my baby

Well when I look at this photo she is my baby! She may be four and a half, but it feels like yesterday she was born.

This is a quite normal look in the morning, cuddling a "friend" and just wanting "mama" ( love that she still calls me mama). But she is growing up soooooo quickly *sigh*

She even helped dad clear all the crap out of the front gardens all morning today, and she is reading her preschool homereaders *another sigh* too big too soon :(

Anyway, on a happy note ....... we are in ! the new house that is ! and it feels sooooooo good. Still unorganised, but just like home already :) Good stuff.

have a good one,

Love Lisa

LSBS Retreat

There is so much to tell you! Since last post I have bought a new house, living currently at mums till it is ready ( this friday), kids have changed schools, justin has been in the states etc etc etc etc


BUT the most bestest ever part was the LSBS retreat, SERIOUSLY the most fun a girl can have in a weekend.

There is so much to say, and so many photo's to download :)

So a quick round up.

Thanks to Cath for organising everything and being the best DT boss ever!

Thanks to Helen and Celeste for keeping me laughing all weekend you are just the most gorgeous girls and I feel so lucky to call you my friends.

To Relsi a fellow "softie" - love you darl

To Nicrus, you are such a beautiful chickie, thanks for being there when I needed a little therapy.

Shan, you are such a beautiful heart

PT - I just love you babe, things will get better I promise.

Altered (Nic) and Karen - loved meeting the both of you, you are so booked on my table next year ;)

Alison Shearer - thanks so much for making the teaching in an unusual situation fun rather than stressful! You ROCK!

I soooo can't name everyone :( It was just such a wonderful weekend and I can't wait till nest year already :)

Photo is of Helen, Celeste and myself muching around with the self timer on my camera, Just makes me laugh!

Have a good one.

Lots of love
xx

The Rain Came Down!

Well you would probably have to living under a rock if you didn't realise that the Central coast and Hunter region were hit with a massive storm over the weekend ! We are talking 100 km winds and also the yearly rainful in just two days. It was unbelievable.

We were so lucky, houses in our street wern't as lucky, plenty flooded and plenty without power. We were also very very lucky to get our kids out of school at about 2.30pm, by 3pm you couldn't get to them and plenty of them had to stay the night :(

But life goes on and as everyone starts to assess the damage and tidy up the sun is shining today :) The kids are back at school and life just keeps going. I am so saddened by the families who have lost loved ones in this tradgedy, I can't even imagine how they must be feeling.

I will leave you with photo's in and around our streets, the blue fence is Livinia's preschool and yes that is the LAKE right up to their door !

I uploaded my photo's via photobucket for the first time, can't say I like how it has made each a new post - but can't be bothered fiddling now!

Stay safe,

Love Lisa
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cause I want to share!

Having more fun, learning more stuff :) Nothing is perfect, but really who wants it to be anyway?? Love my super girl.

monday

This is what I got up to at 5.30 this morning! I Love these photo's of my boys, I have scrapped them before and will probably will again. Digi Kit is by KSK designs available at LSBS .

Thats all - just wanted to share :)

Love Lisa

the watagans and another hospital visit!

WE are back, a little grotty but happy :)

I never ever thought I would enjoy camping, always thought of myself as a five star kinda girl - but I LOVED it! Planning on buying our own camper trailer now!

But of course it wouldn't be us without one trip to the hospital now would it?

So imagine , we arrive at the watagans with about 1 hour of light left, we get the trailer up and dinner cooked - the kids are excited because they get to sleep in their sleeping bags and they want to go to bed ( SHOCK) - thats cool with us, we get them all cozy and sit outside under the stars and enjoy a bottle of red ! yummy!

Kids are playing and chattering when we hear a goodness almighty scream and a "Don't Jere" and that horrible crying when you know something is wrong. WE rush in Liv is screaming and covering her eye - Jere is yelling "it wasn't me"

I put a blankie around her and cuddle her and try to look at her eye and she is screaming to "get the thing out" I knew she has scratched it ( or actually Jere had), but couldn't tell how bad, and not to mention by this stage we had finished the bottle of wine :( She fell asleep crying an we hoped for the best. ALAS, at 11pm she woke screaming and we knew she had to go to the hospital, justin bundled her up and took screaming child to car. Then returned 15 minutes later cause there was no visibility.

She fell back asleep and Justin took her to the hopital at abut 8am in the morning. i was left to entertain two children while it was pouring outside and I was so worried about Liv - we played a thousand games of UNO listened to my i-pod and drank cups of tea!

Liv returned about midday sporting a rather funky patch and some eye drops to stop here eye getting infected. She is great now just not to keen on the drops!

I will leave you with a piccy of her when she got back to camp!

Love Lisa

I got an IPOD!

LOL - I love mothers day! yep got myself an ipod ( actually J and the kids did) and we got one for mum as well and she was totally stoked!

That was probably the best part of mothers day - or mayby the 18 under fives I took for kiddies church :) crazy stuff

the rest of mothers day was spent ferrying to and from the hospital as dad has ANOTHER BLOODY DVT, and one in his lung ( they found that today) - he is in good spirits we just want him well again. I HATE hospitals.

J had his birthday, but spent the most of it working ( YUKKY) and is still working at the moment, waiting for an 11pm conference call. The life of an IBM preject executive - hmmmmm. Did I say he was up at 4.30am this morning answering emails. WE bought him a mariners jersey and he was very very pleased.

We are off camping this weekend and I can't tell you how much I need to be away from my phone and dare I say it the computer ( actually J needs it more than me) Going to be great, just scared of going to the toilet in the middle of the night and leeches! LOL!

Oh and Yas and Ben had another beautiful Boy, they called him Beau Bradley - very very cute. Congrats guys!

I **LOVE** this photo of my boys goofing off! there are a whole heap in a series. Layout created in photoshop and Digi elements all from two peas. Noice and easy one :)

Do you think me blog needs an overhaul, what about a pretty banner - sounds like a plan. Might have to get some hints from my wonderful, talanted muso/web designer brother LOL! "Oh Kris ................."

Love Lisa
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tagged :)

By the Gorgeous Celeste and Sandie !

So here goes:

Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

1. We have lived in Waaaaay to many houses! we are currently in our fourth house that we ( actually the bank) owns. We tend to move every 18 months to two years. I think we may be gypseys.

2. My mum is Welsh and I have inherrited (SP?) a few weird sayings from her. Which I didn't know were weird till I married hubby!

3. I am an obsessive reader and can't put a book down, I tend to go through novels like magazines usually three a week at the moment.

4. I once had a moment of road rage in our school park ! She was a known offender of car park danger - so that is how I justify it, it was really lovely seeing me honk my horn and carry on - especially as my kiddies go to a christian school ! LOL!

5. My favourite place in the world is the beach followed by the hunter valley wineries and if I could have them both together i would be in total Bliss!

6.I hate mess, which is really funny, cause I am a messy person by nature? go figure?

7. I find it really hard to have "down time" - perhaps I am hyperactive. I need to always be doign something.

Phew! I am not tagging anyone, cause I think everyone I know has been tagged?????

Thanks Celeste and Sandie for getting me back blogging - i will leave you with a layout of my boy, using the gorgeous piggy tales paper from LSBS


Oh - before I go - I am going to buy an IPOD - but am totally confused? Do I just need a shuffly for running, or do I need a nano and If I need a nano what one??? PLease someone help me :)
Love Lisa
xx

LSBS "Little Book of Big Memories"

Have you started yet??? If not or you don't know what all the fuss is about check out LSBS and while you are there you might want to check out all the sneaky stuff us Dt girls have been up too!

We wanted to surprise Cath with something special for the site, so we came up with some cool holiday ideas and projects for big kids and little kids! Just to say thanks for being so wonderful over a period of yuk for the whole DT ( and Cath) - We LOVE you Cath!

Liv turns four

This is my baby, can you see her? No I can't either cause she is a BIG FOUR YEAR OLD! Boo Hoo! She was so stoked with herself and when she woke up just kept saying "I'm four, I not a little girl anymore I am a big girl" so chuffed with herself - didn't even think of pressies till we reminded her!

We celebrated her birthday with lunch and ice cream at Mum and Dads, and as you can see she enjoyed herself completly. Check out the dodgy face paint by your truly!

There is some cool stuff happening over at LSBS over the weekend, as usual Cath won't say what it is but i know it starts with an online party @ 7.30pm. Should be fun!

Hope your all having a lovely day.

Love Lisa
xx

digi mad !

Yep, thats what I have become DIGI MAD I personally think it is such a good thing to stretch yourself and try something perhaps you arn't very confident with. I am having fun, learning a whole heap about Photoshop LOL! and really enjoying the process, I have so much to learn and I find myself wanting to know everything straight away!

The above layout is again using the awesome crazy cat studios "be mine" digital elements from the CD of the same name ( of course!). It is super simple, just a photo collage onto one of the beautiful papers ( which I fiddled with to get the colour I wanted!), add the white journalling (which has already been done for you!) one more layer to add the "distressing" and finish with a little journalling. Too SWEET!

BTW - the day we actually spent down at the haven was so much fun! There was even a SHARK ALARM, at the main beach, and no one could go in the water for about an hour while the choppers and life savers in their boat chased it out to sea! I havn't heard a shark alarm in years! We were calling the kids "shark bait" LOL - as we wern't at the main beach we let them keep paddling but only up to their knees!

So tomorrow is miss Liv's birthday and she will be getting a nintendo DS - yes I know that is a big pressie ( or perhaps expensive!) for a four year old, BUT - the big kids got them for christmas and I thought she wouldn't be old enough for one. Well, she is amazing at it, and that's all she wants - so that's all she's getting! third kids are sooooooo quick!

anyway, have a beautiful weekend.

Love Lisa
xx

Ouch!

Well what more can you say? Bad photo (taken indoors at night!) but you get the general idea.

Poor Lilli accidently got hit in the eye with her brothers cricket bat, and it wasn't pretty! It looked even worse the following day, her eye swelled up so badly she sould hardly open it. But she still wanted to go to school because it was crazy hair day!

Her friends at school were so sweet and soooooo concerned for her! Love that she has great friends. I made sure I spoke to her teacher, I was worried they might report me to DOC's! LOL her teacher just laughed at me! I am just thankful there were no stitches involved!

Weekend is almost here and I can't wait! Liv will be turning FOUR! OMGoodness that has gone all to quick.

Gotta Run,

Love Lisa
xx

Something exciting :)

I am so excited! Can you guess why? no? LOL?

I am soooo excited cause my gorgeous friend Tracy Watson has asked my to be part of the crazy cat studios creative team for their AWESOME digi CD's.

So this is my first layout using the "year in reveiw" CD, it is a total cheat, cause most of the work was already done! I just added my photo and a few other elements and it was done! Too cool, there is of course other templates to use (heaps of them) and also papers and embellishments if you like to do digi from scratch - very very good stuff :)

What else? Well I spent THREE HOURS tidying my boy's room today, I threw out two garbage bags full of junk and will be giving away two of clothes. But it looks so nice and clean - wonder how long that will last???

SO what you up to this weekend? LSBS will be hosting another awesome cybercrop with heaps of competitions, chat, bingo and lots of fun. So come on over.

Thats all for today, hope your having a good one :)

Love Lisa

I've been creating :)

So, i didn't quite make the seven day challenge to blog everyday? But I have been blogging so at least that is better than not at all.

I HAVE been creating though, seems I am finally in the swing of things again which is really nice.

WE all went to the dentist yesterday which was POOEY. I didn't have to have anything done for a change but poor Lil has to go back and have some work done on one of her "big girl" molars, I feel sick at the thought of it. She has some kind of weird "enamalation" it is cause by her tooth not forming correctly in her gum, probably from a high temp or something. Anyway it isn't good and ther have to drill it away and cover her tooth with silver until she is old enough for a crown.

I still have memories of work I had to have done as a young child and I am going to be hard pressed to keep it together for Lilli - anyone know some good bribes????

Still house hunting, we found a beeautful house on the weeked and are waiting to here back from the owners who are being PAINFUL with regards to negotiation - I think they think they are playing hardball, they havn't met Justin yet!

Anyway, Liv is having a tantrum beside me cause I gave her hand a smack ( she keeps pressing the esc key ) Better go and give her some loving!

Love Lisa
xx

Yukky Toilets :(

LOL - the joys of house hunting! No we arn't moving yet, we might not even move but we are looking for another house for an investment ( or perhaps to live in! ).

I went to inspect a house today, hmmmmm, the agent said "it may be a little messy, they didn't tidy it before they left this morning" Well that has got to be the BIGGEST understatement of the year so far. It was a PIGSTYE, I am not talking a little messy it was disgusting. The worst part was the toilets ( all three of them) with big poo "sliders" on all of them - EWWWWW to much info?????? I wanted to vomit. LOL - needless to say there will be no offers from us on that one!

Had the pleasure of visiting on of my best mate jackie today, some people are just so genuine and so real it is a joy to be around them, that is Jac. Love her to bits.

Hope your day has been great! off to get my little sweeties to bed.

Love Lisa
xx

**BTW** I have starting spreading a little "warm and fuzzies" around my friends blods, so if you get a strange "I love you post" it's just me ! LOL