Forever backdating

I'm not doing a very good job at keeping this blog up to date, for the last couple of posts I seem to be telling you what I did last weekend or the one before that..... I apologise for that but I actually have some up to date news today ....

Aaron lost one of his teeth at school yesterday and then he actually lost it ... search as we might it was not to be found .. I am not a sentimental person, I don't have my wedding cards or those given to me at the birth of my kids, I have no teenage memory box or childs first curl, but what I do have to my surprise is a few loose teeth at the bottom of my undies drawer.... so to advert the inevitable panic I was able to grab an old one from my stash (not a true match, but he didn't seem to notice) and pretend that I found it in the bottom of his bag...
All was well in the Yea household last night..


Now of course on to the events of late.... Our great friends the Moodys came down to spend a glorious, relaxing weekend with us ..... all the kids get on well as do the adults... We spent many hours at the riverbank as well as giving their kids their first ride on a motorbike. I really liked this picture so had it blown up quite large and sent it off to them ..... hope they like it.











How glorious is this sunset.... one day I will learn how to properly use my camera in the manual mode so I can get better photos when something like this presents itself... Maybe a new years resolution ... don't laugh it will be here before you know it..

And as for scrapbooking ....



(sorry about the horrible photo)

and lots of little bugs made for a embellishment swap over at the Scrapsidaisy forum

Happy (belated) Easter ......

We had a great long weekend filled with down time, caravan maintenance, family and chocolate.... hope yours was good as well.....



If you can't quite tell from the photo Regans hat is a giant papier mache Easter egg which actually looked remarkably real and Aaron has gone with the ever so popular paper ears ( this year all the hats had to be made from recycled goods)

Aaron was very much into Easter this year and even decided to write his own Easter story ....... (hole was the only word he needed help spelling)




We also spent some time on the bikes and Aaron got on the motorbike for the very first time .... two days running ...



nothing like a pair of girly socks on a motorbike ... you've still got to look good..



and to top off a great weekend there's nothing like a few blackened marshmallows by a bonfire ..


and now into the files of the weird things my kids can do ......
Aaron can turn his tongue all the way around both left and right ....



and to Regans great delight ,.;... she can do this ...



how delightful are they ..... this is how they felt after Shane and I wouldn't let them go on the rides at the Powerboats last weekend....



These are the girls I work with ... the new bosses have taken the van off the road so it was Amanda's last day on (unfortunately) Apr 1st .... as much as she annoyed us all with her demands for this and that (due to her short timespan in the shop to reload and get back out on the road) she will be sorely missed. ..




And as for scrapbooking .... The following Lo is one I've done for this months design team at Scrapsidaisy ..... I'm not normally a pastel girl but the new Easter papers really suited this photo ( which was taken in a car with a mobile phone)



and going to my backlog of photos I've finished my first LO of our newest members .... Mack and Dark Turtle .....



and a card I made for my Niece whos b'day I was a tad late for....



Till next time....

Catch Up......

Regan is all grown up.... this is a picky of her coming home from her maiden voyage around the block on her bike ..alone.. It's a couple of weeks old now and weve only had a couple of minor scares .... mainly to do with the fact that she has no sence of time and tends to stay out way longer than I think is necessary .... and a few days ago she went out on her brothers bike and managed to come off because she had got her shoelace tied up in the chain.... luckily a friend of mine saw her on the side of the road and untangled the mess before sending her home... I have a 45min timeframe on her before I start looking and since she came off only 5 min away from home she might of been waiting a while....


The boys toys



Weekend before last we were meant to go up to Dorigo on the bikes and meet up with Shanes brother and his mates from Gooniwindi ...they rang the Thur to tell us that it had flooded near them and that they couldn't get the bikes off their properties.... but we set off regardless ... it was a little overcast when we left ..... raining at Kranback ...... and absolutely pouring at Gloucester ( so much so that the rain was hurting my legs) ..... we rang friends in Armidale who said it was sleeting and the pub in Dorigo who let us know that it had been raining there for three days ... we had lunch and a drink at the pub .... debated staying there for the weekend and then much to our discuss we decided to turn back home and send the following to the Goondiwindi clan (all of which ride Harleys and Triumphs)



Last Wed was our P&F AGM and for many reasons not worth listing here I resigned as president after two years .... it was a hard decision but definantly the right one .... anyway the school staff sent me these on friday....
how very nice of them....



The new little car "Mini Mit" has been delegated to the kids and I and now I only seem to get into the Pajero on the weekend .... so anyway the kids have decided that they will wash it for pocket money..... and as you can imagine...





They wouldn't let us help so I think they'll have to wash it every weekend and hopefully by the end of each month all bits of it would of been cleaned at least once.

And for the scrapbooking....

My folks were here at chrissy and I finally got around to scrapping the photos... sorry grandpop but I couldn't fit your 'grand' on the title....



and the Chrissy LO's just keep coming.... this is one I did for the March Challange over at the Scrapsidaisy Forum...



Till next time...

A photo a day???

For years I've been watching others do their 365 day projects and they always seemed just that little to hard to commit to ... but this year I have decided to join in ..... so, I have decided to take a photo a day and enter it into a calendar over at shuttercal ... you can follow my pics over at the sidebar ....
this was day 1



Next time I might lash out and buy them a milk each .....



Now on the scrapbooking front...

The following are a couple of LO's and a card that I made from all the goodies in this months design team pack from Scrapsidaisy ... I really had fun with this lot and am very much liking the PEACE LO of Regan ... (how beautiful is my girl)....







and a card I made for Rhi at work ... poor girl just turned 21 and she is working with a bunch of 30+ women ..... she seems to be enjoying herself though and very much appreciated the Pandora bracelet we gave her ... now I bet she's wishing we'd hold up on all the motherly advise and all would be well .....



Of course it was Aarons B'day last month and I finally got around to doing his LO .... you would think that being a scrapper for so long I would make sure to take lots of great photos on such a monumental day but alas events happened before I noticed and these were the only decent photos I have ..... bring on birthday no. 9...



Those of you that know us know that Aaron has his 'ways' ... being very flexable is one of them ... he can do all sorts of weird things like touch the inside of his forearm with his thumb and can also sit like this .....
still makes me shiver sometimes ....





Till later ...

(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....