Today William Magher celebrates his 1st Birthday.

John and Beth are pleased to announce the arrival of Oskar Harrison Helmore. Oskar weighed in at 7.1 pounds.

Wishing Anne all the best from all the family! On the subject of birthdays, I am putting up a list of birthdays to act as a reference for the family (god knows I can't keep 30+ dates in my head). If I've missed anyone or any dates are wrong please contact me and I'll put them right.

David and Rachel Magher are pleased to announce the arrival of William Pierce. William weighed in at 9.8 pounds (big boy!). Congratulations to Rachel and David from all the family.

I'm currently working on taking the family tree out of spreadsheet format and putting it into a proper genealogy application. It will make the family tree easier to update. This may take a while but I'll let everyone know when it's done.

I've started work on the website again I've begun to scan some of the photos from yesteryear. If you visit the family history section there are quite a few I've already put up. What I'd like to do is act as a repository for these photos up so if anyone wants a copy, they can request a photo and I can send them a larger version for printing etc. The ones in the gallery will act as samples. This way, we all have access to each others photos. So if you have any photos you think the rest of the family might be interested in and have access to a scanner, please scan the photo at 300 dpi(dots per inch) and email them to me. I will put a smaller version on the web site and burn the larger version to CD and archive them so our family has a digital backup of our photos. So if any disaster was to befall the originals, we would still have a copy.

On a 36 degree day in Geelong, we celebrated the 62nd Birthday of Robin at Kathryn's house. Fortunately, Kathy has a pool, so the heat didn't really bother us. After a bbq, we all headed for the water for the rest of the afternoon. All in all, everyone had a great time.

From all of us in Australia, we wish all Helmores abroad a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and all the best for the New Year!