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

Hello and welcome back......:)

Ive been around but so much has been happening that ive just not wanted to bother getting out the computer and fight with it to postor do anything much actually.
Just a few things that happened in our hous lately,,,

We have broadband...how cool is that! Im loving it...hopefully it means less time on the puter cause i visit the sites i want and then i go.......? We shall see LOL

Zoe got her first ever big smack the other day......she took money from my purse and was all set to let Leigh and daddy take the blame until i asked her what the lady at the shop would say if i asked if she had been in with money,,,,,needless to say we found out she had taken another bit of money too,,,,not much but the disappointing part is that she lied as welll.....we are very disappointed in her because my mother is a liar and a theif and a B%^(*h,,,i will not stand for my kids to do it as well.....i despise lying and theiving....any help and thoughts appreciated here gals...:(

She went off to camp on Thursday (on her birthday) she is now a big 12 year old.......i told her she looked like she had grown while away on camp LOL.

My brother managed to catch up with her while she was away...they went to Mildura....

Umm work has changed....i have new shifts now...its nice to kow exactly where you are and at what time.....im hoping to use the new roster to my advantage in the respects of getting my house and life in orer...LOL,,,eg shop on thursdays...cause i start at 12....

Leigh is doing well, however last weekend he went to the pool...i told him to take his suntop...yep mum,,,,but did he wear it NOPE so who got badly burnt and we all suffered from his whinging!!!!!!!!! Not happy Jan i told him serves you right as you deliberately disobeyed me....so lets hope he learns...we've certainly been rubbing it in at every chance we get......

Daz goes to the gym every day.......i go 3 or 4 times a week a but he puts me to shame...thats another thing working out well for me....i gym on mon and fri arvo and the other mornings...( i did 5 days last week:))

He has been so busy at work and it worries me....he went to work at 4.30 a few mornings to do water.....(less evaporation) like hello when is this guy supposed to sleep and see his family cause he doesnt get home til after 6pm sometimes later....

Our season is coming up soon and Daz informs me we are going to be early...hmmm early all fruit or early just for some varieties and then the darn season drags out for so bloody long you feel like its been going forever...not happy...i wish we could sell it...im so over it now......

What else.... not alot i guess just trying to get into gear and get thru one day at a time.....ive done a wee bit of scrapping over the last couple of months...i didnt even feel like doing that...god forbid im getting bored with it.....it just seems like such a competition and i hate competing cause i lack badly...well thats how i feel anyway......dont get me wrong...i love the challenges (if i do them for myself) i love looking at other peoples work....oh maybe im just tired LOL

I did do a few really quick and simple ones and i am happy how they turned out....maybe i will show them maybe not:)

Okay time i went.....house work is calling and i think we have to go to the block today to build a new suplhur tent......the sstorm in Jan threw the other one around and broke it so now we have to build one...other wise we cant sulphur our fruit.....stay tuned i will post pics of what we do duringour sesaon time.......

I want to wish everyone a Very Merry Xmas too....dont know how many of you i will *see* in the weeks to come so have a happy and safe one:)

Take care stay safe....charxxx

Nothing to report

Hmmm well here i sit, in my nice warm bed DH is away for the night and my back is sore so i thought id pop into my bed and rest my back.....im not sure what i have done with it but im off to the chiros on wed after work.



Bullet point whats been happening here.



We went away to the hills and goolwa the other weekend and had an absolute BALL...it rained most of the time but did we care??? NOPE definately not.



We did lots of shopping, i got some work clothes, leigh got some more trackies for school and zoe and i hit JAy Jays for some really cool clothes.....i am FAR from a fashionista but im so sick of the boring long sleeved ts i wear so i lashed out and brought a couple of long lace cami things and two t shirts so i can do the *layering* thing....looks great too....im so self consious of my body but since hitting the gym it has given me so much self confidence in myself and i want to experiment more....i still need a trusted friend to tell me honestly what things look ok:)



The kids had fun on the beach with Bri and Issy lots of photos there but i havent even looked at them yet.



I got a polarising lens and a clear lens cover for my other lens from Adelaide while there....got a good bargain too i thought.



Leigh wagged school last tuesday and what is worse than getting caught wagging........??????????

.................................getting busted by your parents LOL.......................................................................



we tried to get him to see the error of his ways and he is so easy to guilt that we HOPE we have gotten throught o him....little bugger LOL



Ummmm zoe has been horse riding a couple of times lately and she is loving it......she *accidentally cantered* tonight and my heart jumped into my throat....



Work is busy,my shifts are going to change soon................set hours for the week,,,yay no more confusion of late week or early week.



Leigh has been getting bad headaches lately,,,,,,he sometimes gets one while getting his braces adjusted....he turns so white and has an immediate headache......well he has had two in the last two days with no adjusting...im hoping its nothing serious but im wondering if it could be migraines??

Would anybody know?? Maybe it coud be stress too i guess........im planning on ringing the orthodontist and asking his opinion about it and see what he can suggest.......i would like for Leigh to be able to take panandol at school for this but apparantly they arent allowed to have it.....im going to look into it.....a couple of panadol and and hour or so of rest usually does him......



We had the most welcome rain over the weekend...we got about 7mm at the block which is far better than nothing:)



Im sure i have lots more to rave about but my mind has gone blank........i dont know how many people actually read this drivel.....



Okay im off for a little surf before lights out and bed....



cya next month LOL

wow 10 days gone already!

Well hi there guys....alot has happened but not much if you know what i mean......as you may have read in the last post Leigh went to Streaky Bay with his cousin and their family. They were kind enough to invite him to go with them.


It was the slowest week ever, i SO missed my baby boy. I think what made it worse was that there was an accident that claimed the lives of two boys a 15yo and a 17yo.......i guess i just wanted my baby to hug and tell i love him. Leigh knew both the boys and i was worried about how he would take the news it turned out that they were told while away.


My heart truly goes out to the families of these boys...one was a nephew to a friend:(
I cannot even imagine the sorrow and sadness they will be feeling.

Zoe turned out to have quite an eventful week last week of the holidays.....she went to grans for a couple of the days, they went shopping, her auntie took her to the library and the op shop and second hand shop where she found some cool stuff.....i though some of it left a bit to be desired but the main thing is that she loves the white polo shirt with black polka dots all over it and the electric blue bow tie someone made (it looks like part of a dance costume) but she was rapt so the happiness on her face was good enough for me.


I havent really had time to get on the computer let alone update my blog so it is going to be higgledy piggledy a bit ike me im guessing LOL.

If you like a saga and dont mind reading drivel (LOL) then you have come to the right place!

My sister came for a day visit on Sunday with three of her kids and her new man. He seems like
a nice guy. The kids seemed quite happy although Brendan was a little clingy which surprised me little cause he generally loves us alot :) No big heads here.


Unfortunately i got sunburnt while she was here it was such a gorgeous day and we sat outside under the almond tree...i am so annoyed with myself...i am usually so careful about the sun and sunscreen...grrr!


Friday night Darrel Zoe and i went out for tea with two girls from work....they asked me to go out with them but it was too hard....long story what with Zoes hockey breakup that was (we thought) going to be fri nite and daz having a bbq fri night well it turned out breakup was for lunchtime....MAD rush to get zoe there after hearing it started at 12and this was 12.45.....she ended up going to the movies with some of the girls and they saw Rat-a-too-ee.....LOL she said it was great!


I went to my LSS expecting to work on sat and after discovering Belinda and i had messed up...i stayed to keep her company...after coming home to get some of my albums for her to have a look at.....she was heading off with Mardi for a weekend away.....you lucky girls...LOL...im hoping you will keep to the offer of coming to scrap with Mardi at your house B!!:)


You know B i went home all inspired to scrap and to my horror i had no tabs or any adhesives to stick anything down with argh!! Zoe must have used what i had left and didnt tell me.....little monkey! I had to spend some time sewing that cute little card you inspired me to make for my friend...thanks B!

Hmmm well off the top of my head i cant think of anything to keep you glued here for much longer so i might say gday and catch ya later....
cya charxx

Lucky Opportunity

Tonight while eating tea our phone rang and it was one of Leighs cousins (by marriage but they call themselves cousins) and he has invited Leigh to go with him and his family to Port Pirie and later travelling on to Streaky Bay.

Now for a very over protective mum we have let him go as he was so excited....he is going to be gone for a whole 7 days......apart from a Sports week away (about 4-5 days) he nor zoe have been away from us so long.

We were quite pleased for him to have te opportunity to go...so off we flew to Golo to buy up big on lots of junk food.......with 4 boys going they are going to need lots for food for energy LOL.....then away we went to drop him off.....

Im a little nervous and Zoe is sure going to miss him through the week of the holidays......she will have to spend some time with granny and maybe she can visit with her uncle and aunt as well cause i have to work.....she can probably go to work with daddy one day im sure we can keep her sorted out :)

Now not much else has been happening here.....ive been working as usual and not much else really, have been wasting time surfing on the net when i could be doing something else more constuctive LOL....

I went to the library on Wed as i have been hanging for a decent book or two to read,,,i managed to walk out with a pile of 7.

Anyway short swet sharp and boring but thats it for now....
have a great weekend and i shall catch you in another post....

cya charxx

We are Upset!

Saturday night we came home from shopping to see Leigh on the computer but obviously quite upset....

he has been on Ebuddy which his friends use to chat on on the net....any way here are two of his cousins whom he invited to his party, one ex friend (boyfriend to one girl cousin) and one of his friends from his party at the ex friends place and they were RIPPING MY BOY APART IN THE CONVERSATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read what he had written thinking that maybe something was said to start this tirade but as you can see what has been written in that conversation he had only said two things,,,,why are you shouting at me and why.....

Now these kids are 13 and 14 and the rotten revolting gross things spilling onto the computer screen were absolutley VILE...we had three of these children in our home only last saturday and to see what they were saying a week later absolutely boggles the mind.......some of these words and phrases i have honestly never even heard of and the contortionistic positions my son was supposed to get into well.....the imagination boggles...

I just really wanted to rant and vent about this.....it has afffected Leigh quite badly as he has no idea what he has supposed to have done...if anything and one particular thing that was said came from the boy that was at the party because the other two girls were out on the road....remember from my other post darrel went to get them as they wouldnt listen to Leigh.....this boy was at the ex friends house feeding him this info.......

I am so discusted, disappointed and angry, where were the parents....we couldnt save the conversation as we couldnt work out how to........it is in a window by itself and wont let you copy and paste it...

I couldnt approach the parents as one is my step sister and who would believe us anyway, also these kids would attack Leigh even more.....we have spoken in great depth and he is not to talk to them on the computer or the phone......these girls rang leigh all the time to just chat and shoot the breeze and to be hurt so badly.......

Daz had just been saying the other day that they are doing courses at work and such things covered include character...one of the quotes he passed along was you can tell if someone has good character by the way they act when they think that no one is watching........well these little people have no character at all if their parents knew what they had been up to (i know i would be) they would be shocked to the core.

Enough of this im agitated again...its the unfairness of not being able to stick up for your kid that really bites:(

So this weekend has been kinda low key.....we went out to the local markets yesterday just for a drive and to check them out as we had never been before.....lots of jewellery and wooden bread boxes ect, that kind of thing.

We stopped and had some chips to munch on and on the way home stopped in at cheap as chips and i brought some more paintbrushes....zoe uses mine and soesnt washe them,,,hence i need to cut the ends of and have another go LOL....i also picked up a couple of 8x8 albums for 3 bucks each......they had some nice 12x12 ones, including some Ford ones but i put them back...im trying to be good and save money!!

Was chatting to daz today about the water situation aand we think we might put our speedboat up for sale. We dont have the time to use it....we have paid for it and the insurance and regos are killing us......we will keep the tinny as we can go down the creeks in that.....thats if there is any water left but seriously if we can maybe sell to someone in Adelaide or on the coast we should make our money back and we can pay some off either the house loan or ute one....

Saturday i spent alot of the day in my scrap room just pottering about.......i think im getting bored of scrapping......*shock horror*
Today i pottered about the house, scanned in some pics from our Qld trip back in may 06 and i want to play with them in Adobe......just have to work out how to *punch* out the colours....Beck can you help me hun??

Oh Daz and i had a nanna nap for about 2.5hrs yesterday.....i think it was a hang over from not being able to sleep the night before wondering if these kids were going to come over and do anything....i would not put it past the exfriend at all....he walked to our house the night of the party to cause trouble....

Im now worried about the kids while we asre at work through the holidays...as leigh is 14 he is able to stay home and so does Zoe being 12....ive told them to play out the back witht the gates shut and if these kids come into the yard...then they are in the wrong (and do what i dont know) but lets hope they stay away......might have to send them to some friends some days to play!!

Sorry this post is all over the place and if you have made it this far then thankyou for that.....
id better go now and get some tea ready back to work tommorrow......could have done with a bit more time off but oh well be grateful for this......hoping to get to Victor Harbour at the end of Oct fingers crossed....:)

Anyway have a good week
cya Charxx

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

More Layouts

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

A few photos to share....

Here are afew pics of what we have been up to lately. The first two is leigh and his two of his youngest cousins playing at the block.....the next is me and two neices...the shadow is in a bad spot but oh well cant help that LOL....

The next three are layouts i have done recently.......you know the trouble about printing 200 pics off at once is that you get so sick of looking at them......any one else find this,....i also like to use one pic per page and even if i plan more than one 10 to 1 i forget to use the others anyway...somehow i need to get more organised.....

Now im my last post i made a mistake....i know that no one else knows or cares but i do....hence the correction...we have been to the hockey championships at Port Lincoln and Berri, NOT Mount Gambier as i said...this was beacause Daz broke his hip and we didnt want to travel so this year it is at Port Pirie as i said but i dont know if we are going or not yet...

Happy Birthday to my honey Daz, he has caught up to me now and is finally 39 heehee.....we had rather a nasty start to the day,,,,we were travelling into the gym at quarter to 6 this morning and unfortunatley we hit a kangaroo....im glad it wasnt in my little daewoo as it may not have made it home but bad luck for the kanga that it was the toyota ute...:(

We felt really sad for it because it is only coming in for the water,,,i have seen quite a few rather close to home lately and the other day i saw an emu running thru the block at the end of my street......

Well this is a quick post as i should be doing other stuff.....have to get the man a pressie, drop zoes hbike helmet off at school, leighs hockey bag to grans and run a few errands as well....i would love to stay home today...i am thinking of seeing if Daz can take next tues off so we can get stuck into jobs around the house,,,he has spent alot of time at the block lately and they house and yard are beginning to look like no one lives here......i also want to organise getting a huge tankstand pulled down.....so we can put up a shed and we also want to build an entertaining area outside with bbq and the like....not sure when that will happen LOL

anyway have a great wed everyone and see ya about...
take care charxxx

Happy Birthday our sweet boy!

Happy birthday to the Matt man for tommorrow the 26th August. Our baby will be 14 years old. Where does the time go and i must ask where do they find that thing called *attitude*,,,grrr.

Seriously he is a very good honest and caring boy who we are very proud of but some days we could really give him away.....LOL. Im just not coping with the selfish and demanding side of this child of mine...many people have said it is a phase and im going to try to make a point of not sweating the small stuff! WIsh me luck hey :)

I also have birthday wishes to a niece on the 27th my darling hubby on the 29th, a friend with whom we are going out to tea with on Tuesday night to celebrate all three boys birthdays he has his also on the 29th.
I have another niece on the 31st august and then the one who was on the 27th her sister also has a birthday.......so there will be two 14 year olds a 11 year old and a 13 year old...HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDS.......LUV YAS ALL

Today we had an awesome day at hockey, the weather was absolutley stunning and we had a fab time.....Leigh shot a goal in the u17s...he played u15s as well and zoe played u13 and u15.
I played B women and had a good game...i played centre and inner...not sure what i was supposed to be doing but i had fun,.....until i pulled a hammy....LOL well the muscle in your butt hat goes down your leg is that hammy????? I was running and it pulled something bad,,,,,so i sit here with the deep heat (OUCH) on it and i happen to be munching on licorice allsorts (YUMMY)

So i guess thats an okay trade off haha.
The kids are in leighs room playing xbox. A friend of leighs loaned him his as leighs is broken at the moment. Im guessing at some stage we will pay the 250 bucks to fix it...it will be cheaper than buying a PS2 when you take into account the buying of new games...does anyone know if you an play xbox games on a ps2??

We have been quite busy ltely what with one thing and another. We did some irrigation at the block on the weekend......daz and zoe have been plugging away with it all this week and there isnt a lot left to do now,,,,YAY

I worked at my LSS last weekend and had the chance to see a cricut in action, as well as a book binding thingo...sorry...i cannot remember what it was called but i want to buy the cutter one and the binder maker......i was quite impressed with the cricut but i kept seeing in my mind my embroidery sewing machine that just sits in my scrap room......im thinking thats how the cricut would end up...it was very interesting and i was very impressed with it...but i doubt i will buy one....

On to other news......i have not been doing alot of blogging due to early nights and the excuse that it takes forever to surf but i have some congrats to hand out......Janine congrats on your little sweetie Kaitlyn, Steph and to you on the birth of (Lulu) and to Nic who is expecting another precious bub congrats to you as well.......

Kathie, Mardi, Megan, Belinda, Bek and anyone i usually visit...i hope life is treating you well and sorry ive not left comments on your blogs......and Allie....hellp (waves)

My Mattman is off to Adelaide on Monday for a Hockey tournament through the school....none of us is going with him so we hope he has a fun day,,,,,,

He has expressed interest in going to Port Pirie for the State Juniour Chapionships on the Oct Long weekend. We went to Mt Gambier a few years ago then it was held locally and last year we didnt go as Daz brke his hip and we didnt think he could manage the trip.

This year we had decided to go to visit a friend at Crystal Brook so we may be able to kill two birds with one stone.......we had planned to go to Victor Harbour later in Oct so im not sure what we will actually do...maybe say bugger it and do both....i hope so anyway:) It will be nice to get away before our season stars......

Work is good for both of us and it is keeping us busy....sometimes i wish the world would stop just for a while so i can breathe,,,,,,but i know i am not the only one who feels this..........
i dont know we have all these things to help make our life easy but im sure that it doesnt always work that way....

Well im sure i have forgotten heaps of stuff to share with you but thems the breaks hey.....i always think i should jot down things as we go but im not that organised...and even if i was i would probably forget where i put it anyway.......

Take care and i will catch you later....

have a great one cya charmaine.....

few delayed layouts to share

I am uploading these layouts but a few of them are actually a couple of months old.....ive had them sitting in my scrap room, i needed to get some more album pages and besides not having the time to photo or scan the LO i ahve just let them go.

Ihave applied for a DT position so i decided i had better post some of my work here,,,,,i tend not to add too many lo pics......Hope you enjoye them......i am also hoping that at least one person is kind enough to leave a comment, im feeling quite neglected lately......although i realise it does take time to leave a comment on peoples blogs.....anyways have a great thursday......

cya charmaine

Back again!

GRRRR!!! seems blogger is just loving giving m a bloomin hard time this morning.

Should be interesting to see what actually gets uploaded where today.....i want broadband..its taking forever.......over an hour already!!!

Okay yay it has found the right page LOL

For those of you who know that i did and album for my boss' grandson/daughter here are some pages that you wanted me to share:) I have smudged the faces for privacy reasons....

The first pic in this post was done from a layout from the http://www.pencillines.com/ site....i had a ball and it came together so easily....

The wonders of living in the country, as i sit here the chooks are sitting at the back door broooooke broookeing at me and there are magpies singing in the trees outside...its days like this that i feel lucky:)

Have a great sunday...im going to put some pages together in my little 6x6 ablum i got as a kit from somewhere....cant remember where:( Ive been printing photos off while wating for blogger....

please leave a comment i love to see who has popped by and if you would like me to add your blog link, please email me and i shall get around to updating it again soon...i love blog surfing from other peoples blogs......

cya charmainexx

Some pics to share

Darn blogger i had a heap of pics to upload and now they have gone...so much for the saving of your posts,,,,,where is it i ask.....

oh and i must say typical...i did the photos in reverse order cause they have changed order before and i thought id be smart and do it in *proper* order yeah right ....so just turn the picking ones around LOL......

any hints on how to get them in the order you do want...

Anyway i wanted to post the photos of the fruit pcking we did the other weekend...so here goes again. There is also a pic of the one and only pic i have of buggalugs with his braces on to date...

I have also changed preferences on my blog so those of you who wanted to post a comment and couldnt before, im hoping you can now:)

Have a great sunday...its raining here this morning YEEHAH so id like to do some scrapping but there is grocery shopping and BAS to do......so im not sure what i will be up to.....im wating to post some more photos too...they will be up shortly,,,stay tuned

Thank god its Friday

YAY,,,its been a busy week this week it was my turn to do the late shifts.....i have one early finish and that is one Tuesdays.

I am very proud of myself this week, i managed teh gym 4 times this week as well as a 1 hour walk i managed to do on Wed. It was such a gorgeous day and i couldnt help myself...i just had to go LOL.

I had a lot of help this week the family took turns cooking tea for me we had a lovely concoction done by Zoe...it was spinach fettucine, topped with chicken wings marinated as well as a round lamb chop (go figure LOL) but it was nice. Daz made a shepherds pie last night and it was so delish!!!!!

Tommorrow we are helping in the canteen for hockey as it is a home game....then i have been roped in to play for B Women ...well that should be a hoot anyway......i did have fun last time i played:)

Not sure what else is planned for the weekend, probably some more block work although we do have to do our BAS and group certificates...eek!

Okay for the time being i am heading off...maybe i will pop in to the chookscraps free online class tonight at 8.30pm, thats if i stay awake that long.....sleep is hard to come by here at the moment...that darn dog across the road along with the feral cats (literally) roaming our yard is making sleep a hard to get thing....grrrr
The joys of living in the country i guess LOL

Have a great weekend and see you later.....
charmainexx