(Mum and Dad) I.O.U

Shane and I thought that we would take a leaf out of Matt's book .....







.... and we bought you a new Lancer today.....

We have finally succumbed to the fact that we can no longer live with only one car ... Shane sometimes needs to leave work before the boys ... or it's a pain in the butt for them to pick him up ... the kids are getting older and seem to need to go to four different places at once ... and we hate the idea of the beautiful new Pajero sitting in the heat of my dirt carpark all day ... so in true Shane style off to Sydney we went today and picked up this little '98 Lancer with only 78000 Km on it.... Thanks guys we appreciate the loan....


Our other big news for the last week (and should of probably got top billing) was that Aaron turned 8.... yes 8.... how on earth did that happen ....
No party this year but plenty of cake and dinner at the local pizza restaurant....



I also took two of his mates for icecream and a play at the riverbank



and all on his own, he has decided to learn to ride without his training wheels ... his balance is a bit off and his legs started to hurt quite quickly but if we give him time I'm sure he will want to go for another try soon...



Regan had her swimming carnival as well....





I love her attitude towards sport and anything competitive ... she's very much like her mum "jack of all trades .... master of none" ... she entered competitive in all strokes (except butterfly) and came last in all races ..... she would of liked to of done better but was just happy to be giving it a go .....lots of her friends didn't attempt any races at all and those that did were mostly swim squad kids ... once she realised that the last time she actually swam 50mtrs was last years carnival she felt much better....now I've just got to work out when we can fit swim squad in!!???

PS: for all those of you that aren't my parents we didn't really take their money its just an inhouse joke.

Thanks for stopping by
Leah

Play

Don't you just love it when they play nicely together all day....

Whats in a word.....

Ali E is doing her word of the year again so I got a little bit inspired and thought I'd pick one myself..... I did a little bit of cheating and checked out some others words and I must admit they are all quite thought out and inspirational ..... how about these...
Intention
Possibility
Story
Journey
Hope
Calm (this one I could use)
Vitality
Nurture
Reach
and the list goes on... however none of these seemed quite me... I was going to rip of a well known sports brand and go with

Just Do It

until Regan pointed out that that was in fact three words (smarty pants) so after more deliberation I came up with....




I have a terrible habit of putting off little things till later .... till tomorrow ..... till next Tue ....... or I might make a list of all the things I have to do and put it up for perusal later .... and in the end all those 'little things' that would only take a moment to do are put off until the very last moment .... you know the type of jobs I'm talking about

making that acceptance phone call

filling in those forms from school

getting to all those non washing things that have been in the bottom of the basket for months

putting all my stuff on EBay

finding a home for the kids 2009 school books

So there you go .... my word for 2010 is NOW

Just Do It NOW


PS: (did you notice that I had put off making this post till Feb LOL)

PPS: if you are interested you can find beautiful "one word" necklaces here .... Lisa is the lady who designed my chrissy pressy necklace..

Just Scrapping

I picked up my new design team kit from Scrapsidaisy last week and am finding this one just as challanging as the last.... so I suppose I should show you what I did with last months one.....







these two are both now available from Scrapsidaisy as kits....

and this one was just for fun out of the leftovers



last but not least a card I made for one of my workmates who lost her mother last week.....



be back soon with some family news....