What weve been up too

We have been busy like everyone else through the Christmas rush season.

We have been fortunate that our apricots have arrived early and thankfully finished early. It has allowed us to spend some much needed time together as a family.

We went camping over night on Thursday and had a relaxing time. As you can see from the photo there is water in the Murray River.....i am back at work on Wed and am so not looking forwar to it! LOL. I want more time here with the kids and i would love to get stuck into my house.

I really want to declutter everything!

I am feeling so positive this year,...okay i know it hasnt finished yet but i am looking forward to getting back to the gym and getting into eating healthier,,,,,not that we eat alot of junk, its more a restructuring of the kids eating habits.

I want to encourage healthy snacks.....

We had a very quiet christmas at MIL place. SIL was there and granny, after we had nibbles there we went home and just hung out......the kids were spoilt, they got a nintendo DS for dd and some games, ds received a PSP and some games. They also received some money and zoe a bracelet as well as some DVDs.

Daz got an ipod and ds made us both a pencil case in home ec at school,,,,,he received A's for that subject and we were so pleased.

I received a necklace and earrings from Zoe and the pencil case from leigh i also went to my lss and got some goodies ( a very small bag worth :)) as well as a couple of dvds myself

It has been a productive year tis year and i am looking forward to what 2008 has to offer us as a familyxxx

Have a great New Year and i shall *see* you in 2008.

Any resolutions girls???

Im thinking i should take the time to keep in touch with people,,,,,its no wonder i have no friends LOL

cya charmaine

Merry Christmas to all

Im back briefly, we have had a fun packed week with the neics here.

Weve picked and cut apricots, ben shopping, been 10 pin bowling which was lots of fun, caught in a downpour (it ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) pours here in december, especally when the fruit is out on the drying green, you can bet your life on it....so three of us raced 30 kms toget the fruit inside before it rained the other day,,,luckily we did cause we got 12mm that day :)!

We are expecting more rain today and have had some already, they are predicting 10-40mm.....

We are hoping to sneak out in the boat for a couple of hours between showers:) We are also expecting another addition to our family in the shape of a girlfriends child from Adelaide for a few days,,,,she is a good kid and between the five of them hopefully there will be lots of fun to be had! And no fights LOL who am i kidding right:)

The neices will go home on sunday and iz goes on Monday sometime

The gift shopping is all completed and just needs wrapping. We re going o visit mil and granny for Xmas this year...mil is not well and is not coping but we decided just to go for morning tea of coffee and pudding or something and that will be our xmas...a little disapointing but we really dont do much else anyway, if its nice we will probably take the boat out on the river.

Oay just a quick one so im now off for a little surf, i havent even turned my computer on since sunday and it is now friday:) Has to be a record!
BYE!!

A quick five minute breather...literally

Okay the pagent went off extrememly well and i got some lovely photos which i will share some of when i have time.

We got home from there at about 8.45.

I had my xmas work party the night before and got home at about 10.30 which is late for me....hence a very tired girl who had to be at work by 7.30 Fri.



Sat i worked again from 7.15 until 3pm....then went out and picked apricots.



Sunay we spent the whole day at the block frome 8am untl 5.30. We managed to prove a pint to our children, we ended up cutting over 200 trays, which is average for a 6 hr day however our children spent alot of the day with the machine not running but their mouths were LOL.

We proved that you can actually cut one stack of apricots, which is 50 trays in just over 1 hour.....not over 2 hours....



Anyway point made and taken heehee, we sure got a spark out of Leigh that much i can say for sure.



SO that brings us to today...work from 7.30 til 3pm then i spent the next 2 hours hunting for a gift for Zoe...anyone know where i can get an ice blue nintendo DS lite from????????



Tonight we picked up a mate of Leighs who is going to help us cut tommorrow, w got home at about quarter past 8...te is home made pizza,,,yummy and ive had my shower and im sitting here waiting for the oven buzzer to go off:)

Well tea was nice, my computer just decided to do an update and one hour later i am back...but im going to bed now cause it is now 9.37pm

Have a good week and i shall see you wen i get back, whenever that shall be LOL:)

It has officially begun......

The silly season for us that is.......

Last night was the first night of beginning to pick our fruit for cutting and drying....

for those of you who dont know, we have a 10 acre fruit property on which we grow many varieties of fruit however with the severe water restrictions we have actually cut down trees and turned the water off that goes to some of our fruit.

Anyway the fruit has decided to start about 2 weeks early this year and going by the size of it we are going to have some great sized fruit. Daz thinks having to go to dripper irrigation has been the best thing for our fruit.

I worked until 5.30 and the family were already at the block by the time i ha gotten there and had started picking....we got home about 8.15, had a quick tea (which i had par readied that morning, lots of that going to happen now LOL)

My sister rang confirming if another neice can catch a ride back with us when we pick up the other two girls, and at the risk of tkaing two cars, (if i dont wnat to go by myself :)) w said yes okay but that will all work out in the end im not going to start stressing now.

I also volunteered to sew some fluffy stuff onto the cloaks for the king and queen for the pagent so about half past ten was bed time......

So a really short post today just to get some stuff down. Not sure when i shall return...have a great hoilday season and take care
cya Charxx

just a quick catch up....last night zoe and i went to a friends place...we are working on a float for he local pagent....we have an awesome idea we have now completed everything we think, all bar decorating the trailer which will be done next friday.

I will take lots of photos as i have been dubbed the photographer LOL...and im looking forward to it.

We have laid some cement for our new sulphur tent at the block...with out this we cant dry our apricots.....photos to be taken yet.

Work has just flown by this week...i cannot believe where the time has gone.

My Christmas shopping is completed all bar the kids......they are talking (well DS) is talking PS3...yeah right...or Xbox 360...double yeah....zoe wants a nintendo DS ....dh says yeah!!! he has issues with how small it is and zoe is not the most organised child about.....she also asked for a portable DVD player...may be doable we will see.

This is the reason i hate Christmas, it should be banned...i have half been thinking maybe we have big Birthdays for the kids and very small Xmas!!!

Im lounging in my bed typing this at the moment...yay for broadband...its so exciting.

Zoe goes for her orthodontist check up when Leigh goes for his next adjustment...she needs them too.....between the two of them we are going to be broke for a while....esp making two payments each month!!! It will be well over a weeks pay each time....not that im complaining.....the difference it has made to leigh is amazing......must get some pics. The ortho said his teeth are where he wants them already and he is further ahead than expeced...whether that means having them off earlier or not im not sure.

Am supposed to have two neicesc ome from Adel in the holidays to help us with the fruit so they can earn some pocket money...have to make plans on how to get them here,,,,,

Have had issues with DD at the moment with her food.....she is eating LOTS OF JUNK.....went on camp spent birhtday money on lollies and crap...i hate it and she isnt learning so for this last week my good from (hi nise) suggested i make her a little plate of snacks for after school and its working a treat then she doesnt seem to pick after tea as much.

Yesterday i picked her up from school and she asked where her snacks were....quite sad, so when i said you make m a coffee and i will make your snack i got a gorgeous little squeal of happiness...who would have thought huh:)

Anyway best go for the moment, i need some brekky and a coffee to get the energy to go and do this block work...sposed to be 39 today.....ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great weekend galsxxxx