Love the Gold Coast

Well we are home. I think 5 nights was just enough especially for the boys. Seth woke up yesterday morning crying saying I want to go home now. So here is the run down of our 2ND ever "REEDY FAMILY HOLIDAY".

• To start off with as we are driving into Surfers I suddenly realize I forgot the Movie World tickets. Luckily my girlfriend, Em, was house sitting so she express posted them to us.
  


• On Friday night we had a lovely dinner a our friend, Matt's, and meet his gorgeous girlfriend Shannon.

• Saturday, ZINA's scrapbooking class was fabulous. I had a great time. I didn't get to finish either of my projects cause we were too busy talking. She is so lovely all 5 feet of her. LOL. I was so surprised when I first meet her she is beautiful and so tiny. The other girls were great too we all had heaps of laughs.

• Sunday - we had breakfast at the Currumbin Surf lifesaving Club. And we saw the new Gold Coast footy team training. I think they are called the Vikings?


• Then I got attacked by a cat fish. We went to the Currumbin Rock Pools and waterfall. So Beautiful I love waterfalls. After taking the mandatory photos we all went for a swim and Tristan said that something had bitten him and we all laughed thinking it was nothing. I went over to see cause he looked really freaked out and the little bugger bit me on the ankle. So we had to move to the deep part of the rock pool for a swim. A local guy warned us about it, after it had already bitten us. Great timing from him hey!
  


• Monday we drove around the border towns and beaches and also, accidentally, up into the mountain tourist drive. Michael got lost! After giving me crap about my driving and taking wrong turns, etc. I pulled over and made him drive and he got us lost. I love it when it backfires on him. I really didn't care where we went because the boys were asleep so it was a lovely peaceful drive looking at trees and big, big houses and beautiful views.


• Monday night we went to the Wax museum and a walk through the city.
  


• Tuesday we went up the Q1 building the views were awesome but there was a little bit of cloud in the distance so we couldn't see as far as we should have been able to but it was still amazing. Then we did the shopping centres, Pacific Fair and Harbour town plus a couple of shops in between. Well I know boys don't like shopping but mine did OK. By one o'clock they were all ready to go home for a sleep but they persevered for my sake and I even got to get a massage by those Chinese guys in the middle of the shopping centre. They give the best massages ever I could have stayed there for hours.

• Wednesday - we went to Movie World which was fun but we were all so tired by then we barely had enough energy to enjoy it. Seth cried on a couple of the rides which we thought was so funny cause one of them was a special kids ride about Bugs Bunny, but it was very dark.

• Then we came home just in time to watch the storm go over with heaps of lightning. I LOVE STORMS!!!

So all in all we spent way too much money (especially on food) but we had a great FAMILY holiday.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Holiday 3 more sleeps

Only three more sleeps till our holiday. (nearly wrote MY holiday.) I love the Gold Coast I don't know how it is so much different to the Sunshine Coast, probably is just that I have lived here all of my life. This is where we are staying it is only 2 streets away from the heart of the city so we can walk to the beach. The boys will be able to enjoy it more this year even though it has only been a year there is a big difference between being -nearly two to being nearly three- and I don't have to worry about bottles and cots and all of that annoying baby stuff.

Plus this year I get to go scrapbooking with *Zina* cant wait! I am so excited! I wish I could organise to meet all of my fave scrappers there on the one day wow that would be the best. (I don't think Elsie and Emily would fly over from America just to visit me.)

The SPA is up and running. I just don't know how it all works with all of the chemicals and the thing switches on and off all of the time. I am not looking forward to my next power bill at all. Plus I thought I would go and buy some pots and plants to put around it to make it look more like a little paradise I did not realize how much they all cost I am normally a market and second hand shopper but because I wanted 3 purple pots the same I had to go to a pot shop lucky they had a seconds section almost half price. Yeah for me! and plants you know all of those annoying palms that normally multiply in your garden when you don't want them to well they are $25 each If only I was a patient person then I would save a whole lot of money. Just tried to take some photos but the sun is to bright so maybe next time.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Baby Shower

Only Six weeks to go Donna. Nicole (our cousin) only 8 weeks to go.

The Baby shower went beautifully! I was really suprised at how well everyone (Men in the shed, with the kids, playing pool and table soccer) and the women inside. Everything work perfectly even though after so much planning we still ended up not being ready when people started to arrive. I was ducking out to get some last minute stuff from the shop and Donna was still in her P.J's which was so funny to me cause she had been up since 7am and the party started at 10am.

I hope everyone had a great time, Donna did. (Or so she told me.) Everyone seemed to be a bit stand-offish to start with so I started the games, word jumble and baby stuff guessing game and string around the belly, who is the closest (Can you believe two women actually got the exact same length.) Everyone settled in and relaxed. It was so good to see all of Donna's High School friends and our family and friends from afar, Janet, great to see you. Donna and I meet Janet at the Scrapbook City Retreat and we kept in contact by E-mail (I love my puta) So happy she was able to come up to see us, our turn to visit you now.

I still have some photos to post, next time.

I have to go and catch up on some sleep now.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Baby Shower

Arhhh!!! My baby sister (who is 26) is having a baby in about 7 weeks time. Even though at her age I had two, it still doesn't seem right she is my little sister. This photo is from the end of September her belly is about triple that size now and she looks amazing. She has hardly put on any weight and she is glowing.

Well anyway I am throwing her a baby shower this weekend and I am starting to go into panic mode. I mean I have organised most of the games and I have worked out what food we are eating I have bought heaps of stuff for her and the party but I still have this huge feeling that I am forgeting something. I just dont know what! Guess it will have to go wrong before I realize plus I am getting reflux which I always get when I am nervous. I have to relax and breath cause it doesn't matter if I forget anything cause I live just down the road. So only a few more days and I can start the food and hopefully work out what I have forgotten.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

New Beta Blog

I just popped in to say hi and got invited to update my blog with a Google something or other thingy. so I thought why not I don't know what I am doing at the best of times so why not add some new confusion to the table. Ha.

Well I had my second ever lesson of Karate today and my goodness was it confusing. It is supposed to be a beginners class. My normal teachers were away today so I had two new teachers and they did so much more than what I was ready for. I looked like a total goose but it was still fun and everyone knew I was new cause I was the only one with out a uniform. I find it really hard not to just call out and ask when I dont understand something cause you know the whole respect thing, bowing and talking to your sensay (still not sure on the rules yet.) Still fun though.

So stoked!!!!!! I am doing a class with Zina Wright while I am down the Gold Coast (coincidence.... I think NOT!) and after reading her blog yesterday I am even more happy than ever cause she is cutting back on all of her scrapbooking commitments and classes to spend more time with her family. SO..... I have made it into one of her last classes for a while. So excited yaaahhhh.

Better leave something to talk about next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I have My first comment

Thanks sissy for leaving me my first comment, now I know someone is reading my blog not that it is that exciting. Funny how you can get hooked on reading about other peoples lives it is very addictive. (for me anyway). How has the rain been? The wind has been pretty full on and the hail storm wow. My poor husband got stuck driving in it and his truck got a bit of a beating not too bad but you can see definite hail dents. Of course it dented the parts of the truck where the paint is good not the parts that need touching up. Ironic hey? My darling Seth was close by for the whole storm not scared but just cautious Tristan however couldn't give a stuff he was just annoyed that he couldn't hear his movie cause the rain on the tin roof is too loud. LOL (Dad in case you are wondering what LOL means - Laugh out Loud-)
I have been reading Elsie Flannagans book this week and I LOVE IT very inspirational. Would have loved to have gone to her class in Sydney last week end but alas....... maybe on her next trip to Australia or my trip to the U.S.? (never know it could happen.)
In other news MICHAEL is foing the MOVEMBER thing and raising money for mens cancer So if you would like to sponser him you can go to the website www.movember.com and then click on the sponser link and Michaels number is 43401 or you can email me.

Only two weeks till my holiday
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Thankyou Thankyou

Thankyou Retta!!!! for adding the header to my blog. God knows I tried but all of that html stuff just confuses me way too much. So just a huge big thankyou to you!!!!!

blog header

just trying to add a header to my blog

Rain

So exciting only an hour or so away some rain yahoo (I live close to Maroochydore if you dont know me) I love rain on a tin roof cant wait I am going to stay awake until it comes so I can go to sleep with the sound of the rain on the roof. Only one down fall we still haven't had our leaks fixed yet not that there is anything it can hurt except some shoes but they will dry tomorrow.
That was all I wanted to say today
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Halloween

So I know we don't celebrate Halloween in Australia but hey why not go with the flow if you are going to have kid knocking on the door asking for lolls you may as well have some fun with it.
So I got this pumpkin out of my Mummy and Daddys garden (thankyou) and as you can guess we had pumpkin soup for dinner. I didn't realize it was so hard to cut the flesh out of a pumpkin when you have to go through a little hole in the top. So I cut the whole bottom off and then stuck it back on with tooth picks after I had scraped out all of the pumpkin. I did a terrible job but you couldn't tell when it had the candle in it and it was out side in the dark. Then I didn't know where to put it so I got a bar stool and chucked a sheet over it and told everyone that it was a ghost.

Just thinking about all of the things that there is to do in the next couple of months and now my head hurts lucky one of the things to do is a holiday can't wait. Gold Coast here we come. Only a couple more weeks. The count down begins. Hope I win some money on Melbourne Cup day to pay for everything.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Boys Boys Boys

Too many boys in this house I need some female company to keep me sane. Boys stink and make too much mess and it doesn't matter how old or young they are they are all the same. Anyway can't help but love them. poor old me lucky my sister lives 5 Mins away for some female talk.

Got to do the page for that gorgeous photo I took the other day I am happy with how it turned out, I was worried that whatever I put on the page would detract from the photo but i think I managed to pull it off.


Michael just put a movie on for us to watch better go
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Beautiful Sunshine Coast

I took this morning I have been driving past here for the last week and finally remembered to take my camera today. It was a little overcast which was perfect so there are some clouds in the background.
I went to Sizzler to have lunch with my friend Karen, and her family. So funny to be there and hardly know any of the staff considering we both worked there for so long and haven't been gone that long. Ate way too much, still full now.

See ya Soon
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Good Morning

Well I had a fabulous day yesterday. Went to the Brisbane Quilt and Craft show at the Southbank Convention Center. Love that place!!!!! My friend Nikki had never been before and I loved her reaction when we walked in the door." Wow!! I didn't realize that it was this big!" So because it was her first time it made it even more exciting for me because she was excited.
We met the lovely GIGI from the Scrapbook City Store she did a couple of demonstrations, the one we watched was about making a mini book which was so cute. We also watched a demo. by Rachelle Minette which answered some questions I had about covering tins and other objects. Anyway we spent way too much money (I bought a Xyron 510 and some cartriges for it) and had a very long day of walking back and forth but loved every minute of it. When I got home I pulled out everything that I bought so I could show Mick and the boys and can you believe it I only bought 5 little embelishments for scrapbooking and everything else is an "off the page" project. Now I just have to do them, I will definately be posting some photos as soon as I have done them.
The boys all had fun too lots of boy food and motorbikes and watching car racing. Both of the boys were all flaked out by the time I got home.
I had better go and do some painting some stuff.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrap Challenges

I have got my scrap groove back!!!!
I questioned my hubby about if he was working on Thursday secretly hoping he wasn't so I could go to the Craft Fair with my sister and her Mum in law. He looked at me like "as if I wouldn't be working" and asked why, I put on my cute face (hahaha) and said just wondering, just in case you weren't working if I could go to the Fair with Donna. Then he let slip that he wasn't working all weekend, before he knew it I was on the phone to my friend organising our day to the Fair. He was just laughing and said I suppose Me and Shawn (partner of my scraping friend) will be having a Daddy Day Care Day. Yes indeedy!!!!!
I had already come to terms with not being able to go and now all I can think of is scrapping. LOVE IT! I have got three pages done this week in no time at all. For each page everything has just fallen together. I have been doing the challenges from Scrapboxx and Scrapbook City. Great challenges too.
Got to go and scrap now!!
Bye Bye
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Bikes and Karate

Can you believe it I used up my internet mega bites again in just 12 days WHAT AM I DOING? to be using up so many megabytes? Well doesn't matter anyway cause I upgraded to 1GB so hopefully it wont happen too soon again.







My darling boys have had a very exciting week. SETHY learnt to ride his bike all by himself no training wheels yah!!!! SO EXCITING That was last Thursday and then this morning he jumped on the electric motorbike and rode it ALL BY HIMSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Now this is a little boy who up until a couple of weeks ago wouldn't even hop on the electric motorbike even if someone else was on it with him.





And Tristan got his yellow tip at Karate. I love it how he bows. So cute. Tristan thought it was very exciting that he got another certificate and some special yellow tape around his belt. As you can see Seth wanted some too. So hard to get a photo without him in it.

Everything else has been good. Lovely dinner cooked by Em on Monday night Thankyou my darling.

Now time to go to bed.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

E Bay

I ordered a Karate outfit for my DS #1 through eBay yesterday as it was only $31 including postage I ordered it at about 1pm and paid the extra to get express delivery so he can have it for his next lesson thinking it would take a couple of days and I couldn't believe it when the posty arrived with it this morning at about 9.30am which if I had have ordered through the club it would have cost me $50 and taken a week to arrive. How cool is that I am still so surprised at how prompt the sellers were I know it is their business and it was probrobly just luck but wow I have never had a parcel delivered that quick. Cant wait to take heaps of photos of him in it next lesson cause he is getting his yellow tip. Very exciting for him he loves getting the certificates. Here is photo of him getting a certificate for trying hard. He was so happy he kept saying the whole way home - I won, Mummy, I won! So beautiful.

Feeling better about not making the design team, I got an email from my fav scraper Erica Glover and I was stoked that she would take the time to respond to a comment I left on her blog site. I know it is a big comp with only one spot and 100 women compeating for it. OVER IT.

Till next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Didn't make DT team

Well finally got the email to let me know who made it into the next round of the Scrapboxx Design Team and boohoo!! I didn't! So devestated but life goes on I just need to practice more. LOL




I have spent the last week painting and fixing up my DS #1 bed room I didn't realize what a big job I had set myself up for. Each wall took 3 or more coats of paint and then there is the set of draws and the shelves and the shadow box. So sick of painting but at least it is done now.

So one very big week end of painting, house work, mowing and gardening plus a visit to the annual Coolum Kite Festival and Sunday dinner at the inlaws with all of hubbys family and one very sleepless night with my darling son I am very buggered.

Morephotos to come next time
Love always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrapboxx Comp

I have been sweating on waiting to hear if I made it into the next round of the Scrapboxx Design Team only to recieve an email today to say that the haven't recieved my layout yet possible because of the internet problems that they have been having. I started stressing that I had sent it to the wrong address or hadn't added the attachments or something like that so I went into my sent emails folder to check and there it was all sent correctly on the 26th of september. I sent it all off again hopefully all good this time. Here I have been wondering why are they taking so long, when all along they didn't even get my email, to think I could have missed out and wouldn't have even known that they didn't get my entry. The suspense back to waiting again.

I HATE Bunnings. Hahaha went it to grab a couple of things this morning and of course forgot the lawnmower blades to match them up, one of the main things I went there to get. The other was paint for Tristans room. The last tin of paint I used I got from the markets for $10 suede Effects paint thinking a 4 litre tin would be plenty but the walls are so old they just soaked the paint straight in. The suede effects paint from Dulux is $74 for a 4 litre tin I knew it was expensive but didn't think it was that much. But one of the other brands had the same thing heaps cheaper and the colour didn't matter cause I wanted to go darker anyway. So then after a little walk around I found heaps of other things I needed unfortunately for my poor credit card.

Still trying to master the Adobe photoshop had another go the other day.


Love Always
Tanya Reedy xxxooo

P.S. If there is actually anyone other than my Dad who reads this feel free to leave a comment and your blog address so I can check out your blog.

My speed is back to normal

Lets see how long it takes me to use it all up again.
Well I have been having a terrible time trying to get a cable to connect my mobile to the computer so I can upload my photos. I went into Tandy the other day and asked the guy behind the counter if they had any expecting the answer to be no, much to my surprise he said which one would you like. To me it was like striking gold i have been hunting in phone shops for ages. Got it home and loaded it all up after a couple of hours trying to get it to work I realized that it just wasn't going to work. Thinking it was too good to be true. I rang him and he told me to bring it all back and he would connect it to his laptop so we could work it all out. So after stuffing around for 1 hour I end up with a more expensive proper Nokia cord instead of the generic cheap version which is just not compatible with my phone (even though all of the packaging said it was). So here are some of the fab photos I have been dying to get.





Had so much fun this night!!!! My friend Emica and I went to a fashion parade to raise money for the local kindergarten.

I have been trying to plan our yearly holiday for the Gold Coast and last night Michael said to me "How about we go to Fraser Island?" I was so looking forward to going to the Goldy. Now I have to get prices and compare which will be better cause we have free tickets for Movie World.

Until next time (which souldn't be too long now everyting is faster)
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Only 1 week to go

Only one week to go until my broadband goes back to normal speed. Can't wait!!!!!!!!! So sick of waiting bloody 10 mins for a web page to open. So at least I have been getting practise on my programs that dont rely on web speed. Like Adobe Photoshop for example:-










love Always
Tanya xxxooo

More hair stuff

Well got my hair done again. Just cant help myself. My friend is doing her appretiship through TAFE and I thought that I would be a test pilot for her. She did a great job I love my hair cut and she also did some blond foils but my hair was too fragile to do too many but I will be going back for more later.

I have used all of my internet limit up for the month and I am only 16 days into the month so I wont be posting much for a couple of weeks cause my speed has slowed down to 28k tooooooo sloooooow!!!!!

My cousin had a baby boy HUNTER 7 pound 6 ounces Congrats to Suzel and Brian on another boy. (looks like you have to go again to get that girl)

Thats it for now
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

P.S. And heres to the neighbours being so entertaining. Ha ha ha.

Aunty again!! Yay!

My sister in-law had a baby boy today at 12.08 Lunch time today. Her waters broke yesterday morning then nothing all day and night and then again this morning she got up and whoosh again. She went into hospital and they said yes your waters have broken we will get a bed ready for you to wait until you start contractions and labour by the time the nurse got back to say the bed was ready she was in full on labour 1 and a half hours later she gave birth to a 7 pound 14 ounces / 53cm long / HC 33cm baby boy. Ashton David Reedy born 14th September 2006.
I went to pick Tristan up from daycare and told him that Aunty Nicole had her baby, Tristan went crazy running around the playground saying yay! I have 3 cousins now yay!!!! Telling everyone it was so funny.





I did an introduction to hairdressing course last year and meet a couple of really nice girls and have remained in contact with them. One of them is getting married next year and asked if I could help with the invitations. I was so happy that she asked me. The three of us got together on Tuesday and had a great old gasbag. It was just what I needed a day of paper craft and talking and eating (don't need the eating side so much). and the invites turned out really nice.

Till next time
Love Always
Aunty Tanya xxxooo

Rude people.... Why?

I can not understand why some people have to be deliberately rude!!!! Our newest neighbours to the street are totally rude and ignorant. The mother is permenately frowning and never acknowledges that you are there, you could be standing two meters away from her and she will look the other way instead of saying hi and now her children are the same. Why????? I have no idea. The day they moved in I went over and introduced myself and my family and to welcome them to the street, the next day I offered for her children to play in our back yard so she could unpack and she said that "we are not that type of people we like to keep to ourselves we are a very close family" What the *&^% is that supposed to mean. Sorry but I have never had a neighbour who would not even wave or say hi as you walked past them. And it is not just me she does the same for the whole street and when you live in a culdesac you really notice things like that.

Other than that I had a fabulous day went to the markets with the kids and my Dad got 3 skirts and a shirt for just $10 for the lot. The boys were so well behaved. Then come home for a relaxing afternoon a little scrapping a couple of beers and a gasbag with my friend, Em, while watching Sweet Home Alabama (just love, love, love that movie). Michael has gone to a friends place to watch the footy and me and the boys just had pizza and garlic bread -great for the waistline-and then we are going to watch The Sound of Music can you believe that I have never watched it before.

Bye for now
Love Always
Tanya

P.S. Thought are there for Peter Brook's Family another legend who died doing what he loved. Two legends in one week how horrible.

Friday

I love Fridays, don't know why, since everyday is just another day but it must come from the days when I worked although every job I have ever had I always had to work weekends at some stage or other. Maybe it is that pay day thing, that is always exciting.

My poor baby boy has horrible eczema on his legs in behind his knees and it is so bad it is blistering. Makes me so sad when my boys are sore or uncomfortable and there isn't much I can do about it. Just had to spend $40 dollars at the chemist buying cream and special saop and special medicated bath oil for him. Hope it works even though he just cried himself to sleep after I put the cream on. My poor baby!!!!

Had my sisters footy tipping break up (sounds funny) this afternoon I didn't do to bad I was surprised out of about 12 people I got about 6th considering I know bugger all about footy (Rugby League) and Mum was close behind me so not a bad effort from her either. Sissy got 2nd last she was pissed that she couldn't even lose properly.

Well here's hoping for a fabulous Week-end!!!!
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Sick kids again

Wow poor Tristan has been sick for nearly a week now. Last Thursday he came home from daycare not quite right and started throwing up that night which then proceeded onto the other end along with all of that he had a sore throat and keep breaking out in this weird rash all over. I thought that by Sunday all was well and then he woke up in the middle of the night and......... again lower end. Thinking there couldn't possibly be anything left and considering he had been running around like a silly chook for the next two days I decided that he could go back to daycare on Today alas I got a call at lunch time to say that Tristan had thrown up. So off to school I go to get him. He greeted me with the biggest smile and non-stop talking the whole way home and on arrival he announces that he is all better now can I go back to school please to play with my mates. Then he jumps out of the car and jumped on the trampoline for about 10 mins come inside had something to eat and then feel asleep in front of the T.V.
Touch wood he seems to be fine tonight except I discovered that he also has headlice. First time he has ever had them so both of the boys got a buzz cut #1 all over which will have to be #0 tomorrow for Tristan because his head is full of eggs. Lucky Seth doesn't appear to have any neither does Michael but unfortunately I do so off to the chemist for me tomorrow (wish I could shave my head). I have been told that if you dye your hair that will get rid of them so maybe I will try that, due for a top up.

So excited I got second place in the Daisychain monthly page comp. I got to spend some money today, love it when that happens. Here is this months page themed winter. The writing says "I love that Tristan layed down and did the Angel all by himself without any prompting from me" August 2006.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

P.S. Update on the weight I have lost three kilos in three weeks not that I feel any different but I am getting there.

P.P.S. Our thoughts go out to Terry, Bindy and Bob Irwin. I had personally met them and they were lovely.

Karate and Dishwashers

Got up and took the boys to Daycare as usual on a Tuesday got home ready for my appointment with a Karate instructor who was trying to join up Tristan. I kinda knew about the club and had already decided to join him up but he still did the whole speech. He starts his first class next Monday. I am a bit nervous I hope he listens and does as he is told. That is the main reason I am joining him up so that he can learn respect and discipline and that you don't need to be so aggressive all of the time.
Then just after he left the Dishwasher man arrived to fix the dishwasher. Wonder what the neighbours were thinking. No kids and Two male callers for the morning. How funny! Hubby rang when the dishwasher man was there and he could hear him talking in the background. Turns out they have met before and have mutual friends.
So glad to have my dishwasher back. Although I must admit (never thought I would ever think this) I quite enjoyed having to do the dishes knowing that it was only for a week or so cause the kids actually left me alone. When I pack the dishwasher they want to help and Seth trys to climb in but for some reason they weren't interested in me while doing the dishes the old fashion way. (Except to play with the rubber gloves)
Well after my monster post last time I wont make this one too long.
Till next time.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

This is how beautiful our weekends have been on the Sunshine Coast, this is from two weekends ago.

Birthday Fun and Racing Cars

My baby sister turned 26 today yehh!!!!! She is currently 20 weeks pregs with her and her hubbys' first bub, and they are so clucky, it cracks me up. Before they decided to have a baby her hubby was adamant he was never going to have children (but we all knew it was a big facade) I must admit though I was very surprised (I cried with excitement) when they told everyone. I honestly thought it would have taken them a few more years to make up their minds. She managed to keep the whole trying thing a secret from me. We are very close and talk just about every day. She did tell me that it was very hard for her and she nearly slipped so many times. Very well done! I dont think I could have kept a secret like that from her.
So this morning I went and picked her and our Dad up (Mum does night shift and sleeps during the morning) and we all went shopping which was the usual can't find what I want and the kids being extremely annoying with the I wants. But the highlight of the trip was the first garage sale that we stopped at on the way, I scoreded a SLR manual 35mm camera with 3 seperate lenses included for $60. Couldn't believe my luck!!! All morning I was thinking there has to be a catch but when I got home put new batteries in everything (camera and flash) it seemed to work fine. Can't say that my fabulous photography will be anything to boast about but I wont know till I put the film in to get developed. That sounds so weird........Film.......No instant photos, it is going to drive me bananas waiting to fill up the film before I can get it developed. Lucky I have so many birthdays in the next couple of weeks. I think I will still double up with my digital camera, I would hate to get the film back and have all of the photos being out of focus etc. Even though I did Film and T.V. at school that was 13 years ago I can't be expected to remember that now can I.
Hubby decided that he couldn't wait until next Sunday for Fathers Day so he went and bought his present today. Wait for it...........he came home with a AFX racing car kit. I must admit he did do a good job with the boys this afternoon teaching them how to race. Tristan (4 & half) picked it up really quickly but Seth (2 & half) stuggled a bit with quite a few flying racing car accidents due to him not understanding that it can't go that fast around corners. A few tears (from both Seth and Hubby, hahaha) and a couple of talks later and everyone was happy. I got the...AND YOU THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE TOO YOUNG TO PLAY THIS... told you so talk at the end of the day. Sorry I was wrong and you were right..........for now anyway.
Michael also found a garage sale today opposite the job site he worked on and bought the boys some bits and pieces to play with. (he would never go to a garage sale with me! LOL) So my day was filled with toys for young and older. Michael finally had a half day off work, first one in 3 weeks and it was great for me and the boys to finally get to spend some time with him.
The kids have gone to bed all hyped up and totally not ready for sleep but very tired, Michael fell asleep at about 9pm (which is a really late night for him he is usually in bed by 7.30pm) he is working again tomorrow, third Sunday in a row.
I am going to continue reading the Da Vinci Code and then go and get some beauty sleep for breakfast with everyone in the morning for Donna's Birthday Party.
Hopefully I will have some photos soon to post.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I can't believe it !! It has just started to rain. Sounds so good! Love the sound of rain on a tin roof!

I Love Taking Photos

This photo of me and Seth is actually one he took with his arm stretched out I haven't edited it at all. So impressed with how well it turned out.




I was showing hubby all of the photos I took of the kids at the beach the other day and Seth decided he wanted to take some photos so hesitantly I handed him the camera and we actually got a couple of good photos not bad for a two year old. So then it turned into an improptu photo shoot with everyone having a go of the camera, we were all laughing so much. My favourite is the one of all of the boys pretend sleeping, as you can see Seth couldn't pretend sleep without the sound effects it was so hard for everyone else not to laugh. Now I just have to scrap them.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Hello Everyone

Well has been a very busy couple of days!!!! My darling sons have been unbelievably naughty lately and I have not been in the frame of mind to deal with it so they have been getting worse until Tristan had a huge punch up with our 5 1/2 year old neighbour and got knocked on his arse. I was hoping that he would realise that he couldn't get away with being so demanding and expecting everyone to go his way but it only made him worse and more aggressive. So we have been having the last two days of major pulling back into line which (unfortunately) I know isn't over yet! Hopefully it shouldn't take too many more days to get him back to normal. The worst part is Seth watches and copies everything Tristan does. Monkey see monkey do!!!
Michaels' business is doing really well but that means he has to work 7 days a week for a while until he gets everything in order and wait for it to settle down. They have had to put their prices up cause they have been getting every job that they quote hence the reason they have so much work to catch up on. Hope he gives himself a break soon. For his sake!
As for me I am tired. With Michael working so much I feel like a single mum even though he has been making a really big effort to be there for quality time with the boys. The boys are rebelling by being really naughty and constantly saying I want my Daddy, I miss my Daddy when he is at work. Which breaks my heart every time they say it cause I know we need Michael to work but they don't understand why he has to go to work. And then when Michael gets home all they want is me. Go figure?
Going to go to bed now
Until next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Hello again just have to post this photo so I can change my profile photo.


Bye Bye for now xxxooo

Weight issues

Monday I am going on a diet and I am getting something to help me lose weight (I have a pulled muscle in the back of my leg and am not allowed to do heavy exercise). I know that I am not fat but I am definately over weight and NONE of my clothes fit me properly,these jeans are the only pants in my cupboard that fit, my belt snapped and I have to wear my hubbys. Funny how you dont realize that the weight is slowly pileing on untill you see a photo of yourself. Today Me and the boys and my Dad went to Palmwoods to see Michael at work and then we went to the park to go for a walk and for the boys to ride thier bikes (Seth still just pushes his) and play in the playground. I took my camera along as usual. I asked Dad to take some photos of me because I am always taking photos of everyone else but never seem to get any nice ones of myself or I always have a little body hanging off of me. Well not sure if I want any more photos of me for a while. I know it is important to record all of the stages of your life for the future but I wasn't prepared for these photos and these are the good ones. There were some shockers in the bunch especially since Tristan insisted on taking some photos so they were either not in focus or not smileing or trying to get Seth out of the photo plus photos being taken from a low level son not do you any justice.

Just tried to upload some more photos and blogger dosn't want to. (See even the computer doesn't want to see them! hahahaha)

Well the morning was really nice and the boys got so worn out they are both asleep which is really unusual for Tristan he seems to be able to take alot these days before he gets tired enough to sleep.

Untill next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

P.S. A great big THANK YOU to my darling sister Donna and friend Emica LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

A trip to the cinema

Sethy just looks so gorgeous in this photo. I couldn't believe it when he fell asleep sitting bold upright. One minute he was talking to me and the next he was asleep. Just so beautiful. I was looking for a photo of Tristan to scrap the other day and I didn't realize how many photos of Seth I take and hardly any of Tristan anymore, suppose it doesn't help that he is never sitting still long enough for me to take one.
















I took both of the boys to the cinema today to see Hoodwinked a task that I have only once before attempted. Well last time Seth fell asleep after about 10mins so I thought that if I took them to a 2.30pm session that Seth would surely fall asleep but no........ he jumped all around, ran along the seats, said in a very loud voice "let's go home Mum" several times, threw his blanket onto the seats behind us and then climbed over to get it back and then tried to do it again because it was fun laughing the whole time while I sink down in my seat pretending he wasn't my son. But I figured it was a Wednesday afternoon at a kids movie anyone going to see it at that time should expect kids to be there. And I have to admit he never went anywhere near anyone else considering there was only about 7 other people there and when the two of them went and sat in one of the rows in front of me I could barely hear them talking to each other and I know they don't know how to whisper. So I wont be taking Seth to the cinema again for another couple of years.


I made this page for my friend Hailey. I left the panel on the side empty so she do her own journaling. I just love it, it will be hard to give this page away since I spent hours cutting out the flowers and doing the stitching. Hope she likes it.





















Took me a while to post this I wrote it on Wednesday but have only just had the time to sit down and fix up the photos.
Until next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Hello

I have been feeling really funky lately I don't know if it is my hormones or something else but I have been not wanting to deal with anything. I am, surprisingly, starting to change my everyday routine like not wanting to watch T.V. (really weird) doing more house work and playing more with the kids ie. cooking, painting, drawing and I have been doing major clean outs (due to Tristan wanting his room back and me having to find room for all of my scraping stuff) I know it sounds like a normal day for many housewives but this is not a normal thing for me. I guess that this is just me finally growing up. Now I just havw to get my husband to grow up.

Until next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Just a quickie

Have gotten heaps of cleaning done in the last few days. Trying to cram my scrap room into my linen cupboard, (not an easy task but I am coming up with some nifty ideas in the process) because my darling son wants his room back and has been so nice in asking, puting up some very good points in his favour eg. I can go to sleep without having to listen to Sethy crying. The best point of all is that he can have his toy box back and play with his toys without Seth. (good luck keeping Seth out). As they say "A change is as good as a holiday" and I definately need a holiday. I will take some photos of the transformation tomorrow and post them soon.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Motorbike Lessons

Sorry the photo is blurry. Yeehhhh. So much fun. I had my first motorbike lesson today with Michael. In our back yard going around the house. It was surprisingly easy. Michael started it for me then told me how to change gears and off I went. I did a couple of laps of the backyard, which isn't that big, then after I got a bit more confident I started to do laps of the house. Soooooo much fun!!!!!! I can't wait to be able to get upto 2nd gear with a little more space to ride.

See you next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Ratty Kids

It is raining again, so much for a drought in Australia, it has rained so much here lately I am having trouble keeping the inside mould under control cause we cant open the house and air it out. The kids have already had two baths each today cause they keep going outside and playing in the mud and rain - which also means more washing for me to try and get dry. Wish we had a drought here for a while I don't care if my plants die (they always do anyway).

The kids wouldn't let me go and scrapbook by myself today even though Michael was home they still insisted on being attached to my side and Seth was just making a huge mess and then Tristan started fighting him for everything and reaching over to get everything from the back that he knows he is not allowed to touch so I gave up and thought I would have a go at digi scrapping again, I havn't done it for ages.




















I took these photos the other night just stuffing around with Seth in the kitchen. I am so lucky that he loves to pose for Mummy. He was so funny he just kept laughing.


The house is quiet now I am going to go and try and scrap before Seth wakes up and Tristan gets sick of watching T.V. with Michael.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Arrrrhhhhh.......

My darling husband is giving up smoking and he is not a very nice person to be around at the moment. He is grumpy...... one minute he is angry and the next he looks like he is going to cry and then he is happy and cuddling and kissing the kids, it is really weird. I hope it doesn't last for too long. I am wondering if the tablets he is taking to quit have anything to do with it or if it is just the quitting, what ever it is I almost wish he would just go and have a smoke.

The boys are feeling much better and are back into mischief. Of course. Seth is so hooked on Scooby Doo #1 at the moment I am so sick of watching it I am regretting buying it. I hired Scooby Doo #2 so that we might be able to watch something different but to no avail he didn't like it (go figure) so we are back to watching #1 all day long.

I went to lunch at my friend Hayleys' place yesterday and got to see a couple of friends that I haven't seen for a while and cuddle their babies, you forget so quickly just how much time a new born takes up - even just having a salad roll for lunch is a huge task - so glad that stage is over for me. It still spins me out that these friends from school are all older than me by a couple of years and they are only just starting their families and I have a 4 and a 2 year old.

Finally got the boys to go to bed at a decent hour last night and I got to stay up and scrap. I got two pages done in just one and a half hours, the first was for the magazine comp. and the other was for Daisychain monthly comp. I just chucked it together and am really happy with how it turned out. The theme is Friendship.

Until next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Sick Kids and Fashion Parades

I had been looking forward to going to this fashion show fundraiser for the local kindergarten for months. Then Wednesday night Seth woke up dry reach vomiting. Of course I had a scrapbook class booked for Thursday but we made it through the morning without any vomiting or temperatures thinking everything was going to be ok then about 3pm Seth started to vomit everywhere and just wouldn't stop. I was starting to stress not only because he was sick but also that I was going to miss out on my night with my friend the tickets were prepaid and I didn't want to waste them and was so excited about treating Em to our night out. Plus I never get to dress up and go out very often (high heels and make-up). When Michael got home from work I was able to leave Seth and go to pick up Tristan from daycare. Seth seemed to be ok and Michael hadn't complained at all about being left at home with a sick kid. So knowing that I was only going to be just down the road I got ready, Em picked me up and off we went with only one false start - I forgot the tickets.
THE FASHION PARADE
We got a glass of complimentary wine on arrival then snagged front row seats, watched the band "Rock Kitten" - Who were excellent! - then another glass of wine to start the fashion parade with a few nibbles, intermission, another glass of wine for the second half of fashion parade which was also excellent, all of the clothes were so nice I think I need to do some major gym work before I can wear half of them though. After the fashion parade we just enjoyed sitting and talking to everyone and anyone didn't realise how quick the night went before we knew it, it was midnight and they were kicking us out.
SICK KIDS
Got home about 12.30 just in time for Seth to throw up everywhere..... again! Michael had him in the bath standing there with all of his clothes still on, while he got all of the sheets and pillows into the washing machine. Everyone got clean and went to bed about 1.30am. Me and Seth and Em all slept on the mattresses on the lounge room floor. Tristan slept through the whole thing so of course he woke up nice and early the next morning about 6.30am. After several cups of tea and heaps of food I still felt like crap (don't know how I got a hang over from only 3 glasses of wine). So happy that Michael finished work early so Me and Seth could have a sleep. Couldn't believe it when we woke up at 4pm we managed to get 3 hours sleep. Feeling heaps better got up cooked an early dinner everyone seemed happy...... Tristan started throwing up and Seth started with diarrhea. Another great night of sleeplessness from one end of the house to the other not wanting each of them to upset the other.

It is now Saturday night and everyone seems fine I had a big day of cleaning the boys room from top to bottom, walls, sheets and blankets etc. any surface that could be cleaned got cleaned. So fingers crossed we have a good night.

I think you also had better lay down and have a rest too if you just finished reading all of that you must now be tired. Night Night
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Competions

I have decided to enter the Everyday Moments Comp from the For keeps Magazine and I have been going through the websites of all of the sponsors. I didn't realize that I had so much of the sponsors products in my stash which makes it easier to do the pages considering you have to use 80% of the sponsors products on every page . Still you never seem to have just that one thing that will finish a page!!! LOL

I am so excited I am going to a fashion parade tomorrow night a fund raiser for the local kindergarten. They are having some awesome shops showing their clothes. Em and I always have our Christmas in July thing every year considering our birthdays are 13th Jan and 1st Feb so we have to spread everything out over the year. This year I get to treat Em. Can't Wait!!!

Better go and get my beauty sleep for tomorrow night!
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrapbooking

Just finished a workshop with my girls, everyone had fun got lots of pages done. Looking forward to see you again next month. I am getting so excited about entering some scrapbooking competions from the magazines, a little bit overwhelming to think that you layouts that you have spent so much time and effort creating will be judged by people who dont know you.

Everything is going so good at the moment. we are all getting over colds which we tag teamed over the past month or so, one would just get better and then another would get it poor Seth got it twice first and last. (Poor mummy got sleepless nights for everyone. yah!)

I am reading The Da Vinci Code at the moment & I am loving it. I dont normally read anything unless it has something to do with scrapbooking but I got the book on super special and thought I would give it a go. (glad I did) Last night I was supposed to be setting up for my class for today but I started to read and couldn't put it down, needless to say this morning was a mad rush, lucky for me everyone was late.

Well I am going to go and read so more before hubby gets home with the kids.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Hair cut

My friend Emica is going to be so disappointed that I cut my hair but I couldn't resist. I love doing stuff to my hair and I haven't done anything for my hair for ages so here is the after shots (looks heaps better when it is straightened).

I have to admit my favourite hair cut is still the Rachel cut from "Friends". Though this is close when I style it properly.


Not much else to talk about so see you next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

RED

I did it! It took two goes to try and get full coverage. I am now a red head (for a little while anyway). I am getting some very mixed reactions But my Mum and Dad and Hubby and kids love it so that is all that matters to me.




I went to the Caloundra Bullcock Street Markets on Sunday with my parents and kids, always such a huge effort. We were supposed to meet my Aunty and cousin and her son there but we had already been there for a couple of hours before they got there so Dad took the boys to the park and Mum and I walked the markets again with my aunty and cousin and son. Not very big and all of the stalls have knew stuff which was nice but I love junk markets where you can pick up bargins. So after catching up with them for a coffee and a chat we went home all exhausted.

Untill another day
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I hate feeling sick

I have had the worst headache for the last three days. I don't remember the last time I had a headache like this. Nothing has worked for it herbal, pharmaceutical, caffeine or alcohol. Thought it was almost gone then bang out of nowhere it just started to throb again. I think I need a good massage and 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
My Dad's birthday this week (born on the 4th of July) not that that means anything here in Australia, went over to Mum and Dad's for pizza, so yummy!!! even though I only had pizza last Friday still love it.
Got sick of waiting for the hairdressers to ring me so I bought a hair dye today bright red.......My hair is so long I should have gotten 2 boxes, might get another tomorrow and do it again so that it is really red. Hubby loves it.

That's it for now
Love always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrapbooking...

I went to my first Friday night crop till ya drop. Loved it. After going to the retreat in May I have a new found love for workshops. I started off going to Creative Memories workshops about 2 years ago which I loved but they were all paper and stickers (or as I call it circles, triangles and squares) and I got bored pretty quickly. I just love using embellishments and paint and whatever else I can get my hands on. So, with a little coaxing from a friend, I went and found it to be very convenient, everything is there in the shop (so if you need just 1 thing to finish a page you can get it straight away and the page is done) as you can tell I am very happy with the concept. I still love having workshops at my place and teaching classes but to have that time where I get to ask for ideas and just to be left alone to do my thing without any children or husband... (except for the bloody mobile phone).
On to another topic I picked my children up from childcare today to be told that my 2 year old had been very aggressive. Just so happened that I was to attended an emotional and behavioral seminar tonight (how convenient...lol.) which was very interesting but pointed out that it all has to so with myself and my husbands emotional state and attitude and that the children pick up everything from what we are feeling which makes sense but I can only change me how can I get my husband to calm down and relax?!
Anyway if you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo