Didn't stand a chance......

What happens when you mix a wet wet weekend and a husband that can't sit still?...

My new caravan that went from this....







.... to this in a few short hours...





and it didn't stop there the poor girl is gutted right down to the flooring and gas lines... overall for a 23 yr old shes in pretty good condition and will be 'the bees knees' by the time Shane is finished with her... I now however am praying for rain for the next four weekends so he will continue on with the work and not head off to other more fair weather jobs...



..am loveing this tree this year its the first time in a long time that it has changed colour and droped its leaves without getting a weird disease on it....

Gave Regan the day off school to come up to Port with us for Aarons last visit with Karen ... check out her boots... if your there Pip, thank you.. they look great...





.. and of course on the scrapbooking front ... finished this one with part of Cut and Pastes' Nov pack...



Till next time..

A whole month

I do so envy those that can make good use of their time.....I am busy like everyone else but I have a terrible habbit of ' I'll get that done after I have this cuppa or after I watch this show... and suddenly the end of the week arrives and I'm cramming everything into the last minute... and with that in mind I found this poem..

Today is here, I will start with a smile and resolve to be agreeable.
Today I will not waste my time because the minutes I wasted yesterday are lost as a vanashed thought.
Today I refuse to spend time worrying about what might happen - it usually doesnt. I am going to spend time makeing things happen.
Today I am determined to do things I should do. I firmly resolve to stop doing things I should not do.
Today I will stop saying 'if only I had time'. If I want time I will make it.
Today I will make a success with what material I have.
Today I will act towards other people as I would like them to act towards me. I will not wait for tomorrow.

I did find time to write it.... now lets see if I find time to put it into action.

So anyway what's been happening...

The girl guide training weekend wasn't as bad as I thought ... although we did have to sing bad songs around a campfire... I also learnt why the girls seem to love me so much ... 1. I basically have no control and .. 2. I'm not actually teaching any of the traditional guide 'stuff'.

The weekend away with mum was great ... lots of girly things on offer and a fantastic party organised by her friends which included amongst other things a great cruise around the marina - (Lots of money in Port Lincoln) - a trip to the local Indian resterant in full Indian Sari's.... very funny... and of course lots of party games...



yes I know mine's not quite right - I triped over it running from setting the camera and all the pleats untucked from my pants..



I made this card for mum a few weeks before and sent it over for signatures .... I wish now I had remembered to copy down some of the sayings and poems her friends wrote in it including a fantastic one signed by dad about their time together... I't was so very obvious that he didn't write it ...but so very much them



I seemed to spend more time on planes and in airports than with the folks but it was definantly worth it....

while I was there Shane was driving down to Wollongong in the pooring rain to pick up the caravan we just bought .. yes thats right a caravan... its locked up in the shed at the moment so I will post photos when we bring it out... don't get too excited though... it is a 82 model.






Life has been going on as usual with sport and so on.... Aaron has been spending ages playing outside... I think he enjoys the cold weather a lot more than summer.... on the topic of Aaron... we had our last visit with his old Speech therapist this week.... I am very sad and scared to say goodby to her but it is proving harder and harder... not to mention expensive when you take into concideration a day off work as well as the petrol and fee... to do the drive to Port Maquarie ... our new lady seems nice and she is able to see Aaron at school which will benifit him heaps I'm sure.... she's definately not Karen and their methods are worlds apart but hopefully, fingers crossed, I haven't made the wrong move...



I've decided to give the kids a reward jar to try and get them to do some extra tasks around the house, each stone is worth 20 cents and they get one if they do something I ask and two if they do it without me asking... so far so good.

and yes I've even been scrapbooking......





you'll have to excuse the colour of the photos... don't actually know what happened but the look like something from the 70's..




Till next time..... which wont be as long I'm sure.

Persistance....

These are the trees we had cut down a few months ago....isn't it amazing that they would grow back tiny little shoots where such a big tree one stood.... got to give it to nature...

Not much to report family wise... all is going well... getting rather cold here at night now....
I'm out of town for the next few weekends.... This Sat I head to Newcastle for my "Girl Guide" training.... when I first took over we had 4 girls which has now grown to 15 great girls and I love working with them but the whole 'training' thing is freaking me out a bit.... I'm not exactly very -gung ho- about it.... lets just hope they dont expect me to put on a skit on Sat night....
To happier things the following weekend (and a few days into the next week) I'm off to visit my mum in Coffin Bay for her 60th.... very much looking forward to that one... Shane and the kids are staying at home..... I don't know if any of you have tried to book flights lately but I'm sure it's not as simple as it used to be.... to get the cheapest deal I'm flying out of Newcastle to Melbourne to Adelaide to Port Lincoln but on the way back I'm going Port Lincoln to Adelaide to Sydney to Port Maquarie.... thats 6 flights on 4 different airlines and departing and arriving in two differnt towns.... and as of last night all but one of the flights has been amended by the airline and I'm cutting my times finer and finer each time.....



What do you think mum? something like this could be just what I need... it would also give me somewhere to store all the winter quilts I've got from Denise..



.... and of course I've done the bare minimum of scrapbooking ..... look out 2009, not far off now. This LO looked quite nice at home, but now I've seen it here it's a bit plain.... might need to fiddle a bit.

Look like us??

I finally got my little family... they are handpainted bu Gemmielou who has a shop on Etsy.... how cute are they??? she has had a bit of a backlog so I've had to wait quite a few months for them but worth it I think.... I also got Grandma and Grandpop done but they will have to wait until I get there to see them...





I've been scrapping some of my older photos this school holidays, both of these are from mid last year... I normally only scrap events , special occasions etc but these photos were both so gorgeous I just had to scrap them for no particular reason...

We went camping @ sandbar last weekend, the weather wasn't the best but with Anzac day and sports starting again soon it was our last chance.....we did heaps on the Saturday but had to pack up in the rain on Sunday which always makes the boys less than happy...



Check out Aarons shirt.... it was pretty windy up there.... he walked all the way up and back on his own...










I also forgot to mention that it was Shane and my 10th wedding aniversary while we were in Sydney.... I honestly wasn't expecting a pressy but he outdid himself and had a eternity ring made for me....how bad did I feel when I had nothing to give him...we had decided that he could have his bike jacket but he hadn't picked it out yet..... Regan and I had scoured the shops for something made of Tin but had come up empty handed..... I was forgiven...

We're back

Actually we've been back for a week but never mind. Sydney was great... Aaron did really well at all his appointments and we even managed to get Regan's reading accessed... she didn't do all that well but now we have something formal to go to the school with and see where to go from here.... the weather was.. well .. terrible, the beaches were shut from tue onwards and it rained on and off most days... I managed to get the kids to the beach one morning but that was about it...





We did also manage to fit in quite a bit of winter shopping ( I promised Regan one item from the Roxy shop - who knew kids clothes could be that expensive - but very cute I must admit) and a trip to the Power House Museum to see the Star Wars expo.... we went mid week and there weren't people walking around dressed up but it didn't seem to phase the kids, they just loved it......

Just some random shots of this week....









Regan finally learnt to climb the only tree in our front yard that will hold her weight....



Yeah I know this one is a bit busy.... i did both these LO's while in Sydney and just kept sticking more and more bits on..... still not sure if I like it ... definantly not my style...

Catch up

Ahhh... so very far behind in my scrapbooking.... this one is of Regan and her pen pal (Amy) taken last September at Royal Far West... which is where we are heading tomorrow.... where did that six months go.... Shane has a course to do in Newcastle Mon and Tue but will be joining us in Sydney from Tue night which the kids are thrilled about.... lets hope this weather holds out and the kids can get in a final hurah to summer at the beach...



Chrissy '08 ... yeah, nearly at my 2009 photo stash...



Regan was invited to the movies last weekend and begged and begged to wear the makeup that Santa got her for chrissy(of course Santa exists because you don't think mum would of bought you makeup do you?). How cute are those lips....

Oh, and Aaron played Hockey on the proper courts? pitch? ground? what ever they are called, today and they all do so much better when the ball actually gets a chance to move across the ground. He even saved a goal!!!!!! (they then hit it again and it went in but he didn't notice because he was too busy being proud of himself and no one else thought it necessary to tell him)

Till next time....

Got to love junior sport

Aaron had his first game of under 7's hockey today....... How gorgeous are this lot.... as soon as one kid got to hit the ball all 12 just went for it with sticks.... that is of course if they were paying any attention to the game at all....



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They looked like they were getting the hang of it in these pics but ... looks can be deceiving.... of course Aaron loved playing and when it was all over went to the coach for his trophy ...... I've now explained to him that it will take all season before he gets one.



Regan came off her pushy last sun arvo and did some pretty impressive damage, if you think the chin looks bad you should see how her legs and chest have brused up over the week...... poor thing, she really skided down the gravel .... it's a wonder her father didn't hear her yelling from home.. the boys at school thought it was pretty cool though.

and of course ... last but not least , my latest LO of Aaron at his b'day party...



Till later.....

Where did those weeks go

Sorry I havn't been here for a while.... just busy doing .. things?!!?
so, in the last three weeks

Shane turned 36 and the kids made him this great cake...



Regan had a sleep over and the girls cooked Tacos for dinner then suprised us all with ice cream cakes made with sprinkles, choc drops and sour worms.... well they liked them ... sort of



We had three of our beautiful tall - but dangerous - gums cut down from the front garden....



Shane and I, Karen and Darren, Jaimie and Trish and Ray all went on a 7 hr ride from here to Tea Gardens and then back via Stroud and Glouster, what a great day.... no we didn't all fit on three bikes.... Darren and Karen had continued on by the time I remembered to take a photo...




Regan tied all her toys to her drawers??????



and I did some scrapbooking .... look I've finished september .... only 6 months behind now....