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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

School holidays

What a busy couple of days - knowing that I am working for the majority of the school holidays I had promised the kids a day out on Monday ~ we had planned an a walk but then it started to rain so instead we climbed in the car and drove to Albion Park for a game of Putt Putt! We had the best time. It was one of "those" days where we just had fun and laughed so much I had tears pouring down my face and a headache by the time we got home! The kids had a ball at Putt Putt - the place was packed! There were people on nearly every hole but we had heaps of fun.
Then we stopped of at Berry on they way home for ice-cream! Tasha looked like lady of the house sitting in the window of the ice creamery!
We were having Charlee on Tuesday but Kase rang to say she wasn't working so we went for a bush walk instead. We parked the car up on Shoalhaven St and went down to Bens Walk and Big Rock. Did lost of "off - the - track" walking and climbing up rocks and cliffs. The kids had a ball.

Then Tony and I took them around to Hidden Valley. We tried walking along the ledge (I swear it didn't seem that narrow when we used to do it ~ hmmm mind you I was A LOT skinnier then lol)
But about 3/4 of the way along there had been a rockslide and we had to go back and climb up and through the bush to get there.
The kids loved hearing about all the fun times their dad had down there. We climbed into caves and crossed the creek about 4 times. All in all a great time - Tasha wants to go again on the weekend!
Then because we were suckers for punishment we had a game of backyard soccer when we got home!


After that Tony and I collapsed! Boy my poor legs and knees! A totally exhausting but thoroughly enjoyable day.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Countdown is on!

Wooohooooo countdown time - 20 days to go. Then:

Zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom, zoom
Up in the air I fly!
Allan family - here I come!

Birthday Wishes

Just a quick message to a wonderful girl who has been a great support to me. Thanks for being there when I need a shoulder and for being just as mad as I am!! ~L~

And most importantly:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASS

Friday, September 26, 2008

My boy

Or should I say my little man.... He is growing up way too fast. Can't believe he is off to high school next year. The scary bit is how young they grow up now! (Does that make sense ~ I understood it!) ~L~
Kyle has been telling me how most of the year 6 kids have boy/girl friends and go out on dates! WHAT! No way. I told him he was way too young and got this reply

* Warning extra cute response here *

"This girl asked me to be her boyfriend at school"

To which I hesitantly replied "and what did you say?"

" I told her that I just want to concentrate on my school work at the moment and don't want any distractions!"

At this stage I burst out laughing - how cute - but also kind of worrying. He sounds so grown up!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

JUST A DRILL!

The kids were telling me they had a "lock down drill" at school today. With the sad state the world is in and the history of strange people hanging around the local schools they have drills for what to do when there are strange people on the school grounds!

Anyway it goes sort of like this ~ The siren goes and the teacher locks the class door and shuts all the blinds whilst the kids all sit on the floor. Then the teacher goes on the computer! At this stage I had a weird vision of the kids sitting huddled scared whilst the teacher checks her emails and plays a few games ~L~ No not quite! Apparently they wait for instructions via IM. Oh well my picture sounded better!

Monday, September 22, 2008

Share-sies

Have been having fun the last few days - playing with my new stamps! Thought I'd share my latest creations. nothing too flash but I am really happy with them. I love this Baroque stamp. Scraplifted the idea of the white gel pen with the stamp on the pink card, changed it around a bit and loved how it turned out. Tony actually commented that he liked the green/brown one so that is high praise coming from him!


Girls weekend at Terrigal/Erina

After Kath and Tina missing our Girls weekend in Sydney earlier in the year (and it ended up being just Jane and I) we finally got together.
We had planned ot go up for Kath's 40th birthday but couldn't get there so Jane and I travelled up on the 13th.
We had a great time. We met at Kathy's in Erina and then hit Erina Fair! Am sad to report that Jane and I did not do ourselves proud shopping. Did have severe budget restraints but still came home almost empty handed. Did manage to find a handbag and some bling.
We went out to Davistown RSL to see the Radiators which was a very interesting night. The lead singer was so drunk he could barely sing but we managed to dance for a large portion of the night anyway. Oh and the Jim Beam cowgirls were out handing out free merchandising so we had a good chuckle watching the guys going up trying to chat them up ~ yeah right~ Heres some pics from that night (notice the telly in the background - GO YOU SHARKS!)
And the morning after! Brekky on the water at Terrigal. It was a rainy morning but still a lovely place to sit and relax

Choir festival

Warning - extremely blurry pics!

Tasha has been walking arouns the house singing all the time lately ~ yeah I know what's different! This time it has been practising for the Combined Schools Choir. They also spent a lot of time at school in rehearsals.
Mum, John, Kyle and I went along to listen to them sing and we were blown away with the talent in the local area. They did a few songs all together which were amazing with the unison and the choreography they looked great. Each school also did a group performance and these were really good as well. Tasha got to sit between her 2 good friends Kaysha and Courtney. (She is sitting to the left of Courtney who is waving)
We were very proud of her. Not just for her conduct on the night but for all the work she put in beforehand.

Tasha's new disco room

As promised here are pics of Tasha's new room. Took a while but we got there. As you can see she has lost the bunk beds and it looks all nice and girly. She has a new bedside table And a new tallboy which we picked up real cheap as it was the last one - floor stock and had a mark on the top of it. Still looks all nice and girly.
Of course with the obligatory posters (I swear this girl is a teenager already ~ can I dream and hope that she will have it out of her system by the time she hits her teens ~L~)
But then you tunr around and here is the disco. the pics aren't the best but you get the hint. Looks better at night with disco ball going etc

The main thing is she loves it and is very happy with it and apparently it has passed the "friends test" . Her bed and tallboy are tucked away so she has heaps of room for dancing.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Whoooops

I know I said I was back on line and ready to update more regularly again. Have kind of justified my lack of blogging due to the fact that 1) no-one really reads my ramblings and 2) "others" ~ yes I'm talking about you SJ! ~ haven't updated recently either.
Having said that I now find that I am getting emails to find out whats going on and ~ shock, horror ~ after an almost 3 month hiatus posts are appearing on SJ's blog. Better get updating I guess.

Have pics on my camera which I haven't downloaded but the last few weeks in a nutshell

* Work. Am getting more hours than I first thought. Enjoying it whilst it lasts because I really do love this job.
* Kids. Growing up - Kyle is getting so tall and Tash is just such a "cool chick"
* Finished Tasha's room and if I do say so it looks really cool. She loves it which is the main thing.
* Had a girls weekend in Terrigal/Erina with Kathy,Jane and Tina which was an interesting weekend to say the least. We did hit the shops (I bought a new bag!) at Erina Fair and we went out to a Radiators concert.
* Had lunch with Cass, Callum and Annabelle
* And, very exciting news! I booked my flights for Melbourne. Can't wait to catch up with the Allan's. They are my family away from home. Love you guys.

Thats about it - will try to do better. Oh and will get pics from camera to computer!

Friday, September 05, 2008

Bits and Pieces

This week has been a mixed bag. I did plan to get Tasha's room done but endedup working a lot more so Tasha is still bunking in with Kyle and her room contents are all over my dining room table and rumpus room.

On the plus side i have spent some time this week updating our holiday blog

www.nzholiday2008.blogspot.com

Think I have passed the half way point now with the blog. It has been fun going back through the photos and memories.

Hope to get the room done over the weekend.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Very proud mum

After having a season off last year to play basketball Kyle returned to soccer this year. This is actually his 6th season. He isn't always the high scorer (in fact he plays back and in 6 seasons has only got 2 goals).

He is much happier hanging back and passing the ball for his team mates to score and has set up some amazing goals. Anyway they had their presentation on the weekend which we couldn't get to so Kyle's friend Shaun got his medal for him. It wasn't until today that we found out that not only did kyle get his team medal for this season but he had won the coaches BEST AND FAIREST award.

We are both so proud of him and it is good for him to learn that even though the others get all the glory on the field that his effort his also special.

WELL DONE KYLE

Monday, September 01, 2008

Tasha's 10th birthday

I'm not really sure who this girl is but she looks waaaayyy too old to be my little girl! How did she get so grown up?!? We had Tasha's 10th birthday party on Saturday and of course with her love of music she wanted a disco/karaoke themed party so instead of following our original plan of having karaoke in our back room we found a place that did karaoke themed parties - MUCH better idea!
Tasha's cake HAD to have a guitar on it!
Hitting the dance floor! I must say the kids were all so good with the younger cousins - if anything they got spoilt rotten by all the 10 year girls who thought they were "so cute"
And they thing that amazed me was Tasha with all her friends there when they were sitting down to eat made sure she had two of her little cousins either side of her and her other cousins were directly opposite!

They played heaps of games. they had an obstacle couse race, treasure hunt

Musical chairs! and heaps more
So all in all Saturday was a good night.
However....... on her actual birthday (Sunday) we went over to Auntie Gails in the afternoon and Tash was very quiet and withdrawn and then when we got home the poor little thing started vomiting. Its heartwrenching when your little girl is sitting there saying "Mum I just don't want to do this anymore" re being sick.
So this is how she ended up on her birthday!
We told her no more special days - she was sick for christmas and her birthday!

Saturday, August 30, 2008

She's almost there!

Yep, the countdown is on. My baby turns 10 tomorrow!

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN !?!?!??!?

And according to Tash "I'm really excited".

Hmmmm, 10 years old - does that mean I can put her to work now! ~L~ Not according to her!

Now all we have to do is survive the party tonight! 14 x 10 year olds singing karaoke. HHHEEELLLLPPPPPP. Lets see if we make it to tomorrow.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

WOW

All I can say is I am glad Dishwashers are full of water!

How's that for an opening statement! But very true!

We put the dishwasher on earlier and Tony was commenting on how we need to replace it as it only works on one cycle etc etc. Anyway upon opening it to empty it everything looked fine at first and then Kyle noticed a plate was broken and had scorch marks on it! Upon closer look the plastic container for the cutlery had obviously had a fire under it as there are scorch marks and one corner is melted and some of the cutlery handles melted into it! One corner of the dishwasher also has scorch marks!

Must have been a nice little fire in there! Just glad that there was also lots of water!!!!!

Seems Tony is right - we do need to replace the dishwasher (think that will have to go on the back burner - oh well good thing we have kids! ~L~)

Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Weekend

Phew it has been a kind of mad week this week so I was glad for the weekend!

The kids school had a fundraiser photo thing going where for $10 you got to have a sitting and get a free 20 x 30 cm photo and a keyring photo so we went along (after all our last studio family pic doesn't even have Tasha in it *oops*) we got a whole fmaily shot, one of the kdis and one of Tony and I. Just got to wait and see how they turned out now!

Then I went straight from there up to Shellharbour for a card making afternoon at Cass'. It was great fun - the girls there are always heaps of fun to spend time with and very friendly. We made some really cool cards and a little pouch with a chocolate bar in it (What more can a girl ask for - scrapping and chocolate!).

Then I stayed for dinner with the King family - yummy risotto - and then Cass and I sat and did some more stampin/scrapping.

Today is Simone's birthday so:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONE

We will pop down and see her at some stage and then the plan is to get some scrapping done this afternoon.

I got some exciting/sad news today too ........................................ check out the next post for details

Wayne Brady is coming to Australia!

Wow I can't believe it!

Tony and I just adore this guy - he is one the funniest stand up / improv people I have seen in a long time. We tune into Whose Line Is It Anyway to check out what he is coming up with next. Not only is he funny and quickwitted but he has the most amazing voice and his improved songs are amazing. (and the way he can shake his tush would rival Ricky Martin!). If you haven't seen Whose Line you may have seen him on Don't Forget The Lyrics - he was the host.

Anyway seriously amazing guy and we were so excited to hear he was coming to Australia but then we realised 1) we really couldn't afford the tickets and 2) it's on December 20th which means there is no way Tony could get there - the week before Christmas is probably one of their busiest times :( . I am sure we could have got around that somehow just don't know how we would come up with the dollars

If you can get to see him I would thoroughly recommend it - and if you do - think of me when you're there!

Wayne Brady is the funniest improv/stand up guy you will ever see - without a doubt.

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ETA: Can you hear me screaming?!? I can't believe it - we are going to the show. tony bought me the tickets for my birthday - so excited.
If you can you need to check out this guy's album - its called "a long time coming" and has some of the most amazing R&B songs on it.
I so can't wait till the 20th of December to see him live. He seriously is one of the best entertainers around. His improv is amazing and his voice. WOW

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Quick Update

Ooops had it pointed out that I haven't actually updated!!
*insert red face here*

So willl have to sit down and do it properly but here is our last month in a nutshell:

* Tony's stress test results were all clear
* I got new glasses (will post pic)
* It's been 5 years since Dad died - Didn't cope too well but we got through!
* Went to 2 Stampin Up parties in a week (1 here - 1 down the road)
* Went to family Day / Open Day at the Grange (where Mum and John will be moving)
* Worked lots
* Went to Simones Baby Shower
* Went to a scrapping with soul day at the church
* Have been madly looking for a replacement for "bomb car"
* Maggie's heart condition is slowly getting worse
* Been getting a bit of scrapping and cardmaking done at home
* Had picnic lunch with Cass, Callum and Annabelle in Kiama
* Got Kyle's High School sorted out
* Planned Tasha's birthday
* Had heaps of "fun" dealing with Telstra and the Internet. GGGGRRRRR

Hmmmm think that's it - I'm sure I will think of more.

Anyway will do a proper update just thought this might placate some ~L~

Thursday, August 14, 2008

YYAAAYYY!!!

Wooooo Hoooooo after weeks of "discussions" with Telstra we finally have our internet back on at home.

Now have to reply to the mass of messages and emails - sorry guys if it takes me to some time to wade through them but I will get there.

Have heaps to update here too - better get stuck into that as well!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Not much happening

Hi guys.

Yeah I know I haven't blogged for over a week but seriously there hasn't been much happening! Thanks for the sms to check up on me. It's great to know I have friends who care. MWAH sweetie!

As I said not much happening so I thought I'd share this with you! ~L~ I figured if I had to see it every day you could check it out too! I worked every day last week and this is the view from my office window! Enjoy! lol

There was one very exciting thing this week. Kyle got man of the match at soccer! Congrats Kyle. Unfortunately I missed it as I didn't make it to his game this week but I was very proud of my little man when he came home with the trophy. His dad reports it was well earned! (and yes Kase he does play soccer better than his dad plays hockey!)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sick kids

No not mine!

Both Simone and Kaycee have sick little ones at the moment. Simone's little man Dominic has croup and Kaycee's little Charlee has been having a really rough couple of days with seizures. When I spoke to Kaycee this afternoon she was taking Charlee back to the doctor. Hopefully they get things sorted out to cut down these major fits.

Please keep both of these little ones in your thoughts and prayers (and their mums)

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Catching up with friends

Well today has definately been my "catch up" day. By that I mean catching up with my friends. Today Gail and I drove to Bowral to see Lou, Tracy, Cass and Annabelle (and meet Carol) and then Haylee came up later to join us. It was great to sit and chat with Cass and the other ladies and just catch up on what has been happening in each others lives.

We really need to organise a social type gathering where we can sit and chat properly rather than over a scrapping table.

Then after getting home I got on the phone to Melbourne to catch up with all the gossip from the Allan's. Well almost an hour later (57 minutes!) and I think we are up to date. Was so great to hear her voice and just sit and chat.

Friday, July 11, 2008

School holidays

Wow the first week of the holidays is over! Doesn't time fly! We have had an okay week. Monday we originally thought we were having Charlee but Cooper was sick so she stayed home with her mummy. So Tasha and I cooked! We made mini cup cakes and choc biscuits.
Apparently blogger thinks this photo should be sideways!!!
Then we told Tasha she could ring Tegan to see if she can come over and play. Tasha and Tegan go to different schools but are still good friends and Tegan comes over most school holidays.

Then our plans for Tues/Wed sort of fell in a heap so we took the kids ten pin bowling instead.
And I got a strike! If you look with a magnifying glass it is written on the screen above my head ~L~ How cool!
Then the kids and I went to see Get Smart on Wednesday. I got them up early so we could go to the early bird deal only $6.60 each. We took our own chips and got drinks from my work afterwards so all in all a reasonably cheap trip!
Then I worked thurs/Fri.

Next week will be a lot duller for the kids as I am working everyday. They are having a sleep over at Nana and John's one night so that should be fun for them.

I have a scrapping day in Moss Vale tomorrow (saturday) with some of the Scrap of Faith girls. Looking forward to a day of fun, laughs, chatting, cuddles (baby Annabelle will be there ~ but adults hugs too!) and maybe even some scrapping.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Fun week!

Monday was the athletics carnival at the kids school and Tony and I went along to watch the kids. Wemissed their first race (100m) but saw them run in their second race (200m). I was so proud of both of them for trying and for entering 2 races. Tasha came 3rd (she thinks) in her 100m race and was picked for the relay team which we got to see and they came in second! Checking out the competition - like father, like daughter ~L~
Then Tuesday I went up to Shellharbour to see the King's. Played putt putt golf with Callum, and had lunch with Callum, Annabelle and Cass.
It was a great relaxing day and as always when spending time with Cass I came home feeling happier and less stressed.
Tuesday night Tasha had a fancy dress night at Girls Brigade. they have a dress up night for the last night of each term and this term it was hippie/flower power. So after raiding Aunty Gail's dress up cupboard here is my little hippie chick!
Not much else happening this week. Work was hectic (as usual).

I am missing my chats with Sandra. It is funny we don't tend to chat on the phone much but through email etc we check up on each other regularly. With her being away training and not having computer access I am finding it hard. I think of something or see something and think "got to tell SJ" but can't. Oh well she will be home soon and things will be back to normal.

Monday, June 30, 2008

My weekend!

This weekend had been another good one! We started of with a home game for soccer! That is always a good start! Here's my boy on the soccer field (don't you just love the grey knees!) Number 2 - when Kyle started playing 7 years ago he always stated he wanted to play for the bears and he wanted to wear number 2 because "That's what Greg does". He has the number 2 shirt again this year!
Then saturday night I went to the 50th birthday of a lady I used to work with. She has had some major hurdles in her life and the speeches were very moving but it was a good night also. There was a singer there with an amazing voice and we got to have a dance so I was happy.
Here is the birthday girl with her 2 daughters.
Then on Sunday Cass and Jane came over for a scrapping/card making afternoon (and Tim Tam eating session). Of course slow thinking me forgot to grab the camera when the girls were here so no pics. Jason also called in from Canberra to show us his new motorbike. Twice in 2 weeks Jason. Good to see you - Hope to catch up again soon!

These are the cards I made when the girls were here and below is a LO I completed after they left. It needs something but still not quite sure what?!?



Friday, June 27, 2008

She's home

Looking very tired and slightly grumpy - but she's home!

Sounds like they had a great time. She loved the tour of the Rocks - listening to all the history etc (particularly the bit about people being hung!). they went to Sydney Aquarium and Wildlife world and the Art gallery as well.

They stayed at the Woolbrokers in the city which apparently is gorgeous!
Early night tonight!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

My baby's gone!



My little girl is away from us at the moment. She has an overnight excursion to Sydney! Don't know who came up with the idea of taking year 4 for an overnight stay but I really wasn't ready for this. It's not normally until year 5. I didn't sleep last night - mind you we had that horrid wind last night so that could have bothered me too. I lay there all night listening to the wind.
The kids aren't allowed to take a phone with them so we can't ring to see how she is going but I am sure she is fine. Prayed and prayed for her protection last night!
But the amazing thing is - the house is soooooooooo quiet without her. I didn't realise just how much noise one girl generates but there is no music, no singing, no constant chatter. Its weird! Even Kyle is missing the noise - go figure normally he whinges she is too noisy.
She will be back tomorrow with heaps of stories I am sure!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

a weekend of highs and lows

This weekend has been a mixed bag.

Friday night we had Davina and Gails families over here for dinner which happened to be Davina's birthday so we had the whole party theme! Plastic tablecloths, paper plates (with castles and pirates of course) party hats and everyone brought finger food! It was a great night we had heaps of fun and (I think) everyone have a great time. One of Tony's mates Jason who worked with him for years and years was in town so we rang him and he came along and caught up with everyone too. It was soo good to see him and catch up.

Saturday Kyle had soccer in Ulladulla so we all got up early and headed down there. It was sooo cold. Only just over 1/2 the team turned up so they did lose quite dramatically but they gave it a good go and didn't give up. I was very proud of them. Then seeing we were down that way we went to Batemans Bay and had a wander around and got some lunch and sat on the waterfront to eat.

Heading home I started feeling a bit off colour but thought I was just tired and then KC rang and asked if we could have the kids - which I was really excited about. Anyway we got home and I was violently ill. Just threw up the entire contents of my stomach in one foul swoop. So we had to ring Gail and see if she could babysit and I didn't get to spend time with Charlee and Cooper :( I was so violently sick that apparently I have either bruised or cracked a rib and am in so much pain now and can barely move.

Oh well at least I don't have to go to work until Wednesday!

Scrapping shopping

Just got to share this. Check out this blog for some amazing scrapping barginas.

The address is http://scrappybargains.blogspot.com/

Monday, June 16, 2008

The evening

After the craft show we headed back to the motel and checked in (eventually ggrrrrr to useless check in staff!) then sat and had Tim tams and champagne whilst we got ready to go out. Spent too much time sitting and chatting that it was 7:30 before we headed out for dinner so instead of going to Baia and relaxing as I had been looking forward to we just ducked into one of the little places at Darling Harbour and had a quick meal which was very basic -although we did sit and check out all the people wandering by (I just have to say these people wandering around are getting younger and younger - don't know how their mothers let them out the house without supervision - ~L~ or maybe I'm just getting old) before going up to Star City to see the show.

We met Davina, Stephen, Beth and Mark just inside the door (literally) of the theatre and had a chat before Jane and I headed down to our seats (in Row A). Rocky Horror was a great show! I loved it! The cast would walk down off stage regularly (although having the aisle seat I kept getting strange men running their hands through my hair as they walked past!) and it was just a fun show. We even did the Time Warp at the end (well nearly everyone - the guy in front of us stayed sitting the whole time!) and I did that with one of the cast dancing along beside me.

After the show Jane and I headed to Cockle Bay to the Lindt shop for dessert! Yummy, yummy coffee and I had a cherry chocolate cheesecake and Jane had a brownie. mmmmmmmm.

Then we wandered back around cockle bay and through Darling Harbour (and past the remnants of an "incident" - all we saw were flasihing police lights and crime tape!) and back to the hotel.

Then Sunday we had brekky at Darling Harbour and went to Paddy's Markets where ~ wait for it ~ I bought a handbag!!!! Bet you didn't see that coming. lol

All in all a great weekend. Pity Kathy couldn't make it but hopefully next time! Oh and SJ and Cass!

The craft show

Had a great weekend with Jane.

It started at 7am on Saturday! She picked me up and we headed off to Sydney. got stopped at the base of the Kiama bends for ages with an accident stopping traffic both ways. We were just disucssing turning around and going the looooooooonnnnnng way when we started moving. YAY! Got to Sydney and didn't turn into the wrong parking station (long story but a tradition it seems). Then we stopped for coffee and headed off to the craft show!

Where we shopped and shopped and shopped! (Well I did - Jane bought some ribbon!) I didn't spend too much but got heaps for my $$. I found a place that had Basic Grey, We R Memory Keepers and SEI packs for $12. Yep $12. So I bought up heaps. (Actually bought so much paper that my arm was numb that night from carrying my bags and I still have a very sore neck now!). Got some new stamps and thats about it. Stayed within my budget which I was very pleased about.

The highlight of the craft show was definately seeing an album at the Scrapapple stand with the gorgeous Allan family in it! Loved your mini album SJ - it was gorgeous (and everyone was commenting on it!)

Friday, June 13, 2008

Yay It's Friday!

Wow what happened to that week? Blink and it's gone!

First I have to shout out a huge CONGRATS to the gorgeous SJ for getting accepted into the course she has been talking about for ages (although I knew all along they would grab you sweetie).

I have my girls weekend in Sydney this weekend. We are going up for the Craft and Quilt show (we normally plan our annual weekend so we can craft show all day!). then we will probably end up at Cockle Bay for dinner and drinks before heading to Star City to See Rocky Horror and then after that we will find somewhere to dance until some really ridiculous hour of the morning! ~ got to find some way to warm up in these cold nights ~
Looking forward to it so much. Love the chatting and giggling and general girliness of these weekends. DH has it all sussed ~ he bought us our packet of TimTams (which is kind of a tradition - champagne and TimTams in the motel whilst we are getting ready to go out!)

Hope you all have a great weekend

Monday, June 09, 2008

Long Weekend

Well we have had a great long weekend!

Saturday we thought seeing it was such a nice day we would go for one of our family drives. So we got in the car and headed south this time! I kept telling Tony to drive to Melbourne but he wouldn't be in that - spoil sport!.
Anyway ~ driving through Milton we noticed the scarecrow festival was on so we parked and had a look around some of the street stalls when we ran in to Jenny Webb and then we ended up going back to her place and catching up with Mark and Jenny for the entire afternoon! The kids went off and played with her kids (Tasha patted a horse!) and we had a great time catching up. Jenny and Mark used to be our house church leaders way back before we were married and we havent seen them for years and years.

Sunday we went to church and then came home and **geek alert** sat down and watched the entire series 3 of Dr Who!

Then monday (today) I went in and tidied up my scrap room - unpacked my scrap stuff from last weekend and then sat down and made cards for about 4 hours!

All in all a lovely weekend.