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....

Apologies are due

A few posts back I showed my hesitation on whether we would have any fresh vegis this year ... so here it is... I apologise to Shane for my lack of belief that he would get the time or the inclination to start up the patch again.... I would like to report that we are already eating our own lettuce, tomatoes, spinach and cucumbers..... yum.

Why is it up to Shane I hear you ask? as much as I love to enjoy our gardens and vegis the thought of hanging out, planting, digging etc really holds no interest to me at all ... the closest I've ever come to gardening (besides picking out the plants for Shane to slave over) is the occasional trim of the front hedge....


And here it is .......



the cubby all painted and finished ... even adorned with pirate and flower stickers - there's not much out there non gender wise..... I'm not sure how long they will last as they are actually indoor decals and probably won't enjoy the heat or morning dew...



the kids did well doing one coat each and painting the doors and windows but when it came to the fiddly stuff poor Shane was left there all alone.....

Now lets just see if they play in it...

Just thought I'd share another photo of the boys, they're getting more adventurous and are even starting to hang out together...




The following page was done at the Scrapsidaisy Round up last weekend and was a class held by Debbie Kingston.... how clever and patient is she....the ripped border took a lot of time and measuring but I think the overall effect is great .... not sure when I'll try it again ?.??




The following two pages are the kids calender shots for 09 ... aren't they gorgeous .... they are actually both done on the same cardstock ... not sure how the photos (taken one after another) managed to be so different colour wise..





Till later...

Check out our new family additions

This guy is Regans and is a Maquarie...





and this is Aarons Krefft...



Now Aaron and I are big Dr Seuss fans so when we decided to get turtles I was really hoping for a Yertle and a Mack ..... but of course nothing to do with the kids ever turns out the way I want so ..... drum roll pse...... pse welcome SHELLY ( I know not real original but it gets worse) and DARK TURTLE ( and no we are not allowed to call him Darky or DT for short ... we even tried for Darth Turtle with a bit of a Star Wars theme but were knocked back). Aaron has a habit of calling things by their description not a name hense ... bear, stick, blacky, happy, the list goes on..... god only knows what he will call his kids.....


To get the turtles we had to travel to Sydney so we decided to stay the night ... we stayed at the Vibe hotel Kirribilli just a few minutes walk to Luna Park and the beauty of Sydney harbour.... We spent Wed at the park and to my amazement there was nothing the kids wouldn't get on...... Aaron just managed to reach the over 130cm cut off so was legal for all the fun......by the end of the day Shane and I were rock, paper, sissoring to see who would have to get on with them as although they thought they were fine we were still a bit worried about how they would cope....







That's them in car no. 2



and on the pirate ship





I'm not a big ride person myself and am truely dreading the next visit to the QLD theme parks..

In other news ..... we managed to paint the cubby house the other day ... the kids picked their own colours and had two walls each... we have bought some purple paint for the trim but haven't had a dry day to paint them yet...
I will share the end result when finished



And on the scrapping front.....

I was lucky enough to be picked to spend the next six months on the Scrapsidaisy design team ..... i've picked up my goodies and have done a few pages to be shown at the Round Up this weekend .... I'll show you later.....

This one is for the Jan Challange over at the forum and I have now officially started on those chrissy photos....I'll be getting rid of some more at Debbie's class tomorrow.



Till then..