Party Pics

Huge celebrations on Saturday night for my BIG FOUR*O.

Adored every minute....and didn't want it to end!

Felt very loved, special and spoilt.

Rented the venue for the whole night, turned off the music at 2am and got no sleep whatsoever....

big cook-up for brekky the next morning....

then rest of the day spent tubing and fishing at the Dam.

Woke up Monday morning feeling like a cripple from dancing the night away....oh yeah, I forgot.....I'm 40 now!

Thanks to all those forward-thinking friends and fam who picked up my camera and snapped throughout the night - here are some of the best I discovered on there....

Linda and Me....cheers Big Ears!

Me & Bron chilling out...

Electric Blue Vok Slushies all round.....

My scrummy cake - a chocoholics dream.....

My beautiful fam....

Trace and Me....

The gallery of embarrassment.....

Mummy & Me....

Getting down with my little bro Tim.....Angus impersonations to Rock N Roll Train....

Me and My Love who is the best party-organiser in the world!

Recovering at the Dam the next day with a little fishing....

while the kids were happily dragged behind the boat in the freezing water.....

A fabulous way to spend a weekend with family and good friends.....(here's my gorgeous cheeky niece Amarah)

If the next decade is anything like the last - then I couldn't hope for anything better.

Bring it on!

xxx

Golly Gosh

Yes Linda, I can hear you sniggering at my choice of words......but GOLLY GOSH it's been 3 weeks since I was here and that is far too long!

Life has been busy and hectic and time gets away too fast.....can you believe it's the start of daylight savings already? I have to say I'm not really liking it so far....didn't even think about starting dinner tonight until 7.30, which of course meant a late night for the kids. Just as well it's the middle of the school holidays I am thinking.

OK, some pics......

Renovations galore at Sunnydale right now...

Kate's 11th birthday party at the circus, where the clown played a trick on her (much to her embarrassment and our amusement!)...

A visit from an echidna helping himself to something tasty in the tree trunk....

Paddy graduated from his "puppy play pen" to a chain and a 44 under a tree, just like Dad...

....and to think this is how small he was 4 months ago....

...an early birthday pressie for moi (can you guess what's inside?)...

Some scrapping to share.....

This one was part of a Scrapping Whisper at Home & Scrapped...

A birthday theme challenge for Design Dollies...

DD sketch....

And a DD Elements Recipe (a ticket, yellow, paint, polka dots and lots of journaling....tricky huh!)

Do you like this paper???

I really REALLY do....and it's part of the stash I'm working with for the class I'm running at the retreat I'm going to very soon - my very first one ever!!! Excitement plus!

Also exciting - my birthday! Well, not the birthday so much (it's not a nice number), just the PARTY we're planning! Yay yay and double yay!

What a week!

First a layout share....

...using Design Dollies latest colour challenge....

GREEN GREY & WHITE

The prize for this month is rather cool.....

.....all you have to do for the chance to win is to enter at least ONE of the 4 colour challenges the Dollies will throw at us during September! Easy!

Another DD layout to show you using this sketch.....

Three circles, three gorgeous girls....what else would I do???

All the green I've been scrapping with lately must have jinxed the weather.

Remember this photo I shared with you in April this year?

Well....check it out now.....

GREEN, LUSH and BEAUTIFUL

and full dams as well!!!!!!

We've had 50ml of rain in the last few days (in other words.....HEAPS)

....even broke the banks of the MacIntyre yesterday arvo.....

Had to drive hubby's 4wd to work to get through our driveway which was flooded.

Today has turned out gorgeous and sunny - just in time for Kate's soccer semi's - everything looks amazing....it lifts the spirits and gladdens the heart.

Bring on Spring!

Father's Day....began with pressies in bed, then a BBQ picnic in the backyard.....

(notice the lawn mower in the background - we had to actually mow a spot to lay the rug out!

So RELAXING.......

Tuesday it was off to Tamworth (kid-free!) to see Powderfinger....

....which was totally awesome and had me wondering why we don't go to live shows more often.

Yesterday we celebrated Kate's 11th birthday......

.....so excited about her purple iPod and alarm clock/docking station along with lots of other bits and pieces. This arvo we're off to the circus with a few of her friends.....great timing for a circus to come to town!

Mars Bar cheesecake in the fridge all ready for the occasion.

Managed to squeeze in 3 days of work in between. Phew! I'll be glad for tomorrow...(a sleep-in is on my agenda)....oh, hang on, Tim's asked me to help him re-clad the front of the house tomorrow! No rest for the wicked....

Who Doesn't Love to Dress Up!

After a big weekend of planning and sewing, the girls excitedly underwent their transformations for their school Book Week Parade last Wednesday......

GRUG (aka Mia) from The Grug books by Ted Prior

JANE VOLTURI (aka Bethany) from the Twilight saga

MORDONNA FLOOD (aka Kate) from The Floods series by Colin Thompson

Naturally I organised the morning off work to be there....I wouldn't miss it for the world!

It's the funnest day on the school calendar.....my fave part is when they crank up "I'm A Believer" on the stereo and the whole school makes a conga line behind Miss Angel (the girl's adorable infants teacher) and dances around the playground with all the mums and dads clapping and cheering.

Speaking of BOOKS, since my last reading update I've finished....

....and....

....and now I'm quarter of the way into....

....this Millennium series really gets you in. Completely different to what I would normally choose, but I'm loving these books so much!

Enjoy Dad's Day tomorrow....ours looks to be a very damp and rainy one!

Thanks for the visit.

xxx

Embarrassment Alert

Now don't laugh will you.

Design Dollies have a rather cringe-worthy challenge going on - to scrap a school photo of YOURSELF.....eeeek!

So here goes....

Loving those plastic hair bobbles.....now there's an 80's fashion that needs to be resurrected!

The fun little yellow and blue buttons are by Nellie G - check out all her adorable designs and get some for yourself here.

Mixed up these ingredients for the latest Dollies Recipe....

RED

3 OVALS

FLOURISH

GLITTER

2 PPs

Have a go - the prize is one you will WANT to win!

 

Little Mimi at the ANZAC parade.....ain't she CUTE!

More later.....including photos from today's Book Week parade. Who doesn't love Book Week???