Yay its been raining this morning!!!!

Although i think that it is all gone now but to prove it was raining i took a photo of the only sad sorry looking rose in my garden.

I am also posting the pigeon pic from the last post and a pic of our table tennis table after it got blown over by the wind...look how close it landed to my back door.....as i think i said in my last post we can claim it if we want to but we are wondering if it is really worth it,,,,,its only a basic excess of 100 dollars but we lose 10% of our no claim bonus....bit unfair because we have never made a claim before i think they shoud give you one *free* claim depending on how long you have been with them for and we have multipolicies with them too....but im not sure we probably wont even worry about it...?????

Back to the pigeon...i am guessing he has been reunited with his owner and it was a nice feeling to be able to get the bird home to him:)

Gosh i have so many typos...my laptop keys are flat (as im guessing most are) but i am having trouble with missing keys,,,im not pressing hard enough lol.

Well i have had a great week and life is treating us fine....i started work at 6.30 am on mon and tues as someone is away...mon i worked until 5 so it was a long day but i felt okay at the end of it all...not too bad considering we were up late on sat nite with leighs party and consequently i didnt get to B's online class at http://www.scraptherapy.com.au/ like i wanted to.....maybe another time.

The party was ok we did have three boys come and stir up the kids, long story, two of the girls wouldnt come back to our place they were out on the road talking to these boys, one being Leighs girlfriend, needless to say she dumped him on Monday because Darrel went to get the girls to come back and the girlfriend promptly went home cause she *had cracked the shits with darrel and leigh* ooohhhh scary....anyway Leigh has learnt a very valuable lesson here.

We spoke to him on sun night about it all to get his take on it all and he was really quite good about it all..very upset that the girls ruined his party. We talked about how helpless he felt that he wasnt able to control the situation and we kinda used it as an example of what could happen when he is older when it comes to peer group pressure with drinking drugs and driving so hopefully????????

We keep trying to tell the kids that we dont care what happens but if they need us at any time for anything they only have to ring, if they feel uncomfortable in any situation we will come and get them,,,,,you parents know the story......

I feel we are raising great kids but now i thnk is the *last chance* at it were to try to get your thoughts across to them because soon enough our wishes sont matter and we need to be able to trust that they can make the right decision at the right time,......scary stuff!!!

Umm not alot else happening i guess really....i am hanging for the long weekend....i would love to take the gang and try to have a photo shoot some where...id also like the kids to bring their cameras....leigh has a minolta or canon???? SLR that he likes to use....and zo had a digital..i am wanting to get them to have a few happy snaps of their own....

A friend has asked me if i would take some family shots of her and her family and i am willing to give that a go...not sure when though...id like to go further with my photography but i am so amatuer LOL.......

Okay at the risk of forgetting a tun of stuff i am going to add my photos and then go for a surf before i have to go to work......at 11 today until 5:)

Have a great wednesday and id love to know you have popped by....:)

cya charxx

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Iam doing a layout share here because my computer is so slow and i have not updated my galleries for a while...it is off putting having to wait so long....so i hope you enjoy what i have uploaded and feel free to say hi...oh and add me to your bloglines ...leave me a msg so i can come visit your blog to say hi:)
Just a quick update as well while i am here...
Both the kids are out of their hockey grand finals....never mind...the A women and U17 men got through...im not sure if they want Leigh to play this Saturday or whether he will or not....he is having *the party* that im not really looking forward too......

I am working on sat so there wont be anything flash for this party i was thinking of loading up the back fridge with fruit drinks and other bits and pieces and order pizza in for tea and that will do them....Leigh seems to think they will entertain themselves so i may get some videos or dvds or something and they can watch them in the kids room......

our table tennis table got blown over by that crappy wind we had the other day and it has been totalled.....i rang the insurance company and we can claim for it...the excess will be $100 and we lose 10% of our no claim bonus but im not sure exactly what that means so im putting off until i ring again and ask them....

Hmmm this layout looks kinda weird...i hope it turns out ok so you dont get lost reading it....sorry about that...

On monday zoe found a pigeon out side and brought it in...very tame...turns out it is a homing pigeon and it was let go at Marla for a race on saturday and with the strong westerlies they had on sat combined with the northerlies we had on sunday the poor thing had no hope....anyway after panicking about what to do with this bird i left messages at 2 radio stations and tried telstra to see if there was a pigeon club or something....turns out they do so i left the birds tag numbers on the machine and a lady got back to me that night....she said the owner will be contacting me shortly.....he lives in adelaide and first of all said do you know anyone who has pigeons just give the bird to them ..i said no it is obviously worht money being a racing bird and turns out one guy he knows, works with a guy i know so i rang the guy i know for this other mans number...he lives in renmark so zoe and i took the bird to him and he is going to race somewhere next week and he can give the bird back:)

The man i took it to told us some info about the man and the one in adelaide must be a good racer man cause he has his pic on the front of a pigeon magazine...also turns out this bird is imported and from good breeding LOL....so what am i going to do with a bird like this hahaha. Im just glad he can get it back...zoe of course got attatched and named it Pingu within 5 mins of falling in love with it......it was cute and yes i did get photos...shall post another day...

This is turning into a big post (typical) so if you have read this ramble to here then thankyou for sticking around:)
On that note i am going to do some blog rounds before my friend calls me to say hi:)

Hi Beck i got your email thanksxx
Hi Nisexx

Only a layout share this time

Actually while waiting for this to upload i went blog hopping and this is what i found on Gigi's Blog , even tho i wasnt tagged i thought id borrow it and tag some of my own people

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)

revs daewoo

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)

chocolate scotch finger

3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)

c siz

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)

red dolphin

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)

louise berri

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)

siz ch

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put "The")

The blue water

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)

lesley richard

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy)

enchante licorice bullet

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names )

jeanette richard

now i tag mardi
bek
denise
megan
and B

hope you girls have fun:)

Hey there everyone

Hi there long time no post but isnt that the way of the world nowadays??? I dunno i sure as heck cant keep up.....i cannot believe that it is wednesday already....where did monday and tuesday go not to mention the weekend......well actually that was easy..

i worked on sat at my LSS and on sunday zoe had her hockey breakup at the bowling alley ....daz and i went into town cause we wanted to pick up a coupe of things...another of those little fld awa tbl, te wooden ones.....i picked on up for 17 bucks at golo for sitting my laptop on while watching tv. I wasnt sure size wise how they would go but it was perfect and when daz saw mine he wanted one too......i was going to get him one but i wanted his idea on it first so you should see us two oldies sitting in front of the telly with our puters,,,,,not every nite i might add LOL

actually stayed up until 10.30 last nite......we have both been so tired lately and going to bed at like 8 or 8.30 and getting up at 5.30 for the gym, hard as it was at the time but i think we were getting too much sleep.......

I have a new situation to face on the weekend of the 22nd sept and i am not too sure how to handle it.....its nothing serious.....leigh has asked for a coed party with the boys to sleep over and the girls to go home, we have said he can have 6 then if we want to go bowling or to maccas or somewhere then we have enough room in the two cars to take everyone....
I asked Leigh very calmly, how does one host a party for 7 teens,,,he reckons they are just going to *hang out*...i asked where cause there isnt really much room her apart from hisroom and the kids computer room......i mean they will be okay we have the table tennis, music, and stuff im sure they will be fine but the cruncher is there will ba a boy and his girlfriend and leighs girlfriend....we have already requested the doors stay open.....actually we had a really good cht about it all and i was quite impressed with how we all handled it.

We have decided not to go to Port Pirie for hockey...at this stage i couldnt get away from work on the friday early enough as someone else has gone away and then daz couldnt get away either...i would have gone by myself with the kids if i had too....for those of you who know me and know that i am terrified of driving (long distances) with not all the members of my family would know how big a step this was for me.......it took darrel breaking his hip and me having to drive too and in adelaide by myself to attempt to get over this fear......but i would have gone:)

Anyway so that is a good thing...not to write that to do list.........we have things to do up to our eyeballs like everyone else and sometimes i just wanna stop the wold to catch them up and then get back on again...and this has nothing to do with my hobby of scrapbooking,,,,this has actually gone by te wayside of late and the fun isnt there as much...maybe i need to have a scrap catch up or something...i dunno..:)

ummm what else has been happening,,,,oh the kids are thru to the hockey finals (one more decider match to see whether they arein the finals or not) Leighs u/15 and u17 sides have made it thru and zoes u/15 side has also made it thru.......i wont be playing any more matches this season...my muscle i pulled three weeks ago is still sore....im nursing it at the gym but it still grabs now and again....

I brought the kids some new clothes recently.....zoe decided on some leggings to wear under her new little dress,,,,looks cute and leigh got some t shirts.....i picked up a pair of $49.95 pair of jeans for $9.86...i was thinking they should fit one of us...but they come closest to daz....he wont wear them ot but i told him to keep them for the block or just around home...

Not sure what else i can share as there has been alot stuff happening but just cant remember it all...LOL

I was going to add some pics but i have nothing on the laptop yet:)

Okay id best go time to shower and get ready for the dentist (yay,,,not) lol....
have a great wednesday
charxx