Big Weekend.

The kids and I went for a little drive on the weekend to catch up with some special friends in Goondiwindi, I wish we had more time to stay and chat but I had to be in Moree the next morning for Rugby.
This was the last carnival for the season, because temperatures had been up around 36 degrees on Saturday I was dressed in T-Shirt and sandals thinking that it was still going to be hot.........Huge mistake! It rained all day and it was terribly cold, Ryan didn't even notice he just wanted to get on with the game ( all 4 of them ).
I had to strip his clothes off him before he got in the car to go home because of all the mud, his white short aren't white anymore!!

Just for something different, on the way home I saw some weird clouds in the sky.

When we eventually got home late yesterday afternoon Megan was doing the gate for me and because I didn't take many pictures for the weekend I took this opportunity to get just a few while I still could.

She was in a good mood which meant I could take as many pictures as I wanted without her getting all cranky on me!

What a gorgeous Seven year old smile.

I have a few more good ones......maybe one day I could scrap them!

I hope you all had a great weekend.

Hello there.

I case you were wondering I haven't disappeared totally......I've just been occupied with some other things.
I took these really cool pictures a couple of weeks ago......I still get chills when I look at them, the colour of the sky is amazing it look as though it's on fire....literally!!! Just so you know these pictures have not been altered in any way.

It really looks like fire doesn't it?

I haven't scrapbooked for a couple of weeks as I thought I'd give some other things a go.....like this painting........

Not quite sure what it's about.....but I had a blast doing it!

I made this as well.....they are padded canvases with loads of applique and embroidery, cute for a nursery maybe...........and NO I'M NOT!!!!!

Megan went to a birthday party on the weekend out at the Wildlife Park.....here she is with her best little friend Tayla, they are so cute and funny when they get together.....they have even started calling each other on the phone a couple of times a week....I didn't think that was supposed to start for another 7 or 8 years.

Remember about a month ago when I posted about the Owl that was caught on our fence by his eye and I had to cut him off? Well, this is a happy ending because while we were out at the Wildlife Park on Saturday I made a few enquiries and to my total surprise he is STILL ALIVE!!! He is still in the rehab area but doing really well and is expected to move out into the public area in a few more months......how cool is that!!! He will never be able to survive in the wild again because he only has one eye, but this luxurious Wildlife Park is gonna be a very nice place for him to live out the rest of his life.
I have been practicing with my camera and I almost had a super shot of Megan until she did this..........

OK, this doesn't make me happy. I spent an awful lot of money on these gorgeous Wrangler boots for Megan and when I made her try them on the other day guess what? THEY ARE TOO SMALL!!! Would you believe she only wore them twice......size 13 if anyone is interested.
So Megan and I went to Tamworth yesterday to try and find her a new pair of boots....I went everywhere and all I could find was ugly Dora boots or boots that made her look like a street walker......we did eventually buy a new pair of riding boots but I still would like some knee length brown boots so if anyone knows where I can get some please let me know.
Last day of Cricket tomorrow.......yippeeeeeee, now Rugby starts every Thursday for training and after Easter every Sunday .......yippeeeeeee, I'm looking forward to all those freezing cold Sunday's standing on the sideline.

Well I think I've blogged enough for one day so til next time....bye.

A layout for Ryan

I finally got around to some scrapbooking over the weekend......not quite sure what happened last week because I blinked and it was gone!

Ryan has been at me to do a layout just about him......yes my kids are a little competitive when it comes to having a layout done about themselves, "mine is better than yours" kinda competitiveness.

I know it's been a while since we went to Yamba but I still have pictures to share....so here are some odd little balls made of sand....a tiny crab made them while digging out his hole, very clever little crab.

Here are some shells Megan collected while everyone else tried to catch a fish....except me because I was try to take pictures.

OK, I've got to go I have alot on today......so looking forward to having the whole day to do whatever tomorrow so I think my first task will be to sort through all of my scrapbooking stash.....it is in desperate need of a clean up, then and only then will I allow myself to play with the new goodies that turned up in the mail today!

Thanks for visiting

Photo's to share

I haven't blogged for a few days so here is a quick catch up.

Alfie spends all day every day getting into stuff he shouldn't be......he is an adventurous little fella and more often than not he stinks so much that I can't stand it......just like he can't stand having a bath.

I noticed a few mushrooms popping up on Jodie's blog in the last few days.....so I thought I'd share one that popped up at my house.......I love the colours.

Megan has been saving her pocket money over the past few weeks and on the weekend she bought her baby's a few new clothes.....we went to the local markets but all the doll clothes were a bit ordinary so we went to Target and bought the real thing, 0000 and 00000 in the baby section fits perfectly. I took this picture not long after getting home......doesn't she look like a real little mummy gently holding her baby trying to settle it!!
A few days ago I took a few pictures of Ryan and Megan......it was mainly for practice on my camera and in the process I came up with a few photo's that I really like......here they are... I absolutely love this one of Ryan......It may not be totally perfect but to me it is.
This one I thought was a bit of fun.......Megan skipping.

Oh, and here is another mushroom we found while taking some pictures.

I have also watched an entire season of "Lost" which I hired last Friday.......why hire when you can watch it on TV you might ask? Well, where I live the TV signal isn't very good so that means I don't get Prime ( channel 7 ) at all.....so for the past 2 years I have missed them all, shows like Lost, Desperate House Wives, Prison Break and Gray's Anatomy....thought it was about time I caught up on a few episodes.

I hope to get some scrapping done very soon......I printed the pictures out I just need a day at home to get into it.

That's all I have to share today.

I'm a convert!!

Why has it taken me so long to pull my finger out and try a few of the different settings on my camera.......pure laziness. After seeing what a wonderful weekend Pip and Marianne had at their photography course and the instant improvement in the quality of their photos I thought I'd give it a go.... earlier this morning after the kids had been trucked off to school this is what I came up with......

Full Auto

My Aperture Setting
Manual

This next one is of a Paper Wasp Nest.......there weren't any wasps around so I thought it would be OK.

Full Auto

My Aperture setting

Manual

This next one is of an agapanthus in my pitiful garden.....the third picture was done on Manual and went really dark....don't know why, I guess I'll figure it out as I practice more.

Full Auto

My Aperture Setting

Manual

So there you have it.....I hope it didn't bore you too much.

I'm about to embark on a "Get rid of the CRAP" expedition in Megan's room, I've been wanting to do this for a while now but the thought of sifting through all that stuff was too much to bear and it was just easier to shut the door. I hate clutter it drives me mad and Megan's room is full of it, I don't know why but she hoards everything from seeds she found under a tree at school to a chook feather she thought was interesting......Oh and every single little piece of paper she ever scribbled on ( I will keep the good ones I'm not that mean ).

So I bid you all farewell my friends and hope to see you on the other side..........clutter free I hope!!

Bit of this and that!!

I think I have kept just about every scrapbooking magazine I have ever bought over the last 6 to 7 years.....quite a few boxes of them. I thought it would be a good thing to have a bit of a clean up to free up little more storage around the place, so instead of putting all the magazines in the bin I went through them and cut out anything which caught my eye.....a title, colour combination, technique anything I could use for a little inspiration
Here is one of my everyday pictures......I took this at around 6.15 am on Friday morning while I was hanging out the washing before it got too hot........mother nature painted a beautiful picture across the sky....who would have guessed what fury she was about to unleash upon so many unsuspecting people.

"Sunrise"

Here are a few pics I took of Megan late Friday afternoon....she was about to cool off under the sprinkler......

Watch as a little water is added and she slowly turns into a monster......Check out the eyes it looks like she has rolled them back in her head.......freaky!!!

By now it looks like she is totally mad and about to attack.....and all I did was put the sprinkler on!!

Both Jodi and Marisa tagged me a few days ago so I just wanted to let you both know I haven't forgotten....I'll get to it shortly.

That's all I have for today.

Helpful Husband!!!

Has anyone out there got a husband as helpful as mine?. We've had a few really busy days with soccer finals and presentation and birthday parties.....so yesterday my washing pile had built up so much that before I walked out the door yesterday to take Megan to a party that I asked if he could hang the washing out and put a load on......not too much to ask I thought. When I arrived home at around 2.30 pm I noticed that the clothes line was jam packed with washing.....boy, he must have been busy to get all that washing done I thought to myself, now I can relax knowing I don't have to spend the rest of the day washing and so on. Come about 6 pm I thought I should get the washing off the line.......I put a couple of things in the basket and went to get my jeans off the line when I noticed a dirty little mark on them.......Hmmmmm that's funny this mark should have come off in the wash......then I inspected a few other items of clothing hanging on the line......NOT ONE ITEM HAD BEEN WASHED!!!! The whole clothes line was full of dirty washing!!!!! How's that for a helpful husband!!!
A friend said I should have left it on the line and just thrown some washing powder at it..........not a bad idea with all the rain we've had this afternoon.

You know when you're taking a few pictures and you just know ....yeah that's the one..... this one is going to be really nice.....well, this is one of those pictures.......a candid shot of my gorgeous son Ryan.
On to my battle to get Megan into see a doctor.......I have made numerous attempts to get her in to see someone........the receptionist told me on Friday that next week was now totally booked out and I would be lucky to get her in the following week......I won't tell you what I was thinking but you can probably guess it started with the letter "F"......what am I supposed to do......If the kid needs to see a doctor the kid needs to see a "F" doctor!!!!! I'm going to give it another couple of days just to see if the over the counter treatment from the chemist works and if it doesn't look like it's starting to clear up I'm going to go and sit in the surgery waiting room until someone will see her.......I might even do it with her shirt off so they can all see the spots, this will scare a few patients and maybe get her in quicker!!!

OK, and just for something really nice here is my favourite snack at the moment.......Hopefully I'll get some scrapbooking done tomorrow.......it's been a while!

PS. Cath if you are looking for my email addy go into my profile up in the side bar.

Lots of photos to share

Our weekend began with tennis lessons for both Ryan and Megan.....Ryan is going really well....Megan, well she'll get there eventually.

How does someone get their hair caught in a tennis net?Ryan ready for action.

Friday arvo we called in to Vicki's for a coffee.....didn't leave until 9pm.....we decided to have a pizza night washed down with a few bottles of wine. Megan found a guitar and pretended she was Colbi Caillat...... she pleaded with me to buy her a guitar of her own....mmmmm still thinking!!
Here is a picture of Ryan and his footy.......it must be spring because if you look hard you can see a few green leaves opening up on the tree.

Yesterday it rained all day.....it wasn't cold just wet so Megan and I did a few jobs outside in the rain. Before we went out I took a really nice picture of her sweet little face.

This is the picture I'm most excited about.......Megan all wet out in the rain...... I love it because it is just so Megan........always the first to jump in the puddle or sit down in the mud...... shortly before this I found her with her head stuck under the overflow on one of the tanks having some sort of shower. I love this kid !!!

I have received this award from both Jacki Janse Van Rensburg and Jodi.

So now I have to nominate blogs which I really love to visit and leave a message telling them of their nomination, so here goes...

Jacki - Just because she is so Monica.

Amanda - She is a clever scrapbooker.

Jodi - Always something exciting to share.

Tracey - Has a very busy life.

Melissa - One crafty Mumma

There that was really hard.........I visit many many blogs on a daily basis and I love them all, they are all very interesting for their own reason......so take a look at these few and say hello!!

And just for fun, this makes me smile........