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Monday, August 07, 2006
Croak....
Well, guess what, I'm at home today, with little to no voice or should I say, a croak. I have a bit of a headache and a cough and runny nose, but on the whole I have been sicker than this. I guess this is my punishment for calling Riles 'Pilgrim' last week when he had the same thing and sounded like John Wayne with his croaky voice. LOL. So yes, another sick day off. This season has been incredible for sickness. I don't think I have spoken to one person who has not been sick at least once. Every year, I get sick once every winter, this year, this is the fourth time!
Anyway, Saturday was one of those days where everything is d r a g g e d o u t and you don't get much done because you're w a i t i n g f o r things to happen or be done. We have (or had) two big rocks either side of our driveway that were put there by the previous owners of the house. A few weeks ago, on the day of Chelsea's party, the previous owner came around and asked, basically, if they could have the bigger one of the rocks back. She explained that she believed it helped them stay healthy in the 12 years they had lived here and all three of them had been sick since moving away. The clencher was that she would replace the rock with a fountain/rock/ornament of my choice. So I said yes.......
Well this thing got carted away on Saturday and it was heavier than the three men who were trying to drag it onto the trailer. Eventually they did it and I have a nice new feature in place, which will hopefully eventually become a water feature.
AND BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING! I was getting sick BEFORE the rock was removed! I am superstitious, but I don't believe the rock has had any influence on our health. Maybe now its gone some more money will flow into the house though? LOL.
Saturday night we went over to mum and dad's as usual and had a ball. We won't be back over for another two weeks because next Saturday we will be at Brad and Jess' Wedding (which I dreamt about last night?!) and Aimee and Dave are going to the Snow in Victoria with Dave's Family. Lucky!! Aimee has never really seen snow and should be interesting to see how she goes skiing!! Hopefully she will sent me some great photos.
Sunday I spent exactly 8.5 hours in our garage. Why? To give my daughter a playroom. I had to clean it out (has never really been touched since we bought the house) clean the roof and walls, Will had to put up a dividing wall so her toys wouldn't roll under the car on the other side of the garage, I painted the roof and walls, brought all the toys in and set them up, and then finally had to clean out the other side of the garage. All is spotless now. You may look at the photos and think that we spoil our daughter rotten. We always make sure she has nice presents for her birthday and Christmas, but Chelsea has a lot of relatives and friends and friends of relatives and they all love buying her presents as well, as well as the fact that she has quite a few of my own toys that are still kicking, so, that is why we have enough toys to keep a dozen kindy kids all going for a week! I have always wanted a toyroom (I know mum will be jealous!) because I like having the rest of the house spotless and Chelsea drags all her garbage around the house to every room. At least now, its all in one place and she can get to it all easily. She still has a few of her special, good toys up in her bedroom.
Anyway, I will be adding a few more links to the left today, so be sure to go and have a look at all of these great sites that I visit regularly. I will most probably be back at work tomorrow, so I will make the most of my extended weekend. Even if I feel like garbage!! Suzi xo
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Jess' Hens Day
My Friend Jessica from High school is due to be married in two weeks. We went on a wine tour in beautiful Stanthorpe on Saturday and have heaps of photos to remember our day. I managed to pick up a few favourites, including a lychee and honey flavoured Port from 'The Summit'. We all had a great time, good luck in two weeks Jess!
Group Photo from left: Susan, Rikki, Jessica, Kate, Vivienne
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Blowing out the candles - 3 years old
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Monday, July 24, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
NOT GOOD
To start with, I would like to apologise to all my workmates who will soon be reading this entry. You see, last night we went out to Farewell Carol, our fantastic Admin Assistant who is moving on to greener pastures. We had a great night at the Hogs Breath Cafe and later went on to the Squealing Pig (Why are these places all names after pigs?) I took my camera as usual and a few snaps were taken, around 12 I believe. Well today after waking late in the day and staggering down to the computer to take a look at the shots, I did the unthinkable, I, um, lost em.....
All but three photos were deleted, don't ask how! I don't wanna talk about it!!!!! So here are the 3 remaining photos from last night SO SORRY BAROL CANDY!
Stephanie, Susan, Carol and Wendianne
Big Willy, Suzi/Busan, Phildo, Riles, Barol/Candy, Kyles, Wendi, Troy Boy, Mel, Pale/Stale Dale
Barol and Busan AKA Carol and Susan the two Mrs B's (note Carol's Limited Edition 'Carol as Barbie' Doll in uniform)
Anyway, today we decided to get off our butts and do something around the yard. Down the backyard on the corner of the fencelines was just shocking. One pawpaw tree, a huge pile of scrap gathered from other projects, two piles of dirt, numerous star pickets, trellis and 4 treated pine poles were all creating an attractive featured down there, so everything was removed, soil laid out and palms have been transplanted from other VERY bad positions around the yard! The end result is quite nice and eventually we would like to put river stones in there, as shown in the side garden in the photo. 1 week til the BIG FAIRY PRINCESS party. Chelsea has been moaning about her birthday all week. 'Oh I can't WAIT till my birthday'. Anyway, back to work tomorrow, after painting the toilet and and rest of the loungeroom tonight. If I'm really good I might pull off painting the hallway as well! After that, there's not much more to go, just the downstairs bathroom, laundry and study. Enjoy what's left of the weekend. Suzi xo
Friday, July 07, 2006
Chicko Babe
Some experimental photos, I'm starting to play with Fstops and the like on the camera once again.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
I have found my photographic idol.....
The photos included with this post are from a blog I have found and regularly visit.
http://alwblog.typepad.com/blogging_with_audrey/
be sure to check the archives, hundreds of stunning and I mean STUNNING kids photos.
and also this one (website)
http://www.audreywoulard.com/index2.php
I am stunned at the beautiful images this lady has taken, I'm so inspired!
I will be adding her blog to my favourites
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Saturday - Family Day!
Today we went to the Pregnancy, Babies and Children's Expo at the Brisbane Convention Centre. We saw the Bananas in Pyjamas show, got heaps and heaps and heaps of samples especially from the Woolworths stand! and there were so many bargains and discounts. Of course I got cluck cluck clucky as usual! Afterwards we went to Southbank for lunch, and then spent a few hours on a CityCat seeing the sights along the Brisbane River. It was a brilliant day, not a cloud in the sky and so warm. We were so tired on the drive home.... I will endeavour to include some video on dropshots for everyone as well. Bananas in Pj's Rock!!
Click here to see a bit of the show......
Click here to see a short part of Chicko's first CityCat ride....
3 toddlers
I'm about to do a new scrapbooking page on William, Chelsea and I as toddlers, here are the photos of the three of us to compare. Ohhhh, so sweeeet!
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