what a weekend!!!!

one wedding

one bestman (armed with a great speech - that I wrote)

one 30th

one 1st birthday

sixteen hundred bricks - carried by Darren from the frontyard to the backyard

one visit to a scrap crop to see Alison and Sue

and not much sleep.

my computer has frozen twice with the 453 photos I am trying upload but here is one Alison emailed me earlier

WE call it la la la I can not hear you!!!!!!!

Max slept in this morning after all the partying from the weekend!!

Here is a page just to prove I scrapbooked one more item in Feb before it ends

going to try and upload AGAIN - fingers crossed!!!!!

i FINISHED it

YEP it only took MOST of Feb with school work interupting!!!!

if I keep going at this rate Max will be 18 and I will still be scrapping his 18 month photos!!!

After I have finsihed my Spelling, Reading and Maths work I plan to do a page a night!!!!!!

SOMEONE hold me to it!!!!

SLACK!!!!

Elleni the Christening photos are FANTASTIC and I promise i will get them to you ASAP!!!! I owe 5 people CD's of photos. Kylie, Helen, Tina and Dad - I am thinking of you and will get to it THIS WEEK!!!!

Today YOU

I had a little sleep in this morning as I heard Max play in his cot.

We left for Jean's Stamping up party with the Little People Bus and I must say you were pretty good, you didn't break anything and you captivated the ladies with your jibber talk!!!

Aunty Alison is the BEST baby sitter!!!!!

Double fun today- I got to play with some GREAT stamping up products ( I am going to have a party i love the stuff SO MUCH) and I picked up my lens off Alison!!! WOW not much time to play but I LOVE IT!!!! Alison took some fantastic photos of Jean's house, stamps and food. plus these photos of you

I have taken a break from school work tonight!!! I am sooooo tired of it, I am scrapping a page I have had out for 6 days, I have not worked on it, just looked at it and I am sooo sick of seeing it. Once the ink dries I am finishing it if it kills me.

While I have been waiting I have been updating my journal on Max. WOW i am so glad I have kept this as it really shows how quickly things change and it shows me how much I would have forgotten!!!!

YOU NOW

• You love going through any cupbaord and playing with bottles, tubes or clips.
• You hate getting your nappy changed
• You love your Little people Animals.
• You can climb the stairs
• You LOVE to swim
• You hate it when I leave you and made me cry this week when I left you to go to work
• You jibber ALL the time
• when you get excited you say "gwee"
• You love to throw things off the staircase.
• You wont walk alone
• Your hair has grown
• you sneak into my room and turn the computer off
• You can clap and wave
• You love saying dad
• You love your puppy
• You bop to the beat of the spin cycle of the washing machine.
• You can throw and roll a ball

now back to scrapping!!!!!!!

We are still here!!!

all I can say is I am SOOOO SICK of programming - 10.5 hours of my life wasted. Teaching is over rated at this time if year!!!

and yes the pool is still empty - but does not stop us from getting in the deep end!!!!! 1.85m at that!!!!! my head just reaches the bottom of the water line tiles!!!!! If it was full max would JUST be getting some air!

3 things from my weekend

I hurt my back on Friday night - still sore!! and sadly I was imitating Nathan from Hi 5 and his OVER dancing skills.

I woke up with a headache on Saturday morning but Alison cheered me up on Saturday afternoon as out stamps from purple onion arrived YUMMY YUMMY (check out all the great date stamps) and she gave me the news that Daz has bought me a 50mm fixed lens!!!! YIPPPPEEEEEEE I get it next Sunday

and we finally took the Russell one year shot!!!!! GEE this is getting hard!!!! he is toooo quick!

Max is nearly walking - just has to let go of everything else!!
NIGHT!!!!!!

catch up!!!!

Gee I ended January with some quality spelling and fantastic grammar - note to SELF - ALWAYS reread!!!!

Back at school, smiling, forgetting the dramas of the past - killing them with kindness and it is confusing - also makes the day go quicker. I have NO one to job shre with so I am working extra days as I cant LET my kidlets GO - TOO MUCH TO DO!!!!!!

My little boy has made it into a scrapbooking magazine!!!! YES third page of this months scrapbooking memories. this was my first DT job for Addicted to Craft. I loved this Chatterbox memory building kit - it really was great to work with!!!!!

here is the LO!!!!!

Max is back at swimming and in my best proud Mumma vocie he is the youngest by nearly 9 months and he is THE BEST!!!!! Glad i kept up the lessons as our pool wll be ready in JUNE!!!! BLOODY paver company sent the SECOND batch of FAULTY copers so we are another 3 weeks behind as I need to start all over again and of course pay more money!!!!!

We said happy birthday to Zoes from Mothers group!!!! Zoe was born on Max's due date andthis was her due date too!!!! my little due date twins!!!!!

better go and get the playground duty timetable done and get a little scrapping in!!!!!!

Oh a quick photo!!! max has been having some SHOCKING sleep patterns and he is harder to get to sleep so when he does not sleep it is the perfect time to take some shots as he has some of the best faces!!!!!

too cute

another birthday shot!!!! I was soo tired to pressie is in focus and MAX - the birthday boy is out of focus

I am SOOO tired!!

a year ago we brought Max home from hospital. today he came to school for a meeting I had to attend

On the school front we got more numbers and we have to form another class and that means my great team teaching buddy might me leaving ME!!!! OH NO!!!!! going to bed Max and I go back to swimming lessons tomorrow and I need to appear FRESH!!!!

cheers Kathryn for inspiring me to blog in Jan!!!!

back to part time work = depressing!!!!

I keep thinking if only I was not obsessed by scrapbooking product, cute kids clothes and buying whatever i WANT. If onlywe did not put in a pool...I would not be going back to work to PAY off my addictions!!!!! OK OK it is only 3 days but OH GOSH it is still hard and YES emotional. YET AGAIN i cried tonight - last Austrlaian OPEN final I was sittng back in my hospital bed with 2 nurses running in and out chatting and watching the score, and 2 other girls and their newborns and we were quietly cheering on the greek guy - what was his name??? TONIGHT!!!! I had to watch while preparing school work and getting my stage notes ready!!!!!
Oh gee!!!!
Ok got that moaning off my chest - going to iron, pack my bag, read forkeeps and SLEEP!!!! early rising is necessary to hit the classroom and be 100% prepared!!!!!
Wednesday I will be happy - my day off plus prison break is BACK and I can perve on Mr Miller!!!!
BRING on the good TV - all i have to look forward to for a while!!!!!!

Happy birthday little man!!!

WOW only those who have been involved in a first birthday ofr 60 guests can KNOW how I feel!!!!

Max woke up really happy and opened his pressies. He had a great time playing with his COOL winter outfit coathangers and the little people box.

from then it was like it was on FAST FORWARD!!!! guests arrived from 1pm and we got to bed at 2am when the last guests left. WE then awake to a "spray and wipe" add as the place was HORRID!!!!

here he is - SO CUTE!!!!!

I LOVE Alison's work with some of the photos of the day on her blog! Check it out!
Oh gee I am SOOO beat - falling asleep) GOODNIGHT!!!!!!Happy birthday baby - i love you.

reflecting or just plain babbling

WOW!!! a year ago I was sitting in this exact room - finishing off my 2005 year in review layout. Darren came home from a work meeting at 12.45 am. I packed up and we went to bed, I tried talking to hi, telling him i fel weid - he said he was tired and needed some sleep!!!!

At 1.15 POP. Forget the sleep honey drive me to the hospital my water has BROKEN!!!!

Finally at 5.27pm our little man was born!!!!

Now here he is about to turn one!!

DArren was sooo much fun tonight - he helped make cup cakes, packed lolly bags and made some icing!!!! He really is a hard worker - when there is a task to be done he will do it.

i have to go and wrap Max's pressie and get some rest before the morning. I have 24 cupcakes left to ice and a bit of cleaning. i am soo excited about tomorrow - I so want to make birthdays great.

then when he is tucked away in bed a fter a big day tomorrow night I am hitting my bottle of MOET!!!!!! LOOK out!!!

Happy birthday my beautiful aussie day boy!!! I love you SOOOO much.

STRESSED!!!

Ok it is not like Max's birthday has snuck up on me!!! I KNOW the date - there has even been adds on TV asking "what are you doing this Australia day?" and I shout back celebrating Max's birthday with 60 close friends and family!!!!

Tomorrow I am visiting family up the coast and then I have soooo much left to do - lolly bags, cupcakes, fairy bread (blah blah blah!!!)

I still dont have anything for the 2 of us to wear!!! YES I know that sentence sounded SAD (stop laughing Alison) but I have this picture in my head that we will both look snazzy no blue hospital gowns for us THIS Australia day.

Wish me luck!!!

Here we are a year ago today - thanks Alison for the photo shoot - must do it again SOON!!!!

Has anyone got a cheap phone for sale??

YEP lost my second one in 4 months!!!!
It really ruined a GREAT Saturday. Which started off at the RAGGS concert with my great mums group. Max liked it but 10.30 was sleep time not really dance time. We had coffee afterwards (funny no one had coffee) and i think it fell out of my baby bag. I went back 15 min later and it was GONE!!!
After tears, anger and sweat I was off to the movies with Alison to watch pursuit of Happyness!!! WOW it was sensational - Wil Smith really played the part so well and I balled my eyes out. It really made me thankful for all I have and showed me that there are no real excuses - this man faced extreme hardship and he NEVER said NEVER!
I spent this 42 degree day shopping - got some great sales for Max.
Ok off to tidy this house - then BEGIN party plans!!!

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wow I got something finished at 12.14am this morning. It is the last one in my 06 month by month album!!!! WOW he has grown

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I am in love....

with is program!!! Picasa ROCKS!!!! I first fell in love with photo collages on Kim Archer's blog, then Lee showed Alison and Alison showed me. thanks you 3 great girls as this is going to make my year in review layout the best EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

this is January 2006

my blood blisters are GONE!!!

the only proof I had of my efforts today!! I went into school (BLAH)!! We re-carpeted and the place looks like a bomb hit it!!!! I hate a messy room on the first day as there is never any time to FIX it up in my anal way, to start teaching the next day! meetings, 2007 projections, goals, maths programming - blah blah blah blah!!! So I spent 6 hours making the bomb site NEALRY respectable. ENOUGH about this BORING topic - the blood blisters I got from putting up display paper are GONE so no proof of the hard work i did!

stop reading now if you are sick of me GOING ON about how I have had the best year ever and I am SAD my baby is turning one!!! the tears are welling and today in the car I cried - I cried heaps !!! It is overwhelming sadness and happiness all at once. what will I be like on Max's first birthday - up to my elbows in icing NO DOUBT!!! Oh gosh here they come. a yezr ago yesterday I drove up to the mountains and went to Nana's teddies and bought Russell (Max's bear I take photos with), today he tackled it !!!

there is just so much on my to do list and I want to ENJOY my last week of holidays but as I am such a time waster I feel like I am up to my neck in it!!!!

Ok tissue please!!!

Ok I want to get one thing off my list before I go to bed tonight. I have to go and WRITE in our 2007 calendar before I forget someones birthday.

A friend has started a kit company and I LOVE the gallery. Check it out here - love it Katja!!!!

Weighing 1 kilo less!!!!

YES in nine days i have managed to loose 1 kilo!!!! YIPPEEE lots to go I know but that is the start I needed. I have also walked 10 out of 14 days. So my stats are good considering I had drinks and dip up the river and a christening with yummy food on the weekend.

I am going to scrap and watch NIp Tuck. I am also LOVING the tennis!

Sleepy Sunday

Oh i wish! I soo need a sleep.

Yesterday was fabulous as I already have said here are some pics.

It started off with Max deciding he needed to take a shower in his PJs. He worked out that our shower door is dual opening and I couldn't hold him out any longer. So in he got!

It was going to be another day at home as the weather was cold and windy. but I was SOOOO SICk of the 4 walls around me so i packed up and went up to Windsor where our friends have a cabin. The horrible day turned out to be sensational and we had a ball and I cralwed in the door at 11pm.

I wish i had a photo of Alanah on the back of the boat !! She is adare devil and skied like a PRO!!!

Max is SUCH a water baby. He partied all day in the water, had a ball on the boat, loved the pool with the kids and socialised ALL day. I wish I could capture what he did in the water but as I am the one holding him and the need to keep my camera safe it is hard to get a shot!! He ducks under and jumps of the edge and doges the waves on the rivers edge!!! I love having him in the water!

Oh and I got SOOOO sunburnt - spent all day worrying about Max and forgot about my legs!!!! YES I know it looks sore and it is and it is a REMINDER to PROTECT all parts of your body as the sun does get you!!! It will hery to walk to tomorrow at least!

ENJOY!!

I am off to Lucas' Christening and then HOME to SLEEP!!!!

Happy Saturday

Oh sooo happy
but ooohhhh so sunburnt and
ohhhhh SO tired!!!!!
more SOON!!!!
and some great photos I PROMISE

HAPPYNESS

Happiness is my word - thanks Ali - you ROCK your work makes me happy!!! Everything you taught me about scrapping made me happy in Sydney. This may be the inspiration i need this year to go back to work 3 days. I need to be happy, I need to ignore the crap, I need to focus on my class, teach like I have never taught before and empower my vegemites- not try to fix those staff who will never be fixed. As my boss would say thick skin, happy-thick-skin!!!

what makes me happy

MAX

Darren

My wonderful family and friends

My pool (when water is is it)

Scrapbooking

Loosing weight ( YEAH BABY I am in the zone)

Photos

my computer, blogs and KSK

Holidays

Good TV

Sleep-ins

A good laugh

girls nights out (soo looking forward to March 31!!!)

I sooo want to see the movie "the pursuit of happyness"as it looks so inspiring and the adds and promos have also inspired this word. imagine being homeless, a single father, living on the streets and then working your way up to being a multi - million $$$ man!!!!!

Don't worry BE happy

Wednesday!!!

Ok I failed at the blog a day thing!!! Monday night I was scrapping, enjoying my TV, walking and sorting photos and before I knew it it was 12.10am!!! Then last night I felt SOOO blah!!! headache, pool problems so i just sat in front of the cricket!!!

I am about to get my 5000th post on KSK!!!! WOW I can talk!!!! They also have a great new gallery too!!!!

The other night I started the LO below!!! When I was pregnant I bought SOOO much metal for baby LOs so i decided to paint some up and get some use out of it!!!! You would swear I own a kilo of baby metal!!!!!

These photos are from feb, max was 13 days old. Look at those long skinny legs