What a year it has been for celebrations....

It has been an amazing year for us this year.. we started the year off with my baby sis getting married. Since then our eldest has celebrated her 21st, then one son celebrated his 16th and got his L plates, then a month later his brother celebrated his 18th.. and we have our granddaughter celebrating her 1st birthday in about 6 weeks.. and the only party we have to hold is going to be our granddaughter's 1st birthday party.......phew...... not sure how we did it but we did......lol all the others chose to go out for a family meal instead of a party...

this is Josh at his 18th birthday celebration tea after we surprised him with a cake.... i had promised him we wouldn't embarass him with a cake.... well what can I say... payback..... hehehe

A fortnight after this he got his driver's licence and has since moved home again......

Our house now looks like a furniture shop....... no room to move between all the furniture... well that is what furniture shops are like around here...... it is amazing what someone can accumulate in 6 months...... he was lucky and had a former teacher give him half a household of furniture....

we now have 4 queen beds in our 4 bedroom house....... 2 are still in pieces on the verandah..lol a double bed and 3 single beds...... and a click clack couch in my office so Josh has somewhere to sleep.. we have 5 tvs, not all are hooked up but no more fighting about who is watching what channel........ yeah right.......hehehe 3 lounge suites.... one is in storage in my garage which is now totally full of all the other furniture from Josh including fridge, washing machine, kitchen table etc. etc.... I am slowly clearing the boxes of his stuff and either repacking and storing in the attic or cleaning and putting away in cupboards... but I will add it is really nice to have him home again.. he is saving me a trip to Warrnambool each week as he can now pick up his brother and bring him home after tafe and heaven knows that extra day gives me more time......just not enough time for crafting just yet........

Brady plays off in the Grand Final of his junior football this weekend..... this will be the last time we have junior footy after 6 years of it........ Josh and Lauren finish the last round of their respective football and netball this weekend, may have only one week of finals with both... then it is all finished for the year... next year hopefully we will have them all playing in the one place for the one club and on the same day... won't know what to do with myself then........ yeah right....... never had them all playing on the same day in the same place before....

We have begun our fortnightly trips to Melbourne on Fridays now with Lauren. She has been selected in the State Under 15s girls Spirit Vic Cricket squad......so off we head every second Friday down to Melbourne........not sure for how long this will be for but will be for the next few months....

our other lot of news is that I will become an aunty again 3 times over later this year...lol.. all 3 of my younger sisters are all expecting babies........ they are all due 8 weeks apart I think, first one due in November, next December 25th and then next in January - early February......better get busy and do some things for them........me thinks...

hard to believe this monkey is 2 1/2

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Couldn't resist this one... Nikayla caught in the act with some of my chrysanthemums.......lol
By the time we arrived home from shopping there was not one flower left on the plant... although I am glad to report that since being planted out it has happily grown new shoots and hopefully will flower again next year....

Kaylee

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Well I did promise a pic nearly 12 months ago...lol amazing how time has flown this year... this is our darling grand daughter Kaylee.. she is such a happy little thing....... she will be 12 months old in 6 weeks.. it is hard to believe....
I would post a pic of her when she was born also but they are all on my old pc.. Kaylee is here with her uncle and aunt.... we were out for tea celebrating her other uncles' 18th....
As you can see here she has inherited her mother's love of horses and has started riding at such an early age much to her daddy's and grandparents' dismay...lol

And these two odd friends are her and her mummy's horses..... the little one in the foreground with Tahlia is our latest addition to the family, a miniature pony named Snickers... he is 3, and the taller fella is Les a 7 year old ex race horse.... they look quite funny walking round the paddock together....lol

some little hats

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Okay I know it has been ages since I posted here I apologize..
Kids and life just got in the way here...... I have been running flat out with kids and sports trainings and commitments and also dancing... so I have been spending considerable amounts of time in the car waiting....... so this is what I have been doing while waiting..
I have also made scarves, cardigans, beanies and blankets for the needy and homeless and the latest is little scarves for The Alfred Foundation in Melbourne for their Alfred Teddy..
These little hats and bootees went to John Hunter Children’s Hospital NICU in Newcastle via Little Wonders Foundation for the little premmies..

This is another little beanie I made but this one has gone up on Oztion.com ... hopefully to get some funds to cover some postage costs for all the charity items I am sending... it is a small baby size... you can check it out and some other items here.. http://www.oztion.com.au/buy/auction.aspx?itemid=5227553 I am hoping to get some other items up for auction soon....

Well it has been a while :-)

Sorry it has been so long since I have updated my blog but I think time has just passed me by........... well my dd did give birth eventually on the 4th October to a darling little girl named Kaylee..... it is hard to imagine she is nearly 6 months old now.......time really has got away from me with xmas and all happening since then...... I promise to load up some pics soon...lol
Lots has been happening in my life since I last updated with all the kids and their cricket over the summer, thankfully that is all nearly finished. Just have Lauren playing in Melbourne this weekend in the Regions Country Cup. She is an under 14's western waves player but this is an open region cup so should be good experience for her to play against some of the state's best women cricketers..
Footy starts again in about a fortnight, probably not even that far away so we will be busy with that also I suspect..lol
Not much done in the sewing department of late...... have to learn how to upload my pics again. Have a new 12 meg camera and also a new laptop so quickly learning how to use both of these..vbg...
Off to do some more work........... lol kids have buggered up 2 pcs tonight so I am meant to be fixing them too............. never ending isn't it..

Playing the waiting game...

Well I am sitting here catching up on emails and playing the waiting game...lol
DD Brooke is going into hospital today at 11 am to be induced...
Her waters broke last night but according to her nothing has happened yet!! just some small niggly pains......
Am on standby for now as she wants me with her at the end!! not sure about that...lol
I am sure her and Tony can handle it together...lol as long as he doesn't faint or anything.....hehehe
Better go and get some things organised.. will update my blog when I have some news..
Catch ya all later.

Baby Andy

And this little fella is Baby Andy..

I couldn't just have a Baby Annie and Kitty without having Andy!!...

I finished him off last month but have had trouble uploading my pics to my blog.

He has an adorable birthmark on his forehead that is all thanks to Nikayla... she just had to give him a kiss and a cuddle just after I had finished making him and of course her sloppy kiss left this mark on his forehead...lol

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