Photos from the Archives
Top: Chelsea and I, September 05, Middle: New Years Eve 05-06, Bottom: William and I, July 05 (gorgeous photo taken by Carolyn:)
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Hello!
We have all been sick in the last few weeks, all with the Flu. Nothing has been done on the house because we have been preoccupied with other stuff. Chelsea had her photo taken with GOTCHA! photos again last week, I can't wait to get the portraits back. She won first prize last year in the competition and the photos are just so natural.
The yard is looking really green, even before the rain came. William drains the grey water into the front and backyards, which has such a big impact - one day and the grass greens right up! The backyard is always shaded by the house and trees in the afternoon, so its always cool and shady and the grass isn't burnt to a crisp by the sun. I have to think of something to do this weekend on the house, hmmm - oh well, how about I just scrap instead!!
I ordered about 50 photos online to pick up from our local Big W, that was 8 days ago, and they're still not in NOT HAPPY JAN. For something different I have started knitting Chelsea a gorgeous pink scarf. Mum has made Meagan one with feather wool and it looks so sweet, so I had a bit of a refresher lesson, and now Chelsea should have a new scarf by the time she is 21! LOL
I'm scrapping a bit more now, on the weekend I did a layout that I never thought I could do. It was about me, about what stage I'm at in my life currently, things that I would like to do, but can't, for one reason or another, It was a real eye opener, and quite therapeutic, to write about myself. After I finished the page, I read it out to Will and ended up in tears, I'm glad I got it all out though. One area I'm trying to build up in my scrapping also, is the journalling. I take great pride in the quality of my photography, and so I tend to just scrap with the intent to show the photos off. In Chelsea's album particularly, I want to start talking about her more, what she's up to, and what I feel about her, so that she can look back and know that mummy and daddy loved her so much!
Work is HECTIC. Everyday I go home and my in tray is piled higher than it was when I first walked in that morning. Doesn't matter though, I love my job still. That's just me.
Chelsea is pretty much fully toilet trained now. She has even slept through the night without wetting her pants one night (forgot to put a nappy on!), but I am happy to wait a while for total 'big girldom'! She still loves dancing, likes watching Big Brother and is obsessed with fairies, princesses and ballerinas. ahhh - A total girl. Its only a few weeks until she is 3! She knows she's having a party, and she can't wait. I should start planning it soon, its not far away. 25th July.
This week I have been getting all my Digital photos on CD's together and sorting and organising them, so I can burn them all onto a DVD. As a result, I have found some gorgeous photos - not recent, that I just have to put up. Until next time, hope you (and us) get lots of rain. Suzi xo
Monday, June 12, 2006
Our Windy Weekend
I'm just making this brief, because I have already written a whole post and then lost it!!! NOT HAPPY JAN!!!
Basically to sum up this weekend, our chooks now live with Rob and Renee, the aviary is coming down, it has been cold and very very windy, we went and played at the park on Sunday, and now I'm off to switch the heater on and do some scrapbooking!!!
FOR YOU FANS OF VIDEOS
Susan trying to catch one stubborn black chook
CLICK HERE
William and his Dad taking the roof off the aviary
CLICK HERE
Stay warm!!!! Suzi xo
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Samantha's 21st
This weekend we had Will's sister Samantha's 21st at our house. We had about 45 people over, who all huddled around a roaring fire to keep warm!
Sam got some really nice presents, and we got to meet her boyfriend Wayne for the first time. He is a really nice guy and they seem happy together. They had to go home today, home being 4 hours away, 
so we probably won't see them again until christmas.
The backyard was looking really nice, Here is a picture of the beautiful lighting we had up into the trees, very dramatic.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIMEE!!!!! HAPPY 21ST AIMEE!!!!!
Happy 21st to my beautiful gorgeous and talented sister Aimee Maree. (aka Puff)
You're a great friend as well as a wonderful sister. Looking forward to your party on Saturday night. mwa mwa love Suzi (aka spunk)
MEAGAN'S NEW BLOG
My beautiful little sister Meag has started her own blog now. Her blog name is Meagle the Beagle (that's a nickname dad made up, its kind of stuck and thats what I call her all the time now) She is just starting off and I think her blog is so sweet. Go and check it out - Link is in right hand side column also www.meaglethebeagle.blogspot.com
Saturday, May 20, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEAGAN!!
Today my sweetest cutest little sister Meagan is turning 11...
Of course she is booked out today dancing at an Eisteddfod, but tomorrow we are going over there to give Meag her present and have dinner and have a cake and stuff....
Happy Birthday Meag, hope you got lots of nice things and had a great day!!
Love Will Susan and Chel Bel xo
ps this piccie of Meag and Chelsea was taken Easter Day 2006
New Photos - Downstairs Paint Job
Last night and today was spent painting the feature wall downstairs in the bar/rumpus/family room - whatever you want to call it.... I'm not sure about the blue yet, its a little brighter than what we've used upstairs, but we're going for the beachy theme anyway, so should be ok once I get used to it. Sam's 21st is in two weeks tonight, and there is still heaps to be done!
Aimee's New Car
This is Aimee's new MX5 She looks great driving it and so does Dave
Great photo taken by Dave this weekend.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Chelsea's Bedroom
The only thing we have to get now is some white timber venetians. Chelsea is very proud of her fairy princess room.
New Photos
I just received some photos from mum of Meagan at a recent Dance Eisteddfod. She is gorgeous I can't believe how much she has grown.
I have a cold at the moment - I feel terrible, aching all over and William has been really good cooking and doing stuff around the house. I worked this arvo for a few hours with James (hello James I know you're reading!) and today Will, his dad and stepdad have been again clearing the backyard and doing trips to the dump.
I finished Chelsea's room last weekend, now all I have to do is paint her chest of drawers and bedside table white and we would like to get her a white wrought iron look bed - mm very princessy! The backyard is slowly coming together, the tank is being used every day to water. The chooks still aren't laying however, the three brown ones are still a bit too young and the big black one just doesn't want to lay at the moment.
Work has been busy and hectic, I am enjoying my weekends and public holidays off. Tomorrow for Mother's Day we are going out with the whole family for dinner. William has told me that he didnt have time to go out this afternoon and get me anything, but I don't know if he's just foxing. I never know what to believe with him!
On Friday night I went to my old school friend Delyse's house and also saw my old friend Marivic whom I haven't seen in about 4 years, who now lives in Sydney. It was great to catch up, Mav is so gorgeous and grown up now! She just couldn't get over the fact that I have a child a husband and a house! LOL.
In a few weeks when I get my act together I am going to post before and after photos of the house, its really quite amazing how much we have done - I honestly thought when we moved in that a couple of two day long working bees on the weekend would have the place spick and span.
Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow for all the hard working ladies out there.
Love Suzi xo
Monday, May 01, 2006
Chelsea's Little Fairy
Finally finished it! When mum and I went to the craft show a few weeks ago, we both bought a decoupage fairy. I finished mine a little differently than planned, but I am quite pleased with the end result. I will be painting the rest of tinkies room in the next few weeks and then her fairy princess room will be finished!
Love you baby girl xo
Our new back area
As you can see from the photos, Will has been very busy as usual digging and shifting. He has taken out posts, poles and stumps to prepare this area for top soil and turf. We are getting the remaining turf next weekend, to finally finish the whole area. As we are having Sam's 21st in June, the whole area has to be spic and span and full of grass instead of dirt!
Thanks Babe, you have done a great job - now let's move onto the next task!
PS the big rock you see next to the turf has been christened William and Chris' friendship rock- the sitting rock. Chris and Ali dropped in on Sunday to say G'day, just in time for Chris to help William shift it into place. Alicia and I laughed and said that it was their special rock and they should carve their initials into it! LOL.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
What a gorgeous site....
Check out this site to make the most gorgeous little dolls
http://elouai.com/doll-makers/new-dollmaker.php#aligntop
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Monday, April 17, 2006
NEW PHOTOS
My Gorgeous baby girl all dressed up to go to Chris and Alicia's housewarming on Saturday.
Chris firing up the barbie, and another can of scotch!!
See video of Chris trying to start the barbie after William turned off the gas! Click here!
Chelsea's Days takings from the Easter Bunny (some is mummy and daddy's as well!)
Happy Easter 2006!
Ours has been a quiet, family oriented easter. We travelled 1 1/2 hours to Black Duck Valley on Easter Day, taking the Buggy and Dad's new trailbike. We all had a ball! The easter bunny was very good to all of us ESPECIALLY Chel Bel. I am slowly working on Samantha's 21st album, three pages done, and I am very pleased with it. I will post photos when its finished. I have a three day week at work this week. Thursday mum and I are going to the craft show in Brisbane CAN'T WAIT! Then the next how many weeks, have public holidays and long weekends as well! WOO HOO!
Birthdays this week,
POP WELLS - 17 April, sorry couldn't get down to see you this weekend for easter Pop, hope you have a wonderful day today!
MY MUMMY - Janet - 18 April, hmmm surprises from me at the Craft show for you!
EILEEN - William's mother - 19 April, we are going to visit them up in beautiful Laidley next weekend
ALSO latest news on our littlest, newest cousin,
Charlie Isabelle was born on Sat 8th April 2006 at 10.03am weighing 3.11kg (6 pound 14 ounces).
Congratulations to every one, especially my beautiful mumma, hope you have a wonderful day.
Photo taken May 87 in Penang, Malaysia, Mum was 30 and radiant as ever![2].jpg)
I finally tried my wedding dress on the other night, after finally picking it up from the dry cleaners weeks ago. It still fits beautifully, and I walked around and around the house feeling sad that I would never wear it again. Chelsea oohed and aahed and called it my fairy dress, I will have to get her flowergirl dress out again and see if it still fits her, its probably a bit too short thats all.
Countdown, around 6 weeks to Aimee's 21st and 7 weeks to Samantha's 21st, hmm girls, we will see what dear sister Suze has in store for you hmmm? I am the photo and video queen haha - Seriously though, I love inspirational, beautiful, meaningful photos and displays, rather than publicly humiliating someone who is celebrating their coming of age. So the girls should be more than happy with what I have planned for them. This week I trawled through hours upon hours of video footage taken through the 80's and 90's by my parents, they are all on old VIDEO8 cassettes, so I have been editing and burning them all to DVD. We had a video night last night with the first two DVD's and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. My, how things change. Thats all I'm going to say......
Anyhow, time to post some photos now, I know that's why you're all on here looking - not to hear my chit chat - so here we are, this is the Berdies most recent material summed up..
Enjoy your week everyone,
xo Suze
NEW DROPSHOTS HOMEPAGE - VIEW OUR VIDEOS!!!!!!!
I have been searching for a way to add video to our blog, and can't seem to master it. I have found 'dropshots' which is a video hosting site, where I can place our videos, where all you guys can view them and comment on them. So lets hear it!! Please comment on our fun Easter day videos, I've posted three, William, Aimee and Mum (Janet) riding a variety of vehicles at Black Duck Valley - click here for their website.
So please click here for fun and laughter, - we had a great day, as you will see!!
William on the trailbike Click here
Janet on the Honda Odyssey (the buggy) Click here
Chris teaching Aimee to ride a trailbike Click here
(Keep an eye out for Andrew hooning around the corner on the Odyssey - GREAT DRIFT!LOL)
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