Ramote Control Cars

The kids were thrilled when the neighbours kids came out to play cars in the courthouse carpark next door. The cars were pretty fast and the kids had a great time. So now that the christmas presents are bought, the kids have decided there is another thing on their list....mmm I hope the kids forget about them by next week cause there just isnt anymore room in Santas sack for those too.

Another Country Sunset from our front door.

Dirt Girl World - Lets get grubby!

So I have wanted to start a garden for ages, and now being out here with nothing much to do most of the time I have no excuse. There is an old concrete laundry sink under the stairs in the back yard and I thought it a great place to start. So when some unexpected christmas money came, I thought it would be a great family activity to have and the kids would love the experience of planting and growing something themselves. There is a new kids show on ABC called 'Dirt Girlworld' and they address the children viewers as green thumbs. This is our green thumbs picture - Brea is especially excited as she thinks she is Dirt Girl. Next will be getting some worms and putting them in too. We planted tomatoes (easy right? i cant kill those?!?!) beans, and some herbs (basil and sage) some of these are from seedlings and some from seeds.

We will see how it goes - - chickens next....

Work Christmas Party

Here are a few pics of Jasons work Christmas party. They hold one for the kids to attend with Pinyata, BBQ, Santa (who arrives in a Police Car of course) swimming, and Lollie Bags. They kids had a good time and it was good to meet everyone.

Bring on Christmas :D

Here we are in Charleville -

So its been 3 weeks and it has taken me that long to get on here and put up some pics. Partly because our internet provider has been less that helpful and we have been using the wireless of our neighbour. Such kind people....


Ok , so the drive here wasnt too bad. The kids lost the plot at about hours 8 out, and not even the back of the car seat movies could help us anymore. Here are a few pics of the drive....there was lots of road kill but decided not to post that! ewwwww -

And here are a few pics of Charleville, the local IGA, Police station (work) the Qantas flight Brisbane to Charleville (for all my family taking a flight thats the size aircraft that travels here) and on my morning walks, we came accross a dog and a sheep - the dog was having a rest and the sheep was very protective and was sure to stay close to the dog. Very cute - we didnt know where it came from until the owners in a Commodore came and put them both in the back seat and drove off - cant remember the last time I had a sheep in my back seat of the car - only in the country!

mmmm wild pig hunting anyone?

Here are a few pics of the house, for those who have been asking - and the new Christmas Tree of course - on special at Crazy Clarks for $45 - woohooo - much better than our old one, and buster on his new bed...not one of the couches we use to sit on.






and now some pics of the Rock Pools, and the kids throwing rocks into the water, Crab pots, and lots of red dirt!








Well thats all for now, as you all know, everywhere in the south qld has been really hot the last 2 weeks and we are no exception! Heat everywhere and its forced me to get over the fact that the aircon has to be on 24/7 its not worth everyone feeling yucky and cranky and not being able to sleep, i mean after all - its been high 30's and even reached 43 last week - not looking forward to the bill though.

Now that all those pics are up, I can keep up to date right? lol
We all know how hopeless I am on this thing. Love you and miss you! You know who you are!
xxoo

OK HERE IT IS :)

Make a Smilebox slideshow

What happens when I have had enough.....

So finally, after months of winging, my friends got sick of hearing it and told me if i cut their kids hair in the holidays i would have enough cash to get my own cut.

SO....thank you to them :)

Its cut off and gone and i totally love it. The ends were terrible after some foils i had 6 months ago. My hair now feels very healthy. I love it, Jason says he likes it, so we are all happy.

I tried to take a decent pic but i am not very photogenic at the best of times. So here is one from the side.

and the back

Love the BOB :D so easy and breezy! I AM REALLY READY FOR MY HOLIDAY :b

How about this dust storm?

So, I was in Chermside this morning and i heard in a store, who had the radio on that there was a dust storm headed up from Sydney. But i had no idea what it would be like until we drove out of the carpark. EVERYTHING HAS A GOLDY HAZE!! I dont remember anything like it. When we got home, i had left the windows open, everything is dusty. Its like someone has walked in (after i did a full clean this morning mind you) and dusted for fingerprints or something. Its nuts.

Anyway, everything is windy, dusty and the air tastes like dirt. I did try and take a picture but my camera tries to correct the gold haze and it doesnt look anything like it really does. So I wont post it. MAN - i will have to mop and clean the furniture when its gone. :(

FLU, DOG, A BROKEN CAR and GALL STONES.

When people start emailing or face booking me and saying - its time to update your blog, I know I have left it too long. So this post is dedicated to Auntie Sue and Kristel. he he

The last couple of months have been VERY busy and might I even add - difficult!

I know that tough things happen, and then life returns to normal, right? Well since we didnt sell the house in July, its just been one difficult thing after another, and it doesnt look to be slowing down. I have tried positive thinking and fear I am not very good at it as just around the corner is the next difficulty! Let me give you a run down:

1. Couldn't sell the house due to the banks changing their mind on how much to lend us.
2. Tyre on the car got something in it and went flat on the way to church.
3. I get the most awful pain in my stomach since having kids, I pass out in the car a few times, get to hospital only to have it subside and no one knows what it is and is too busy to check it out, including me lol
4. We all get a terrible FLU (dare I say swine flu, that i was exposed to in my hospital visit) and are all sick for 2 weeks.
5. Then the dog gets sick with a bronchial infection. (dare I say from our sickness?)
6. The car decides to stop in traffic and not move, and needs to go in for an auto transmission service, only to still be sitting at the shop a week later because they are too busy.
7. I decide to take matters into my own hands to check out this stomach thing, and go and get a scan. The lady doing the scan said I most likely don't have gall stones as my age and weight are not typical for it. Then soon as she touched my stomach said 'oh goodness you do have gall stones and they are massive!' You will need surgery for those.
8. Might be going country with hubby's work. We were told it was confirmed and approved and then they took it all back saying, well maybe, send us a report stating where you want to go and we will consider it!

So here I am in limbo. So we are waiting with these questions... Are we going country? Will I get my operation before we go country? WILL I EVER GET MY CAR BACK?

Its funny though, through the stress, there is a certain calm. We are reading scriptures more, and are kinder and dare I say, learning patience. Now something just stood out to me that I didn't realise before.

I WAS ONLY JUST PRAYING TO LEARN TO BE PATIENT A FEW MONTHS BACK.

Do I only have myself to blame??????

The big 1

My baby is 1.

The baby smell is really gone now. :( along with those adorable squeaky noises



I found out today, that he doesn't really like cake all that much, except to play with.

He is quite a persistent young fellow and after trying a lot, that he can blow out a candle. (he didnt quite know what was happening when we all cheered though.)



He gives the best morning cuddles, with a few pats on the back included.

He attempts anything, even if it means a bump on the head.

We all think he is adorable and often congregate around him a few times a day.

So blessed that he is with us. This first year of his life went by way too quick.

July 1st - everything changed

Oh boy - what a roller coaster ride this has all been. Just about to put a contract on a house we LOVED - subject to sale of ours of course. Only to find that the banks have changed how much they loan people on July 1st. We can no longer loan as much as before and therefor can not buy the house we want, which means we cant sell our house. In the end after paying commissions etc - couldnt afford to buy something that much better than what we are in, and it would probably need work done. So here I am, feeling a little like a bunch of nerves and emotions and using it as a great excuse to just binge out on all the food i try to restrict myself of usually. Love the chocolate. So back to square one. It just makes we want to cry! argh. Oh well, plan B. Out country we go. I have always dreamed of being a redneck. heh heh.

So the plan is now, to see where Jason will be posted and maybe try prior to posting, to ask around for country stations (and free police housing) and head on out for our AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY ADVENTURE!!! Sounds exciting doesnt it - mmmm we will see.

We will try and join in and embrace the country spirit and buy some chickens, a dog, and knock a tooth or two out.

Anyone need to rent a house for a few years?

here a a couple of pics - i didnt want to post one of me sitting on the couch feeling depressed and shoving my face full of chocolate lol

kids playing:



my boys:

Ahhh how time flies

So here I am thinking that I need to put something up, and not knowing what to write. Over the last month we have been so busy, trying to finish the house, putting it on the market - and then the stress of having to keep the house SPOTLESS 24/7 - no dishes in the sink, nothing on the floors, the yard clean and tidy and the list goes on and on. Its not easy with three kids under 5 at home who like to make messes as part of their 'creative play'. Well needless to say I don't have a lot of energy left to be a productive mum doing creative learning activities - and well, it just makes so much darn mess.
Plus we have all been sick with colds as most families have recently.
We haven't heard anything about going bush and we haven't sold the house. and on that;

Do people not have any vision these days? I mean - we have a cheap home on the market with most of the expencive things done - eg kitchen, bathroom, flooring, fans, aircon, security screens, newly renovated roof. The only thing we dont have is a carport as we decided to have the cracking roof fixed instead. Now - one would think when looking in the cheaper end of the market - that there is something that thas to be done, but people want everything for nothing. So occasional comments like "it doesnt have a carport' as a reason for not buying is just ticking me off - HELLO!!! ALL THE OTHER HOMES FOR THE SAME PRICE NEED NEW KITCHENS, FLOORING AND BATHROOMS. Mine only needs a carport so which home would cost more to redo? mmmm

*peta gets off her soap box now.

Maybe we arnt supposed to sell right now - it just seems like a struggle. Hopefully we will go country for 3 years, get renters in and pay off as much of the morgage that we can.

Selling our house!

So, our home is on the market! We have had 3 couples through so far in 5 days, and it was all going well UNTIL......

We had someone come and look at it Friday and she was so interested and said she would bring her husband around to look on the weekend- but she never came back :(
I've just received a call saying that she didn't come because when she was leaving the derro neighbour on the left side yelled to her (as she was looking at the neighbours houses...)
'what the .... are you looking at?"

:O what ferrels!!! :O

only in Kallangur.

the neighbour lost us a really close buyer! I am so angry

Hair Time

Well I have been hanging out to do my little girls hair since the day she was born and finally at almost 3, its actually getting long enough and thick enough to do a few very cool styles.

Here is the one we did this morning. Surprisingly enough, its staying in too.

Love it love it love it, and so does she.

ps: 3 Posts in 2 days, if it doesn't rain it pores. Story of my life.

Firsts....

First Easter - pretty much the last FIRST of the holiday celebrations left before my little Cam turns 1.

First taste-,
Mushy squishy melted chocolate,
delectably delicious between fingers,
smiling at the new but wonderful taste,
and at the giver,
wants to give more but knows she shouldn't,
Smiles back,
and they giggle together.

Not super blogger of the year....

Well, here I am - its Easter already and very ashamed at my lack of posting. I said to myself in the beginning that this would be the way of writing the journal I always wanted, and secretly that people would find me funny, and think, wow i soooooooo want to be her friend. lol
Well I dont think I am doing well at my goal of being super blogger of the year and since then have discoverd that I am really not that funny. hehe

We gave the kids their eggs this morning and man, they have been super hypo all day - talk about payback. Anyone who is thinking of giving their little kids eggs to eat for the morning - i really warn you against it. bad bad idea. lol
Cam was a little surprised at the kids trying to hug him while he was trying to swipe their eggs

I also wanted to write and tell you that the time with our Canadian friend was amazing and fun. She even likes my taste in music so when i took her to Kate Miller-Heidke, I think I have made her a fan, maybe not for life but while she is visiting in Australia anyway. Kylie also came to the concert and converted her to the MUSIC too hehe.

Whats being going on? Stuff.....

So its been since before Christmas since I have posted and I have been busy, especially with the baby who is so active I feel like I just don't get a rest. Even when he is asleep the kids want my attention. Night times I finally get the chance too catch up with Jason, its crazy. How do people do it with more kid? This feeling has pretty much caused me to quit the hairdressing I do on the side. My kids end up getting neglected and they scream and act out the rest of the day after the person leaves. I feel like mentally I am full of mother stuff to change out of mind frame to do hair and then switch back. I am forgetting a lot of the technical side of it all and it annoys me. Its more stress than anything. Well that's my hairdressing whinge for the day. Onto the next thing lol.

My camera is in the SHOP being fixed as a pixel has gone. Hopefully they just replace it. I got it for Christmas so its not very old. how annoying.

We are planning to do a bit of renovations over the next month or so which is totally exciting. Get the roof done, patch and paint computer room, laundry done and tile the place. We will be pretty much finished all the stuff that we wanted too. yay. Sell and move into something we adore is my next plan. (or go country for Jason's work but we will see what comes up for that)

We also have a Canadian visitor arriving on Thursday which is exciting and also a little worrying that i wont be able to be the cool, awesome tour guide i try to be lol. The kids kinda put a hult to that but i have a couple of things planned. Hope she likes Australia.

My sister Kristel also was married on Sunday (their Saturday) and i am so happy for her. I wish so much we could have been there and wish we could be a part of their everyday life. Jason wishes he had a brother in law he could sit with in Priesthood meetings, so we will wait patiently till one arrives. hint hint lol CONGRATULATIONS GUYS we totally love you.

Cameron is now 7 months and has been standing since 5 1/2 months. Sounds nuts huh? but a week into December he began trying to stand. He has had lots of falls and now holds onto things with one hand and reaches out for the other couch or our hands to walk over to us. NUTS He just wants to be up with the kids. When they go to kindy, he seems so lost and bored. He loves them being around and looks out for them when he wakes up and waves at them. too cute,

Jason and I have been doing weight watches. Its been so good to see what a proper portion of food actually looks like and how to make better choices to staying fuller for longer. If you choose empty foods then you are hungry but don't have the points to waist of snacking on rubbish. Weird to say but we actually enjoy it. I am doing it more to keep my weight where it is and not let it creep up to what it was before. Jason has lost 2.5kgs in 2 weeks and he hasn't been exercising due to night shift but is going to start that too.

Trent and Brea have been busy practising to write their ABC's in a preschool book I bought them. Trent is sooooo ready to go to school and is like a little sponge trying to write everything he can. Brea more likes to do what Trent is doing but that's ok too.

well that's about it really. I am sure we have been doing a lot more but no photos to back it up leaves me with nothing else to say. Thanks for checking in - I thought you may have forgotten about me. bye!