photography workshop ....

......with Janine

http://janinekaye.com.au/blog/?p=1790

I LOVED this course way back in June.....highly recommended

Check out Janine's beautiful work on her blog!!!!!!

October 19 - 25

We said goodbye to Ninetta and Rabbit Photo Liverpool. 3.5 years of great service and a nice friendship. We will miss you Ninetta when we are shopping.

I turned 33. We had a yummy Italian take-away dinner at home.

We finally got some great weather just as school went back and out pool solar heating stopped working.

As a result of the heat my feet blew up and my body ached. I was beginning to wonder at the end of week one if I would make the next 39 days.

Karen and Mark flew out to PARIS.

We spent the rainy weekend at home. Sleeping, playing puzzles, cleaning and reading.

meeee at thirty-threeeee

Yes time to change that blog name again......I am suddenly 33

33 things about me!!!!!

1. I am a mum to a gorgeous 3.5 year old and a wife to a 33 year old.
2. I am 30 weeks pregnant.
3. I am due Christmas day.
4. I would love to go into labour the day school ends 17 DEc so I am home for Christmas day and I can get a Santa photos of my 2 babies.
5. I have some funny and amazing girlfriends that I adore and make me smile all the time.
6. I love to laugh and have a joke.
7. I spend a lot of time on the Internet everyday, it is my wind down time.
8. I broke my camera....I am LOST without it.
9. I want/NEED a new 7D, just gotta save save save.
10. I am obsessed about taking photos on special dates or to tell a story.
11. I have not scrapbooked since July, I miss it so much but just can't get my head around it.
12. I like the names Flynn, Fred, Jack, Alexis, Ivy and Emma.
13. I am eating way too much junk everyday, I crave sugar.
14. I get stressed when Max is naughty. Must remember no one is perfect but I just want him to be the best he can be.
15. I will need to exercise everyday of 2010 to get back to a happy weight.
16. I have fluid in my feet a the end of a hard and HOT working day.
17. I NEED to remember everything.
18. I prefer even numbers but I like 7 and 21
19. I want to go on Deal or No deal and pick case 21, I would get rid of all the odd numbers first(except 7) ....I have no plan after that.
20. I am angry that my favourite photo shop is gone....where do I print now?
21. I get angry with people that don't respect this FINE country.
22. I procrastinate and time waste (will always be on my list).
23. I have just gone back to a 5 day working week.
24. I am constantly fighting with myself over child care issues this year.
25. I adore Max's preschool and love working on the committe and doing bookclub.
26. I love watching Jon and Kate plus 8, Supernanny and most reality on Foxtel.
27. I am avoiding all the paperwork I need to do for tax/investment....I can't even look at the pile I need to tackle, it makes me sick.
28. I can't wait for LOST to end next year, I want it to end happily and I want all my questions answered.
29. I have a dream of going to Disneyland with my family one day and meeting Kirsten there with her family. I wish flights to London and the USA were cheaper.
30. I often catch myself listening to AM radio and I actually like it!!!!
31. I would love to live in Brisbane.....I love the Gold coast too.
32. I am and always will be a night owl and a BAD morning person (so is my off spring).
33. I am one very lucky 33 year old.

Today......Wednesday the 21st October, 2009.

I remember Daz waking me to kiss me goodbye early. I went back into a deep sleep and woke at 6.50am to my alarm.
I quickly got ready and mum came over for a visit and gave me $250 to put towards my camera...that means the card and 50mm are covered.
A few texts and phone calls to wish me a happy day, and call from Daz to wish me a happy 33rd! Then the drive to dad's house to drop Max off so he could take him to preschool.
Lots of Happy Birthday's at school and a lovely Pandora bead from my sweet pal Narelle.
Straight into teaching Stage 2 Maths, A happy birthday song from 2/3K and at 10 am another song from 1/2M....maths games and Mathletics to lunch. After lunch Stage 3 sang to me and I taught a patterns and algebra lesson. IT was a HOT day and my lovely boss shouted me a homemade ice cream - which I then managed to SMASH all over the floor as I placed the ice cream back in the freezer, so I had to start again!!!!!!!
I started to mark some reports and organise book club. At 3 I had a nice afternoon chat with Bre, Sarah and Mel......Dad arrived with Max at 3.50pm. He gave me my card with some money and a lovely card from Doreen with the wish that I buy myself some jewellery. Max and I were off home on a HOT 35 degree afternoon. I was determined to get some nice photos. After a sweaty photo shoot if was out to the pool. I was sooooo ready for the first swim in our pool for the season and WHAT!!!!! the solar was not working and it was freezing.
So it was back inside with my fat swollen feet up and a bit of TV and a chat with Alison and Karen on the phone
I ordered a nice pasta and pizza takeaway for Daz, myself, Ann, Kyle and Donna. A yummy chocolate birthday cake and some more camera money and some gorgeous PJs. I am a lucky girl. Some ME time on the Internet and then early to bed!!!!!!!

Right NOW

Outside my window...A hot and humid day, the sun is setting.

I am thinking...that week one, term 4 @ 30 weeks pregnant is hard work, especially when teaching patterns and algebra to stage 3.

I am thankful for...pregnancy, my pool, my hardworking man and a funny and active 3 year old

From the kitchen...Take away fish and chips for dinner as it was swimming night and toooo hot to cook. 5 Nectarines (I love summer fruits) for dessert.

I am wearing...my LARGE pink and orange new summer PJs from Target. They have elephants on the pants as the size is for a small elephant.

I am creating...A plan and a wish in my head to scrap again one day. I need to finish off Max's quilt before i use my sewing machine for paper again. I am also creating a 09 preschool DVD for Max's class and a slide show for my bosses retirement.

I am going...to be finished Christmas shopping in November.

I am reading...lots about maths online and trying to get some new and exciting lessons to teach. I still read at least 20 blogs a day on blog lines.

I am hoping...that I find a new place to print photos since my favourite photo shop just closed down. I get everything done before the year is over. I last to the end of the year at school. I can save my money for a 7D FAST.

I am hearing...My new clock tick, Max talking to Milly, his bath filling up. Darren watching Miami Ink

Around the house...Much cleaner, ready to nest, a clean pool for a hot day tomorrow. A clean floor. Summer fruit YUM, 1 basket of ironing and 2 baskets of washing ....does one ever keep up

A picture to share.....me a month ago, I was tired, it was late and I was sweaty from lots of washing and ironing after our holiday. but look at the NATURAL tan line on my hair line!!!!!

bye bye Rabbit photo

I am soooo sad that my fav little photo shop is gone. Even the one in the plaza near my school shut down this week.....why do the little guys always loose???? I AM A FUSSY photo printer, I refuse to print at home, I hate CHEAP crap thin paper and I hate stores that don't do the right things with the equipment. VENT OVER

I first went to Rabbit in Jan. 2006. I was in need of a lab that put 4 photos on a 6x4 for a scrapbook class. It was Jan 25 to be exact when I first met Ninetta. I picked up my photos and scrapped my layout to midnight, I went to bed and at 1am I was in labour with Max. During that year I made many trips to Rabbit to print the 1000s of photos of my gorgeous boy. Ninetta and the girls at rabbit were soo easy to chat with and they watched Max grow into a toddler and to who is is now. They used to chat with him as I printed and he often got a chocolate milkshake to keep him happy as I uploaded photos. He loved watching Toy Story from his pram on the screens below the photo kiosks. When their policy changed and I could not get my hands on my photos that day I did slow down as I was back at work for 4 days and things were busier. I only visited to say hi and I got behind in my printing too.

When I got the call that they were closing I was sooooo sad, I had a tear in my eye. 3 years and 9 months of chatting and good service was gone :(

thanks girls for the laughs......thanks for the time you took to help me print photo books and the good service you gave us. Thanks for the good sale on the albums when I said good bye and the great job you did on the 490 photos I printed to use up my photo cards before you closed.

xxxxxxx

Oct 12 to 18

WOW anyone would think I had a broken DSLR with the amount of photos I took this week!!!!

I went in and got a quote on a new one and let me say I will be saying my $$$$$$ as I want it, I love it but I just can't justify it until I get all my birthday pennies and sell some of Darren's gym stuff on ebay.

Week 2 of the holidays.......

more cleaning and sorting clothes.....Max has 24 nappy boxes of clothes that are too small. The nursery is clean and Max's room is looking better with a few more accessories and his clothes for summer hung neatly.

I spent most of the week uploading photos to print. I have 18 months worth for printing as my local Rabbit photo store will close next week and I have over 600 free prints to use.

The girls from work came over and we had a nice lunch and catch up. Then we went to watch Luke at soccer, and saw him score... a great win Luke!!!!!!

My mum's group had a catch up at Nichole's gorgeous farm. It was sad the weather was terrible as the location was sensational and as usual she makes to yummiest food.

I saw Dr Fulcher for my 30 week check up...all is good and we talked about taking me early if baby is ready.

Darren came home from work early on Thursday and spent the day with Max while I did some jobs.

We had a fun girly night here as I hosted a Genshi Jewellery party.

i could not sleep Saturday morning up at 5am. So Max and I hit the shops early and went to a scrapbook sale and then Westfields. I came home and slept.

More cleaning, washing and ironing on Sunday and Dad came over for one of Darren's delicious roast pork dinners.

Back to work tomorrow with 44 work days left.......oh the year is moving tooo quickly

We so can't wait

Max watched this 6 times today. I watched too..... i predict I will laugh and cry...even the trailer made me do that

Oct 5 - 11

Darren and I cleaned and sorted for most of the public holiday. A massive wardrobe clean and toy clean.

I spent most of the first week of the holidays sleeping in and spring cleaning Max's room and the babies room. Another couple of bags of rubbish. Max was unwell and we enjoyed the time at home, watching TV and playing with his aliens and Ben 10. I spent tooo much time on the computer and procrastinating about all that I had to do.....when it got too hard I just rested.

Max and I visited veronika's house and the kids had a fun time playing Wii and chatting.

I dropped my camera, smashed the filter and now the camera body is in need of repair. It is like my best friend has gone away :(.

Max ended up at the Doctors friday to discover he had an ear infection. Saturday saw more cleaning, rest, colouring in and some serious TV watching. On Sunday we enjoyed a nice lunch with Elleni, Michel and Lucas. Maybe next week we will enjoy some spring weather.

Sept 28 to Oct 4

Week 10 at school and it was head down and lots to do.

On the 1st we attended Doreen's funeral. It was beautiful and her wonderful family had worked so hard on it. It was nice to hear all about her journey and lifetime stories.

Term 3 ended....it had truly flown by.

Max celebrated with a preschool disco, he warmed up after 3 songs and then danced and boogied the night away, stopping only for chocolate cake and a cup of cordial. He was a very handsome buzz.

We woke to a very cold and wet rainy Saturday morning......our 10th wedding anniversary. The days plans of a family photo shoot, time at the park and dinner in Wollongong were put on hold and we went to the movies to see UP with Max and then had a nice dinner with Karen and Mark.

On Sunday we rested at home on another rainy and cold day. Darren prepared a nice baked dinner and then the 09 grand final began . Parramatta v Melbourne......it took about 7 minutes for Darren to start to be cranky at his team, he watched, yelled, cheered and hoped. It was a tough game with a SMALL chance towards the end of a fairytale finish, but it ended with a Melbourne victory. Lucky daz had a public holiday monday to get over it all.

10 years ago today

10 years ago today I married my guy, my high school sweetheart. The weather was chilly and rainy, although it held off for a garden ceremony and some photos outside. Darren was 23 and I was 18 days off turning 23. We were married at about 3.15pm

Here we are 10 years on at home at 3.15pm and the weather was exactly the same as it was 10 years ago. We now have a gorgeous son who is 3 years and 7 months old. I am 28 weeks pregnant with our second child. We have moved to our dream house and put in our dream pool.

Today was very different to the one I had planned. We were meant to go down to Wollongong for the day and have our photos taken by the wonderful and talented Janine Kaye.

We were going to have a special bite to eat afterwards and drive home, but yes the weather had other ideas. So we ended up staying home and I was happy my dad popped over for some lunch and a chat. We ended up taking some photos with my arm extended out on our front step, and then going to the movies. It was Max's first time at the movies and he was a little stunned by the whole experience. We saw UP. It was a sweet movie but the previews before hand had scared Max, then the lights dimmed and he asked to go home. I settled him on my lap and then there was a thunder storm scene in the movie and he started to cry. We did get through it but he does not want to go back again at this stage.

We then met Karen and Mark at a local Italian restaurant and had a wonderful meal. It poured all night and in fact the whole long weekend was cold and rainy.

welcome OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!


I've got a feelin' that the next 16 days are going to be good days....my last holidays as a mother of one child.

I LOVE THIS. Makes me want to dance too!!!!!!