of minor paint touchups to go!

So we are almost there. Hopefully by the middle of January the extension will be complete, the kids (Renee & Joshua) moved into the rooms, and then Kiera and the new baby will have their own rooms too!  Lots of work to go, but it is all really worthwhile and is exciting to see progress.

This coming Monday 18th June, Wendy will be in hospital for an operation to have a stitch inserted in her cervix.  This is a part of what has become 'normal' for all the pregnancies since the loss of our Kirsten.  There are always risks, and we ask if you are able, please pray for everything to go well for Wendy and the baby and that there will be no complications.  Everything has been going really well to date, and we continue to anticipate a safe and healthy baby in January 2008.

Wendy's mum is coming from Charters Towers for a couple of days to help with the kids, especially our little miss Kiera (above with Wendy).  That will be a huge relief for me personally not to try to juggle being with Wendy while she waits, and in recovery with supervising the children and transporting to and from school.

We are still waiting to hear from our bank as to whether we have finannce for our new car, but I suppose when it comes through it will be a huge relief and a huge blessing to pick it up on Thursday!

Sometimes in life we get news that has the potential to completely transform your life.  Often the way you respond to the circumstances that either brings life and blessing, or.....  Well we have great news, wasn't our first reaction, but it is great news and we are excited!  Wendy is pregnant and we will be having another baby in January 2008.  That would be 4, that's right 4!  New car, new house?, .........  But it is great news and we Know God has amazing plans for this little one and for our whole family.

So there has been some drastic..