Thanks for all of your ideas. Hopefully i will post some pics of our getaway. Thanks again.

wow! maybe get some proffessional photos done for him???

and Apollo Bay!! i went there in January, such a beautiful place!
your best option is to leave at night so your children sleep most of the way and if they are up, try getting them to sing to the music, or for about $100 you could get a compact dvd player (i know but its a small price to pay to keep the kids ammused)
Have a safe trip and a great time!!!

xx channy!

ive never been married hope this sounds ok ,, how about making a scrap book of the first time you met eachother or first date etc,, right up till now with the children etc,, if you have kept rose buds of flowers he has given you .. write comments in the book captions under the pics ?? it would be sentamental keepsake for you both but made with lots of love and fond memorys you can also pass that onto your children as they get older

long trip tapes to sings kids ones etc,, or sing abcd or whatever lol  you might need to stop for the little one to have a stretch also .. have the toys handy also books for the 3 year old to look at etc,,

and congrads

For my 1st wedding anniversary with my ex I gave him 2 trivia books and one of those wire head massager things - maybe that's why we're no longer together!  LOL!  No, but seriously, it's just a matter of tapping into what your hubby likes.

As for long trips, I found that my kids travel best at night, but overall they're good whatever time if I have lots of age appropriate music playing that we can sing together (Wiggles is a real favourite), cold drinks (I find pop top bottles the easiest as I can close them to prevent spills and they're still easy to open), easy to handle snacks and some sandwiches if they're more hungry. Chewy lollies (e.g. jelly babies) or apricot delight  to prevent earaches.  They also had their own blankets and cuddly toys and some writing paper on a clipboard with some pens. 

Also, a trick I learned from my Mum is to always have a small bucket or an ice cream container just in case someone gets car sick.  Always easier to clean up a bucket than an entire car.

I have also been celebrating anniversaries along the traditional lines.  The first anniversary is paper.  Pretty glorious isn't it?  I wrote my husband 10 limericks about himself.  He bought me a book called "Surrendering to Marriage".  Hmmm! I can say that the second anniversary is cotton and the third is leather because we've had those too. These very modest materials feature at the start of your married life when you're supposed to be dirt poor and working towards building your riches.  It's cute really.  Some paper ideas are: love letters, books, vouchers, cards (playing), art, notebooks, journals, letter-writing set, photos, subscription to newspapers, magazines etc.  It's up to you.  The possibilities are endless.

our first wedding aniversary(last year) we just did the special dinner at home thing, candles, music etc.  Our daughter was only 1/12 mths old so we didn't really want to go anywhere.

Travelling.  We have, and do, travel quite frequently.  I always make sure:

• dummy and a spare
• leave when kids just about ready for a sleep
• take drinks/food which are easily accessible
• toys
• blanket/favourite teddy
• stop not long after kids wake up give them a good run around, food, toilet break etc.

this works for us hope it works for you, or some of it does anyway.

I wanted to keep in following with the traditional - paper for the 1st anniversary...etc. So I bought my hubby a gift voucher for a massage at the local beauty therapist. He thoroughly enjoyed himself and came home really relaxed at feeling fine. As far as travelling with the kiddies - the only long distance trip I have ever done I had bottles of water and snacks in the car and I found that my daughter slept a lot with the motion of the car putting her to sleep. Other than that we sang lots of songs and played guessing games - ie guess the colour of the next car coming in the opposite direction etc...