just swingin'

We spent last weekend at a house near Stanford with my family. We've been going there every year for my Mum's birthday weekend since 2006.

The first year it was just my parents, two brothers and my husband.
The next year my older brother's girlfriend joined us and I was pregnant.
The next she was with us again as his new wife and Friday was 9 months old.
A year in between.
Then one with me heavily pregnant (we went in Feb that year for that reason).
Last year we celebrated my Mum's birthday and Sunday's 1st together.
This year my younger brother was absent (abroad) but we made enough noise, ate enough food and laughed enough laughs for a crowd twice our size.

There's a pond down the bottom of the property, with a swing rigged up in a giant Gum tree next to it. Each year since 2008 Friday and her Dad have conspired to give my father conniptions by swinging out over the water on it.

 2008

 2009

 2010

 2011

This year she swung out herself.

2012

Fly my precious girl, fly.