Merry Christmas

Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a fantastic Christmas tomorrow. Cherish the time with your family and friends and I hope all your wishes come true.

Bowen really typifies the All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth carol this Christmas. When I sang it to him the other day, his response was "I'll want MORE than that!!" Gotta love him!

Merry Christmas everyone!

21 Years Ago

This time, 21 years ago, I was a nervous bride to be. 21 years later I am still married to the wonderful man who I met at the end of the aisle all those years ago.


I'm not at all religious, but I feel so blessed to have Shayne in my life. He is my best friend and my biggest supporter and I love him with all my heart.





Happy Anniversary darling.

Scrapping News

The last month or two have been busy on the scrapping front, but I've loved every minute of it. Scrapping keeps me sane when work is totally chaotic!

I was December's guest designer for Scrapbooking4Less and Shelley sent me a lovely Christmas kit using Creative Imagination papers. I created a couple of layouts as well as a few cards.

I've also been working hard for Remember When and have been creating layouts using their wonderful Kaiser/Bazzill packs that they release each month. I've started writing a weekly article on the blog as well. Here are the 2 layouts I shared yesterday.

Lastly, I am completing the challenges for Pieces of Me at Country Papercraft. We are completing an album about ourselves and are challenged each week with a new theme. I'm doing my pages in 8 x 8 format and am just loving this size. Here are a few of the completed pages so far.

Now I'm on holidays, I hope to have more time to scrap and share .

Too Funny!!

I saw this link on Donna Downey's blog the other day.

The boys went absolutely hysterical when they saw it.

Have a look here!

I hope we've made the right decision!

I haven't talked a lot about Bowen's academic ability, but when we had him tested earlier this year, it seemed he could join MENSA. We always suspected that he was pretty bright but had no idea just how bright he was. He was reading at 3 and can add up numbers faster than me.

After two years of school where everything was so easy for him, Shayne and I have decided that the best course of action is for him to be accelerated. This means he will go from Year 1 this year to Year 3 in 2008. It's been a hard choice, mostly because of the great group of friends he has but I know for his learning, this is the best decision.

He is really excited about it - he can understand that he needs extension. We talked about the fact that he won't be in the same class with his best friends and sports wise, he will be competing against kids a year older than him. In his usual way, he said "Mum, I think my learning is more important than sports and besides, it will be a challenge for me."

Who can argue with that logic!!!

Sport's Day

According to Ryan, Sport's Day is the BEST day of the year. Can you tell he's a bit sports mad???? Given most of my posts seem to be about my boys' sporting exploits, you probably already know this LOL!

Anyway last Friday was Sport's Day at school. The boys both made the sprint final for their year level. The fastest runner in each team at each year level qualifies. Last year Ryan won and Bowen was not impressed coming 3rd. Of course we thought he did a great job!

I was devastated to find that I had to be in Adelaide that day, but managed to organise a later flight so I could catch their races first. Of course, the day was running behind schedule and I made it to the airport just as they called my flight. Thank goodness I checked in online beforehand. But I digress!!

Ryan again won his event - yayy Ryan!!!! Bowen was so determined to win this year, that he gave it his all - the fist pump as he crossed the line in first place was indication of how much he wanted it. The smile on his face was priceless - it was so worth getting to my meeting late.



Congratulations boys - what athletes you are!!!

Two Champions

Although tomorrow is Sport's Day, Mulga Street school always run the marathon the day before. So this morning it was on - fresh fruit for breakfast because apparantly you run faster.

Well it must have worked, as both boys won their respective events - they were pretty pleased with themselves and so were Shayne and I!