Super Packed Weekend

We headed into Melbourne early Saturday morning to pick Kayla and Zac up from the airport. Their flight was slightly delayed. After getting them and all their luggage (lots more came home) we headed off to find Calder Park Raceway. For Christmas we gave Chris a voucher for a V8 Supercar Drive. It was icy cold and overcast. We sat outside and froze (the things I do to get some photo's) the two girls had to go back to the car, they were so cold. The boys however, were not letting the cold stop them from watching Dad - GO REALLY FAST!




All suited up and ready for action.

Waiting his turn - it was amazing how many people were there.

If Jarred could of, he would have been a passenger.

Finally in the car



Off and racing............................


Totally awesome was his reply when getting out. "Can you buy that again for me?"

We then headed into Melbourne to find where we were staying. We had an apartment in Brunswick, a few hundred metres from Lygon Street. We put our stuff inside and went for a walk down to Lygon Street to have some dinner. We were all cold and hungry. We found a lovely Italian Place called "Crooners". If you are ever in Melbourne and want a great place to eat, make sure you check this place out. The food was amazing. Everything we ordered was delicious. We all shared our dishes around. We walked back and watched a movie (thanks Uncle Paul) Well we watched 1/2 of it - we were all exhausted.

Sunday: We went on a tram ride



These two were so excited about going on the tram

And after two tram rides and LOTS of walking we found the Museum.



They had a special exhibit called "Hatching the Past" All about dinosaurs for our dinosaur crazy boy. It was fantastic - very hands on. We all loved it.













We had a super quick look around some of the Museum - Kloe in the olden day house

And of course Kayla wanted to see Phar Lap - this horse is huge.

In the afternoon we took the kids to see their first live footy match at the MCG. Sydney Swans V Hawthorn. It was a Hawthorn home game. Heaps of Hawthorn supporters. We had fantastic seats. Kayla was cheering very loudly, unfortunately - it didn't help. The Swans lost.

Another Tram ride around the city. And Lots, and lots and lots of walking. We walked along Lygon Street past all these lovely places to eat....nope the kids wanted to go back to where, we had dinner the night before. We didn't complain. The food was just as good the second night. We were all exhausted by the time we got back. We watched the 2nd half of the movie and went to sleep. Monday it was time, to hit the road and return home.

It was a super, jam packed weekend.

Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday to my Daddy - It's his special day today.
Wishing you a great day xoxoxoxo

More.............

Some very overdue photo's

A very unhappy girl - ready for her 'old fashion' day at school. She looked so cute.

Jarred had a concert to finish the term at Kindy. On Wednesday he was a kangaroo and on Thursday he was a Zebra

Jarred's Birthday present from Oma and Opa.


Jarred's Birthday party

Celebrating the 'June' birthday's together.

Recent pages

All of these pages were created using a kit.

I'm still here

no, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

My scrapbooking and card making, have taken over any, spare minute of time, I have. I had another page accepted by Scrapbook Creations. I also decided to submit some of my cards, to see if I could get them published. I sent four off on Monday and I got a 'Yay' for all four. Three they want, straight away and they have asked me to do a series of dinosaur cards, like I made for Jarred's birthday.

I have also done some creating here http://www.bluebazaar.com.au/index1.php. Got a pack of Chatterbox paper to have a play with. There is another layout I did for them which (fingers crossed) might appear on their portal page tomorrow.

Kids are having a ball in Sydney with Oma and Opa.

The weather has been COLD (nothing new there) but we are loving our fireplace. The house is so warm.

Otherwise all is good.

Jarred is 5

Hooray.......Finally the day arrived!!! Jarred has been counting down for weeks. He was so excited to be turning five. He has been unwell for the last week. He had a cold, which turned into croup, then he was vomiting and then Monday night he couldn't sleep ,because he had an ear ache. But nothing stopped him from enjoying his special day, not even a trip to the doctors in the afternoon.




Opening presents. He got Army play tents (which Dad and Zac built the night before and had sitting in the lounge room for him, to get a surprise when he woke up), dinosaurs, clothes, singlets, socks, toy mobile phone, play animals, puzzle, cars and a new car mat.

Birthday time at Kindy. We made 'face' cupcakes to hand out to all of his friends.


For dinner we had 'Dinosaur soup'(Chicken noodle soup, made with dinosaur pasta) And Chicken Dinosaur shapes. Followed by 'Freddo Frog' icecream cake. Can you guess who put his order in for dinner?


and the big 5 year old




Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes. Jarred had a fantastic day. He is looking forward to his 'Dinosaur' party on Saturday with all of his friends

My First Online Class tonight

As part of my Guest Designer position with Diva's. I get to teach my first online class tonight. All chat will be in the Divas chatroom http://www.scrapbookdivas.com.au/ with all the instructions posted on the free online class blog.http://divasfreeclassroom.blogspot.com/

Today I have made Kloe an outfit for her "Olden Days Dress Up" Day at school on Friday. Luckily Jarred is home sick today and very nicely acted, as a model for me. He is almost the same size as Kloe. But shhhhhh.....I didn't tell you he was wearing a dress LOL! When I put it on him he said "Mum, you are not allowed to look at me, coz I'm in a girls dress" so sweet. Hopefully it will fit her. Otherwise it will be some quick adjustments. It is just made with Calico and an old cot sheet for the apron.



Other news:

We are getting lots of eggs. One of the new chook lays, double yokers every few days. The eggs are huge. The kids are very impressed with these.

We are getting lots of broccoli and cauliflower from the veggie garden. I made it with cheese sauce on it the other night and everyone ate it. The kids are not to fussed on cauliflower, but with cheese sauce it's a winner.

I have been busy preparing for Jarred's birthday. He is having a 'Dinosaur' theme birthday party with 14 of his friends. It should be a lot of fun.

Scrapping news - another page accepted by Scrapbooking Memories. I was also asked to do another project challenge for them. This time it was a single layout and card. I got a huge pack of goodies to play with. My last product challenge I did for them, was displayed at their stand at the Brisbane Papercrafts Exhibition, that was held over the weekend. I was very excited when they asked me, if they could display it. I haven't had a lot of time for scrapbooking recently, I just need to find another few hours in each day.

**edited to add** I also won the month kit layout competion, at Bon's and also the monthly competition at Scenic Route. Lots more goodies coming my way! Thanks to Rach, for making me enter, both of these comp's.

Kayla turns 14

Our big girl celebrated her 14th birthday yesterday.

Breakfast of pancakes - special ones for the birthday girl.

A few of the presents. We went shopping on Saturday and Kayla bought a whole new wardrobe of clothes with her birthday money. I was told I didn't have to wrap all of these up.

I wasn't allowed to take photo's, of the birthday girl early in the morning.

We went out for the day and had a lovely picnic lunch by the water and did some more exploring.

And I found a new use for fozz felt.

The traditional 'Oma' cake

Thank you to everyone, for your birthday wishes. You really made Kayla's day very special.