Oppa Bushman style

There are not enough words for green to describe to australian bush. 

We went rain forrest style on Anzac Day
( why yes, I do mean the ANZAC day that was a month ago)

What better way to respect the fallen diggers then to enjoy what they helped keep safe

Ps i know its been a bit since Anzac day - but this post was brought to you by Rain lots of Rain, chilled noses and a cake running about - oh only 12 hours behind.  So this is my hot cuppa and make me smile post!!

Soaking up the last of the sun!!

Winter is my season - in my dreams. 

My dreams are filled with warm quilts, hot drinks, trashy telly, soups and good magazines. 

And while I do get these things ( in dribs and drabs) in reality my winter is 

Snotty noses, endless washing, and cranky kids stuck inside. 

So before it hits we are soaking up as much of the outside as we can.......

Walks in mumma made dresses and stockings!!!

Stockings are my favourite thing of dressing little girls.

Under everything!

Art with chalk.

Makes me smile every time I pass the driveway

And pure kid happiness for 40 cents - Bliss!

Our own Ancient ruins with rubble from our deck building

Walks by Nepean River

Eye candy filled street performers in the city

Oh PS - how the heck could I forget about Man Flu. We get a lot of Man flu here - over run by future men!!

PPs - smelly wet dog as well - thats always fun.

For Beth..........

the past 6 months or so

Cake 

redneck waterslides 

Bushwalks

14

Family time

8

funny four year olds  

Sisters and cousins 

bunkered down

The last week or so for us has been about bunkering down and holding on. It included an er run with our sweet Tyler ( how is it I had never visited an emergency room for a child until I had him?!?) and dramas with the refinancing ( which we are still waiting on settlement - it would blow your mind if you knew how long we had been dealing with it. Bunkering down required softer crafts - crochet to be exact.

And for the first time I have had a lil girl to crochet for ( the boys are not so much fans.....),

And little girls require two things - granny ripple rugs and silly hats.

And the silly hats must only be photographed by the iphone while you are pulling silly faces for the smile and therefore paying no attention to the actual photo you are taking. but as you have your mummy goggles on it looks really cute anyway!!

Ps teething sucks!!

I feel the need

Well, actually my camera does.

It feels the need to let me set up a shot and then die - just before I press the button.

I think my kids taught it how to misbehave......

Well, it certainly was not me - Mum said I was perfect....

Hey Stop looking at me that way.

I really am!

So anyway - iphone photo of my layout

( please forgive me [ i know not what I do... ill be singing that all night now] if I get my act together Ill swap it out)

My hands were missing mess.

But it seems to be a far more organized mess then Im used too!!

Im apologizing in advance for the journaling, it seems Ive caught a far more serious dose of dadjokeitis then first thought

Ps Im hoping my kids deify convention and crash early tonight. Im missing my blog reading.

What the heck did we do before blogs?!?

PPs Ive been really stressed lately, but no panic attacks - im really proud of that. We are refinancing our home loan and it has scary papers.

Why can they just not use simple english.

is it totally necessary to scare people by using big words,

And I LIKE my big words, but come on........

Super Mega Famous Baby

Ok - warning Mumma brag ahead!!

You all remember my super mega cute baby girl, right?!?

Yep she creeps in to your heart and tugs hard on those strings.

Now she is super mega cute on a national level!

And because even they think she is mega cute, they added an itty bitty one, on the contents page.

Ps - Autographs are available - they come in dribble flavour only though.....

All the Tea in China

Somedays I want to create, be messy and just do.

Today I just want to make this lil girl chuckle.

She is developing her first chuckles and I can bearly drag my self away from her. I just keep doing incredibly silly things just to hear her.

Is there anything better then baby chuckles?

I love her more then all the tea in china

(And I also wanted an excuse to use this photo from the markets {Parklea of all markets as well! - heads up for the locals} this am, kicking my self for not going back like I planned to before I left. Im craving some tea now. I badly need a teapot...)

Ps - yep, you guessed it. I have developed the instgram love. Horrid husband made me give up my old sticky taped phone and get a "real phone [iphone 4s]". Im loving the camera but I miss the sticky tape. But on the other hand - I can now have apps. What do I need??

PPs - Did a google to see if I could get the Tea online and apparently they ( Green Valley Spices) are at Hay and Paddys markets as well as Bankstown and on line.

PPPs - what the buggery did we do before Google?!? And plus its just darn fun saying it.

Google, google, google!!

PPPPs - Im sorry, my mind wanders a lot, and sometimes I just have to take people along for the ride.

PPPPPs - you are all feeling very sorry for my family and friends right now aren't you........

Tutu much....

And since Im the mumma to a girl as well now ( still sometimes a bit shocked about that...)

I tried my hand at Scrap the girls - monocromatic - and since I dont normally go mono ( though I think I had it as a teenager.....) I thought id try my hand at a lil bit different of a style.

Ps - I have other non challenge scrapping to put up, but I can hear said lil girl giving her father what for so think I had better rescue him, my girl has a temper and a half!

PPs how the heck can she be three months old already?!?!

Happy new year.

(excuse the bird flipping - Lara 6 weeks old)

I still cant believe it is 2012, um excuse me but where is my flying car and instant people importer?!?!!?

(Cooper - boxing day - with really annoying singing dancing elf hat)

Not that I can drive a flying car and but if that instant people importer does not come soon I will actually have to learn to bloomin drive.... But its beside the point!! According to movies like back to the future number 611 ( and if you dont believe me just wait a week or 2 Im sure channel 10 will have it on ... again) I was meant to have these things, and Im feeling slightly ripped off.

(Tyler - new years eve)

But if it means I get a happy healthy ( and I pray it stays that way) family and good friends and great food im a happy girl - esp when it contains great food. mmmmm food............

(Josh - practicing his used car salesman stance - 16 Dec - ready for his formal,

Photos of this kid are scarce - he hides when the camera is out - plus with the 50-50 split with his dad - what he does not know is this year IM making it my goal to get lots of photos of him.....

Well he is almost 13 anyway - he is due to be really annoyed by me..........)

Im not doing resolutions I cant say that I ever have really, but Im going to give 101 in 1001 a try. The link is a link to my half finished list. Is it cheating to make finish the list as one, cause I have!

Ps Just cause I could - the photos sprinkled through are some of my fav photos of the kids from the year - and all have happened within the last month or so.........

(and for good measure one of me - not my fav but I dont have many to choose from !!)

PPs for the first time really in a year or so there has been actual scrapping by me, I know bloomin shocking right!!!