Tristan's Athletics Day

Fun had by all! Was a great day after Seth finished his hissy fit upon finding out that it wasn't a "carnival" {he thought is was a school fete}. Tristan did great and he now wants to do Little Athletics we will see if that is still the case in September when the season starts.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

More Darwin

This is where we stayed it was really nice to have a garden in the lobby and the river out the window. The boys love the bay-window. One of our day trips was to Berry Springs took us about an hour to get there from Darwin. The water in the pools is so clear you can see the bottom. (Very Deep). Plus we got some mandatory "Ant Mound" photos on the way.
This us at the Wedding.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Darwin Photos

My boys trying to sleep on the plane our flight was 9pm - 1am but was delayed by head winds we got there about 40mins late then had to get hire car and find my friends house. Fun.East Point :- loved the museum there very interesting


This was the first day after finally getting some sleep more pictures to come I need to do some editing.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I'm back

I will update tommorrow to tired tonight

Another Vietnam Fundraiser

I dont know if you remember but last Christmas The Reedy Family pooled our secret Santa money and bought a house for a Vietnam family.

Last month Hubby and I, along with a couple of friends, went on a river cruise to raise money for the agent orange survivors who are still to this day being born with birth defects and then being dumped in the orphanages.

The cruise went up Noosa River and was a fabulous night and raised nearly $1500 so here are a few pictures the scenic one is looking into Lake Cooroibah there were a few rain clouds around and we got a couple of very heavy showers which just made the views even more spectacular I cant wait for the next boat cruise.

Love Always

Tanya

Catch Up from March

ANDY WARHOL
I tried to get Tristan's photo taken but I couldn't get him out of the Silver balloon room for long enough.


The boys loved the River Cat (so did I) so good to see the city from a different angle.
Last month my Dad and I took the boys to Brisbane to see the Andy Warhol exhibit and to the Museum and on the River Cat. We had a great day but it all went to fast and we totally run out of time. We also wanted to go to the science center but by the time we got off the river cat it was closing time. Just a good excuse to go again (what a shame)



Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

GOOD BYE NICOLE

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! My sister-in-law passed away this morning suddenly we won't know why until the autopsy. She was only 29 and leaves behind her husband Jason and two boys Lachlan 5 and Ashton 1. We will miss you so much!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Easter 2008

Wow it is Easter already I cant believe how quick this year is passing.

My parents have just gotten back from a 10 day cruise from New Zealand - Tasmania - Melbourne to Sydney. They had a fantastic time but said it was a bit colder than what they expected or prepared for.

Here are some photos from about a month ago. We went to Kondalila Fall, Montville. Absolutely beautiful and of course I am bias cause any water fall is beautiful to me I just love the energy you get from them and the feeling of tranquility.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

March Zooooom............

Belated Birthday Seth turned 4 in February and is absolutly loving Kindergarten!! He has a couple of new friends and is always asking if today is Kindy day. (Everyday) Michaels Toy of the Month is Guitar Hero for Playstation 2 He wanted to buy it for the boys for Christmas but they sold out and he has just got around to buying it and it has been a great success.

March is here in full swing and going fast. Lots of Fundraising at the school this month Disco and Easter Raffle and a Sausage sizzle for Voting day which was an awesome fundraising event especially if you can get everything donated funny how hungry everyone is when they go to Vote.

Plus I did the door knock for the RED CROSS on the weekend and raised $70 for them (every little bit helps) everyone one I asked donated it was amazing. Such a good cause I have never needed and hopefully never will but I know how important it is.

I hope everyone else's March is going Great and not tooo fast.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

My baby is SIX !!

I cant believe it Tristan is six and funnily enough, along with starting grade one, something has clicked in his head and he is acting so much more calmer. He has already recieved a student of the week award for concentration and as his teacher calls it USING HIS THINKING BRAIN "so cute."

This is ONSLOW our new kitten Michael {who doesn't like cats LOL} organised it for the boys.
The first night with Onslow all asleep
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Grade 1

Second day of grade 1 and no complaints......... except for, he hasn't been chosen for "heads down, thumbs up" yet.
It is so weird to see desks in their rooms after a whole year of play fun in prep.

Here is a picture of Tristan on his first day of Grade 1.

Big day at school after 6 weeks off = early night!!

Here is Tristan's own creation (put together all by himself). This is SHREDDER from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. School holiday fun, what a great imagination he has I was so proud of his collection, not that he could have fitted much more on, all he needs are some new boots and his outfit will be complete. LOL. Look out he is coming to get you TURTLES.

PMSL!!

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

School Holidays

The boys dancing in the rain New Years Eve with all of thier glow sticks on. Of course it looked so much better in the dark.

I cant believe we only have one week left before school starts again. The last 5 weeks have gone so fast. We have had pretty casual holidays nothing to exciting, a couple of birthday partys, lots of inside play (and unfortunately messy outside play) with all of the rain we have had in the last couple of weeks.

Michael went to Airlie Beach for a Work / Holiday trip he hopped onto the plane in a rainy Brisbane got off the plane at Airlie to a 35 degree beautifully sunny day and same on return, his plane actually got delayed because of storms in Brisbane.

We were actually at a birthday party when the storm went over and lightning hit a tree in the park we were at, very scary, poor Seth cried for about 10 mins.

While Michael was in Airlie I got my Dad to come over and help me rebuild my front fence will have some more photos of the finished product but am just waiting for my Brother in Law to make the gate for me. Funny thing was the Saturday was the first dry day in ages and I got so totally burnt that I am peeling (still). I very,very rarely peel. I was a little bit sore. LOL. My Dad is such a champ THANKYOU SO MUCH (doing most of the work) for helping me.

So looking forward to seeing it fully finished.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Christmas 2007

Just some photos of Christmas Morning at the inlaws poor kids 4 cameras all going at once they didn't know which way to look. Tristans present from Grandpa, an MP3 player I love how Seth is trying to stop Joshua from getting Tristan's present.
Sethy's Present from Santa, smash up hot wheels set.
a couple of days before christmas this is how the boys fell asleep while watching a movie. Sooooo Cute!!! Just makes my heart melt.
Happy New Year everyone!!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Our Christmas Present

This year instead of doing a secret Santa amongst my husbands side of the family, where we would normally spend $100 per family x 4 = $400. I suggested we buy a Vietnam family a home for only $600 so if we all pitched in an extra $50 we could buy a family something more special !!! than what we would be racking our brains out to buy each other.
The lovely woman who organises all of this and soooooo much more does all of it off her own back she raises all of the money through out the year and then goes over to Vietnam (ticket paid out of her own pocket) and together with the Red Cross she PERSONALLY distributes all of her donations. Either with house or schooling or what ever she sees is most need eg. last year she bought a cripple man a wheel chair and she bought an orphanage 10 new cots. She is just so passionate and dedicated to helping and this is her way. So I am honoured to be helping.
This is just one example of what can be achieved.

This is what they lived in before.
And this is what $600 Australian dollars can build.

That is Liila in the middle on the ladder. Along with getting the house she also makes sure they get a gift bag of things for their house. How beautiful!
Merry Christmas everyone and I hope you all have a great day.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I FLOODED MY HOUSE

Can you believe it. I turned the bath on for the boys and then forgot about it cause they were outside playing with Michael and the neighbours ARGGGGG!!!! Talk about saving water it must have been going for about half an hour I cant believe I completely forgot all about it. My carpet is saturated it went through the walls into Tristan's room, the toilet, the laundry and my linen cupboard thank goodness the only thing that got damaged was the carpet and some wrapping paper. The carpet doesn't matter cause we are going to tile anyway, just looks like we might just be doing it a little sooner than we wanted and the wrapping paper was recycled stuff shoved into the bottom of the linen cupboard next to the spare tins of house paint. Lucky I have a wet/dry vacuum cleaner ($99 Kmart special from 10 years ago still going strong, thank goodness) but I spent a half an hour just vacuuming 1 sq meter and got about 10 litres of water out.
So there is a tip for you DON'T LEAVE THE BATH WATER RUNNING!
LOL (I wasn't last night)

Tanya xxxooo

You tube:- Steve Irwin

This is so funny not one of Steve's usual shows but quite well done. I got this off Marnie Telfords Face book page. Thanks Marnie.

Love this

Got this off Alicia's Blog. I love Adam Hill he is a great comedian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D1ELEYJzRQ

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Loving Facebook

After trying so hard not to get involved in Facebook my sister finally talked me into it. Now I am hooked. I can't believe how many friends from the past I have found. Love that it is just like blogging.

One more day of school left and I cant wait I am so over the morning ritual of having time limits and then finally getting there only to get all caught up in fundraising, tuckshop, P&C or something else and not getting home until lunch time. Like I said nearly finished one big day to go and then HOLIDAYS YAH!!!!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Wow what a week

I can't believe how much stuff I cramed into one week this calender doesn't give "my week" justice there was so much more. But at the end of the week I feel fantastic!! Ready for another one. (soon) I know it is nothing compared to some people but for me it was heaps mainly little things........ like the oven at school blowing up on cooking day ...........taking 40mins to get to an appointment 10mins away because of road works traffic.......... then getting to that appointment and having it cancelled because she forgot?!! and so on.

My inlaws got back from a 4 week holiday in NAPAL yesterday so we got to catch up with everyone for the afternoon. So good to see the completed family of Parents, Kids and grandkids now with the final (hopefully) instalment, Maddison.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

"Maddison"

Here is my beautiful Niece Maddison, born 31st October.

She is so tiny. Times flies so quickly, hard to believe how fast kids grow. Every time I go and visit someone in the maternity ward it feels like only yesterday I was in there (especially when you see the same nurses) .

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo