He brings me.......Vegetables

Chris has been hard at work in our veggie garden and look what he brings me every few days. It is so nice to able to have 'fresh' things straight from the garden.


Everything in this salad was from the garden.



Life has been very busy the last few weeks. We have all been sick in some form, sore throats, colds, croup and tummy virus. It seems to be going around at the moment. The kids LOVE to bring all these wonderful 'bugs' home from school/kindy.

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Head V Cricket Ball

A trip to the hospital, several hours and three stitches later.
Cricket balls wins (Just)

Didn't manage to knock any sense into him. He went back and continued to play cricket that afternoon.

Under 12 Swimming Champion

Swimming Carnival Time. Perfect weather to go for a swim today. Lovely warm, sunny day and Zac made the most of it. Zac swam in every race he could. He even filled in, in the Under 13 relay team because they were short a swimmer. He got 4th in Freestyle (which he hates) 2nd in Backstoke, 1st in Breaststroke, 1st U12 relay and 4th U13 relay. And I don't care if I embarrassed you, or your sister by cheering (very loudly) for you! I was so proud of you for getting in and giving it ago.Well done you BIG FISH.

Zac will now represent the school at the Regional Swimming Championships.

Look who came to Visit

This is a BROWN SNAKE. This BROWN SNAKE decided to come for a visit last night.

I was standing washing up and looked up and spotted it right next to the chicken coup. About 4 metres from the back of the house."Chris, get outside quick!!!" I didn't know it was a brown snake then. Micaela quickly took the dogs out the front and my greeny, tree hugging, animal loving husband, decided to watch it and leave it alone. He says it was just passing through. Arggghhhhhhhh! I hope it doesn't decide to pass through again. I have been on the snake look out all day.

This is Zac's project for school. He had to do a poster on Victoria. With Pop and Mum's help this is what we (Sorry, should say HE) came up with.

On Sunday we took Pop over to Mt Gambier, Port McDonnell and then to Portland. Dad has always wanted to go to Mt Gambier, so he got the chance.

I love this boy. He asks me to take photo's of him

Drilling Rig off Portland

This boy loves to cook. Tonight we made sausage rolls. And today I make this......... (and some muffins)

Have a great week

Gosh, Hump Day already

Wow!!! This week has gone quick. It's the middle of the week already.

We picked Pop up from the airport on the weekend. Flight was on time and we turned back around and headed home. Seven hours driving. The kids are so good in the car. They are well travelled.

The kids are all enjoying school. I can not express how lovely Kloe's new teacher is. Things are looking very good for her this year. Jarred had his first day of Kindy yesterday. He loved the fact that he was going for a 'big' day (5 hours). He was so excited about taking his lunch box for the first time. He is back to kindy today. I think we are going to have a very tired boy this week.

Garden wise we are still getting zucchini's, cherry tomato's, cucumbers and have started picking lettuce again. Oh and Chris dug up another 8 kilo's of potato's.

Chook wise..... we have two regular layers. We are getting two eggs a day at the moment. So I will be making all sorts of egg dishes from now on.

The weather is bad to normal. It is cool with misty rain. Dad is feeling the cold! And what's funny is it's not COLD, it's COOL!

Enjoy the rest of the week

What a week

This week has just flown by. We are slowly getting back into some kind of routine. Kloe loves her new school and her teacher (Mum is so happy and very relieved) Zac is moaning and groaning........but that's normal, so all is good. Micaela has enjoyed her week. All the notes and lists have started again. Sometimes it is so hard keeping up with them all. Zac has been picked in the swimming team, for the swimming carnival. It was based on his efforts from last year. He has swimming training a few days next week. He also had his first cricket training session on Thursday afternoon. So it looks like cricket training will become a regular Thursday event. Micaela is doing textiles this term and has a huge list of supplies, she needs. She keeps telling us, it's really not her thing, but she has made some really good things. She should be very proud of herself.

This afternoon I had another scrapbook page accepted with Scrapbooking Memories. I was very exciting and I am still in shock. The page was one from the Diva's CC last weekend, of my gorgeous niece Lizzie and Kayla. Lizzie shares my passion of scrapping and card making and was so excited when we told her. What makes it even more special, is that I used a few things that I bought when Lizzie and I went scrapbook shopping over Christmas.

Tomorrow we are off to the big smoke to pick Poppy up. We are all very excited and can not wait to see him. He will be staying with us for two weeks.

Back to School - 2008

Today was the day. The day Kloe was very excited about and the day Micaela and Zac hoped didn't have to come. Today was Back to School.

After lots of thinking and agonising it was decided Our little Miss Kloe would be going to a new school this year. She is going to repeat Year 2. As most of you are aware, we have had the problem of Kloe being too young, for the class she has been in for the last few years. She was very excited about going to her new school, not like Mummy who was so nervous (Was it the right decision, is she going to be alright, will she make friends, will she find the toilet LOL) We got to meet her teacher yesterday. She is a lovely young lady who has just finished Uni and reminds me very much of Kloe's favourite teacher Miss Zangara from Jabiru.

So Miss Kloe is at Hamilton North Primary School in Year 2 and her teacher is Miss Uebeurgang (Don't think I spelt it right)


Mr Zac is in Year 6 this year at Baimbridge College. His homeroom teacher is Mrs Edwards.

Miss Kayla is in Year 8 at Baimbridge College. She had no idea who her teacher was.




So this year is going to be very busy with three drop off's and pick up's. Jarred has an orientation session at Kindy tomorrow. He starts back officially on Tuesday. He will be going three days a week. Tues 9-2pm Wed 11.15-4.15pm Thurs 9-2pm. I don't really like the Wednesday times but I don't have a choice!! He is now in the 4 year old Kinder group. He wants to go to school, he is so ready.

The house is so quite......................

Weekend Update

Friday we went to Mayson's 4th Birthday Party. Jarred and Mayson go to Kindy together and have become really good friends. Rachael had made a fantastic train cake. Jarred has decided he wants one the same for his birthday. Happy Birthday Mayson.

Saturday - Happy Australia Day

Cricket.......well it's another one of those "Not talking about it matches" They lost, in a big way AGAIN!

I scrapped on Saturday afternoon. I did the three challenges and card challenge at DIVA's

Sunday we went to South Australia. Sounds like a long way, away doesn't it? It's just over an hours drive from here. We stopped in Nelson to have a look and then went to Mt Gambier. We looked at Blue Lakes. (Picture below) The water is so blue, it looks like they have added dye to the water. Amazing.

Then we went to Port MacDonnell. The water was just as blue here.

Camel Rock

Rhino Rock

Monday - Veggie Garden. Digging up potato's. Chris dug up three plants and we got 9 kilo's of potato's. We had potato wedges for dinner. They were voted "The Best Potato's we had ever eaten"

Jarred was impressed with the size of this one.

I made some new cushions for the lounge

Our First capsicum also came off the bush.

And our chooks, got their first taste of 'free ranging' around the backyard. Under very close supervision. The dogs are getting use to them, but don't think we could let them out just yet , without watching the dog's every move. OH, and I also had my first experience with clipping a chooks wings. Chris did the holding and I had to do the snipping. After the first one, it was easy.

They spotted themselves in the glass door. They were so funny to watch.

And tomorrow is Back to School for 2008. Kloe and Jarred are both excited to be going back to school and kindy. Micaela and Zac would rather stay on holidays.

Have a great week!!!

'For Keeps' is out

I went into the newsagent this morning and was delighted to see the latest 'For Keeps' was out. My layout "Wet Kiss" was finally in print. I almost cried in the middle of the shop. It looks terrible. They have played with the colours and it looks "BLAH". I can't believe they have used a whole page for it. I haven't got it back yet, so I can't even show you what it should look like. Very sad. So here it is. Actually, the colours in my picture are a bit better. In the mag the chocolate background looks very red.

Doin' the happy dance

I am one happy little vegemite this morning. I got TWO pages accepted to be published in Scrapbooking Memories. One of them you will see a few posts down. Can you pick, which one it is?????? No one here understands my excitement, oh well!!!! Just have to dance on my own.

Yes, it was my Birthday

On Friday I celebrated my 35th Birthday. I really don't like birthday's that end in 5's and 0's. I'm starting to feel OLD. I received lots of lovely presents and cards. Thank you everyone.

And my wonderful friend Rach made this for me. The postmans timing was perfect. It was delivered to my door on my birthday. I am one very lucky girl. It is gorgeous.

And with some hinting, I got a birthday cake. Poor Kloe was so worried that I wouldn't have one. Dad saved the day and whipped one up, thanks to Safeway.

And this is our first egg.......................we have only had one since. Two so far......these chookies need to hurry up. Jarred got the first one, Kloe had the second......Zac's waiting on his.

Our first cherry tomatoes. I was lucky to get a photo of them, before they disappeared.

And some playdough fun.