Nearly Christmas

Are you organized? I'm semi organized. I only have 3 presents to go. Still waiting on some online orders to arrive and I have heaps to wrap. I have more wrapping than shopping. Ha!
I also have a cold. My hair also looks like I've been electrocuted. It's just one big mass of blonde hair with rediculous regrowth. Rediculous? Is that right? Did I spell it right?
I think I should bake xmassy things on the weekend. Get the kids even more excited. I really want to buy some more lights but I can't seem to find battery ones.
Anyway got to get James ready for his last day of school......tear

Owl, pussy cat, Bruce & a stupid prime minister

Number 1. Bruce Springsteen is coming. Yep march 2013 and we will be there. Melbourne none the less. Oh yay!! Seriously yayyyyyy!!
Number 2. Our prime minister is trying to win the young with going on triple j and announcing that the world will be ending.
I am actually embarrassed she is our prime minister.
Number 3. I would be talking about the owl and the pussy cat and sharing a photo of Amelia with purple nail polish but blogger is being silly still and not letting photos upload. Fix this blogger please!!

oh. my. gosh

It is nearly Christmas.
Three weeks to go. I have ZERO presents. Am I freaking out? Why yes I am.

My crazy crazy Xmas obsessed children

Good times!!

Good things

Stuff happened.
Xmas is planned. Sort of. Not really.
James hair is tooooo long.
Went to a beautiful wedding!
We joined the gym.
I ran twice this week.
Yay
Got told by a lady to get married before I have kids. I promptly replied "too late"
Ha!
And blogger is being silly and not letting me post pictures.
Boooo

As promised...

Get ready to be bpmbarded with photos.

Ok there is not that many.

Our new labrador Molly is so cute. Such a puppy though.

Will and I both turned 28. Urg. We have to get married by the time we are thirty I think. 

Molly!!

Sarah and Amelia at my birthday. Wine and cheese! (juice for the kids obviously)

Ice cream cake birthday cake! Best ever.

Sand monster

Teddies bear picnic. James took Bart. Derr.

All our grass. So much grass.

Jo posing with Amelia but as usual Amelia was having a tanty.

Spunk.

The end.
PS I think I might enrol in another camera course. Maybe. I need to have a creative outlet I think. AND we are joining the gym next week. OH MY GOD.

Grass. Dog. Birthdays. Etc

Will be updating soon. Have been too busy. Hopefully I will get a chance today.
But I probably won't.
We got grass. We got older. And we got a puppy. Yep.
Night down south tomorrow. Just Will and I. Oh yes.
X

Sunday Sunday

One week till my birthday!! Will spent more than he should have on my present and I am so excited to see what it is!!
Going to have lunch in freo with my friends and family. Which will be awesome! Hopefully it is not raining though!
Had a rushed weekend and brought James green paint for his room. It is pretty epic but we ran out of time to start it. Grass is getting put down next weekend too thank Christ. Only the front though as the guys doing a retainer wall will run over the "grass" at the back. Maybe it will be all done before Christmas? Maybe. I'm kind of over sand.
Have a new pet too. His name is Bob and I found him on our back mat & he gave me a heart attack.
Bye bye

It's getting hot!!

It's going to be 35 tomorrow & I keep thinking my one piece is too revealing! Yep!

fenced in

Will built a fence. It is pretty epic. Now we have privacy! On Wednesday we are getting our security windows up so that means even more privacy! I would build a wall around our house if we could!

Before

After

 

 

Been busy. Work. Visiting lovely ladies and a mending dad.
James is back at school on Tuesday. I have started running again. God. Twice this week. Pretty good since I have been sick with hay fever.

Not much else to report. Hopefully we get grass soon!! Yep it will be epic. Once the sand is gone we can start painting!

Annnnnnnnnddddddd it is my birthday soon! YAY!!

 

Busselton

Walking back from the underwater observatory

The lino floors got to us & we ripped them up last Wednesday!

Notice the balloons left over from James' party! ha!

Holiday. Celebrate. Probably don't celebrate

We just got back from being down south. Felt quite weird being away because my dad just had triple bypass surgery on Friday. Saw him today. He seems good. Good as can be for a man that had his heart stopped.
We were gone for a short while. It was exhausting but super super (yes 2 supers) fun. But I think I had cooking withdrawals. I just made a pear tart & homemade custard.
Holiday photos will be up soon. Yep get excited!

LATELY

I know it has been a while.
So much has happened.
This happened

Book week and he got best costume in kindy. Yay!

This also happened. How big are they? So big.

The most exciting thing though (no offence Cat in the Hat) was this....

 

Yep that double brick 4 (3) by 1 is ours. The For Sale sign was taken down before we had time to take a photo with it. Saying that it was up for a week after settlement. Anyway.

It will be renovated. It will be painted. Things will be planted and walls will be knocked. Did I mention I now own a flash double oven? Oh yes and its black. There is exposed brick throughout the whole house and I mean there is not one wall plastered. It is literally a brick house. On a massive block.

350 METRES FROM THE BEACH. You can actually see the beach from our driveway. And smell the beach and hear the beach. The best thing is no more renting. There are pink tiles in the bathroom and I have this growing need to rip the lino off the floor but other than that it's fine for now!

 

I brought the kids curtains yesterday. Turns out buying them is actually cheaper than making them. I have no storage space whatsoever. That's ok though.

Massive backyard of sand and weeds

kitchen will be done.....hopefully next year

words cannot even describe my hate for this room. Its quite large so I will forgive it for now



 

So this has been our life so far. We have only been here a week (!), we have so many plans, hopefully everything runs smoothly!!

Fickle little me

So I deactivated my Facebook account months ago. It was boring and I was getting negative towards people because there was so much whinging.
I thought I was missing out though. What happens if something amazing gets announced on it and I miss out? So I re-activated my account and it turns out I'm missing out on nothing. Nothing at all. A few cute pictures of babies and thats it. So I turned it off AGAIN! Ha!
Facebook does not inspire me. It's just another platform for people to voice opinions. A bit like this blog. Right?
In happier news the new Gaslight Anthem album comes out today!! Yay!!

Life at the moment. Sort of. More last week and the future...

Since my last post my days have been filled with nonsense and drama and exhaustion.
Ok not really but seriously. James got concussion and we spent the night in hospital. There was a crazy storm and I spent two nights at mum and dads (chicken I am). Will worked 5, 12 hour shifts so we didn't see each other for a week. That was hard.
Even harder than accepting the fact James got concussion while playing connect 4. That kid is hard core.
Other than missing Will ALOT, this week flew.
James got his first certificate at school assembly in front of the whole school! That was amazing. His teacher did not tell me though and I wish I was there to see him but he honestly was not fazed by it at all. He will be in stage 1 at swimming next term and he is only 4. Again this does not faze him at all.
I am getting extremely bored at work and searching my brain with something I can study. When you have people bitching to you about the interest rates - it does not matter that they are lovely and low and people still want to complain about things they have no control over and something that I have absolutely no control over - you think to yourself, why am I serving these jackasses? Tough question.
Anyway in "I gave birth to two of our children and had NO DRUGS with one of them so this is payback" news.....Will is getting a vasectomy in 5 weeks. FIVE WEEKS. Seriously.
He told me he was going to get his mother to come over the next day to look after him. I told him if he did that I would seriously leave him because that would mean he was a total pussy. He said I am mean. His doctor said he could go back to work the next day. She is a woman. She also nearly gave us high fives when we told her we wanted the referral. Doctor Snip Snip said he could have a week off. He is a man....
I am expecting a lot of emotional drama from him when it all happens! Ha!
Till next time....

Wills letter......really fitting with the whole vasectomy / mother theme I think!!

The poor little boof in emergency! The spew bucket was his hat!

the queen of (chocolate) tart

We went to the city.
It was awesome. Just to visit Kate who made us French pastries. One was DELIGHTFUL. The other sent us to McDonalds for lunch. hehe.

this is the queen of tarts...

She is just too excited.
xx

Lately

We went fishing. My friend had a tiny tiny little girl. I think I have a cold. I'm being kindy mum tomorrow!
I found a excellent block to buy!

Excitement

Pretty happy at the moment. Brought size ten bathers. That was pretty exciting. I keep going to get new jeans but I can't make myself do it. I probably start crying!! Haha!!
My good friend is having her first baby tomorrow. That's pretty exciting!!
And another friend got engaged on the weekend! That's pretty exciting!! Yay Lauri & Rick!
In other news.....I'm knackered!

best....ever

the preachers - take a card. awesome

High fives

1. A whole week being deactivated from fb. High five to me
2. Riding without training wheels. High five to James!!!! So proud of him!!
3. Amelia took to steps then of course got really sick so there has been no walking action since but still deserves a high five!!
4. My sister finally got a place & is moving to civilization. High five to Kate!!
5. So he doesn't feel left out....Will professed his love of VB this afternoon. High five Willy high five!!

the little lady turns 1

Rabbit cake, Easter Sunday birthday

I like that my books look a bit large here. Only a bit. Poor me

Easter eggs and presents!! Chocolate for breakfast also = a psycho one year old!!

Getting help from the kids

Bunny cakes & vanilla cup cakes and I had ZERO. Being the hostess sucks at times!

Photo by Willy

Road trip!!

(Technically going to Ikea is a road trip for me... )
Kate, Amelia & I went to Ikea yesterday. On the way to Ikea listening to Little Dragon. That should have been my Facebook status but the overdose of babies for the bonds competition is literally killing me.
Look I'm into modeling. I use to do it but I do not want to see hundreds of pictures of random babies on my news feed. It's so irritating. And let's be honest not every kid is gorgeous. Ok that might be a but harsh but gee whizz, to many photos.
Anyway. Ikea yesterday. It was awesome. Didn't go crazy & try to stuff a bookcase in the xtrail. I should have.
I do need to go again though.....to buy said bookcase.
Anyway need to go clean my teeth. ta ta