Lois

14 May

Maya Ruby is born to Stephanie. Here she is being welcomed on the day of her birth by big sister Jasmine.

05 June

Peter and Lois get to Adelaide and see Maya. Here is Peter with her.

22 April

A complete family get-together at the farm before Ben leaves to take up a job as an engineer in New York.

Above are Gregory, Benjamin and Stephanie, while below cousins Jasmine and Kaylana are together.

04 June

Peter and Lois leave

the farm to move into the inner city of Canberra, renting a townhouse while looking for something permanent to buy.

22 December

The farm

has been sold and a new apartment on the 6th floor of a nearby property is bought. Below is the building containing the new apartment in Turner as seen from the rented townhouse.

January

Peter with brother John and sister Susan at Adelaide Oval during the cricket Test against New Zealand.

March

Lois, Jasmine and Peter.

September

Peter, Lois and friends Sally and Norman Bakker take their 4 wheel drives on an outback adventure. Here they are, from left Lois, Peter, Sally and Norman en route at the hotel at Wanaaring, between Bourke and Tibooburra.

Peter, Lois and Sally at Cameron Corner, where the borders of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales meet.

October

Alyssa, Nakita and Kaylana visit Peter's office.

February

Peter and Lois celebrate their 60th birthdays at a street party at their farm.

14 March

Jasmine Isabella Galluccio is born

Here she is on the day of her birth.

And here she is the following day with mother Stephanie.

11 August

Benjamin graduates in Engineering (with Honours) and Arts at the University of Melbourne.

Before, with Peter and Lois.

After, with Lois and Victoria.

11 September

Nakita turns 6 and visits Peter in his office.

16 September

All four granddaughters are together in Canberra. From left Alyssa, Kaylana, Nakita and Jasmine, with Stephanie.

04 March

Stephanie and Steve are married. Here the bridal party prepares for departure from an Adelaide hotel.

They are married at Blackwood, a suburb of Adelaide. Here are Ben, Peter, Steve, Stephanie, Lois and Greg before the reception held afterwards at Clarendon, in the Adelaide Hills. Welcome Steve!

Late March

Gregory and Natasha separate, sadly.

13 April

Stephanie and Steve Galluccio announce their engagement. They are shown here a few weeks before on our property.

07 July

Alyssa is born. Here she is being welcomed by sisters Nakita (left) and Kaylana.

Well, Nakita looks as though she's playing the piano.

Kaylana getting into the swing of things

13 March

Elly dries down her calf Bruno shortly after giving birth. Bruno is a paternal grandson of Australia's premier Murray Grey bull, Temar Lotus, and goes on at the age of 18 months to get 19 fertilities in a paddock of 19 cows.

03 October

Nakita welcomes arrival of sister Kaylana.

15 December

Stephanie graduates with Honours in Medicine, University of Adelaide

11 September

Identical twins are born to Greg and Natasha.

They are born prematurely and commence some months in post natal intensive care. Pictured on the day of their birth are Nakita (915g) above and Lani (545g) below.

12 September

Overshadowed by the previous day's events, Ben turns 21. Here he is with Greg (left) and Stephanie (right) at his party.

08 October

Lani passes away after failing to recover from an operation two days before, having suffered infection complications.

29 October

Ben and Victoria Leavold announce their engagement. Vic is an Engineering student at the University of Melbourne. Ben now transfers his study to the University of Melbourne where he is enrolled in Civil Engineering and Arts, with major in French. Ben and Vic are shown at a London pub (photographed by Peter) during July.

03 December

Nakita is released from the intensive care unit at Canberra Hospital, weighing 2145g and goes home. Here she is at home with her mother Natasha. She still needs a little oxygen support for a little while but has progressed very well in her last month before discharge.

30 December

Lois with cows Doris (left) and Elly (right) and Doris' bull calf Blue while Blue was about to go up the race for his first vaccination.

We move to a 47 acre property 40km from Canberra.

The vineyard and house (above) and with some Murray Greys (below).

Greg and Natasha are married in Queanbeyan on 15 January. Here they are cutting the cake at their reception afterwards in Canberra.

Stephanie is in third year medicine at the University of Adelaide. She is seen above with her "Stephoscope" and below giving brother Gregory a checkout.

Benjamin has completed Year 12 and is spending 2000 working and back-packing in Europe before commencing study in Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2001.

December

Natasha and Gregory graduate from the University of Canberra with Bachelors of Education.

Gregory is into the third year of an Education Degree (Primary Teaching, with major in mathematics) at the University of Canberra.

Stephanie commences first year studies in Medicine at the University of Adelaide.

Benjamin goes in to Year 11 at Canberra Grammar School.

Stephanie was anounced as Joint Dux of Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School.

In this panel Stephanie is photographed at her Graduation Dinner with Lois (above) and me (below).

Benjamin, Stephanie, Lois and Gregory, On top of Mt Hotham, Victoria, January 1996

Peter, Greg, elder son, then 4 months, and Peter's father Jim Taylor.