Challenge - Page 2

OMG, I know thats what you're saying! Another page from me already. Two on the same day actually! My boys went downstairs after dinner last night to play trains so I snuck into the scrap room. And even better, I created something all of my own and didn't even peek at a mag so I was very proud of myself. I yelled to hubby at one point 'I've got my mojo back!'...I'm sure he thinks I'm a loony sometimes.



Happy Birthday to my hubby Daniel today, another birthday in my family already! Crazy time of year for us. Not much planned for the day, off to swimming lessons with the kids shortly and then we'll see what happens.



Cheers,
Sar

Challenge - Page 1!

Long time no scrap from me...but this week I challenged myself and four of my friends as we're all a bit lacking in the motivation department (except for Kindra!). The challenge is to scrap ten pages before the end of the month, any size, the only rule is you can't buy anything new and HAVE to use your stash.

So here is my first page, total and utter scraplift, I admit...credit to Nicole Southworth whose layout was in Creating Keepsales December 2007. But I had to start somewhere. I have the flu, I feel like crap and I just went into my scrap room for less than an hour to try and cheer myself up at least a little bit.



I have trouble with white space, so this was good for me to just finish and not HAVE to fill the entire page. I used Thickers letters for the first time too, and just love them. The journalling is hard to read here, but this is Georgie's first bath when she was three days old. We've just had her 1st birthday three days ago, so this brought back a lot of memories for me on just how little she was at exactly this time one year ago. Precious girl.

Here is a photo from us from last night, we had a family celebration for her birthday, she was such a good girl and had a great time!



Till next time,
Sar

Xmas Morning!!

A special post for my mum so she can see the kids this morning...

It was all very exciting, Cooper was ripping open presents left, right and centre...and Georgie watched on in awe. They spent the last hour and half just wandering around the loungeroom playing with everything. We've had a lovely relaxing morning, haven't had breakfast yet but just busy playing and checking all the new 'prizes' out.

Here's some pics:

Cooper very excited about his new golf buggy...he's been riding it round and round in circles around the dining room.



Georgie and her Glow Worm that was from Aunty Leesh, Uncle Ben & Charlotte. She was already in bed last night when they came over but loved opening this pressie this morning.



And all of us!



Merry Xmas! Love you Mum!

Cheers,
Sar

Xmas Preview...

I am soooo excited! Its 10.46pm on Christmas Eve, our friends have just left and Cooper is in bed. We're just waiting for him to go to sleep so we can get everything out of hiding, then go to bed ourselves! My boy has been out of his skin today, so excited and jibbering all day about Santa and reindeers and presents. Georgia is oblivious to it all but is such a happy girl that you'd think she was excited too! Here's a couple of piccies from today:

Isn't she cute!!! Georgie looks so pretty in red...



And just a glimpse of how excited Cooper will be in the morning, here he is opening his pressie from Aunty Leesh, Uncle Ben & Charlotte...



Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas day with your families, I'm really looking forward to it, hope you are too!

Cheers,
Sar

Santa photo is Done!

And Georgie officially hates Santa!

After last week trying, Cooper wouldn't smile, Daniel & i were in the photo, Georgie was screaming...I refused to buy them and said we'd try again. Spent a few days trying to get Georgia used to Santa, but no...every time we went anywhere near him she just clings and cries.

So today, that was it...I HAD to get it done...put Georgia on Santa's lap, said to Santa 'I don't care if she cries' and ordered Cooper to 'Smile!'. And this was the end result...



Oh well, at least we'll be able to tease her in future years about her first Santa photo!

Heading off for a relaxing couple of days away tomorrow, going to Mollymook with two of my girlfriends, and can't wait to get there! We have our massages and facials all booked in for Wednesday morning. Planning to do not much at all, taking some stitching but no scrapping. Hoping to get back into that in the new year.

Talk to you all soon.

Cheers,
Sar

Quick hello...

I just logged on to quickly reveal that yes, I am still here although life is mental and I have no time for anything!!! My mum has been looking at my blog every day for a catch up on my children...so here I am to quickly post a couple of recent pics of them.

My miss Georgia tried chocolate for the first time the other week thanks to Aunty Hayley bringing Bertie Beetles over...do you think she liked it?



And here is Cooper cooking us something special for dinner, main ingredient Peek-A-
Blocks!



Gotta go, its way late and I'm tired. Promise to do some scrapping soon!

Cheers,
Sar

Convoy for Kids!

Hi all,

Wow, what a massive day we had today. Cooper & I went to Marty & Erica's Camp Quality Convoy for Kids. Its a massive fundraiser held in Wollongong for kids with cancer, and this year was just amazing. I haven't been before, but from what I am told this year just blew everyone out of the water and I'm hanging to see how much money our city has raised for these gorgeous kids.

Cooper & I were at my friend Amy's place at 9am this morning, and waiting on Windang Bridge by 9.20am. The first truck didn't come through till sometime around 10.30am (running late of course!) and it just took your breath away. The front trucks were driven by MJ Rowles who donated $20,650 for the honour of being the first trucks, and second place was Unanderra Tanker Hire who still donated their bid of $20,600. What an amazing donation, it was just unreal listening to that auction on the radio on Friday.

Our friend Adam (Amy's soon to be hubby) was driving for NTS and was a fair way back, but not too bad considering there were over 500 trucks this year. Besides the fact that he left home at 4am to get his spot! Here is Adam's truck as it came past...he spent over 12 hours cleaning and polishing it yesterday! Looks awesome huh...



After the convoy we went to the Fun Day and Cooper had a ball. It was sooo hot and I'm pretty much burnt to a crisp tonight! Here he is in Adam's truck...he spent most of the day sitting in there honking the horn.



The only way I could get Cooper to leave was to bribe him with a swim at Amy's place. Finally he relented, lucky as I was just about passing out in the heat. He had a fun swim, as did Georgia who we picked up from Grandma & Grandad's on the way to Amy's place. Here is Cooper sitting on Adam's truck just before we left, check out the unreal sign on the back of Adam's truck, pretty special hey.



Anyway, just about my bedtime here, hopefully I'll crash as quickly as the kids did. Well, Cooper didn't crash THAT quickly at first....after being in bed for about 45 minutes after refusing to eat dinner cause he was SOOOO tired, I went in to discover him under the blankets with a torch. I told him to get out and he refused. On pulling the blankets back, I find him with a big bag of Snakes Alive lollies from his sample bag....and they were just about all gone! Couldn't believe it, sneaky little bugger! After that he was asleep within ten minutes, god knows how after eating all that sugar. Kids, I tell ya...

Cheers,
Sar