Completely up to date... PL weeks 12 - 15

But first some gorgeous pics of Regan trying on her new winter woolies....

Not too impressed with the Week 12 Layout... nothing seemed to come together but its there and done so for that im happy

pretty chuffed with Week 13 however... im starting to use a lot more digital 3x4s and have even worked out how to alter them in photoshop..

I think its all pretty much self explanatory so I wont go into any detail on what we've been up to... getting better and remembering to take photos but I am still tending to miss the little details some weeks. I have a diary, I suppose if I actually used it this wouldn't be a problem....
Talking of little details Shane and I both forgot our 13th wedding anniversary on the 3rd Apr so unfortunantly that didn't make it in this year at all....It was only when I was blog hopping and this lovely lady had done some digital freebies for her aniversary did I even realise that I'd missed mine...

Best take this opportunity to share some of the other sites Ive been using lately
September Blue
A Vegas Girl at Heart
Kimberly Kalil
Cathy Zielske
A little Grace and Mercy and Ive been getting my monthly packs from
Pip Prosser
you should really check out all these blogs - there are some very talented ladies out there...

So im off to get the van ready for a bit of a get away next week.. its raining at the moment, heres hoping it gets better.

Til Then...

Project Life overload Week 5-11

I've been doing well keeping up with Project life so far but just not as good at Blogging the results... So here are the last few weeks of our lives.... Sorry about the pics, theres a bit of glare in the bottom corner of most and some funny angles but you get the jist.

Week 5 was all about the start of the school year...high school is such a big change for Regan and she is absolutely loving it, the jury is still out on whether she is going to be able to cope with the workload but so far her results have been great...

Week 6 was Aarons birthday which I've already told you about as well as re-fencing to keep Talos in (the bigger her gets the higher we have to make the fence) and starting the wood pile for winter... i had a few extra photos so added an 8 x 11 sleeve.

I was a bit short on photos for weeks 7 and 8 so they only got one page each. The friendship spot on week eight has been painted next to the basketball courts at Aarons school. If for some reason you dont have anyone to play with you can go to the friendship spot and one of the other kids will come along and play with you...... such a great idea. This was also the week Aaron missed his connecting bus at the high school interchange and a wonderful boy took him 'under his wing' and got him safely to St Clares where he was then taken to Joeys.... i can only imagine how scared he must of been.

Week nine was just a normal week, winter sports training has kicked in again and of course it rained and rained....

Nearly caught up: Regan was at the 'get to know your classmates camp' in week 10 and had to come home from that straight to netball training and then back it up with a game the next day... the girls have been put up two grades this year and are playing (and holding their own) against girls in yr 9. Regan's umpire training starts in May. It was also Shanes very non eventfull 40th birthday.... we will have to make his 41st something special...

And last for this post is Week 11 where I went over to the folks for 5 days. Mum and her friends have entered in this years Variety Bash and she flew the family over to help with the major fundraiser. It was a fantastic night that wiped us all out both mentally and physically....... I also got to catch up with my brother and his daughter who I haven't seen for 6 years.... Check out mums beautiful garden 'corners'...Regan is dressed as Batgirl for her first high school disco - i love that she wasn't scared to dress up and have a bit of fun....

Promise I wont have this much for you to work through next time...
Till then.....



Aaron's b'day party and Project Life week 4

Aaron turns 11 tomorrow so we had his party today. I dont often have partys at home, actually I've only ever had one party here but what the hey, how bad can it be....

We started off with a few games

then a group photo...

before the fun really began....

by the look of this lot of group photos I think it was a hit...

They stopped for a while before the paint throwing for a few rainbow coloured snacks...

and then for the cake once they were truly coated...

I must admit I had a ball making the cake... needless to say I ended up with coloured chocolate everywhere. One day I will learn to clean up before I embark on the next task... it took me ages to get the chocolate out of the grooves in the phone!!

On other matters i'm only one week behind in Project Life at the moment but all my photos have been organised I just have to print them out. Here is week 4...

Till later..

Project Life

Weeks 1, 2, and 3

Three weeks done 49 to go...so far im loving how easy it is and have even got myself into a little routine for doing each week....

sorry about the quality of the pics, its pouring here which doesn't make for good photos.

There are way too many photos here to bore you with individual shots but as you can see we've had a relaxing Jan and are just about ready to get back into school mode...

I'm still amazed at how disorganised I get when there is no real routine, I went shopping yesterday for the first time in I dont know how long....to put it into perspective: we were sharing one roll of toilet paper between the two toilets; Shane was away and I didn't even have cheese for our regular cheese toasty dinner; and there wasn't any long life milk, let alone the real stuff, for my morning coffee.....

It's Aarons b'day on the 10th of Feb and we are having a 'paint party' which basically consists of all the kids getting dressed in white and throwing paint at each other...

so heres the invite I made... we haven't got much time between school starting and the party so at least this is one thing I have pre organised..

and just to finish off... here is the box I made to hold all those cards i did mum and her Variety Bash.