LOOK I still do scrapbook!!!

I did these for Katrina and Vanessa's monthly packs - very honoured that they asked me!

Journaling reads- 362 days, 8688 hours and 521,280 minutes
time has flown too quickly. It feels like only yesterday that you came into our lives. I have loved every minute and will cherish every day of this first year.

The pool is only 4 days off being filled!!!!!!!!

YIPPPPEEEEEE - please hope for at leat 2 35 degree days!!!!!!

Also thanks girls for all your KIND messsages!! I am lucky to be surounded by such GREAT girlfriends!

And don't forget my stamping up party on Friday the 13th!!! 7pm start!!! If you want to order something let me know!!! If not be prepared for a great night of stamping scrapping and WINE!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr Cheerful

No I am not writing the new Mr MEN series and using Max as my illustrations!
I really have been a bit down lately and I really did not EVER want to DO a WOE IS ME type post! I just really need some theraphy and blogging is cheap and I wont see my hairdresser with all the great advice until NEXT week!!!

I just hate how sad I am about the small things! I hate how I can go to work and THINGS can make me really sad, I hate that I am letting things people do to hurt me ACTUALLY hurt me!
NOW tell me bloggers would you be hurt if someone asked someone else to go to the movies IN YOUR HOME in front of you and you were never asked!!! EXCUSE me Would that make you feel like chopped liver OR WHAT!!!???? So yes lots has gotten me DOWN over the past few weeks BUT I guess the moral to my story is when you have someone like Max around it does make you laugh and ENJOY life no matter how bad things may seem!
Yesterday we ventured out into the backyard and had a great time playing with water and cars.

Where does it come from????

This ice block tastes greatOpps I dropped it!!!!

So i will just pick it up!!!!

and eat it!!!

I love him to bits and he makes any blue day GREAT!!!!

Looking forward to Rachel Greigs classes at Scrapabout tomorrow!!! will post and tell ou what I learnt

Mr Independent

I got home from work yesterday and had dinner with Max! He ate 2!! Salmon rissoles and some salad! He rarely eats sweets - but loves fruit, but since I had hardly any fruit left I decided to get out some chocolate custard for him!!! Well the tantrum!!!!! He so wanted to DO IT HIMSELF!!! he grabbed the spoon - so i grabbed another to feed him. He pushed my hand away and said "ugh ugh"! well he SO tried his best but it kept falling off the spoon and EVERYWHERE!!!!! so i grabbed the camera while he continued to be Mr Independent.

WHAT A MESS!!!!!

FIVE things

1. The pool is moving along well. Retaining wall is up after 5 days of hard INTENSE labour by the wonderful Graeme and his off sider Darren. Here is a photo of the balancing act.

2. I had a fantastic time doing Kim Archer's class last weekend!!! I really enjoyed doing lots of sanding - rather than my usual inking. I love it - thanks Kim !!!!

3. Max is becoming a confident walker. On Saturday we had a very busy day with all the electrical being done on the pool. So Max pottered around and found the hose!!! It is his new obsession. he played for 2 hours just moving from water bowl to water bowl! (for the clean freaks like me!! I did CLEAN the water bowls first). nad yes he is in his PJs. He started at 8am and was dragged away kicking and screaming at 10am. I dont think they will EVER be this colour again - been soaking for 2 days and I still can't get the clay stain OUT!!!!!!! 4. Congrats to Hayley, Stephen and Zac on the birth of Tyler. Karen and i went to visit and I sadly forgot my camera. HE is sooo tiny and cute !!! Tyler bought his big brother a Steve Irwin doll. THIS doll is sooooo COOL. KAren and I played with it for a good 30 minutes! The vocie is real and he says 8 phrases and isn't she gorgeous is my favourite.

5. A fortnight ago i had a mums group get-together at my place. It was great to see all the bubs back together. 7 babies and 7 mums!!! So much chatter toooo cute!!!!

I am hoping this week someone finds the formula for adding another 4 hours to the average day !!!!! Time is flying by and I am SAD that I haven't even called my great friend Elleni - I am thinking of you - as slack as I may seem I am WORKING my butt off at school (wont go into the ups and downs of teaching!!!). miss ya and I will call !!!!!!

FAR OUT!!!!

I just spent time catching up on EVERYTHING that has happened and my post failed and i got a blank screen!!!! Will start again tomorrow!!!
ÁNNOYED !!!!!!!!!

love this !!!! SOOO true

Alison sent me this and it really made us giggle

Work versus Prison!!!
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this should make things a little bit clearer.
IN PRISON..........you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell. AT WORK...........you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle. I
N PRISON........you get three meals a day. AT WORK..........you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
IN PRISON..........you get time off for good behaviour. AT WORK...........you get more work for good behaviour.
IN PRISON..........the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you. AT WORK..........you must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself.
IN PRISON..........you can watch TV and play games. AT WORK...........you could get fired for watching TV and playing games.
IN PRISON.........you get your own toilet. AT WORK.........you have to share the toilet with some people who peed on the seat.
IN PRISON...........they allow your family and friends to visit. AT WORK............you aren't even supposed to speak to your family.
IN PRISON........all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required. AT WORK..........you get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
IN PRISON..........you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out. AT WORK..........you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
IN PRISON........you must deal with sadistic wardens. AT WORK...........they are called managers.
Now get back to work. You're not getting paid to check emails.

Also inpired by the fact the PRISON BREAK is on tonight!!! WOOO HOOOOO!!! wih those oys were my brothers

First Steps

1 - 2- 3 - 4 -5

YEP!!! sadly No camera on hand. We were visiting Aunty karen who is in a lot of pain so I think Max decided to walk just to cheer her up!!!!! Poor Karen - get well SOOn - especially before our big girls night out!!!!

Happy Birthday Nathan - Yes I am about 12 days LATE but we had a fantastic day at your birthday party on Sunday.

going back to school work!!!! YUCK!!!!

MONDAY-i-tus

I have it!!!!! Headaches, stress, just plain old OVERIT!!!!!!! Sick of the rain stopping the men from coming to fix the pool, sad about the fact that another busy weekend ended with going to work instead of RECOVERING - that is why I have Monday-i-tus!!!!!!

A big get well to Karen who is very sore after a bad water-ski accident. was thinking of you all day today while I was at work!!!!

Here are some of the photos from LAST weekend - the wedding, the bestman and my gorgeous boy!!!!

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!!!