{A quiet Easter}

Well we have had a lovely quiet easter this long weekend, The easter bunny was a bit silly this year and let all of the girls easter eggs melt in the car so although they didn't loose there shape thanks to the packaging the chocolate had all separated and crumbly... They ate a bit of it but most of it just got crumbled into the carpet left for me to vacuum up. Mia had an awesome time with her treasure hunt, the nice little easter bunny left a map so she could see where he had hidden the easter eggs. I wasn't quick enough to capture the expression on her face when she found them but it was priceless.

Mia let me take some photos of her on Saturday

and she took this one of me...

which was great as I needed one to complete a challenge that Sharryn is running over at FA for easter, there is still time to enter if you feel like getting a LO about yourself done :o)

Brie woke up just in time to have her photo taken too, I was surprised that she was happy to let me take it after just waking up.

I tried to scrap all weekend but absolutely nothing was working for me this is about the only one I am happy with, and I had 2 goes at it.. Maybe my mojo went on hols early......

Well it is going to be extra quiet on my blog for a couple of weeks as we are going on holidays and I am sending my puter in for a service it is that slow and I think it has a cold..... LMAO.

I am really looking forward to our holiday, especially Kristals wedding the girls are little flower girls and there dresses are just beautiful. I will be taking the photos so lets hope they turn out great :o)

So I will be back in a few weeks with I am sure lots and lots of photos of our holiday.

I hope you have all had a great easter and eaten huge amounts of chocolate....:o)

{Tired}

Poor little Mia went to bed last night at 7 and is still asleep it is nearly 9.30, I think the last few days have really caught up with her :o( Brie as well went to bed at 7 and woke up just after 8 so my poor little girls are so tired.... They are still both getting temps as well and now have yucky coughs, I hope it disappears before we go on our big holiday next Thursday.

The other day we went out to the river so Salt could try and catch a fish.... I took my camera and got some photos of Mia posing for me she is such a good little poser I love it, all was well and good until she was splashing in the water and half fell in!!! as you can see from the photos. We came home and had a nice warm bath then :o)

I hope everyone has a nice Easter, Salt starts work on Friday so lucky him (NOT) gets to work all over Easter :o((((( anyway he was supposed to work day shift and now he is working nights so that is better for us anyway.... I get more scrapping done when he is on N/S.

Thanks for visiting :o)

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OMG I had the worst night last night, Mia woke up just before 2am finding it really hard to breathe I was so scared and she was getting really upset so I rang the hospital and they told me to bring her up. So we headed up to the hospital and they took her temp and all that stuff and rang our doctor to come up and see her. Dr Chan came up and put her on a drip for dehydration and gave her a needle to help her breathe and then put her on the nebauliser..... for the croup, the poor little thing nearly screamed the hospital down when they took the drip out. The whole time she was telling me it was hurting and I was so sad for her.... I am so glad you can reason with a nearly 4 year old as Brie would have just gone off. So we came home about 3.30.... and Mia pretty much went to sleep (unlike her mother) I think I dosed off about 5am and then I woke up about 8.30 Mia and I got out of bed as she had preschool on and she still wanted to go so I got up and made her lunch and Brie was still lying in my bed burning up.... I didn't want to give her any more nurophen as she had been having it at least every 5 hrs for the last 2 days. So by now it was 9am and I rang the doctors to get an appointment for her and the receptionist said the earliest appoint would be 11.45 so I said don't worry about it and rang the hosp to see what time Dr Chan did his rounds there as I knew he did them in the mornings. Dr Chan was there and the nurse said to bring Brie up if I was worried about her so I dressed her in bed and put her in the car, dropped Mia at preschool and headed to the hospital.... poor Brie still had not moved I knew she was pretty sick she even fell asleep while we being looked after. Brie had a very high temp but wasn't dehydrated like Mia so Dr Chan gave her a needle to help her breathe and told me she has asthma, so we fought with her to give her the nebauliser and then went to the chemist for all the drugs she needed. $130 later I walked out of the chemist! She won't take the antibiotics just spits them back out at me, but she is taking the the Ventolin and the seretide. She is walking around the house like she has a mouth full of drink ready to spit on someone..... the dribble is just falling out of her I am guessing it is from the Ventolin. Right now they are that hyped up on med I don't think they are every going to go to sleep.

Mia had her first easter hat parade today so I will share photos later...

{Forever Always Mid Monthly Newsletter}

* Edited Skye has just sent a pic of Baby Liam and he is so so so cute....

Firstly in exciting news Congratulations to Skye and James who had a little boy on Tuesday morning I am so happy for them. I can't wait to see little Liam.


I have 2 Happy Birthdays one for my Sister for Monday and Alison for Wednesday I am sure you both had lovely days.


The forever Always mid monthly Newsletter is out and it looks great so check it out. :o)

Here are 2 of my LO's that I did for the newsletter

Last night I was in a very scrappy mood I did 4 LO's but I can only share this one....

The girls were in a splashy mood you should have seen them in the bath jumping about putting water all over the place.... they were having fun so that is the main thing :o)

I don't know if I have shared this photo or not but this is how the girls went to sleep a few weeks ago in my bed they were so snuggled up it was just so cute.

I sent my Dyson away last week as the cord wouldn't retract, I am so happy with there service they cleaned my vacumm so it smelt like new and replaced the filter all under warranty :o) So after not having a vacumm for about 8 days this is what come out of our carpet in the dinning room where we spend most of our time and it isn't a very big room either just sooooo gross....




CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!

Mia made this crocodile at Bush Mobile on tuesday.

Brie asleep in her cot I went in to check on her and she just looked so cute with the overalls on and bum up in the air.....

Well I best get myself organised we have Ebony's 4th birthday party to go to this morning and a baby shower for Amanda this afternoon.

Have a good day everyone :o)

{Sunday}

Well we have had a busy week this week, I was glad to see the weekend as I new we didn't have anything on!

I haven't done an ounce of scrapping so as soon as I get off the computer I am going to clean up my scrap room and do some creating :o)

Salts dad is coming over for dinner tonight we are having Pumpkin Soup, Bill's Sausages and I am still undecided about desert so maybe we will just have ice cream....

We went to the wiggles in Dubbo on Friday and the girls had a lovely time, Hi 5 are coming on the 24th April so we will be going to that as well.

Enjoy your Sunday everyone :o)

{Photos and a few LO's}

This weekend I hosted my first Cyber Crop over at Forever Always, my theme was scrapjacked. There are some awesome LO's in the gallery it is going to be so hard to judge this month.

Challenge 1 was to jack a LO that I had chosen of Dee Heath's I just love her work and as she is the brains behind the blog Aussie Scrap Jack we thought why not Jack her for challenge 1.

Challenge 2 was to pick someone from our Design Team and Jack one of your favourite LO's that they have in the gallery. I chose Sonia's Possum Alarm page as I love the clock overlay she had used.

Challenge 3 was a Sketch by Louise Nelson and I just love it I think it might be my fav page....



I was on a scrapping roll so I completed this months 123 challenge we had to use white, orange and black colour theme, a one word title and ribbon. Nice and easy :o)


and the last 2 LO's are from our WORD Inspiration Challenges that we have every week at FA, your name goes into the hat at the end of the month and you can win a $5 voucher. The last 2 words were Retreat and Time.

This is a LO I did for Sonia at the retreat for our photo swap.

Just a few photos of the girls from the weekend, enjoying their yogurt I thought this was funny I turned around and they were both sitting on the table eating... very cute.

Mia have fun on her swings hanging upside down, I can't wait to scrap this photo :o)

Brie looks so cute in Mia's elephant costume she brought it out and wanted me to put it on her and then had to get the dancing shoes on as well.

James and I have some very exciting news that we will be able to share in the next few weeks, it has made my day today :o)

Have a good week every one :o)

{ Just a few more LO's to share}

These are just a few LO's that I have done over the last few weeks.... some were for the inspiration booklet at the retreat, and others just because I have soooo many photos sitting waiting to be scrapped.....

This is my LO for this months Scrapjack that I did last night :o)

Today when I dropped Mia off at pre-school I was chatting to her teacher and she said I have been meaning to tell you what a lovely little girl Mia is, she said she is just gorgeous and such a lovely little girl to have a preschool.... WOW I was so happy to hear that, it just made my day :o) I have decided that Mia is going to go to preschool 2 days a week now I hope Brie doesn't get to bored not having her about.

Well I have a bit of DT work that I need to get finished so I must go scrap :o)

{I am a Scrapjack Winner}

How exciting I am one of the lucky 4 winners over on the Scrapjack Blog. Last month we had to jack Kim Archers LO and it was an awesome LO to Jack.... Oh and have I said I am so excited......

We had a busy day today with Dancing and Bush Mobile. I was watching Mia today being sort-of bossed around by the other kids, and it's funny because 18months ago I would have said she wouldn't have been the sort of kid to take shit from anyone but I have noticed that she just takes it and walks away or either comes over to me upset saying they won't share with her, which is probably a good thing. She is very laid back and easy going like her dad so that must be where she gets it from. I am sure things will change. Well I hope they do!!

{Forever Always Retreat # 8}

Firstly a HUGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GORGEOUS FRIEND KRISTY.... I hope you have had an awesome day. Big Hugs I am just about to ring you I hope your home from work :o)

Last Wednesday I left for my second Forever Always retreat. Last time Leah and Briony came with me so I was a little nervous going all by myself. It was an awesome retreat I had a great time and got lots done.
I brought home this Sonia Bowers Original, we were in a photo swap and this is what Sonia created it is just beautiful and I love it thanks Sonia :o)


I just love this LO I have used kindy glitz on the swirls it doesn't really show up in the photo but it looks awesome in real life.....





I was also lucky enough to get a Louise Nelson Original... Lou knows how much I love this LO it is just gorgeous, thank you so much Lou.... I was showing Salt all of the LO's today and when I got to this one he said who did that one?

This is another of my favourite's from the retreat I think I did a pretty good job with writing the "as time goes by" Heidi Swapp style...

This LO is for a current RAK challenge in the FA forum we were only aloud to use 2 colours, material, at least 3 photos and stitching I had so much fun with this one.

and another Fav a LO of Kay, I hope you like this one Kay :o) It has a verse on the photo about being a grandma.

If it wasn't for Kay I wouldn't be able to go on these retreats..... I missed the girls so much I really don't know if I am going to be able to go on one of these again. I guess if you ask me that in a few months I am sure the answer will be....

Here is our group photo I was the photographer for this one and had to keep running in to the photo it was quite funny.

A big thank you to Sonia, Brian, Bianca, Gran and Di for doing an awesome job... after arriving early and seeing what goes into setting up everything it is a huge effort by everyone, LMAO I am glad Brian said he would unpack the 2 tonne truck.

Well I am still really really really tired and I am off to bed.

Have a good week all :o)

{My First Melly and Me Project}

Just wanted to share my first Melly and Me Sherbet Bag..... I just love it. Very time consuming though I think it took about 5 hours to make, I am sure the next one won't take as long :o)

{Mia's First Day of Preschool for 2008}

Mia had her first day of Pre School today, she has been very excited about going back to preschool, she had a lovely day it was funny not having to pick her up at 12pm though. It was raining this morning so Salt couldn't work so that was good as I was going to work so Brie got to spend the day with her dad! They had a lovely time cleaning the house.... it was spotless when I came home :o) LMAO you should see it now I have to do a bit of a pick up before I go to bed. My replacement table arrived today only took 4months. Lets hope this one doesn't crack.

This afternoon I made ricebubble slice, it is so yummy and was a bit of a hit with everyone I think there might be 2 pieces left... my mum used to make it for us and we just loved it and I have never been able to find the recipe anyway today I googled ricebubble slice and found one that was a newzealand recipe, so I went with it except the coconut and I reckon it might just be the one.

Tonight Mia went to sleep at 7pm but Brie was not going to sleep she was yelling out to us and Salt caved and went and got her out of the cot. About 1/2 an hour later he went to bed himself and Brie was jumping about in the bed so I put her back in her cot and she still wouldn't go to sleep so I got her tigger and puppy dog and put her in bed with Dad..... she came back out and watched me doing some sewing and then picked up her tigger and puppy and headed back into our room, I didn't hear any noise from her for about 20mins so I figured she had hoped into bed with Salt. LMAO this is where I found her beside our bed snuggled up asleep SO SO Cute. I am glad she thinks the floor is comfy



My LO for challenge 3 won over at the Scrapbooking Top 50 Cyber Crop on the weekend how exciting.

Thanks for visiting
Hugs Amie xx