Birthday Blues

Yesterday was my Birthday... I celebrated turning another year old, by having a Pot Luck dinner at home with family and good friends, I had a lovely evening and I even made my own cake.

I have been wanting to do this blossom design on a cake for some time now, so what better opportunity than for my own cake, and Blue is my favourite colour.

Don't you just love the polka-dots inside the cake, I thought they were just a little bit fun

Photo Wall

Ever since I rented my first house, I have dreamed about owning my own house, and creating a photo wall in the hall way...

We have been in our house for 10mths now, and on Sunday I finally started working on my photo wall...  I hope to add to this over the years and one day full the whole wall with pictures that I love

 

 

This of course means, that the heat is now on for me to start sourcing cool frames in op shops :) tehe... like I need an excuse to go op shopping more often

RUGBY!!!

I love to encourage my kids to play sport... so have been gently guiding Cammy into the world of hockey {with it's 12noon games for littlies, no play on long weekends or school holidays it seemed like a no brainer to me}... but, he had different ideas... RUGBY!!

WHAT!!! Where did that come from...?? so I joined him up with a club and a team, and took him to a few practices... all the while I was thinking, "he won't like this, he will change his mind, and I go back to saturday morning lie in's"

He didn't... In fact he LOVES it... and after getting used to the idea of early Saturday morning starts, so do I...

So now, I am looking for a pair of gumboots, and a REALLY warm, waterproof jacket...

 

 

 

Oh... and a whole set of circumstances came into play which meant I would NEVER have gotten a sleep in on a Saturday morning over winter regardless... but moer about Paris and her sporting achievements another day...

Firewood

Well the colder days and nights are upon us, and so it was time once again, to order the firewood... We got 3m3 delivered... The job I hate the most is stacking it all somewhere dry {in our case, the new house came with a wood sheed WAHOOOOOO}... so I did what any parent who doesn't want to do a certain job does - I offered money to the teen to do it instead...

Paris - not so keen, and had a hockey game so didn't even want to start with the helping
Josh - jumped at the chance to earn some extra dosh

Now, although I love my kids, they don't normally stack wood in a very tidy fashioned, so I wasn't expecting much when I said to Josh "it would be great if you could stack some up on this side, and some of that side and leave a path in the middle"

I left him to it while I took Paris to her hockey game... it took him 3 hrs, but he completed the job and I was happy to hand over some cash...

This morning, I headed outside to get some wood from the wood shed, opened the door, and just about died from shock...

I am in heaven... finally a wood shed I won't actually mind having to collect wood from...

A new Header

This header will have to do for now... I have to sit my kids down and get a real good pic of them all together...

The taller boy at the back of this picture, is my eldest Step-Son Ben... Ben isn't mentioned much on here, as he is 21yrs old, and last lived with me when he was 16... He lives out of town and has his own life, which doesn't include much chillin with the olds lol

Makeover Time

Rightio... I need some help... perhaps just step by step simple instructions on "how to" could possibly work...

My blog needs a make over... after all, I have 4 kids now, and my cover pic only show's 3... and it's about 3yrs out of date...

I have no real idea what I want to do... or how I am going to doing it... I just know I need to make the change...

Childhood Dreams

All through my childhood, one of my biggest dreams was to have a Feijoa Tree... Weird dream to aspire to I know! But, ya know, everyone has one of those dreams... you know the ones, small and un-substantial, but you still want to achieve it anyway...

When we bought this house, my dream was about to become a reality... not one, but two Feijoa trees {of, course you actually need two trees to get fruit}... and then as Autumn crept into our lives, that dream became even more real, because the fruit started dropping... and didn't stop... I'm in heaven

This was the first yeld we got... we only pick up off the ground, none directly from the tree... the shopping bag has all had the flesh scooped out, and has been frozen ready for baking

This represents approx how many we collect off the ground every couple of days