Oh and i really love the Time layout down in my couple of posts down...it tells of my baby growing up and how in time i have learnt to trust him, respect him and believe in him...also done as a challenge.
Okay im going now LOL.....

my 5 final layouts to share

Okay here are my five final LO to share. These are in not particular order actually they all touch me in different ways.

Layout 6 Leighs nickname is Matt...he loves his music...this layout is a recent challenge i did for Riverland Scrapbooking Supplies....you had to scrap using an ad as inspiration...

Layout 7 Earth Angel....just because i love my daughter she loves dangly earrings so i was glad to get a shot of them too:)

Layout 8 Believe in yourself.....Zoe plays Hockey as well and after 3 years ( i think) she finally managed to get her first goal and she was just so excited how could i resist scrapping that milestone?

Layout 9 Freckles...i couldnt help it she is jsut the cutest...i have actually added a big flower to this layout but have never uploaded the new one....mmmmm

Layout 10 This is the first time i ever saw the resemblance between my daughter and myself...the layout itself is old and i dont much like it but i have included it because of the resemblance,

Thanks for looking and thanks to Ali for posting the challenge:)

Dont forget to mention you popped in to say hi

cya charmaine

Okay here are layouts 2 3 4 and 5 in quick order....
2 Hockey is your world. This is about my sons love of hockey....he is furthering that love this year, he applied to become a coach at the local hockey club and he has been named assistant coach of the U11 team and he couldnt be more happy. We are so proud of him.

Layout 3 is what i want from life. Some of them are very simple things because as you get older i believe we mellow and things that were important once dont seem to be anymore and i am so happy with that. The layout is a scraplift from Mardi's class at the Riverland Scrapfest held in Berri in Nov 06.

Layout 4 Is of my very bestest friend Deniose and me. We have only met each other twice but we chat on the phone all the time...we are soul sisters...she knows things about me no one else bar my hubby knows.

Layout 5 is so special to me because the photo brings tears to my eyes when i look at it closely...my little baby is nearly 14 years old....i love the twinkle in his eye, his wonderful smile and if i look closely the bit that touches my heart in the deepest way i could ever imagine is that he has the tiniest bit of face fluff.........boo hoo.
I adore this little bloke with the size 12 feet and the fact that he is nearly as tall as his 5ft 9 half inch mother:)

Stay tuned for my next five layouts....charmaine

Challenge by Ali...

Okay i am accepting a challenge found on Kathies Blog...laid down by Ali:)
Layout 1

Not sure how i am going to get hte pics to go may post each one individually.
Please leave a comment to say you have popped in to say hi:) Thanks
This photo is of my husband Darrel. I love him to pieces and i could have so easily lost him back in June of 2006 when he fell from a utility and broke his hip. I just thank god he wasnt by himself as it was minus 7 degrees that night by 8.30 and he could have died from the cold alone.
I love you Daz, you are my everything.

Heres some of what we got up to today

Here is just a taste of what we got up to today for about 1.5hrs. Yay...it has been so long since we have been in the boat since last summer and then it was only a few days....since Darrel broke his hip we have been putting it off...id rather he not go out until next summer cause the dr said 12 months before water sports...well that was 8 months ago...and boy hasnt that time gone quick.

This morning we went out to the block to scrape some apricots off the trays and one day i am going to post some pictures of our sequence of fruit growing from Dec thru to April.....:)

After we got home at about 1.45 i was tired and so i had a nanna nap ready for the river trip...it was just heavenly and the water was gorgeous...not bad seeings as it wasnt all that hot today...

Anyway im go9ing blog hopping and Kathie has set a challenge to upload any 10 of our fave layouts and why they are special to us.......im not sure how i am going to do it in one post...it may be easier to do 10! I shall see....dont forget to say hi:)

A layout to share

I did this layout using Lil Davis oval words and the little frames to go with them.
It is a product challenge from Riverland Scrapbooking Supplies for February. I am really happy with this layout.
It basically tells the story of time...In time Leigh i have learnt to trust you, i respect you and i believe in you....and how much we love him. I used the transparancies as i wanted to include the passing of time. This is a pic of him taken walking to the bus stop on his first day of High School.

It is one of my current faves.

Hmmm in the background following on from last post....Zoe is now up and i can tell by the god awful sounds coming from the trombone LOL yep she is playing the trombone this year......leigh played it two years ago....

have a great day!

Aahhh the decadence of it all....

we are off in the speedboat today,,,yay ! I cannot tell you the last time we went in it cause it was too bloody long ago,,,maybe a couple of times last summer maybe???

We have been SO busy these last few months.... daz and i are supposed to be on holidays this week and doing work at the block,,,,, we had our audit yesterday and we are no longer with SQF 1000 but are now with HACCAP. WHat does this mean you ask,,,,welll buggered if i know LOL.....all i know is we are now allowed to produce and sell our fruit again....not that we were banned its jsut an ongoing thing we need done every year to ensure our stuff is up to quality and we can trace our fruit from point of sale back to us if ever there is a problem.

Now back to the hoildays...i went to work on tuesday as the boss needed me to come in as she was short staffed...i didnt mind i started at 7.30 and was gone by 11.15 so that was great.
Daz has been going in at 6 every morning and coming home later in the morning but our time has been filled with organising paperwork and stuff for this audit.

Darrel surprised me by asking if i wanted to go out in the boat. He said ask chooky what she is doing and ask her to come to. So i did and she said yes...so that makes it legal...2 drivers ( so we can have a kneeboard as well) and always one spotter.

I am a bit scared actually, there has been alot of accidents on the rivers lately..one guy died a few weeks ago after hitting a pylon on the bridge at paringa. Theres been more and it has made me a bit nervous...although on a thursday morning you would think that not many people would be on the river:)

In between all of this we should be scraping the 600 apricot trays we still have here and picking pears but where is the time.....ahhh shit happens and tommorrow will be the scraping day.....hmmm must sprinkle them down today to get a bit of moisture back into them.

So much else has been happening as well. Im trying to organise my scrap room and i want to get into the office here and go thru the filing cabinets ect......i wanna do some of the *you never see it done* cleaning....

I might leave it here for today only cause i want to see this new blogger....and i need to get zoe up for school little devil.

Oh an ongoing project i have been doing is going thru my photos. Over the last few months i have been culling photos and pulling them out of the sticky albums and last weekend i brought 6 new 300 pocket albums and they are now filled with photos all chronologically dated. (12 in total to date)

Only thing is i realised that since getting my digitals we havent added any photos since 2004! Eek so i am now in the process of burning cds to go into the albums as follow ons,,,,let me just say 800 photos and still counting!!!!!!!! Luckily we have alocal photo kiosk that you can do 200 pics at a time and it only costs around $40. I did 30 6x8 and 170 4x6 one day and it only came to $47.00.

I feel this is a reasonable cost and we love to look thru albums so i will bring them back inside to reminise over:)

Okay this girl of mine is still not out of bed,,,bettter go raz her up...LOL

Hey Nise......hurry up and start blogging......luv ya:)

What a fab two weeks...and fast!!! phew!!!

Well havent these two weeks flown already....Im hoping all you mums had an okay start to the school year and the fretful babes managed to hang in there okay and get to like school ...lol.
Mine have had an awesome beginning, i am so amazed.

I told Zoe i was so proud of her...we had a little talk at the beginning of the holidays about her being in grade 6 now and that she really had to learn how to get herself ready and begin her homework as soon as she got home from school....she has done all this and more...this girl of mine is so great. Every night she has here school clothes on the floor at the end of her bed (who am i to argue) she has her bag packed with all her homework and notes also packed. The only thing she has to do is pop her lunch in every day. My two used to have showers each nite but now they are bothup early for showers...zoe has her alarm set every day for 6 oclock....if i have a later start they get to sleep in.....

Not to leave Leigh out...he has been brilliant! He gets home every night sits at his desk and works on his homework. Last year his report was quite disappointing in that the teacher said he could have acheived so much had he put in the effort. We told him this year he has to do this..and so far he is not argueing at all it is all going well.

Im so proud of them and have told them so......

Leigh will be soon starting an airbrush course that he has been waiting to start for over 12 months,,,,he is very artistic and i want to encourage it.

Zoe is taking up the trombone this year...good on ya zo....leigh played it in grade 5 and his music teacher says he has an aptitude for music (he can play by ear) so leigh can help her practice Lol....

Zo also wants to do greek dancing at her school this year as well as participate in the active after school program where there are activites run on a mon and thurs night.....eg next week is orienteering and rowing?? So she is right into the getting fit business....

A question for any mums who may be going thru the same thing leigh isnt eating at school....im trying to pack him stuff he can walk around and eat but it doesnt seem to mkae much difference,,,,he isnt eating it when he comes home either...any suggestions would be welcome...i ask what he wants and he says he isnt hungry so nothing but i cant send him with no food now can i??

On a more sombre note today is the one year anniversary death of my younger sisters fiancee from snake bite. They have their ups and downs however they are coping well...i have an inkling that my sister may move back to Adelaide though. But i guess time will tell.

I may leave it here for now as it is getting late. I wanted to go to the drive in to see A night at the museum but its not to be Daz has jsut gotten home from doing water and its now too late to go... maybe tommorrow:)

Have a great weekend and a happy one....charmaine