Busy, Busy Busy

i have not blogged for a while, life has been super busy. I have moved house and after 6years of living at the same place it is amazing how much stuff you accumulate. I have scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed the old place have finally handed the keys in last Thursday.

Now the task at hand is unpacking everything, and finding new places for them to go. Doing all this in between working heaps as it is our busiest time of year. I have also been planning Ryder's Birthday party. I decided to have his party eary this year as it is always hard trying to fit it in around Xmas.

He is having a pirate party this year, i finished the invitations at 3.00am this morning. i am very happy with how they turned out.

back to school

The school holidays are over in Victoria and the kids go back today. We went to the zoo last Thursday with some beautiful friends Trish & kids, Rayles & kiddies and myself and Ryder. It was fantastic to see their reactions because they hadn't been to the zoo for years, so had never seen the new Elephant Trail or the Orang Utan Sanctuary. We walked and walked and walked, i can tell you, that night i could hardly move and was exhausted. Here are some photos from the day





The new Tiger cubs ( they aren't so little anymore)

A bit of fun

Silliness

I saw this on Rachel's blog. Thought I'd have a bit of fun myself too!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car),
Leisha Pajero

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie),
Praline Tim Tam

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name),
J-Ged

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal),
Red Dolphin

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born),
Anne Frankston

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 3 letters of your first),
Gedjod

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink),
The Black Beam

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers),
Douglas Alan

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy),
Hypnotic Poison Cadbury

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ),
Jean Russell

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter),
Lawless LA

12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).
Xmas Tiger Lily

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Mango singlety

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree),
Bacon cheese willow

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”),
The Reading Storm Tour

Footy Finals Week

It is footy finals week in Melbourne this week, so yesterday we went into the city, where Ryder particitpated in a special Auskick clinic. This was great they had it for an hour. Lucky me got to watch these two hunks while they helped out ,( Ned from Neighbours - Dan O'connor and Dr Dave Brewer the vet from Macleods Daughters- Brett Tucker) mmmmmm yumm.

will post part two later

PIF

Pay it Forward

Pay it forward or paying it forward refers to repaying the good deeds one has received by doing good things for other unrelated people.

So I've joined the Pay it Forward challenge. I think it will be fun. I joined over at Sonia's Blog
The idea of this one is the first three people to join me will receive a handmade gift from me. I then have 365 days to make it and send it, ..

The only stipulation to accepting the gift from me is that you must also put this on your blog and get three people each to sign up. Then you make your three people a handmade gift, and so on and so on...I think it sounds great.
Hopefully three bloggers out there will want a handmade gift from me. Wink

Well nobody took me up on my first post about PIF, so i thought i would post it again. I am thinking maybe a custom christmas decoration ( as those of you wjo know me, know i am a little bit in love with christmas). Or maybe a handmade bracelet or necklace.

I received some beautiful earrings from Sonia as my pif . So i would really love it if i could pass on the joy of giving.

Pay It Forward

Pay it Forward

Pay it forward or paying it forward refers to repaying the good deeds one has received by doing good things for other unrelated people.

So I've joined the Pay it Forward challenge. I think it will be fun. I joined over at Sonia's Blog
The idea of this one is the first three people to join me will receive a handmade gift from me. I then have 365 days to make it and send it, ..

The only stipulation to accepting the gift from me is that you must also put this on your blog and get three people each to sign up. Then you make your three people a handmade gift, and so on and so on...I think it sounds great.
Hopefully three bloggers out there will want a handmade gift from me. Wink
So.........who wants a Present from me, promise they are made with Beating Heart

Changed my Blog colours

Well since i don't have any mojo to scrap, i thought i would be creative with my blog. Decided to give it a face lift and change the header and the colours. The green is inspired by my new Making Memories roller tote that i received of the two bestest friends and i just love it. It was totally unexpected which made it even more wonderful.

The pictures in the header were taken on the last school holidays at St Kilda Adventure playground, what an awesome place that is.

Ok well i am cleaning up my scrap area so hopefully that will motivate me to scrap, so i better get back to it before it is time to go and pick Ryder up from school.

Food glorious food

All i seem to have done this weekend is eat. Last night went to Scrapping in the Clouds at Pam & Alex's. I didn't even take any scrapping stuff. It was a wonderful night and was great to catch up with you all. I also got to see and hold the beautiful Cooper.

Alex excelled again in his Culinary delights. We had,so much wonderful food and I reeally need to get the receipe for that LOW FAT dip.

Then tonight i went out for dinner with my work colleagues and ate more yummy food i am so full.

I know short and sweet just wanted to blog.

Melbourne Museum and other stuff

Ok we als went to the melbourne Museum on the last Friday of the school holidays. i took Drewbie and Ryder, the boys had such a great time. My only complaint is that they need to have a BIG< BIG sign in the bugs part to warn that the SPIDERS are around the corner. I had a heart attack and told the boys that they could go and look and I would be over with the stick insects

The boys love the crystals that changed colour under the ultra violet lights. There were some ugly creaturs in the marine part and then Giant Squid was very interesting and ugly.

The window was in the dinosaur expo area it just caught my attention as I turned around. so i had to take a picture of it.

Other than that have just been busy with school going back last week, work, auskick started back as well.

Healsville Sanctuary

We have been FOTZ (friends of the zoo) members for about 5 1/2 years now and we have never been to Healsville Sanctuary. So last tThursday we headed up there. The weather was cold but not raining (well for most of the day anyway). Had a great time got a bit wet and a bit muddy but we all enjoyed ourselves.

Here are some shots of very hungry and wet Koalas, Ryder and Drew, and the elusive Platypus. Anyone who has seen the playtpus at Melbourne zoo or Healsville will understand how hard it is to get a photo, as they are nocturnal so there houses are very dark and they move at lighting speed. So i am very happy to have this photo even though it isn't one of my best

Medieval Feast

Went to a Medieval Feast at Kryal Castle last Saturday night. Had the bestest time, it was so fun dressing up in medieval attire.

I had never been to Kryal Castle before so i spent sunday with some beautiful friends having a look around

School Holidays - Tuesday

Today we went to the St Kilda Adventure Playground. I have never been hear before it is absolutely fantastic and the kids all loved it.

It was great to catch up with all my good friends, and I think all the kids had an absoulte ball, We will have to do it again. I will definitely be going back to this playground

School Holidays - Monday

Well it is School holidays here in Victoria. We have had a really good couple of days.

Monday 2/7/07 - We had a catch up with our playgroup, now that the kids are all at school they don't get to catch up quite as oftens as us mums (we catch up every week for coffee). We went the a friends farm and the kids had an absolute ball going on a little discovery hike ( i would share photos but the card has corrupted on those images and I am trying to revoer them). Ryder got very muddy and nearly fell completely in the river

Ok it has been 8 days since my last blog

I said I would blog more often and I haven't. Ryder went in on Wednesday to have is Tonsils ans Adenoids (sp?) out finally it has been a LONNNNNNNNGGGGGG Waiiiiiiiiittt. We have been waiting since October last year. the poor little thing has tonsillitis 15 times last year.

So on D day we had to be in at the children's Hospital at 7.00am so an early start and Ryder hadn't had anything to eat since 7.00pm the previous night.

Luckily when we got in there he was the first cab of the rank for the ENT (ears, nose, throat)list. It was only day surgery, so once we had been assigned our bed, the nurses told us that Theatre had been put on hold because the Hospital was at 105% capacity, and that they had to wait for some discharges in case there were any complications in Theatre and they need the beds. Theatre was meant to start at 8.30am, I think it started at 9.30am. i went in to the room while the Anaesthetist (sp?) put him under. He had a concerned look on his face when they were putting the needle in his hand. I asked him if I could take his photo and he said "NO". He said that it tickled when the liquid was going in the anaesthetist said that's good cause most people don't say it tickles they say it hurts.

Then it was back to the waiting room for me, it didn't seem that long before the Dr came out and said " he was in recovery, everything went well. His tonsils were extremely large, which means the blood vessels were extremely large so it took them 2-3 mins longer. His adenoids were of medium size." So i wait in the waiting room until i got paged to go to recovery.

He was so funny and was in hysterics while he was coming out of the anaesthetic. He did actually hit me in the head when he was trying to cuddle me as he had no control. He kept on trying to sit up. Once he was OK we wheeled him back to the day surgery room, where we had to stay for 6 hours to make sure there were no complications.

Even though he was still very groggy he still had his sense of humour. I had told him the day before that I would have peace and quiet because he wouldn't be able to talk. Well he said to me" See I can still talk and poked his tongue out going ahhhhhhhhh so I could see he had no tonsils"

While we waited the 6 hours ryder turned into a n eating machine he had. 18 ritz crackers with cheese, 4 jellies, 2 ice creams, 2 icey poles. 4 apple juices. The nurses could not believe how much he was eating. I said he was used to having a sore throat.

We were meant to be able to go home at 4.40pm however we had to wait for the doctor to come around. We finally got discharged at 6.30pm.

Ryder has been resting for the last 4days, he is still pretty quiet and pretty pale. The doctor said he may have more pain tomorrow (5Th day)

We haven't been out of the house since Wednesday.

The first one is Ryder before his OP and the second one is after and he is very pale compared to the first

Wow where does the time go

As the heading says where does the time go. It only seems like yesterday that I updated my blog, then I look today and it has been 11 days. Well not much is happening in this part of the world, except the general working, mothering and life in general. Have been really sick this week with sinuses and then chest infection, so have been getting plenty of rest.

I have all next week off wokr so hopefully I will be able to do some scrapping. I will try to update the blog every couple of days

Scrapanalia Class-A-Thon

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blogging again

Well have just been busy with work and life in general still.

- We have finally gotten the date for ryder to have his tonsils out. The 20th June ( we have only been waiting since october last year)

- we have a couple of birthday parties to go to tomorrow.

- umm thats it for now will post more next time I promise

I KNOW I KNOW it has been sooooooooo long

I know i have been such a slack blogger. Life has just bee super busy with life in general. what have i been upto

* Went to Scrap Shop retreat in Tassie, had an absolutely awesome time, with so of my very bestest buddies. Haven't laughed so much in ages. Was a bit disappointed in the shopping this time, however i did buy two new handbags.

* Went to Scrapanalia Crop day, had a fantastic time, did 16 Layouts and won a cropper hopper trolley as first prize in the raffle

* Had my birthday on the 24th May

* Been busy working

* Have changed my blog colours

I will post regularly now, and will share some Layouts

Walking with Dinosaurs

We went to see Walking with Dinosaurs today. It was absolutely AWESOME. Ryder loved it, i loved it we all loved it. If you were debating whether to take your kids or not i would definitely suggest that you do take them. Here are some shots from today



Then went out and had some dinner with some lovely ladies, Kate, Pam, Rach and Jude. It was great to finally meet you in person Kate. I had a wonderful night thoroughly enjoyed myself.

sorry it has been so long

It has been ages since I have blogged, lifes just seems to be too hectic. well what has been happening with me

I went away to scrapbook a few weekends ago, I did a complete 9x9 album (17) pages. I can't share as i haven't scanned them yet, Also made this Name plaque for a first birthday present. I also did 2 12x12 Layouts. It was a fantastic weekend .

Last weekend i had my car broken into at work, they smashed a window to get in. I had my tools tote and my mm tote in there (which they obviously thought had a laptop in it), I think it was junkies as nothing was taken THANK GOD they didn't take all my scrapping tools. It just really annoys me that because of them i had the inconvenience of having to pay to get my window fixed and what for they got nothing.

I will try and keep more up to date with the blog now