Well, shiver me timbers and sharpen me sword

this is what happens... you tell a bunch of ywamers theres going to be theme party and they talk about it for weeks prior to the event and i'll tell ya... when theres a theme party around this hood, we go all out or we go home... so the amazing comm life department hosted a pirate murder mystery party called "Murder Among the Mateys." basically, it was a night of role playing and everyone got a character to act out and throughout the night, you got clues to figure out who the murderer was... i played the galley wench 'Uma Scarr'. yah. good times... it was absolutely brilliant how everyone got into it.... oh like i said, we get into it or we go home... arrrrrrrrrrrr....

pin the nose on rudolf

we actually did it. we had Christmas in July at nick and saras and oh what a glorious celebration it was! from eggnog to hot apple cider, to caroling in the neighborhood, to putting up the mistletoe (also known as tomato leaves) to watching Elf and playing pin the - not tail on the donkey- but you guessed it... pin the nose on rudolf. we had a lot of good laughs and christmas outbursts whenever someone would walk in and our neighbors most likely thought we were nutz... but you know what, seize the day... were evidently bringing life to the community and its even merrier when you do it with friends.... merry jolly christmas in july everyone and may the yultide carols make your heart all warm and fuzzy until the real thing... next up? ohh.. if we only knew...

O, say can you see

yes, i am living in Australia for the time being... but it doesn't necessarily mean that the American holidays don't live on. probably because i'm pretty much surrounded by Americans and you can't really forget about these events. so yes... my friends and i decided we were going to celebrate independence day with a mini sparkler ceremony down by the beach. it was great fun... though towards the end it felt like it turned into a toxic inhalation party because of the fumes and the sound of cancer coughs... we created memories anyhow and was quite memorable.

sing with me now... "O, say can you see by the dawn's early light... What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming..."

this is my space.

this foto is taken in my office and this is what i look at everytime i look up at my ceiling over my desk. my friend did this. and yes, it is my space. which therefore, makes it joanna space.

world- this is xavier

oh... allow me to do the introductions...

world- this is Xavier Moses Haythorpe...
and Xavier, say hello to the world....

so my good friends luke and angela just welcomed their fourth and last child into the clan last saturday, march 29 at 6:28 p.m and hes a cute one i tell ya and hes been smothered with lots of love already... i was honored to be right there in the room to greet the little guy and to capture these moments of life- and to be reminded once again that this... life... is a miracle. i keep this up- i'll be a mid-wife slash fotographer... or mid-fotographer or foto-wife... okay, this entry is done. check out my flickr for more fotos of the birth of baby moses...
welcome to the worldxavier

flowery foo-foo easter sunday dress

happy resurrection day.... im a bit late (whats new) with this entry but still- i hope that everyones easter celebration was splendid... some random thoughts came to me about my childhood and celebrating easter sunday growing up... and how everything as a kid is exciting... you know, my new flowery foo-foo easter sunday dress with white tights and the matching white pink hat and white gloves, dying the eggs and bringing it to the easter egg hunt in my cool matching basket.... all of it... *sigh *.

He is... risen!