Nice and relaxed!!!

Can you believe i have 1 child at home with me???

Its true, dh, took the 3 older ones, down to his mum for about a week maybe a bit longer, and just left me with byron. I can honestly say, i have so enjoyed the peace and quite and the fact that i only have to clean up once or twice a day and not half a dozen or a dozen times!!!

And with having all this spare time to myself, ive managed to get some much awaited scrapping done!!!

this is for the montly quote challange at designindigital.com


Credits -
Anita Stergiou - Flower Clippies
Melany Violette - Papers, 2 recoloured
Raechel Knights - Ribbon
Font - Parchmant

this was a sketch/template challange at letsscrap.plusboard.de


Sketch - connieb
Papers, ribbon, stamp - ksk Designs - 4 the boys.

And a couple for fun

And they are back!!

Thank god that didnt take me to long to do!! All the lost lo's have been redone, and saved on 3 dvd's. Not taking any chances anymore with them lol. Now to do a couple more and get it all printed up for mum for mothers day. Fingers crossed i get it all done!!

And GUESS WHAT school is back!! woohoo.

Well they went back on Tuesday, Tamara was quite happy to go back, Daniel on the other hand was not to happy about it. Doesnt like the early morning rising at all!!! It wasnt that bad once the afternoon had come around though.

Today being anzac day, they had the day off. And for the first time, the kids and myself, took ourselves down to the Anzac day march and service. Been a long time since ive been to an anzac day service and i'll be the first to admit that i had tears watching the old diggers march their way down the street and then at the service. Tamara wasnt sure on what was going on, but Daniel was glad that we went, stood and listened and took it all in.

And then the day ended very quitely with all kids being in bed and asleep by 8pm!!!

And cause of that, i was able to get a LO done :) Yeah for me.



Credits to Marcee J. Duggar

What have i done??

Something STUPID!!

Ive lost all the LO's that i have done over the 6mnths to a year :( :(. And ive only just realised this, when ive gone to print out a photo book for my mum for mothers day.

I have a feeling that, when we cleaned out our car, it has been in a plastic bag that we have just picked up and thrown in the rubbish bin!!!!!

Not much at all i can do now about it. Go through my online galleries i guess and redo all the LO's. That also depends on if i still have the kits that i used in some of them

Lesson well learnt though, print my layouts ASAP!!!!!

A new Fashion???

Or possibly not?? Will let you judge for yourself.

This is Byron's new little thing. We walk around the house all day, with this ice cream container on his head, calling everyone "dude", whilst then proceeding to giggle at you LOL.

Unfortuantly I personally dont think this will take off, is a fashion all of his own.



And he is another one of him sleeping oh so peacefully.


What else have we been up to?? Nothing much at all. Sunday was my first game back in Soccer, so Monday i was to sore and tired to even move, Tuesday, was busy cleaning, but wednesday saw a trip to the park for 30mins or so. And then today was another cleaning day.

Took the camera out with us before we went to the park on Wednesday, only one i got a shot of was mara, and im pretty happy with these.

A day out and about

It was such a lovely day when we awoke this morning that we decided we would ALL (yes the 6 of us) go for a visit to The Entrance and Toowoon Bay. Its not often we do something together as a family on a weekend as at least one of us, has a sport on either Saturday or Sunday. As it is the school holidays though, for the moment at least our Saturdays are free :).

All 6 of us going though means 2 car's are needed. And please remind me, that if i EVER need to follow Robbie to a place i dont know, to NOT to do. He is shocking, forgets that you are behind him. I had said to him, let me follow you, so we can get a parking space near each other when we get there. He goes okay, so we arrive and what does he do, takes the first car spot he see's, and parks there!! In the mean time, i ended up a 5min walk away in a side street, thinking where on earth is he going to be!!! Thankfully he had enough sense, to drive to where i was and park a little up from me.

We were all starving when we arrived as we had left at 9.30 (none of us got up till 8.30am, so in the rush to get dressed and gone, breakfast was forgotten). First port of call, was something to eat, hamburgers were ordered for mum and dad and chips for the kids. Which went down a real treat.

There was a little mini carnival on, kids asked if they could go on a ride, no problem. First ride was the jumping castle, followed by the big slide and last but not least mara and robbie went on the twister. I do not have the stomach for these kinds of rides, so robs always the one that takes mara as she LOVES them lol. Though this time, he hops off and says never again, i want to vomit LOL. The kids were even lucky enough to score some showbags.

What The Entrance is renowned for THE PELICANS



THE SLIDE - Daniel



Tamara - Just managed to get her LOL (and still no front teeth ;) )



Rob and Joshie



All 4 together.




TOOWOON BAY

This is a LOVELY spot on the Central Coast. And one that is well tucked away.

Waiting for the waves to come in.



Byron really wasn't sure what to make of it, as he got slightly knocked over when the first wave came in lol. So ended up on the beach a bit.



He eventually ended up here at the flag for the most part LOL



Taken out by a wave



Enjoying the water



And last but not least, the biggest baby of them all. (my favourite pics of the day.)

ITS BACK!!!!

The Camera that is!!!!!!

You have no idea how much i have missed my beloved camera. I have not had it in my hot little hands for just over a month now as it was in the shop being fixed. Batteries are currently on charge and i cannot wait to get out and have a play with it tomorrow. Not sure where we will go for this trip ;)

Here a few snap shots of my baby (only one willing for a photo lol). Nothing exciting or great, just snap shots.







On another note. Today was spent at BINGO, yes you read right, BINGO lol. Byron and Joshua, quite happily played in the daycare there. Which surprised me greatly. I thought Byron, may have held onto my leg like there was no tomorrow, but the carers took his hand and off he went. :) Daniel and Tamara, each got 1 book to play (though Daniel wanted more lol). Game 1 started and finished and i had no idea how i was going to watch both of their books as well as my own lol (going quite fast so whilst they know there numbers, they got lost). THANKFULLY mum showed up, so she helped Tamara, whilst i helped Daniel.

Half way through book 1 though Tamara decided she had enough, so off to the daycare she went. Daniel lasted until after lunch and half way through book 2. A pretty good effort. Unfortunately neither won anything :( BUT I did managed to win $90 on the 3rd last game of the day. Won my money back, plus a little extra ;).

We ended the day with footy training and Pizza.

And the holidays truely begin for us.

And what a busy day it has been!!!

It started off pretty quite as the older 2 were still at their grandparents. Slept in till about 8am, when byron woke us all up, got dressed and headed off for the shops, to meet nan, pop and the kids. Nan and pop were running quite late, to the point that i started to panic and thought that they had gone to The Entrance, which was the original plan, but thank god no they didnt and arrived at the shops at 11am (meet time was 10.30).

So off we set, first port of call was to get daniel some shoes for his birthday from nan. Got a lovely pair of black and white Omni's with no laces (a BIG request from daniel). It was the time to go shopping for nan, as they lucky lady is going away to the Hunter for 3 or 4 days next week!!!!

Had some lunch, macca's for the kids, and a chicken wrap for us adults, once this was eaten we parted ways.

Amazingly enough all 4 kids napped in the car on the way home (this is only a 45min trip, but who is to complain), got home, and LUCKY for mum, dad was home, so the kids were dumped on him LOL.

The day ended with Daniel going to footy training and the rest of us visiting a girlfriend to see if we can make plans for tomorrow, which unfortunatly wasnt going to happen :( :(.

On a sad note though, I was informed on Monday, that my Uncle who is suffering from emphasima, went for a 3mnthly x-ray, which in turn showed a shadow on his lungs :( :(. We are not sure at this point, if its something sinister or not, unfortunatly though his own father suffered from emphasima, which then progressed into lung cancer.

And my Aunty also discovered that one of her kidney's is dead and the other kidney is only working at 30%. This comes as a great shock as her only symptom that something was wrong, was lower back pain :(.

Please keep us in your thoughts...

Tomorrow though does bring a trip down to the water front for us (beauty of 4 kids, enough kids to keep themselves company ;) lol) and then home for a quite afternoon ;) ;)