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

So glad this week is OVER

What a week it has been. We had our school FETE on Saturday night. So I have had a busy week helping get ready for the big day. Lots of time spent at the school. Not only was there the fete but we also had WORLD TEACHERS DAY which the P&C had to make all of the food for (which I don't think even got eaten, I know the {$40} cake didn't get touched)

But all is done and the FETE was a great success!!! I don't know if there were any marriage break ups or nervous break downs come Sunday but I am pretty sure there wont be a Fete next year, unfortunately. So much work went into it and the handful of people that helped were fantastic but we really need heaps more help on the night.

Here are some photos of my boys enjoying a couple of the rides..............

First ride of the day. The teacups, the guy is just about to spin them hence the laughing and pointing finger.

Seth loved this one but his thongs fell off half way through and he was worried about them.I can't believe Tristan went on this ride I didn't think he would be tall enough but they didn't stop him.
It just isn't fun when you have to line up.

Hopefully this week wont be as busy. We do have a couple of things on but nothing that I have to help organise. Thank goodness.

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Cyber Crop Forever Always

Cyber Crop on tonight at FOREVER ALWAYS go and have a look if you get a chance.

Guilty

I dont know how many times I have started a post with this......

Got this off Roz James' Blog, thanks.
{click on the picture.}



Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Want a laugh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMaY4ZFjrk

This is what I call a very understanding DH!! Scrappers will understand.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

National Bingo

I'm hooked!! Out of three games on TV I got down to the last number twice...........bummer twice I didn't win and both times the last number I needed was 7. I will definately be watching next week and I think I will be printing off the 10 extra games you can get from the internet!!

I managed to get some scrapping done today this is my 123 Challenge entry for this month.
1. pink chipboard letters 2. hearts 3. 6x8 photo
This is my Sister's wedding day.

Until next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Blogging

Over at Scrapbook City the girls feel that thier blogging needs some work so they have organised some motivation in the form A BLOG ROLL CALL...... what is that you ask? Well you list your blog in the forum and join in by checking everyones blogs and leaving comments so as to keep everyone elses motivation up.

Terri - http://bracklebeebuzz.typepad.com
Wendy - http://craftingcrazylady.blogspot.com/
Michelle - www.michelle-lindenmayers-blog.blogspot.com
Tam - http://tamharris.blogspot.com/
Katie - http://katiehs-life.blogspot.com/
Anissa - http://handmadebyanissa.blogspot.com/
Trish - www.tishstalking.blogspot.com
Trudi - www.allthingsscrapandbeautiful.blogspot.com
Jen - http://uittenbosch.blogspot.com
Ronnie - www.ronniedoll.blogspot.com
Sue - http://scrapinsue.blogspot.com/
Brenda - http://mydaymyscrapbookingmylife.blogspot.com/
Lauren - http://laurenrhodes.blogspot.com
Debbie - http://bizescrapin.blogspot.com/

here is the list so far

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Holidays

We had a fabulous time on our Holiday just me and the boys, Michael ended up having to stay home to go to his Pops funeral, I think it did him good to stay at home and look after himself and to have some quiet time, made him appreciate us more when we got home.


Our first two nights were at the Mt Tambourine Motel which is next door to the St Bernard Pub. Very basic accommodation but nice and clean. Funny how small a room can feel when you are trying to entertain two excited children. We just relaxed and enjoyed our days without any time limits or agendas. Beautiful views and it was mating season for the Peacocks so we got to watch them prance around in all of their splendor Just beautiful.

Our first night we didn't get there until late after traffic jams on the way down so we just watched TV and went to bed early. The next day we went for a bush walk and checked out the town and the half a dozen shops LOL. Lots and lots of driving and the whole area is very similar to Maleny and Montville but a whole lot more dryer and thank goodness a lot less developed (although I'm sure it wont take long). The good thing about driving so much was even though I was enjoying looking at all of the beautiful views the boys weren't as interested and so they got lots of sleep in the car and funnily enough they slept well in the motel as well so they had a very rejuvenating holiday.

The third night we visited my friend in Labrador and went shopping at Harbour town. Got a couple of bargains but the kids were so excited to be back in civilization that they didn't know what to do with themselves TOO MUCH ENERGY from all of the sleeping. We also had a lovely dinner at Cav's Steakhouse. I had been there before but not for a really long time and the best part was they have a kids play room so they didn't have to sit still for too long.

On the way home I got to stop in at "IKEA" that shop is amazing everything is so cheap and beautiful. Way too much to take in on a quick visit. I will definitely be studying the catalogue and going back very soon, now that I have seen it and everything is still fresh in my head.

I was really sad that I couldn't stay longer cause I really love the Gold Coast but I suppose the Sunny Coast is better in some ways (like traffic).

Love always
Tanya

Holidays

Going away for a couple of days SSSSOOOOOO looking forward to it. I had the worst night sleep last night cause all I could think of was all of the stuff I hadn't yet done. We are staying here.

I had my cousins son sleep over for the first time last night he is the same age as Seth so the two of them have been having an absolute ball, poor Tristan is the third wheel and keeps causing fights but when I can distract him the two younger ones play beautiful together.

Tristan is helping me now 7888899+9 VIDJNXFMRET33IJR4I34I4EJ54DREY

On a sad note my favourite LSS Always Scrapbooking is closing. Bronwyn is still going to be around and she is now a Stampin' up consultant so if you would like any information on having a fun get together just drop her an email - bronroh@aapt.net.au Good Luck Bronwyn.

Be back in a couple of days with heaps of photos.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I WANT!!!!

How awesome is this!! The Original Scrapbox

Tanya xxxooo

Is this me

This is how Tristan see's me. He asked if he could help and this is what he came up with. I dont think the shirt is me but you never know I am only on my second glass of wine.
LOL
Tanya xxxooo