Happy Birthday

To my huge boy.... David....who is 16 today.
We gave him his pressie yesterday and today he actually has the day off, for curriculum day.









He's been learning to play bass at school and now he has one... might have to look at private lessons.


Don't forget to pop into 'scrap your scraps' to see Ngaire's challenge.

it's done

We have a new blog....... pop in and visit us.... at scrap your scraps where we do challenges to use up your scrap bits of pp and cs...

Words for this week are...

1.Dancer- Ballerina

2.Intellectual- Smart

3.Direct- Upfront

4.Tolerate- *sigh*

5.Post-Blog

6.Instictive-Natural

7.Brink-Edge

8.Regain-Control

9.Repulsed-Sickend

10.Distressed-Baby

who'da thought

it would be so freaking annoying and hard to get a new freaking blog up and going.... so that we could all access it and link our usual blogs to it.... without having to sign up to any other freaking blogs..... uuurrrrgh

so....as of now...I give up..

plug

Ok... I"m going to give a plug.... not that many people read this blog anyways....but.... if you're in Sydney ....and like this kind of music.
----> DENIRO...go and see them....
My nieces hubby plays bass. ...my kids think he is the bomb

26 May 2007, 08:00 PM
456 Darling ST Balmain, Sydney,
New South Wales 2000
Cost : $10

sheree's challenge and photos to look at

I've done Sheree's challenge on STS... I did a 8.5x11 layout and used the rest of the paper and card to make other things... (well I used most of it)...

The photo on the layout is from a small course David did with the other boys pictured, last year through his school...

then I did a gift card for a 40th birthday we've got coming up....and a birthday card for David ...for next week.

I used a sheet of brown card, a left over bit of blue card and a sheet of Urban Lily paper.....along with some alpha stickers, rubons and stamps.

I've started looking at some of the other participants of 'photo hunters'....if you like floral shots.... take a gander at Sugarfused's page...scroll down to 'green thumb sunday'.... some beautiful shots there.

1. Coastguard :: water
2. Buddies :: pals
3. Nap :: snuggle
4. Groan :: ache
5. Sitcom :: laugh
6. Reader :: learn
7. Heroes :: villans
8. Amazing :: grace
9. Woman :: I am
10.Don’t! :: why

Photo hunters

Read about this on Kathyrns blog...thought it sounded like a bit of fun.... so.... I've decided to join ...so here is my pic for 'cooked/ing' .. nothing like a nice bowl of porridge in the morning.....yumm.

I'm still working on my LO for Sherees challenge for STS...I'm getting there...

falling behind

Got this in an email...lol... I like it

We've been looking at secondary schools since last week... gee it's a hard decisioin to make... I took Eric to look at one school...which would probably be maybe a 40 minute bus ride for him. each way...I was quite impressed with it..It is a hard school to get into...they'll only except 180 yr 7's for next year.. and the total for the school is 900. but Eric wasn't as impressed... he seems to like the school we looked at last night which is where Dave is going.


Its been raining since yesterday morning on and off...which is nice....our water tank is over flowing .. and I must get myself a rain gauge ..I was hoping for one for mothers day... from the school stall...but alas....no.. I got hand cream, a photo frame, a nice warm vest to wear down to the footy...and some nice jammies.

I have no mojo at the moment and am soooo behind in my ATC making...I still have to make ones for 'D' ...I just can't think....*sigh*

can you give me any hints...??

The weekend

We're off to Avoca for the weekend for a housewarming/wedding anniversary/marks birthday with my family. Some of us are staying up there for the night..
I made a big pot of chowmein to take nnd a zuchini slice...which I of course had to taste test....didn't want to kill anyone.. you know... but it is quite edible...yummy infact...
I'd never made it before and got the recipe online...just googled 'zuchini slice'

No footy this week due to Mothers Day...but next week Erics teem go back to play the first team they played this year...and lost, so lets see if they can beat them this time...
Erics had his name in the paper for kicking a goal, and then for best on ground.which is good.

Have a nice weekend.... and have a great Mothers Day

aww how cute

Found the link to these on BB...thought I'd share them here... so cute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLzvOsQ80k


http://www.thecuteproject.com/videos/2252/mocha/s.first.broccoli!/

families !! *sigh*

we get a phone call last weekend....asking for our address...so they can send us an invite...to a family event... we received the invite in the mail on Wednesday....which states that it starts at 1.30-2.00pm..

I rang to explain that erics football game was on...and that we'd be a little late as it starts at 11.30.. finishes roughly 12.30.. by the time you get out and hom its probably 1ish....and for the last 2 weekends its been cold and wet out on the ground. ...we'd need to go home and change...etc.. then it would probably take us roughly 40 mins to get to their place...
On Friday we were told that the footy starts half an hour later...12noon...so that puts us back half hour getting to the family thing..
I msg'd to explain...never heard back...so not knowing if they'd got my msg...I rang...while talking. on the phone... I heard their daughter (16 yr old) yelling out in the back ground... 'why bother comming then' or something to those words.... the person I was talking to wouldn't repeat what the daughter had said.... when I asked her to...this kid has no respect...if one of my kids had yelled out...something like that...I'd give them what for...and then they'd have to apologize.... but ohhhh no... it was a big joke wasn't it... GRRRRRR... we are at the moment feeling like 'why the heck should we go.. but if we don't we are going to be the bastards'

Could you imagine if you were 16 and said something like that to an adult....be it family or not.... my god my mum would have slapped me one... but then I don't think the thought would have even entered my head to speak like that...

sorry for the ramble...

broadband

finally we have it... lol

was off line for 2 days...and I must say I didn't miss it...but I was busy.

Not much else going on... the kids had interschool sports yesterday... Eric's legs were aching today...after playing 6 games of footy... one on a slight hill...so kept him home today...

Mark and I went out for lunch with his parents for his birthday... the service was great !! I've never seen it so fast..
Mark had tempura fish, I had roast beef (which was very nice), his mum had cottage pie and his dad had tomatoe and onion sausages.

Its been raining here...hooray.. but alot of roads are slightly flooded...where the drains must be full of leaves and rubbish...

Footy training tonight... for Eric..
Tomorrow Dave has the day off.and he's heading to Melb with one of his mates to stay at his Dads place for the weekend.

We'll head in to the market saturday morning....Mark wants a watch...and need to get pressie for Em's friend....Em's got a birthday sleepover on Saturday.

Footy match on Sunday ( I think they are doing bacon and eggs that morning .) ..then we are off to a family event.....we're not going to make it in time for the actual ceremony 'cos footy doesn't finish till 12.30