Monday, November 15, 2010

Ta Daa......






She's finished and ready to go...... Heading to Cresent Head next weekend for the maiden voyage.







Pretty impressive concidering it started off like this...






My gosh, i've even managed to finish a LO.....



How cute is this, Koda's reminder notice from the vets..

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Wedding

Jaimie (my brother in law) and Trish got married on the weekend in a small ceremony at Wingham. We had nice weather (which is a plus at the moment) and a really good time.....

Allan, Shane and Jaimie - all brothers ....... Trish, Donna, Noelene - all sisters.



The happy couple...



All the grandkids - mine in front, the three girls to the left are Jaimies, the two at the back are Karens (Shanes sister) and the other two belong to Allan...



The girls...



The boys....



Mine....



Shane and Aaron



Shane and Me



My favourite photo of the day...



Shane the next morning....



as a wedding pressy I made all the invites, placesettings, thankyous etc...



The official pics come back in a couple of weeks, because it was such a small wedding - just both familys - the photographer was nice enough to take family potraits of us all and a pic of the whole Yea family ..... can't wait to check them out....

Till later

Monday, October 25, 2010

Birds and Bees













I don't know what these guys were looking for but for about an hour they and a few of their friends were hanging around in my front hedge, they didn't even seem to care that I was there and definently weren't leaving when I came out.











.... Shane had his first big check of the bees last weekend... we now have two hives as the first one swarmed and we collected the swarm for a new hive.... not long now until we can get (and share) our own yummy honey.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Going backwards

Feeling a little like I'm doing this post backwards, sooo we shall start before the holidays and then end up now .... (I don't think that makes sense but anyway...)

We spent the week before the school holidays at Royal Far West.... Aaron did sooooo well, his physio was non committal as usual but his OT was mightily impressed by his improvement and is hoping to discharge him next time .... the kids were both given reading assessments and we met a great speech therapist.... the pead wants him to see a psych about what she believes might be a slight anxiety disorder ... but we already were thinking along those lines .... so in all ... four days well spent and hopefully only one more trip down.
While we were there though, of course the kids spent every morning at the beach ... it was three surfers in wetsuits and our two kids ... feeling no cold at all.





We did a bit of wedding outfit shopping and Shane got the outline to the bottom half of his sleeve tattooed. I'd still like to get one myself but judging by this it's not something we can both afford to be doing...







After returning from RFW on the Thur we packed Regan off again on another Girl guide camp.... I had to have her in Port Maquarie by 6:30 sun morning and I didn't pick her up until Wed arvo... They went inland of Coffs Harbour and had a ball - apparently not missing us one bit ... wish I took a pic of her on return - not looking so chipper anymore ... she slept in until 8:30 Thur morning and trust me that's a record for her...



The rest of the holidays went along as normal .... I didn't have much time off work because of the week in Syd so the kids did a bit of a rotation between Nans and Vacation Care... I did manage to get last Thur off and low and behold it wasn't a bad day so I threw the kids and their best mates in the car and went to Saltwater ... I'm not overly keen on taking other peoples kids to the beach so we went to the lagoon ... it was great ... water was beautiful and not to deep ... we ended up staying for about 4 hours and I even managed to return all children with no sunburn ....not too bad considering I had my two whities and two redheads..









Shane managed to tape up the van and change it from grotty old white...



to grey undercoat....



and then to speckled?????



Not really aloud to talk about that much ... he had a bit of an issue with his paint gun and needed to bring in the heavy artillery, he had to borrow the huge compressor from Dads ... anyway its all fixed now and looking mighty dapper (can't say the same for Shane's shed - there is paint splattered from the ceiling, down the roller doors and all over the floor - you can imagine the language) ... when it finally gets released into the sunlight and gets it's new stickers I'll take another pic..

And that's about it.... back to normal this week with everyone back to work and school ... only 9 more weeks till the next holidays ....

Not finding much time at the moment to get into the craft room ... it really needs a good clean before I try to produce anything but through the mess I've done these in the last couple of weeks....





I even found Aarons school photos and realised I hadn't scraped them yet..


Till later...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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...