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Show us the best picture you took in 2006.
Submitted by Captured Moments.

2006 was a really eventful year for us. 

When looking through all my photos I realised how much had happened, so  instead of showing my best picture I have decided to show the highlights of my year.2006 was a really eventful year.  When looking through all my photos I realised how much had happened, so  instead of showing my best picture I have decided to show the highlights of my year.

2006 was definitely the year of babies!

 

This photo shows Sam at 1 month old.  Sam is was the first child born within our group of friends, he's Derek and Estelle's son and he was born a few weeks early on 21 Feb 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

We had a very mild winter at the end of 2005 and thought that we were into spring when at the beginning of March we had the most amazing snow storm with 75cm of snow falling within 24hours. A record amount of snow in Basel!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks later, spring arrived and we attended a huge food festival nearby in Lörrach Germany, there were stalls selling everything a foodie could wish for.  Stewart was drooling at the sight of all these olives!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second baby of the year was Jake, he was born to Frank and Claire in May 2006.  Unfortunately I don't have a picture here of the third baby who came 6 weeks early to Amanda and André.  He's a happy healthy little boy also named Sam!

 

 

 

 

 

 

May was a very happy month which also saw the marriage of one of my closest friends - Kate she married her Swiss fiancé Sacha in the highlands of Scotland.  It was the most incredible day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

June saw the arrival of the World Cup, held in our neighbouring country of Germany.  The atmosphere was fabulous!!  We went on vacation for a week to the Black Forest and my Uncle travelled over to join us.  The weather was glorious and we also took a day trip to the beautiful city of Konstanz.  Highly recommended.

 

 

 

 

 

July bought us more visitors this time in the shape of my Aunt, my cousin and her two daughters.  We are all extremely close and had the best time!  The weather was extremely hot!! We took the girls to the local Gartenbad (outdoor swimming pool), the nature park, the zoo and finally to Europa Park.  This is a picture of Jenna who loved having her face painted as a little mouse.

 

 

 

 

 

In August it was my turn to get a surprise when we found out that we too were expecting our first child.  This is my 12 week scan taken in October.   Our little boy is due in May 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally to round off 2006 we spent Christmas in Glasgow with family and friends.  It was wonderful.  As you can see I went a little crazy shopping for the baby in the sales!

What's the first image that comes up when you Google your name?

Not me..

Ever get away with saying somebody else did it?

Apparently I as a kid I always tried to blame my younger cousin for anything I had done which had been discovered.  We are 1 year and 1 day apart and grew up pretty much like sisters.  One story I've never been able to live down was when for some reason I had left a bite mark in my mothers new metal venetian blinds (it was back in the 70's and I was about 4 years old) and blamed poor Julie once again.  She was however vindicated when my mum and my aunt stood conducted a little home forensics experiment by standing my cousin and next to said blinds. As if by magic the offending bite mark matched my mouth height exactly (Julie was a little smaller than me then)!  Aparently I said that Julie must have  stood on a chair to commit the act as it definately wasn't me!!

 

What a cheek!!!

How many bones have you broken? Yours or someone else's?

The nearest I've ever come to a real break was about 10 years ago when I fractured my wrist.  Pretty luck really since I'm incredibly clumsy and always tripping over, into and under things..

Show us something that you really treasure. 
Submitted by An Olympic Dream.

Our unborn baby, this was taken about 10 weeks ago but is still my clearest scan.  He's due in May this year.

Do you have any phobas?
Submied by Amirul B Ruslan.

Pidgeons, I hate them, they make my skin crawl and give me the heebie jeebies...  To be honest I'm not really a fan of most flying things...

Show us something from the 80's.

This was a joint birthday party held for my cousin pictured in the center who was 5 years old and me  on my 6th birthday.  Our birthdays are 1 days apart so we always had joint parties growing up.  They were great fun.  This was taken in 1981 .  I'm the one  with the dark hair in the middle and the girl behind me is my best friend Natalie (we're still best friends today) and the girl at the front right was called Shirley Anne she lived  down stairs from my grandmother who you can just see in the background.

What's something you did when you were younger that you still haven't confessed to your parents?
Submitted by Bizz.

When we were around 11 years old my best friend Natalie and I burned a great big hole in my parents dining room display cabinet by creating a home made flame thrower using a lighter and a can of air freshner....   We lived in fear for quite some time that it would be discovered but it never was.  This episode ended our experiments with fire chapter, thankfully no one got hurt.

Just before the flame thrower incident we tried smoking kitchen roll and almost set fire to our hair!! 

Yes, we were rather strange children.....

Show us an unforgettable memory from 2006.