Apologies are due

A few posts back I showed my hesitation on whether we would have any fresh vegis this year ... so here it is... I apologise to Shane for my lack of belief that he would get the time or the inclination to start up the patch again.... I would like to report that we are already eating our own lettuce, tomatoes, spinach and cucumbers..... yum.

Why is it up to Shane I hear you ask? as much as I love to enjoy our gardens and vegis the thought of hanging out, planting, digging etc really holds no interest to me at all ... the closest I've ever come to gardening (besides picking out the plants for Shane to slave over) is the occasional trim of the front hedge....


And here it is .......



the cubby all painted and finished ... even adorned with pirate and flower stickers - there's not much out there non gender wise..... I'm not sure how long they will last as they are actually indoor decals and probably won't enjoy the heat or morning dew...



the kids did well doing one coat each and painting the doors and windows but when it came to the fiddly stuff poor Shane was left there all alone.....

Now lets just see if they play in it...

Just thought I'd share another photo of the boys, they're getting more adventurous and are even starting to hang out together...




The following page was done at the Scrapsidaisy Round up last weekend and was a class held by Debbie Kingston.... how clever and patient is she....the ripped border took a lot of time and measuring but I think the overall effect is great .... not sure when I'll try it again ?.??




The following two pages are the kids calender shots for 09 ... aren't they gorgeous .... they are actually both done on the same cardstock ... not sure how the photos (taken one after another) managed to be so different colour wise..





Till later...

Check out our new family additions

This guy is Regans and is a Maquarie...





and this is Aarons Krefft...



Now Aaron and I are big Dr Seuss fans so when we decided to get turtles I was really hoping for a Yertle and a Mack ..... but of course nothing to do with the kids ever turns out the way I want so ..... drum roll pse...... pse welcome SHELLY ( I know not real original but it gets worse) and DARK TURTLE ( and no we are not allowed to call him Darky or DT for short ... we even tried for Darth Turtle with a bit of a Star Wars theme but were knocked back). Aaron has a habit of calling things by their description not a name hense ... bear, stick, blacky, happy, the list goes on..... god only knows what he will call his kids.....


To get the turtles we had to travel to Sydney so we decided to stay the night ... we stayed at the Vibe hotel Kirribilli just a few minutes walk to Luna Park and the beauty of Sydney harbour.... We spent Wed at the park and to my amazement there was nothing the kids wouldn't get on...... Aaron just managed to reach the over 130cm cut off so was legal for all the fun......by the end of the day Shane and I were rock, paper, sissoring to see who would have to get on with them as although they thought they were fine we were still a bit worried about how they would cope....







That's them in car no. 2



and on the pirate ship





I'm not a big ride person myself and am truely dreading the next visit to the QLD theme parks..

In other news ..... we managed to paint the cubby house the other day ... the kids picked their own colours and had two walls each... we have bought some purple paint for the trim but haven't had a dry day to paint them yet...
I will share the end result when finished



And on the scrapping front.....

I was lucky enough to be picked to spend the next six months on the Scrapsidaisy design team ..... i've picked up my goodies and have done a few pages to be shown at the Round Up this weekend .... I'll show you later.....

This one is for the Jan Challange over at the forum and I have now officially started on those chrissy photos....I'll be getting rid of some more at Debbie's class tomorrow.



Till then..

Christmas Day and beyond

Chrissy started as usual at some ungodly hour in a hase of laughter and wrapping paper followed by some well earned coffee and all the family over for brunch / lunch / arvo tea. My folks were here this year which bought the total up to 17 people..... A very relaxing and fulfilling day....



everyone recieved all they wanted plus more...



loveing my necklace made by Lisa Leonard whose link is on my sidebar if your interested...



The kids got a turtle tank ... minus the turtles at the moment as we have to do a trip to Sydney to pick some out ... Santa left a nice note however to explain the situation....



and I even managed to get everyone to smile and pose for my yearly (can't hope for more than one a year) family portrait...



Becides the Chrissy stuff Shane, Dad and I went to see this.....



and really enjoyed it ... will wait until it comes out on video for the kids to watch it .... Aaron still gets a bit emotional when goodies die....

Shanes been working hard on getting the van up and running.... he spent two days under it rust converting and painting so is now spending some well earned time on his feet....



Chech out what we found in our front yard..... this poor little joey was on his own the other morning and not too happy about it.... luckily for us the lady across the road is able to look after them so the kids will be able to go and visit it as it grows....



your probably over the photos by now so I'll leave you with one of the kids and my folks .... they left today after three great weeks ... the kids will miss them so much.....it's just such a pitty their last week was full of so much rain.... believe it or not (for those locals) we actually got out and swam at Crowdy yesterday ... the rain didn't get there until well after lunch.




Oh and just a few more ... haven't been scrapping lately but I did manage to do these few cards for mum to take back home with her......







Yeah I am aware I've missed the whole begining of Dec but of course that will be covered in my Dec journal (there was a project that started off well and with all good intentions) I'm only a few days from completion so i will post it soon...

Till then