Hello there to anyone who might still be around!!! (Donna?? LOL)
Once again it is AGES between posts .... and once again no excuse other than 'life'!
I hope everyone had a nice Easter (!) - it feels like forever ago, I can't believe it has come and gone and now Anzac Day is here. I always get so emotional on Anzac Day watching the Parade. Do you know the McDonald's ad. where the girls serves the Returned Soldier a coffee and he says 'thank you' and she turns around and says 'no, thank YOU' ??? Well even that gets me bawling on Anzac Day ... we have so mucn to be grateful and thankful for - I hope my children realize this and rememeber this for the future. Our life could be so different today if it wasn't for all the brave men and women who went to fight hard for us ......
We've had a very busy few months. The kids happily started back to school - Nick is doing so well in Yr 7, Tay is loving Yr 5 and we are finding Immi to be very happy in Yr 1. So far so good with all the kids!
We've had 2 wedding's this year - my step-bother was married in QLD and then 3 weeks later a very dear friend was married in the Hunter Valley Garden's. OMG so gorgeous there - a perfect setting for a wedding or something special.
I've been on a 'girlie' holiday to Tassie for a special friend's 40th birthday! Talk about FUN!!! It was great! We saw a lot, learnt a lot, ate a lot, drank only a little (LOL) and had a fabulous time!
Phil has not been so great with 2 trips to hospital recently! One visit was while we were in QLD for Justin & Lisa's wedding and the other time was only a couple of weeks ago on a Wed night ... talk about giving us a scare!!! It's a really drastic way to get attention!!! LOL ... he's been to one specialist and is off to see another in Newcastle in the near future - he'll be fine though I'm sure!
We are in the middle of MAJOR renovations now so that seems to be taking any spare time that we have. It's such a huge job but will be more than worth it in the end!
So, now we are on school holiday's, or at the tail-end of them, and I'm finding there are not enough days to do all that we want to do! We have had 3 days camping which was fantastic. Luckily we didn't get the really horrible weather the coast got otherwise it might not have been so much fun! The kids had a really great time and we enjoyed kicking back with our friends and doing 'nothing'. Phil is not used to taking 'time out' so it took him a while to get into the chill-out mode!!!!!
Not a lot of time for me to scrap lately other than a few cards here and there, but I recently had Immi and her great buddy Clare in for a kids class while I was at work one day. Here are a few photo's of them concentrating really hard on their creations!!!!! And one at the end of the finished product ... which they designed all themselves!!!! LOL
Immi (L) and Clare (R)Once again it is AGES between posts .... and once again no excuse other than 'life'!
I hope everyone had a nice Easter (!) - it feels like forever ago, I can't believe it has come and gone and now Anzac Day is here. I always get so emotional on Anzac Day watching the Parade. Do you know the McDonald's ad. where the girls serves the Returned Soldier a coffee and he says 'thank you' and she turns around and says 'no, thank YOU' ??? Well even that gets me bawling on Anzac Day ... we have so mucn to be grateful and thankful for - I hope my children realize this and rememeber this for the future. Our life could be so different today if it wasn't for all the brave men and women who went to fight hard for us ......
We've had a very busy few months. The kids happily started back to school - Nick is doing so well in Yr 7, Tay is loving Yr 5 and we are finding Immi to be very happy in Yr 1. So far so good with all the kids!
We've had 2 wedding's this year - my step-bother was married in QLD and then 3 weeks later a very dear friend was married in the Hunter Valley Garden's. OMG so gorgeous there - a perfect setting for a wedding or something special.
I've been on a 'girlie' holiday to Tassie for a special friend's 40th birthday! Talk about FUN!!! It was great! We saw a lot, learnt a lot, ate a lot, drank only a little (LOL) and had a fabulous time!
Phil has not been so great with 2 trips to hospital recently! One visit was while we were in QLD for Justin & Lisa's wedding and the other time was only a couple of weeks ago on a Wed night ... talk about giving us a scare!!! It's a really drastic way to get attention!!! LOL ... he's been to one specialist and is off to see another in Newcastle in the near future - he'll be fine though I'm sure!
We are in the middle of MAJOR renovations now so that seems to be taking any spare time that we have. It's such a huge job but will be more than worth it in the end!
So, now we are on school holiday's, or at the tail-end of them, and I'm finding there are not enough days to do all that we want to do! We have had 3 days camping which was fantastic. Luckily we didn't get the really horrible weather the coast got otherwise it might not have been so much fun! The kids had a really great time and we enjoyed kicking back with our friends and doing 'nothing'. Phil is not used to taking 'time out' so it took him a while to get into the chill-out mode!!!!!
Not a lot of time for me to scrap lately other than a few cards here and there, but I recently had Immi and her great buddy Clare in for a kids class while I was at work one day. Here are a few photo's of them concentrating really hard on their creations!!!!! And one at the end of the finished product ... which they designed all themselves!!!! LOL
The final product! They were very proud!
Thanks heaps for looking and I will try really hard to be back on here again soon!
Love and hugs, Hel xo
