Introducing this years u10 Runners Up

In close huddle before the game .....

They played a gallant game against a team that had them if not in ability, definently in size....



All the girls played soooo well it was a credit to them and the coach....
Well done CJ Netstars.



Life has been travelling along as normal ..... here's a few shots of the past week..



How busy are these guys ... 20 ducklings and counting



It was science week again and the kids got into the spirit..



Shane cleaned out the bees for the first time so he could put all the proper stuff in the boxes( I'm sure there are technical terms for that) The kids loved the taste of real honey .... can't wait for the first clean batch....



I bought this poster not long ago from one of the designers at canberra handmade market and had it framed...... love the easy to follow rules to live by...

He scored .!!!....

and of course i didn't get a photo....





Well hockey season is over again for another year ... and it seemed another year would go past without Aaron reaching that all important milestone of scoring ... but .....for the last game of the round robin gala day their game didn't seem to have a field so we decided to play on a spare full field ( the game is so much better when they can spread out) ..... Aaron got close on a few occasions and finally he scored!!!!! .... our side went wild, i'm not sure what the other side thought but this was a really big deal for Aaron and his own confidence in his ability ... it's been hard for him to keep up with the pack although he is getting better game by game and this was just the icing on the cake ....
Go Aaron Go.





The rest of the weekend was spent hanging around with dad in the garden and feeling pretty good with himself.

The latest weekly challenge over at Scrapsidaisy was 'a List' be it likes, dislikes,places you've been, things you do ... anything really so I chose to do a LO on the things I get soo very sick of saying...
here 'tis..



and finally, i've managed to do a LO for Regans 10th b'day ...



Till later....

In point form....

It's been a while since I've blogged.... so, in point form....




these guys came to our place .... I assume on their way to somewhere else.




but Shane decided that we should keep them (yes I'm aware its not normal for the average family to have bee keeping 'stuff'... but there is nothing normal about the Yea family). After some very amusing ( on my part) bee catching (on Shanes part) and only a few stings they are now happily living in the backyard and hopefully making lots of yummy honey..

Regan and her team had their Taree and districts gala day ....





in which they came second to Hallidays Point.




Well done girls

The weekend before I packed her off for a very cold sleep over at the Zoo with 1200 other Girl Guides ... they had to catch the train down and carry all their own gear.. they returned at 9:30pm the following day very very tired girls...





she had an amazing time which she will remember forever. (She took some great pics on her camera and if I can ever get them from there to my computer I will share them with you)

Still on Regan... the two of us spend National Tree Day planting trees on the riverband ... a very pleasant day.





Fun in the backyard....







and yes I even managed to fit in some scrapbooking ... last weeks challange at Scrapsidaisy ... given by Julieann was a sports theme so I revisited Aarons pics at the Titans game....



Till later...

My beautiful girl is 10!!!

How did she get from this....









To this ....




She had a great birthday and party .....17 of her closest ......I'm glad we only do this every few years. I took her to see this....



on her actual b'day, she has seen the other two but this was the first one in a cinema .... she felt very grown up.......

Like always I did the cake .... and like always it wasn't as easy as i anticipated.....

to start with I had to cook the cakes in the caravan because my oven is allergic to them.....





so far so good until I realised I will need much more blue icing.....




but hey check it out.....



I had to get Shane to help me roll it out cause I didn't have the upper body strength for that much icing.... I measured the cake up across and down and told Shane I needed a 42cm circle .... that he achieved .....I have no idea how .... but it was when he was lifting it onto the cake that we realised that you can't cover a cylinder with a circle ....... I hate decorating cakes!!!!...... so a circle for the top and a rectangle for around the sides .... lots of beautiful coloured spot and balls and it was done... (please ignore all the other mess in the kitchen ... i get a bit carried away when it comes to parties)
The colours were great ( to match her invites and party favours) and achieved with gel dies.... Tip 1. don't try to colour ready to roll icing with cheap colouring ... it wont work...



till next time...

I'm 40!!!!

well 40 and two days.....
no great epiphanies however , life is progressing along like always....



Thanks mum... these are the beads I decided on...



Thanks Denise ... love my new quilt .... now I really need to get some new pillow slips ......



and thanks me .... this is my new bag I picked up

Here....












Yep Shane and I nicked down to Melbourne for a few days early last week .... had an absolute ball ..... really enjoyed the city ..... did some great shopping .... everything I wanted (I went down with a list) and no rubbish I didn't..... and ate the most incredible food including these....



It took us hours to find the shop .... very small and right at the end of the city .... but was very worthwhile .... even the price tag didn't worry us ......absolutely beautiful even had Shane talking like he was a judge on Masterchef.....

Also got some diamond earrings from the family.... might post a pic later ..... all in all very spoilt and appreciative .... what a great way to turn 40.....