The weekend is over again...

This weekend has been a relatively quiet one for us. Friday night i went to Janes house to do some creating, got a good start on a recipe swap i am in on LSBS - "Favourite Cocktail Recipe Swap" I did Homemade Baileys - YUMMY, and very easy to make as well.

Got home from Janes and Angus woke up, then stayed awake for about 3 hours, the kids were awake early on Saturday morning for Stirlings soccer game which we all headed out to watch, he played a great game and his team won, even though with under 7's we are not supposed to keep score the kids do anyway, but i make more of a big deal out of how he played and if he had fun than over which team won, i never ask him, but he tells me anyway. Last week he got player of the match for stopping a real good goal from when he played goalie in the first half. Of course i took photos, any good scrapbooking mother would! here they are -

Saturday afternoon was a quiet one, Stuart took off for a bucks afternoon/evening and i tried to catch up on spome sleep, but apparantly sleep is overrated.....pizza with Jo and Emily for dinner, then some creating and Dee came over to join us.

Another quiet day today with swimming in the morning, then finally got to have a nanna nap and a quiet afternoon resting in front of the TV.

Tonight some more qwuality TV viewing and then an early night, in which hopefully i will get to sleep thru.

Not a very exciting life i live really is it, oh well, until next time



Cheers Jenni

Back to school - YAY!

Stuart is back to work.....thank goodness, i don't know about this having him home in the school holidays now that he is teaching at TAFE, it was nice for the boys to have him around, but i am so used to not having him here and not having to consider what he is doing before making plans with the kids during the school holidays.....and also not annoying me about housework either. So i was glad to send him back to work on Monday, not so much Stirling back to school yesterday, i enjoy having him home and getting to spend time together with him and doing fun stuff. This past school holidays we had fun bowling, going to the park and of course the movies. Him and I went to see Get Smart with my gf and her son and i think Amanda and i laughed harder than the kids because of watching thew series as kids, its an awesome movie that definately does the show justice.
The park we went to in the school holidays out at Holroyd was awesome. It has a bike track that is a pretend road with road signs, a cul de sac, speed bumps, the works. It also has an adventure playground for the older kiddies with something for the younger ones as well, We spent about 3 hours there, having a picnic lunch and we hardly saw the kids at all....they were here there and everywhere, there was so much for them to do that boredom had absolutely no chance of setting in, and the kids have requested to go there again soon. I took some pics of my bestie Jo and her princess Emily as well as plenty more of the kids playing, i am going to have so much to scrap with next time i print photos out i am not going to know where to start.
Here are a few of my fave pics of the day.

Until next time







Cheers Jenni

Some recent creations...

OMG - 2 blog entries in one day!!!!!!

I took some pics of some recent LO's I have completed for some LSBS monthly competitions as well as some other LO"s that were inspired by last weekends cybercrop challenges.

Tonight once the kids are in bed i am planning on making a birthday card for a good friend - who didn't tell me her birthday was today DOH! She came visiting with her grandkids, the youngest being only 9 weeks old and didn't Angus get a little miffed when Bernadette didn't pay quite as much attention to him while she was holding Chase.....and then when it was time for Chase to have a bottle i had to get one for Angus too, he was not too happy about the baby having what he thought was his.....much happier once he had one of his own.....kept glancing over to Chase while he was drinking his bottle as if to say "look, i have one too now - and this one i am NOT sharing!" Silly little munchkin!
Well, here are the layouts....i am off now to get the kids ready for bed so that in half an hour i get peace and quiet

Cheers Jenni

On the move......

Angus is on the move, he is almost walking, it just seems like yesterday he was born a teeny tiny very dependant little bubba.....now he is starting to take his first steps, it won't be long now til he is running and chasing after his big brothers.

He thinks he is just the bees knees when he lets go of the furniture and takes off across the room, giggling and grinning the whole way. So far i think the most steps he has taken is about 10, so give him another week or so and he'll well and truly be on his way.

Here are a few pics i took of him practicing walking at the park the other day, and another one of him having a cuddle with my bestie Jo.

A night without Stuart.....YAY!

Stuart has taken Stirling camping overnight, so i have a little bit of peace and quiet, of course i still have 3 males to contend with - all that testosterone is going to do my head in eventually .....

So while Stu and Stirling packed the ute to head off fishing and camping i packed the rest of us into the car to go to Maccas for lunch....it mean't no screaming and carrying on when Flynn and Rowen realised they were not going with Daddy.

We met up with Deanne and while her and i had a lovely chat and catch up the kids played and burned off some energy.

Tonight it will be simple dinner of sausage sandwiches then off to bed with the kids and hopefully i will get some creating done, with a bit of luck Dee and Jo will join me and some cowboys will be consumed and some creating will get done.....i really want to finish off a LO i started for last weekends CC at LSBS, and then move onto some swaps i have to get done.

I am working on creating a slide show of my fave photos to share with you all, trying to cull to just a few faves is very hard when i have so many wonderful pics of the kids to share. So maybe next time you visit you will have something more to look at here at my space.....until then, its off to do some chores - which is never ending, but if i don't do it no one else will, so until next time.....asta la vistababies, i will be back!

Bulli Adventures....

Well the kids are all in bed, Stu is at a cricket meeting so i thought i would make my first real blog entry.

Last Saturday afternoon we packed the car and the kids and went for a drive South to visit friends in Bulli, they are a 5 minute walk from the beach and the kids always love to visit. So on Sat afternoon Mel and i took the kids and the dog for a walk along the beach, while the menfolk went shopping to gather supplies for dinner, which they then cooked! YUMMO BBQ that they didn't burn!

After dinner Mel and i did some creating, i finished a LO and Mel made some cards, i will have to upload my LO later, i still haven't taken a pic. Then on Sunday back down to the beach where Stuart, Andrew and the 2 eldest boys did some fishing off the rocks, Stirling was most impressed with himself, he caught 4 fish.....i unfortunately didn't get any snapshots though cause i was busy taking pics of me, Mel and the kids whizzing down the sand hill on the lid of an otto bin - what fun, someone else had left it there and the kids thought it was awesome, i was so glad i had the camera.....here are a couple of my fave shots....








I also took the time to do a photo shoot with Flynn, who was very reluctant, but i did manage to get this fab shot which i just can't wait to print and scrap.....



Also took some pics of Stirling feeding the Lorikeets that visit our friends house everyday, they come so close and Stirling had them eating right out of his hand, much to his amazement



We had an amazing but tiring time - all the kids had a sleep on the way home, as did i, (well Angus did keep me awake half of the night unsettled, so i was soooooo tired), but it was nice to come home, even if the house was a mess.....(still is a mess - oh well)

Well i think thats it for now, will update again soon i am sure, this blogging is going to be addictive, just another thing to keep me away from my housework i am sure - oh well, life is for living, not for housework!


Cheers

Jenni

welcome to my blog.....

Hello and welcome to my blog! It has taken me sometime, but i am finally here, i have decided i am going to try and blog at least once a week, that of course depends o my little darlings, the youngest of course is screaming at me right now....he is tired, hungry and teething - very sad really, but he woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep, spat out his dinner and the medication just hasn't kicked in yet.....so i am off now to try and console him as best as possible, finish cooking dinner for the other munchkins and i will be back later to customize my blog some more.....thanks for visiting, see you all real soon now

cheers
Jenni