And I've quickly put these photos up purely for my own nostalgic reasons! They are from Mia's first birthday! Top one is her ripping into some presents, we had to show her what to do! But once she got into the swing of it she was fine!
The 2nd pic is of the dregs of us that were left... I am next to my SIL, then Rachel, Amber (BFF) and Kylie! I miss those times, we used to have a bit of fun!!!!
And the 3rd pic is her stash of pressies, talk about spoilt!!!
Off to bash out some chicken snitties and work out what I'm taking to Tatum's tonight to scrap with, bit excited about that!!! xxx

Mmmm, Mia just loves the playground! There are a few good ones here, so today, because I am a lazy bum, we hopped in the car and went to one on the other side of town. I took my camera because i felt like taking a few photos but after about 10 pics, my battery went dead... Serves me right for not being a good battery charging type person!! I haven't charged for AGES!! But I got a few good ones so there you go!!

This is a Mini-album that I have made for my friend who lives in Darwin, I miss her and her DD so much, and thought it was about time that I made something for her! I used just photos from this year, she would have seen some, as sometimes I get on a tangent and send her heaps at once, but this should be a nice surprise for her when she gets it! Maybe I'll send it tomorow!!

Did you like it???????


I asked Mia today who she would like to invite to her birthday party which is coming up in about 3 weeks or so! We stopped the list at something like 12 kids!!! (Eeeek) I don't care really, my Mum and Dad will be here at the time so they can help supervise!! I'll only have it for a couple of hours and have a couple of games and some food, and the time should fly really!! And if I wasn't pregnant there would be a bit of an adults party afterward with yummy nibblies and a few vodka, lime and sodas.... well maybe I'll have one drink at the end of it!
Mia's 1st birthday party cranked on!! I had quite a few friends stay on, they sent their kids home with their Dads and we hit the Champagne pretty hard! It was fun! And Mia's Dad left the very next day to come up here to start work! It was a good send off for him, us chicks in the backyard drinking and dancing and eating and him inside watching some kind of sport on tele!!! (he wasn't impressed, I had to pretend to be NOT hungover the next day, which I pulled off really well)
Oh well, it all worked out in the end!!
Maybe next year, I will celebrate her 5th birthday with a few Champers!!!


Anyone got any good ideas for 4 year old party games?????

xxxx

A couple more LO's for sharing! The indy Kid one is of Mia on her first day at pre-entry at Kindy. She had a ball! It kind of looks unfinished maybe, but that is the way it's going to stay!

And I love this LO of Mia, the photo was taken last Summer and I think I have scrapped it before but I just love how this one turned out! I love the papers and just how everything came together so quickly and I like the end result!
The photos are a bit wonky, but oh well!! TFL xxx

So yesterday I went to Tatum's place for a coffee and was totally inspired! I was lucky enough to look at her Masters entry(s) and also have a look at one of her albums, chock full of LO's so when I got home I was feeling pretty good and started scrapping. I did these two LO's and almost finished a third, which I thought I would finish today but haven't as yet! The LO above is of a much loved photo of Mia in Summer, I love this pic, and the one below is for a Christmas Photo swap pn SBM forum, I took nearly the whole month to do it, which is totally me to be like that but I like the end result. The colours don't look like that IRL, if you know the Peppermint Twist range you know that the colour looks a lil bit different!

Well, I must say it was lovely to look at someones pages in the flesh, it has been a long time since I have seen someone else's work and been able to ask, what did you do here, what did you do there, what are these on this page? Soooooo nice! And Tatum's work is so special in real life!!

Feeling tired today, Mia was a little bit unwell during the night, and I ended up sleeping in the spare bed with her, but not going back to sleep for ages, because I was just listening to her breathe and wondering if she was actually going to be sick or not. She wasn't... All good today although I can tell she is tired too, we had a couple of tantys early in the piece this morning and is saying she is tired and wants to go to bed! Not at 3 o'clock in the afty NO WAY!
TFL, hoping I'm on a roll now! xx

Mia put herself to sleep on the lounge room floor last weekend..... She got the pillow and the rug herself and just crashed out. I was outside watching the fellas put our pool fence up. She is so cute when she is asleep, not so cute when she was still awake at 10.30 that night!!

This is typical of a Mia tea.... She is a painful eater, so if she eats this assortment I have to be happy with that! She just won't eat at all what DH and I have at tea time, so I try to get her to eat some salad at least.....

16 weeks now, it's cruising along.... Can't wait to go see 'my' Dr in the hometown and book in to the hospital and have my 19 week scan there too.... 3 weeks time that will be happening!

Mia started pre-entry at Kindy last Monday, she loves it... It's good because she has so many little friends there, I think she wishes she could go all the time... Next term, baby!! This is the pic I took just before we left to go for her first ever time!

And lastly, a little view of the bubs room, my parents came to visit last week and bought so much baby gear with them that was Mia's when she was small. My Mum is gung-ho and wanted to wash everything and have it all sorted and put away... somewhere... all within the first few days. I am not in that much of a rush, I have HEAPS of time left yet! It bought back heaps of memories of Mia as a bub, I just cannot believe she fitted into those clothes. The Op Shop loved us because we took a lot of things out there that I just didn't like or want anymore. One good thing about getting older is I find it easy to just work out what I want to keep, and not to feel guilty because so and so gave us this or that.... Mum was spinning out at the things I was putting in bags for the Oppy... Our tastes are soooooo different!!!!



Hardly scrapping to be had around here, which is soooo sad, just keeping up with my preg journal, but not much else! I am constantly thinking about scrapping but just don't have the urge, although when I have scrapped, I've gotten right into it! I don't know, I'm feeling abit BLAH at the moment! I think going and having a coffee with Tatum tommorow will sort me out! I need some inspiration that is for sure!
What a ramble of a post sorry that there is no scrapping to share, I am so boring!!
FARMER WANTS A WIFE is on tonight so not sure if I will be doing any tonight either! Oh and Gordon Ramsey is on Denton too so will be tuning in to that! He is brash and rude but I love it!

Leave me a msg if you pop in! Maybe try to inspire me???? xxxxx

I am loving TOP DECK at the moment, have just about eaten a full block in the last 24 hours!!!

My new scrap desk. I picked it up for $50 at a garage sale and DH sanded it back and gave it a coat of varnish! I have a bit of sorting out to do,but maybe tommorow as I have a headache!!

Tonights tea, Red Wine and Beef caserole! Yum, was pretty rich though!!! My friend told me about how she made it so I copied her!

A LO about how we love Garage Sales! None today though!!!!! Bummer!

Mia at the park on Friday! She loved it! I took heaps of photos but she still has her scabs on her head so I only really like the ones where you can't see her bandaid!

I'm feeling pretty ordinary at the moment so will leave it at that! I'm tired and have this blasted headache, but anyway, I hope you are having a good weekend and a great Sunday tommorow!! xxx

Hi!!! Here is me on Saturday, I feel like I haven't gotten that much bigger since the last time I had photos taken (2 weeks ago) but maybe I am, who knows!!
Another entry for a CJ, have banged out 3 entries since Thursday, I had better post them off when I go down the street later!!
Latest entry for my Pregnancy Journal..... still keeping to my theme!!
And how cute is my friend's daughter! She is 5 months old and just adorable! Sooo smiley, except she wouldn't take her fingers out of her mouth! It doesn't matter, I love this shot anyway!

xxx