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Fact 1:- I am Vice president of the P&C Committee for Pacific Paradise State School (and I haven't got a clue what I am doing LOL)

Fact 2:- I love reading Jackie Collins Books

Fact 3:- I am currently listening to the Duets soundtrack on cassette that I found today while cleaning

Fact 4:- I rarely clean (dust) unused places thats why I only just found it after how many years

Fact 5:- I love the TWIN PEAKS series....Love love loved it

Fact 6:- {Bad Habit} I dont tend to pack things away instead I procratinate and I stack them to make a bench look cleaner I can thank Mum for this bad habit. We are stackers or the dreaded Bowl of no return.

Fact 7:- I find it really difficult to throw things that aren't broken away but I keep buying new things to replace the old. My hubby is worse than me.

I now tag Gigi, Michelle, Leisha, Angela that will do for now.

There you go a few things that you may not have known about me.

Bye for now
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Another week gone

Took Tristan to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Monday for his last "mummy day" in a while. We had heaps of fun, movie then McDonald's for lunch and a little bit of shopping. I love spending time with Tristan now he is getting a little bit older.


First week back at school after Tristan's first ever school holidays took me a while to get back into the swing of things like school lunches and getting to school on time. Tuesday morning I had another P&C meeting, I am learning heaps about the school and everything that is involved.


Today we went to watch our friends daughter get christened. Miss "Shiolah Jade" so beautiful. Then back to their place for a couple of drinks it was a lovely day.

Tristan all dressed up so handsome. (By the way Grandma, Tristan loves his outfit he raved on about is all day. He loves that there is a singlet under the good shirt and even though he was sweating he refused to take off the good shirt.)
Couldn't have put it better myself. We were making stuff this afternoon with bottles and junk and grey tape. Well Seth thought that this was the best place for his. And considering it has just taken my over half and hour to get him to bed I think I might see if we have enough to tape him down as well. LOL.
I just LOVE LOVE LOVE those eyes.

Love always

Tanya xxxooo

Fairy Dust

Tristan and Seth were playing outside this morning and Seth came running inside so excited that there was a storm coming and it was raining.
SETH: Come and look!!!! Mum, come and look. (So out I go to see the storm and the very, very, very light shower that is passing over.)
ME: Wow Seth how exciting it is raining.
TRISTAN: It isn't raining it's FAIRY DUST.
My heart melted!!! Tristan is such a boy with his bike and motorbike and scooters etc. he sometimes comes out with the most beautiful things.

This is my week 8 entry for the others team in the Scrapbook City Reality Scrap Comp, it was a bit late but better late than never.
This is my first ever entry in the HOW DARE YOU challenge I really loved doing this page cause I have wanted to scrap these photos for ages and now I finally have!

Thankyou every-one for your well wishes, I am feeling much better, although the virus seems to be hanging around a little bit but hopefully the worst of it is gone.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Blah blah blah

So funny my Tristan was telling my mum something the other day about me. After he had told her half of the story he said ........and blah blah blah. (This is what my hubby does to me all of the time when he thinks that I am harping on and wingeing to him.) It was so funny, me and Mum couldn't stop laughing.

Mum and Dad got back from thier trip safely amongst all of the Sunarmi warnings and cyclone warning and rough seas. They had an absolute ball, with heaps of stories and videos and photos it is going to take me a month to see them all. (Mum bought every little bit of memoribilia home with her so we can scrapbook it all yeah!... like I need an excuse)

My darling Seth has smashed his poor little teeth AGAIN..... but can you believe he managed to get the other two front teeth this time. He is so clumsy. And to top it off he is now sick with temperatures so at least he will be getting some relief from his teeth with all of the panadole I have to give him to keep his temperature down.

Fundraising crazy here at the moment. You don't realize how short a school term is until you have to squeeze as many fundraisers into it as you can without going over the top. In the last couple of weeks we have done the school disco and an Easter raffle and a BBQ at the park. All up we have done really well. Now only 3 more terms to go.

Well I am off to scrapbook for the first time this week.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Long week

This is my first ever entry in the 123 Challenge. The March challenge criteria was 1. Stitching 2.Black and White 3. Three or more photos. So I did this page with photos of my beautiful nephew, Joshua, with Grandma and Grandpa. This is my week 8 instalment of the reality scraps comp now that I am an other I actually get credit for my layouts now and don't just look like a hanger on.....er.
The writing says:-
My Dreamed of Reality V's My Reality

I would be a super hero - I am just a super mum
I would live in a huge house - I live in a cute little house
I would have 3 children - I have two beautiful boys (three children if you include my husband)
Would marry a movie star - Married my darling husband (who thinks he is a movie star)
Would have heaps & heaps of money - Living comfortably and happily

The photo was taken a my friends, Paul and Hailey's fancy dress party a couple of years ago.

Pacific Paradise had it's first school disco for the year last Friday night. They had a prep to year 3 dance starting at 5pm till 6.30pm and then the rest of the school was 6.30 till 8.30pm. Tristan and Seth lasted about an hour before they both came to me in unison crying their eyes out for various reasons, luckily Michael was there helping so I just got him to take them home so I could stay and help out with the rest of the dance. It was a great success for the school fundraising and the kids all had a great night. (Except mine of course LOL)

Nothing much else has been happening. I have managed to catch some damn virus and it has really knocked me about I have had fevers, sore muscles and joints, major headaches, fluid retention and a rash all over my body I have been a walking zombie for the last week living on Nurofen plus and anti-histamines. The doctors have done heaps of blood tests so hopefully I will know something soon.

Until next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Busy Weekend

I dropped my parents off, Saturday morning for their P&O Pacific Star holiday around the Tropical Islands. They were so excited, it was so cute, this is their first holiday where they have needed passports.
After dropping them off we went for a drive over to Scrapbook City to check out their "Garage Sale" Picked up a few goodies. We also went for a drive up Mt Cootha the boys kept running away for me so we didn't stay long they had been in the car for too long so we headed to my cousins for a Tupperware / BBQ. It was lovely the kids were free to run around the back yard with the Dads and us Mums sat inside enjoying a Cocktail while we watched the Tupperware demonstration. So after setting off at 8.30am we finally arrived home at about 9.30pm.
Monday morning I had the Carpet cleaner and pest control rock up at 7.30am WAY...WAY....too early. Michael was home cause the weather was too crappy for him to work so he dropped both of the boys off at school it was fantastic!! now he cant ever say he doesn't know where to go. After the cleaning guys finally left I had to go to a fundraising meeting for the school. Then I went up to a cute little salon at the back of Nambour called "Studio 4560" Where my good friend Hayley Braggs, Super Hairdresser !!! was training an apprentice and I daringly allowed her to do what ever she wanted. This is the end result. I LOVE IT!! Hayley actually straightened it with a little flick on the end which looked really cute but I ran out of time this morning and luckily it just sat right with a clip in the side and a little hair product to defrizz. Michael HATES it he likes my hair long but I am really happy and think I will keep it like this for a while.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

The Secret is out

I am no longer an intruder (OHHHHH AHHHHH) in the Scrapbook City Reality Scraps Competition. I am now an OTHER. Which means I can openly compete and earn points towards my loyalty membership. Who knows what other tricks Sara and Alicia have up their sleeves for the rest of the competition.

Sethy freaked us out today "he has a double jointed thumb", he was laughing as he was walking towards us with his thumb touching his wrist. I thought he had broken it and the pain hadn't kick in yet but he showed us over and over again. It looks so cool I will definitely have to get a photo of in case he grows out of it.

I went to the movies today to see the Illusionist. It was a really nice movie, a little bit slow but an interesting movie with very good actors.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Names Database

My sister just sent me the link for this cool site. You can contact people you went to school with and you will be surprised at how many people are actually registered. NAMES DATABASE so go and have a look for your self, it doesn't cost anything to have your details there and if you want to contact someone it only costs $12US to join for a year. I have already contacted someone and exchanged two emails and I only joined last night. GREAT IDEA!!!!

The Paper Craft Festival is on in Brisbane this weekend and I so desperately want to go but I dont know if I am going to be able to. But I will definately try.

The Circle Journal I am doing through Scrapbook City should be finishing up this week so if you need more time just let me know through an email (due to the site being shut down). tanyareedy@optusnet.com.au

This is my last couple of layouts for the Reality challenge ( I know I am not in the comp anymore but I am having so much fun with the challenges)

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Baby Teeth

I thought I had a really good idea yesterday. I took down the baby swing that came with our Hills swing set, Seth is getting too big for it now, and put on the bar with the rings on the bottom cause he loves swinging off the rack that is on the back of Daddy's Rodeo (which he is not allowed to do cause it is too dangerous. LOL)........ WELL swing OFF he did..... straight into the ground, he smashed his mouth and pushed in two teeth. There was blood everywhere!! Michael was freaking out, he always stresses so much when one of the boys hurt themselves. Seth always seems to hurt his mouth. But once it stopped bleeding and the panadol had kicked in he was like nothing had happened and couldn't wait to get back out and play again. So funny how quick they bounce back. We visited the dentist this morning and he said they seem to be ok and should stabilise after a couple of days but might still go black. That will be a good look.

Some funny news......... I went into my little scrap shop at Palmwoods yesterday cause they had a big sale on. After looking at all of the stuff on the sale table I jokingly said to the other girls there that my hubby will be getting a bad feeling right about now cause of all of the money I was about to spend......... While I was standing at the counter waiting to pay Michael rang to see if everything was OK cause he had a really bad feeling. PMSL It was so hard not to laugh while I reassured him everything was ok and the boys were at school and daycare and I hadn't heard anything to say otherwise. The girls were totally blown away when I told them and it scared me a bit too.

hopefully the rest of the week will be uneventful so until further news

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

The Frog Story

> In two days tomorrow will be yesterday.

> Today is no special day and I have no particular reason for writing to you...

> I have no news to tell you....

> nor any problems to discuss with you....

> or gossip to tell you...

> It's only one of those happy moments...

> when I thought of you... and I would like to share these thoughts with you...

MANY SMILES BEGIN BECAUSE OF ANOTHER SMILE...

> and if you don't smile, then I believe you must be dead!!!

> Always have good self esteem...

> Take care of your friends, especially those dearest to you...

> Take care of your body...

> But most of all find time to relax...

> Big Hug from your friend...

> To The World You Might Be One Person;

> But To One Person You Might Be the World.

I got this in an Email today and thought I would share it with everyone who wishes to read my blog.

Big Hugs to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Mini Album and other scrapping stuff

This is my week three instalment for the Reality Scraps comp at Scrapbook City the criteria was "Back to Basics with Bazzill"
- So we couldn't use any patterend paper or any other embelishments
- we had to make our own embelishment with the basis of the embelishment being Bazzil
- we had to use either (or both) of decorative edge Bazzill or Bling Bazzill
- and 2 other bazzills of our choice and at least one photo.
- Plus we had to do our own hand cut title and have journalling somewhere on the page.

So I made my embelishment by tracing around some Heidi Swapp masks onto the Bling Bazzill and then cutting around them, then added some crystal flowers to make my embelishment and hand cut title
I used green, purple and black bazzill to mat my photos and I journalled around the photos

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Tristan's New Shoes

Firstly Tristan can write his name all by himself. This is the first time I have ever seen him do it without any help. I am a proud mum.

Secondly my parents bought Tristan a new pair of school shoes on Tuesday and he insisted on wearing them to bed. After his bath he got his school uniform on for the following day and put his shoes on and went to bed (EARLY!!!!!) I just went and checked on him tonight and he has put them on again for sleeping. How funny, I love it when kids latch on to something unexpected and just wont let go.

Thirdly HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!!!!! Hope you had a lovely day.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

SETH'S 3rd BIRTHDAY

My baby turned three on Saturday. He had a lovely day with visits to see Grandma and Grandpa in the morning. Nan and Pop came over in the afternoon for some birthday cake and more presents. We asked Seth where he wanted to go for lunch and he said BREAKFAST ????I dont know where he was talking about so instead we went to Sizzler.

Happy Birthday Sethy We love you lots and lots!!!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Birthday Party

Tristan had his birthday party yesterday at Hungry Jack's and believe it or not I forgot my camera!!!!!!!!! But my friend had her camera there so I took some photos and will just have to get them off her later.

I did my first Friday Night Games with Scrapbook City which was fun. Our {the ones who aren't in the top 20} challenge for the night was to do a 6"x6" page on our day today. I haven't ever done a 6x6 before and found it really hard. Plus I had just bought some new stamps on Friday and was dying to use them so after I had stuffed around with them for about an hour I only had about 10mins to assemble my page, take a photo of it, resize it and upload it. So I kind of threw it together wasn't happy with the end result but I have since turned it into an 8x8 and I think it looks much better.

Third week of prep tomorrow lets hope we make it there without any tears {PLEASE!}

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

5 Years Old

Tristan had his birthday yesterday I can't believe I have a 5 year old son!!!!!!!!!! I know he is only going to get older, and everyone says it goes so fast but it isn't until you look back that seems to have gone so fast.

So because he got a couple of presents yesterday morning and he was having heaps of fun playing with them I once again had a really hard time trying to get him to prep and actually into the class room. The teachers aide had to come out and get him again and I had to leave him there screaming. This morning I let him take one of his toys for show and tell so he was much happier to stay and let me go.

I didn't make into the top 20 for the Scrapbook City Reality Scraps competition but a huge congrats to the girls who did. Hope you all have a blast and challenge yourselves to do something new each week. Even though I didn't make the top twenty I am still going to play along and do all of the challenges so that I can challenge myself which is one of the reason I entered in the first place.

Untill next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Birthday Tears

Well I started off my birthday by dragging myself out of bed not feeling very well from a sore throat and a head cold to get up to two grumpy kids and I had forgotten to turn the dishwasher on before I went to bed so there were no clean bowls or Tristan's School lunch containers.



Then Tristan didn't want to get ready for school cause he didn't want to go. After getting him there with a few obstacles along the way we made it just inside the gate and that's where he stopped, with lots of frustration and feeling sick and worry about why he hates prep so much that he could put on such a performance I just lost it. When the teachers aide come out to see what was going on I started crying my eyes out!!!! I didn't want to but I couldn't help it. Even more frustratingly, as soon as I started crying he was really good come over and gave me a big kiss and a cuddle and said goodbye and went into his room without a struggle. LITTLE TOAD!










Mum came over at 2.30pm and walked up to the school with me to pick Tristan up and then My girlfriend, Emica, come over for dinner (with lots of alcohol). So after dinner we jumped into the spa and partied the rest of the night away with Hubby doing the bar tending and photography and childminding. I love the photo of Tristan's butt funny what kids will do to ruin a photo. And I am so proud of Michael's attempt at fancy photography with the Margarita glasses and us behind them, ALL HIS IDEA!!!!!!
So by the end of the night I felt heaps better and surprisingly I felt better this morning than I did yesterday morning.



Michael was home from work today so he walked to school with us all this morning which was really nice. Tristan rode his bike so he could lock it up at the bike racks, very exciting for him since he has wanted to do that for years.

Time to go and pick up my big boy from school, picked a good day to ride the bike it is about to rain here any minute so I guess I will have a wet tail by the time I get home.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

First day of PREP

Well it is Tristans first day of prep today. Surprisingly I wasn't as sad as I thought I would be. Probrobly because I was so cross with him to be sad. He was so excited to be going to prep that he decided that I was taking too long to get Seth and everything else into the car that he grabed his scooter and just took off (we only live three streets away from the school and should be walking anyway but we had all of the first day books and extra stuff) I was sitting in the car thinking he would be coming back and he didn't so we drove to school and he only about two-hundred meters from the front gate. I was so angry and so proud all at the same time. Happy that he knew the way and was eager to get there but angry that he didn't do as he was told. Growing up too fast for his own good.

Sethy on the other hand was not happy about going to his new daycare center. His cousin is in the room next door and all he wanted to do is go and see him. It was so unorganised in his room as the Teachers are all on days off or sick so he had two relief teachers and the room was a major shamozel kids and stuff everywhere. I nearly cried leaving him there. But he will love it soon enough.

So I found this on Alicia's Blog site and thought it would be interesting to know how many of me there are out there.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 6 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Well I had better get all of my paper work done in the few short hours I have untill 3pm pick up.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Last day of Daycare

Look at this TEAMWORK I love it when they work together. The two of them watching the street sweeper first thing this morning Sethy is still in his night nappy. (looks funny seeing him in a nappy now he is toilet trained)

Today was Tristan's last day of Daycare!!!! My baby is growing up Arhhh........ On Monday he starts PREP. Gosh I cant believe he is nearly 5 My brain is just swishing around my head as to where the last (nearly) 5 years have gone. So I went and got all of his uniforms today and I signed up for TUCK SHOP. I am going to be a tuckshopmum!!!!!! sounds so funny.

So we also dropped in on Seths new daycare center to check everything out and to get to know what we need and where we have to go. A little bit daunting I think we got them on a bad day Quite unorganised compared to his old daycare. But at least he will get to play with his cousin, Lachlan, at this daycare now he doesn't have Tristan to play with anymore.

On the scrapbook side of things I am racking my brain as to how I want my layout to look for the Reality scraps comp qualifying round not that I don't have any ideas the problem is I have too many great ideas and I don't know which one to do. Einy meeny miney moe.

Happy AUSTRALIA DAY everyone

Love Always

Tanya

Exploding box

So I finally finished the box I made in Alicia's Online class last Friday. The sides fold up and put the lid on and it looks just like a normal box.

So a funny thing happened while I was making the box. I have always thought of my scrapping style as being one who likes to use heaps of embelishments and over load the page but when push comes to shove I never seem to be able to do it. Then while following the instructions for the class and it involved alot of 3D paper swirls and mutiple patterned papers etc. I found it difficult to want to add lots to the box.

So I am going to really going to be thinking about how I want my style to evolve (to all of the non-scrappers out there this may sound very boring and crazy) especially throughout the Reality Scraps Comp which starts Tomorrow!!! Wish me luck.........Please!!!!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Museum Trip

Last Tuesday, I took Tristan to the Museum in Brisbane. We meet my new friend, Gigi and her son Mackinley. The boys hit it off straight away & were both really good with only a couple of disappearing acts. One of the times I don't know how they slipped past us but they were quick. At least they stuck together. So funny when it was photo time the boys knew to just pose and smile for us, can't half tell their mums scrapbook!!!

Well it was lovely to finally meet Gigi and actually have some time to talk. (which I am guessing Gigi is like me and could talk under water, as my Mum used to say)

Friday I had and excellent day, firstly I got to sleep in till 8am then after a big brekky of eggs and soldiers I managed to bribe the boys to let me do and online scrapbook class with peace and quiet, A little photo box project with Scrapbook City which was great, (still haven't finished it yet). I really like the online classes - cause I have all of MY stuff on hand and I can do it MY way with their instructions.
So even though I had to talk to the boys a couple of times during the class they were both good enough to follow through with the bribe # A trip to the movies to watch HAPPY FEET and McDonald's for dinner #. Seth is still not that into the Cinema so he was a little bit restless but Tristan was so good, he did everything he was told and was just a gem all day long. (Makes a nice change. LOL)
By the time we got home from the movies it was 4.30 and it had cooled off quite a bit so Tristan and I mowed the lawn. Tristan did such a good job only missed a couple of bits. Gotta get him trained young while it is still fun for him. After mowing we had a spa which was the perfect way to finish off a great day.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo
P.S. Sorry it took so long to get the photos uploaded Gigi yours look great too.