Happy Birthday to my angel in heaven xx
11 years already

yay I have scrapped :)

I have scrapped 3 LO's and altered a notebook in 3 days... for me thats lots :)

This one for Sandie's Sketch Challenge at Bon's Scraps


This is for Sian's kinder teacher



This one for Simonne's Sketch Challenge at Scrap Pile



I will share the other one when I can. It was for a blind challenge at Bon's


Well alot has happened this month. Dad went in to have the shunt/stint put in his heart and all went well. He is home and after his checkup they are really pleased. This is a huge relief :)

The falcon is starting to fall apart :( I have mentioned to Gareth we may have to start looking for another car next year. something smaller and maybe a little newer depending on the cost.

I have only a few days left now of being on the kinder committee yay!! I am unofficially helping out with the fundraising next year and that will be very low key.

Christmas is looming and I am looking forward to seeing my family again :) The visit will be shorter than normal. But with a little luck Mum and Dad may come back here to Vic for awhile after.

I spoke to Tracey on the DT over at OSS and cleared the air as I really didn't like leaving things as they were and there was nothing that she had done or said that had offended me. I have made the decision though that I resign from the DT and that I won't be reapplying next year. I was going to sign back into the forum and take part on a low key level, but I am not able to sign in. I do believe that is something to do with my new pc though :~{

We are planning on putting up our Christmas tree this weekend which will be fun. I am thinking I might do some Christmas Craft with the kids too. I found the most gorgeous Christmas tree to make out of an old magazine. It is in the latest Scrapbooking Memories, but there are steps missing, anyway I found another version on Jaki's blog, who got it from Mel's blog, who got it from a someone else (there is a link on Mel's blog) They turn out really well and it is something that the kids could make easily enough.

With Dylan's day coming up tomorrow I am finding that this year I haven't been as sad about it and I am finding that I am not thinking about him every single day leading up to it. I will never forget, I will remember and smile. :)

We were looking at photos the other day and there was one of me holding Gareth's god son. Brad looks and says is that your other one mum? I was floored. We don't talk about Dylan very often and even less often in front of the kids. But he has obviously heard me talking about him at some point and not forgotten.

I am thinking this year I might try and do what I did last year as part of a challenge and take a photo every day in December :) If anyone wants to join me, leave me a comment so I can check out your photos :)

Farewell buddy

Back in about 1993 (I think) I was out looking at garage sales with my mum on a Saturday morning. One house we went to had pups for sale. There was this one little guythat grabbed my attention straight away and I decided I would take him home with me. He was just so cute! Well he was a bit of a ratbag growing up ... jumping a 6' fence in a single bound ... maybe we should have called him superdog! We didn't however, we called him Sole. He was with me until my marriage fell apart in 2000 and then he went to live with my mum and dad while I went overseas on a 4 week holiday, I think it was about then really that he became their dog, they had adopted him and he got along well with his adopted brother Max (Mum and Dad's other dog) So I guess he had a fair old life ... not as good as it probably should have been in the earlier years, with him not getting as much attention as he deserved. all that changed when he moved in with mum and dad though, he got the attention he needed and deserved. But 15 years is along time and he was getting old, every time we visited Mum and Dad's I wondered if it would be the last time I saw him. Well October's visit was the last one. At least he is at rest now and not suffering old age. Rest in Peace solly dog!

Happy Anniversary and a weekend away!!

Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary for yesterday to my DH :)




We went away with our good friends to Mildura for the Melbourne Cup weekend. For the last few years we have gone away with them camping. It's becoming a great tradition and I have to say a great one at that... the thing that makes me laugh is this

2 years ago at Silvan Reservoir



Last year in the Grampians




This year at Mildura .... I think we should hire ourselves out on Cup Weekend in coming years as the rain makers!!!



Due to my lack of sleep, (thanks to a snoring hubby and kids that didn't want to sleep) I had bouts of grumpiness (but hey whats new!!) I don't think they lasted too long! It was a fantastic weekend. A big thanks to Pete's parents for feeding us for lunch and dinner.
We visited NSW, took a drive to where the Murray and Darling rivers meet.







The kids took a paddle ... wellll supposed to be a paddle in the Murray down at the sandbank in Apex Park.





We drank wine which I must say I really like (Moscato, Brown Brothers is definately best) the kids played really well for most of the weekend with very few disagreements. We were planning on visiting an old homestead, but didn't manage to get there this time (good excuse to go back sometime I think!) and on the way out we stopped to look at Big Lizzie, which I found fascinating... more than the kids did I think.












A stop at charleton for tea and then home to Melbourne last night.





We all crashed and thankfully Sian fell asleep about an hour from home and stayed asleep!! I was dreading she would be awake most of the night because she slept so much in the car. No one stirred until after 8am this morning :) ahhh bliss. Unfortunately Gareth is in at work today, so the kids and I are amusing ourselves at home. But it is nice to not have to do much today.

my attempt at a self portrait!