A wonderful time of year...

Dear family and friends,
This is my favourite time of year. We have enjoyed numerous public holidays , beautiful sunny glorious weather without it being too hot, the colours of autumn in the Adelaide Hills and the late summer/ early autumn fruits and vegetables are in season. That means succulent corn on the cob, apples, plums, chestnuts, quince, onions, organic walnuts at the side of the road, golden pumpkins. It truly is a glorious time of year.

Since our Easter weekend and our trip on the riverboat we have enjoyed an outing to Cleland Wildlife Park where Amelia met a number of kangaroos and was brave enough to get up close and personal.

We have enjoyed spending time with Zoe and James and Zoe's kids. Zoe and James are setting up a much needed domestic cleaning business up here in the hills. James has been back to the UK to get his working visa and has arrived back with it in his hot little hands. Finally! We have been busy with various things. Amelia is really growing up and has a growing vocabularly. She is a also a very cheeky little vegemite. And very strong willed. Hmmm wonder where she might get that trait from!!

Iain and I have been to a couple of black tie dinners and enjoyed being out by ourselves and being dressed up! I was presenting an award at the SA Media Awards and the company that Iain works for was celebrating 50 years.

Iain spent the weekend in Mebourne catching up with friends and watching the football while Amelia and I spent some relaxing girlie time at home.

Now the weather is starting to turn to winter and soon we will begin to hibernate until we pack up for our holiday to sunny Canada in July.

I am busy with my board responsibilities for DIRC (the disability information resource centre) who are starting to look for ways to self fund since the state government cut their funding by $200,000 and also trying to raise their profile with some media exposure.

Work is going well and while I'm very busy I am enjoying it immensely. Lots of challenges.

We have a couple of exciting events coming up in May, our 2nd wedding anniversary and Iain's birthday so we will be combining those events and having a nice dinner out somewhere.

I have also been learning how to make home movies from the video footage we have. I now have a .mac web gallery and so if you're interested in having a look at some recent footage, visit
http://gallery.mac.com/cpatrick27#gallery
Lots of love to you all
Caroline, Iain and Amelia

Having fun in the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens

Amelia found a stick that she thought was great fun

James playing with Mitchell and Amelia

Zoe and Amelia Zoe looking beautiful
James and Mitchell playing footie

Cool Dude Amelia

James took the following 3 photos of Amelia playing in the water - we think they are wonderful photos

Here is Amelia and her little friend Emily having their lunch

and then playing house

And here we are in our finery at the SA Media Awards