"you got like 3 feet of air that time"

It's not often that Ethan wants to "do anything".. so when he asked dad if he wanted to help him make a skateboard ramp dad jumped at the idea. They whipped it up pretty quickly and we went out in the afternoon to test it out. when i say we i mean ethan and dad. i was just there for photographic evidence.

He was pretty shaky at the beginning but by the time the sun set he was awesome.

friday the 13th

I swear Ethan has the coolest friends. They are a little on the nerdy side... but cool, any excuse to get dressed up really. He asked me to rough him up for a party. We had fun.

 Before & After

He's growing up so fast

My little brother Ethan is the last of the 5 of us to finish high school. Being the youngest he has always said that he is forgotten, but thats the furtherest from the truth. After coming back home from Sydney I can now see how easy he actually has it with mum and dad.. he has them wound around his little finger, and that goes for me as well. From an early age I've always mothered him.. Mum tells me stories of when we were younger and Ethan was just a baby, i would get jealous when others held him, i would time their cuddles and take back "my baby" when they had exceeded the limit. I never let him out of my site. 16 years on and not much has changed. I still look out for him. Decipher his grunts (his way of communicating) to know what he wants and pull him up when his isn't doing the right thing... Thats what  big sisters are for? Right?

His year 12 formal was last saturday and he only informed us a few weeks before.. he hadn't even organised a date.. long story short he got there. He invited an old friend (Teenie) from primary school, fortunately for him she was able to round up a dress last minute...she really is amazing inside and out. I offered to do her make-up and my mum and I made his dates corsage and his buttonhole.. it took a few tries but it definitely paid off. The flower corsages you get from our local florist are beautiful i just thought we could make it awesomerer.. I'm glad we did, it was little the cherry on top...the only thing i regret is.. i didn't take any close up shots of it, i was so pushed for time this week, it didn't even cross my mind.

the best part of all of this is, going down and watching all of them walk in.. check out the other dresses and suits but most of all..the flash cars come out for the night and they are all in the one convenient location (which is how i persuaded Mick to join me). People get pretty creative, in their mode of transportation. This year a couple came on the back of a John Deere Tractor.

As well as doing Teenie's make-up i was able to do my beautiful cousin Natalie as well. 

I felt like a proud mother seeing him walk down the red carpet. ALSO just to top it off..he won Beau of the Ball..equivalent to "King of Prom" which just makes his last year of high school that more special.  

longboard love.

One of the many perks of living in such a rural area is that, a 2 minute drive (or in my case a 15 minute walk) takes you enough out of town to think that you are in the middle of nowhere.. with scenery you could find on a postcard. Ethan and I went out and took a few shots of him doing some sick tricks, with the sun in our eyes and the flies on our backs. i love lazy saturdays.