Aaron's b'day party and Project Life week 4

Aaron turns 11 tomorrow so we had his party today. I dont often have partys at home, actually I've only ever had one party here but what the hey, how bad can it be....

We started off with a few games

then a group photo...

before the fun really began....

by the look of this lot of group photos I think it was a hit...

They stopped for a while before the paint throwing for a few rainbow coloured snacks...

and then for the cake once they were truly coated...

I must admit I had a ball making the cake... needless to say I ended up with coloured chocolate everywhere. One day I will learn to clean up before I embark on the next task... it took me ages to get the chocolate out of the grooves in the phone!!

On other matters i'm only one week behind in Project Life at the moment but all my photos have been organised I just have to print them out. Here is week 4...

Till later..

Project Life

Weeks 1, 2, and 3

Three weeks done 49 to go...so far im loving how easy it is and have even got myself into a little routine for doing each week....

sorry about the quality of the pics, its pouring here which doesn't make for good photos.

There are way too many photos here to bore you with individual shots but as you can see we've had a relaxing Jan and are just about ready to get back into school mode...

I'm still amazed at how disorganised I get when there is no real routine, I went shopping yesterday for the first time in I dont know how long....to put it into perspective: we were sharing one roll of toilet paper between the two toilets; Shane was away and I didn't even have cheese for our regular cheese toasty dinner; and there wasn't any long life milk, let alone the real stuff, for my morning coffee.....

It's Aarons b'day on the 10th of Feb and we are having a 'paint party' which basically consists of all the kids getting dressed in white and throwing paint at each other...

so heres the invite I made... we haven't got much time between school starting and the party so at least this is one thing I have pre organised..

and just to finish off... here is the box I made to hold all those cards i did mum and her Variety Bash.

Who am i kidding....

I knew I would never be able to get this photo taking thing up and running for 2013. I think my Project life will be done in monthly pages not week by week.
There is a reason that I dont do resolutions (New Years or otherwise) and that is because I am such a time waster.... I've known it for a long time but get up most Monday mornings telling myself all the brilliant things that I am going to achieve this week only to find myself sitting on the lounge watching the morning shows within the hour, coffee in hand. My brother on the other hand is having a bit of a mid life 'get up' he has recently gone to some strange country to learn to base jump, started skiing in Japan, is running a few marathons this year, while raising money for MS by climbing stairs and has started Yoga. I however am finding it hard to commit to spending time putting on face cream let along getting fit and unfortunantly scrapping is way down the list so you can imaging how my ever growing supply of Project Life stuff is feeling.... and no I'm not mentioning my earlier post where I said something about a December daily diary.

So I suppose before I kick into Jan I better finish up what we were up to in Dec....

Of course it was Christmas where we had all 19 of the Yea clan around here for food and merriment....

Regan got (among other things) a phone which made her very happy....

Aaron got (among other things) a bike which he ignored all day and has continued to do so ever since....

I made us all stand for the annual family photo.... (not our best one by far)

and of course those with santa hats....

some lovely person decided that they would book airline tickets - to Paris no less- using my mastercard.... (and you all know what a nightmare getting that sorted is)

the pool area is finally finished...

- there will eventually be a sun lounge in place of the shark...

and the kids have been using it non stop with friends coming over most days....

So that was Dec. Im going to grab a coffee, browse the internet, chat, play games, wonder outside, clean stuff and oh yeah come back and load up whats been going on so far in Jan...
Till then

All about Regan

So that's it..... Primary school is finished for Regan....

She started off this week with her formal on Monday night...

a whole school arch for the yr 6's on Tue....

and then a day at the pool with her friends on Wed....

For their formal all the kids had to fill in a balloon with photos of their school life... this was Regans....so many good memories.

And to other members of the family ..... Aaron sung with the school choir at the local Carols (and managed to get his picture in the paper... again)

I went in for a new colour....

purple wasn't exactly what I had in mind and needless to say it was covered over with dark brown before I left the salon.....it wasn't my poor hairdressers fault, it was a trial of a new colour that wasn't what either of us were expecting.....

and we found - yes literally found wondering around in the shed eating chrissy beetles - the newest member of our family... This is Tammy the grass parot.... who actually belongs to someone else but we cant seem to find who....

and these are for you mum.... the last of the cards for your auction.... will be on their way soon...

Thanks for popping in...