A Layout!!!

So after I typed my last post - Get Real, I had a sudden urge to scrap SO I give you my first LO since November last year!!! It's pretty simple but I love it and the photos are just so cute.
This is Joel and his little girlfriend Tilly from Playgroup.

That's all. Just wanted to share.
Till next time.

Getting Real

Well I've been umming and ahhing about whether to do this or not, but have taken the leap. My friend on SOF, Lusi, has put out the challenge on her blog to Get Real Baby. To say what's really happening in our lives at the moment, instead of hiding behind the perfect housewife and mother mask. Cause let's face it, that ain't me!
So I'm whipping off the band-aid... here it goes.

• I am way behind in my washing. I have at least 3-4 loads to be done. I have just about run out of undies!!
• I spend way to much time on the computer and really need to not. It's not healthy!
• I ate a whole packet of Chicos yesterday
  
• Apart from playing basketball on Monday night, I haven't exercised in over a month
• Sometimes I think I'm a bad mum who can't handle her own kid. He is at the lovely meltdown age but can't explain himself and I feel like I should know what he wants
• I wish we had the money to buy a bigger house but know I should feel blessed to just have this one right now.
• I love Joel so so much and would not trade him for the world, but I really wanted a girl first. But I am so happy now (as long as the next one is a girl!! LOL)
  
• I've cried so much this week over the bushfire situation. I cried today at the local shops when I saw people donating goods. I'm such an emotional person.
• I haven't scrapped a LO since the SOF Retreat in November last year.
• I am one of 2 girls in my playgroup who has yet to have (or be having) their second child and I'm feeling a little jealous and a little pressure but know it's not time just yet.
• I need to spend more time with God.
  
• I watched The Farmer wants a Wife on Wednesday and liked it! LOL
• I often lie to telemarketers just to get them off the phone

That will do for today. I really want to try and do this once a week (but seeing we are being real here it will more likely be once a month!!!!)

So there you have it. Me in all my reality at the moment.

I'm going to end with 5 things I am grateful for
1. That my family and i are safe from these fires (even though they aren't that far away)
2. That Joel did well at the Speech Therapist on Monday
3. For SOF website and all the girls there
4. That my mum and dad are coming home to visit in about 123 days!
5. That I had the opportunity to donate money to the Bushfire Appeal today.

Hopefully I'll be back soon to share some more.

Till next time.

Still here

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Still here. Been a good couple of weeks. Andrew is still on holidays which is nice. He goes back next Wednesday. Joel will certainly miss having him around, as will I.
Not a whole lot to report. Andrew is busily emptying and cleaning our big fish pond out as we are going to convert it to a sandpit for Joel so he's trying to do that in the cooler parts of the day.
Joel is doing brilliantly. He loves going outside at the moment and would spend all day out there if we let him. He's often found "crying" at the back door to be let out. Ha ha ha ha. He is speaking a little more now - as well as Mama and Daddy he now says Baby and Pease (please!) Pease is a new one as of yesterday and is said with big puppy dog eyes as he waits to go outside. Very very cute.
We've done all sorts of fun things in the last few weeks - paddling in his shell pool, playing in his pirate ship, gone to an indoor playground, swimming at the local pool.
I really want to take him to the beach so maybe next week sometime. He's never swam at the beach before.
So that's about it really for now. Haven't scrapped for a few days - my JYC still has 6 entries to go but I have pencilled in a couple of nights to get that finished next week. I want it finished by the end of JAN!!!
Anyway, I've spent way too much time on the computer today, so I'm going out to help Andrew with this pond while Joel is still asleep!
Till next time

Bye Bye Doggies

A sad day at our house today. We said goodbye to Patch and Ali. We were dogsitting these guys for 2 years and the time has come for them to go back to their original family.
I'll miss their slobbery faces at the back window and their sad little eyes willing me to come and play.
But most of all I'll miss this


Joel giggling and running around the backyard with them. Giving them hugs and kisses.
He will really really miss having them around.

Was lots of fun having you here Patch and Ali. Have fun in Bairnsdale.

Till next time.

New Photo Blog

OK so instead of clogging up this blog with my photo a day, I have made a new blog just for my photo a day posts. I have linked it in my sidebar - see Project 365 site but you can also click here - Megan's Project 365

This blog will continue as per usual - with random photos, our life stuff, scrapping shares.

Till next time.

Day 4 & 5 and some JYC stuff

OK so here we go Day 4 and 5. I'm trying to think of a better way to do this Project 365. I really don't want to clog up my blog every few days with these photos so I may start another blog for the photo a day stuff and just link it from here. That's what a few of my friends that are doing this as well are doing.
But for now, here they are.
Day 4 - we went to check out my little sisters new apartment now that all the stuff is unpacked and that. It's very cute. On the way Joel cracked the sads in the car and this is a surefire way to keep him entertained - he hasn't managed to accidentally ring anyone yet

Day 5 - spent the day cleaning at my other sister's house. We had an extremely cute distraction in Sadie. She is such a little sweetheart. I'm really going to miss those guys.

Ok and here are some more JYC entries - totally behind in this but that's ok. I'm determined to finish before the end of Jan and I will!!

Entry 21 - had to scrap what we were doing right now

Entry 22 - another to do list entry

Entry 23 - had to scrap about our stocking traditions. We do a santa sack here. Photo was from Christmas Day.

Entry 24 - scrap why we love Christmas and any special Christmas Eve traditions.

That's about it for now.

Till next time

365 Day 2 & 3

Ok so I didn't make it back yesterday to post my pic but I did take it and I've already taken today's as well so woo hoo on track still!! Have been helping both my sisters pack and move their stuff over the last few days - Clare, Matt and Sadie are moving to Adelaide in about 10 days and because my other sister Beth was living with them, she had to move out too! So it's been packing central at their house all week.
Anyway, here are Day 2 & 3 - No Joel pics today - he won't feature in all of the phtos but most likely a lot of them

Day 2 - Joel LOVES strawberries so we buy a couple of punnets a week (which can get expensive) so we found a strawberry farm near us that sells 3 punnets for $5 (BARGAIN!!) So every week we go to the farm to get strawnberries. Here is the truck from the fields, stacked with strawberries - YUM!!

Day 3 - I have a new (well she's pretty old) blogging companion. Her name is Molly. She is our family cat that was living with Mum and Dad and then they moved. So she lived with my sisters and now they've moved. So she's come to stay with us. She loves nothing better than to sit on the desk while we are in the office. She's a total sweetheart. Andrew is not much of a cat person but Molly is totally winning him over!! Ha ha ha!

So that's it for today.

Till tomorrow (hopefully!)

Happy New Year and 365 Project

Well firstly, Happy New Year. I really hope 2009 is a year of great things for all of you.
Secondly, I am still partaking in the Journal Your Christmas - just been really slack taking pics of the layouts (and I am a little behind - I'm up to Boxing Day) BUT I promised to take pics of the stuff tomorrow and load them up.
Just wanted to share about another challenge I am hoping to undertake this year. It's called Project 365. Taking a photo a day for a whole year. I know I know sounds a little bit too hard but I thought I'd at least give it a go. I will try and post some here but hopefully they will all go on my Flickr site which I will put in the sidebar soon.
So Day 1 or Project 365 and I have taken at least 1 photo so that's a good start. Here it is....

It's not a perfect picture or anything but it documents what a bit of what we did today.

Christmas for us was great. We had a lovely time with both sides of the family. Ate way too much and got some awesome pressies - Joel was seriously seriously spoilt. But he loved it. Wasn't so much into unwrapping the presents this year - but I'm sure that will come soon enough. I will share some pics of Christmas once I've gone through and picked some out.

Also wanted to share a couple of pics I took the other day - i think it was Boxing Day. It was warm so we went outside and did water painting on the ground. Joel loves loves loves water at the moment so he was totally in his element and totally saturated.

And seriously, how long are these eyelashes. They are unbelievable!!!

And I am also in the process I've writing a few intentions/goals for 2009 and I really want to put them here so I can be accountable so I will share those over the next couple of days as well.

And lastly, my fave scrapper Ali Edwards (see sidebar) has issued her One Word Challenge again for 2009. The idea is to pick a word for the year (see her blog for greater detail)
My word for 2009 is going to be focus. I need so much more focus in my life. Need to focus on what's important and stop wasting time. Need to focus more on Joel. Need to focus on getting fitter and thinner!
So here's to more focus in 2009.

Anyone else got any thoughts on a word for 2009?

Anyway, I think that's enough for one night. I promise I will return over the next few days to share my JYC stuff, Chrissie pics etc..

Till next time

Days 12-15

OK so here are days 12-15. I am really loving doing this - it's been so much fun

Day 12 - memories of Christmas Past

Day 13 - Christmas Music - faves? Do you like it? etc....

Day 14 - gifts on the big day - when do you open them, who gives them out?

Day 15 - visitors - do you have any over the holidays, etc..

That's about it for now. Am hoping to bake some gingerbread today - YUM!! Love it love it.

Till next time

Stll here and still Journalling

OK so I've been sick the last week so haven't been doing much blogging and I got a little behind on my journal. Then on Wednesday night Joel had a shocking tummy bug and was vomiting most of the night/early morning so that wiped us out as well. BUT i am all caught up now! I will post Days 7-11 now and then 12-15 tomorrow as I haven't photographed them yet and it's getting a bit dark now.

Here we go

Day 7 - all about our to do lists.

Day 8 - we had to share how it's looking like Christmas around our house/street/city!

Day 9 - we had to scrap about our traditions. I did this last year so I focused on a childhood tradition which was going to/watching the John Martins Christmas Pageant in Adelaide.

Day 10 - wrapping - what are we using? do we enjoy wrapping presents?

Day 11 - the Christmas Tree

OK hopefully Ill be back tomorrow with the rest of the photos and then I am planning on staying on track.

Till next time

JYC Day 4, 5 & 6

OK so I wasn't back yesterday BUT Andrew went to Sydney for a wedding over the weekend and took the camera. SO I couldn't take any pics of my pages. But here they are

Day 4 - we had to write about our Perfect Christmas. I have all photos of pretty things, catalogue and movies Christmas scenes. But that's not what my perfect Christmas is

Day 5 - we had to document how we countdown to Christmas or our Advent traditions/calendars.

Day 6 - share 2 stories of Christmas pasts - 1 good and 1 not so good. Mine were both from last Christmas. Good - it was Joel's first Christmas. Not good - first Christmas without Nanna and Mum & Dad moving away.

So I'm almost up to date!!

Till next time.

JYC Day 3

Still keeping up with Journal Your Christmas. Woo Hoo! Hoping I can go the distance.

Here is my Day 3 entry - it was all about Christmas cards. Do we make them, buy them , even send them, etc...?? I journalled inside the card.

I used a copy of the Christmas Card I'm sending out to people on the page.

Till tomorrow (hopefully!)

JYC Day 2

I KNOW!! 2 entries in 1 day. SHOCK HORROR!!
Here is my entry for Day 2. I only just got Day 3 email about 5 mins ago so technically I am caught up!!
We had to journal about the Christmas weather - snow or lack there of here in Australia

Ok that was all - just wanted to share!

Till next time

JYC Day 1

So here is my entry for Day 1 of Journal Your Christmas. They asked us to write a manifesto, a promise to ourselves. So here it is. Cause the prompts are coming from the UK, I am always going to be almost a day behind but that's ok. Joel is asleep now so I am going to try and get Day 2 done.

Christmas tree is half up. Well the tree is up and the decorations are going on tonight when Andrew gets home from work - pray that Joel doesn't trash it too much!! LOL!

Till next time!

Journal Your Christmas

So this year I am doing Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas again. I really loved doing it last year and think it will be something I try and do every year. I may mix it up a bit this year and use the prompts most of the time but also use the journal as a bit of a December Daily diary a la Ali Edwards (see link in sidebar)

So, as today is the 1st of December, the fun starts.

Here is the cover of my journal/album. I really love how it turned out.
MM Poinsetta glitter paper, MM green spot paper, AM Felt Thickers, Typewriter Letters from Willro&co Designs, little Tree badge from AM.


I am hoping to post a bit more regularly during December - just to share lots of Christmas love and joy.

Till next time.

Scrapware have a blog

I love the Scrapware Chipboard embellishments and they now have a blog to check out here

They have a cute birdhouse up for grabs as well so go on over and check it out!

Retreat LOs

Ok ok so i didn't come back yesterday. I'm sorry Beth!! But I'm here now.

Just wanting to share the LOs I did on the retreat

This is the LO I did in Bev's Class. We made our own backgrounds using Glimmer mist and stamps. Lots of fun and mess!

This one is about Joel and his love of books already. Love how this turned out

Just a fun little LO about Joel and this cute little thing he does when we say OH NO!!

Last one was a challenge LO. Had to only use papers, embellishments etc.. that were in my goodie bag from the retreat. I thought it turned out alright!

So there we go. It's going to be wet and windy here in Melbourne over the weekend so I am hoping to get more scrapping done then. Am in the process of making a Christmas/December album up to record all the fun and festivities of the season.

Anyway, till next time

Too much to say, not enough time!

I've been meaning to get on here and post for over a week now but haven't had much time and then when I did Blogger was being a real poo but here I am! So much to say and share. Since my last post, life has been crazy but good. Joel has been giving us lovely wakeful time during the night for the last 2-3 weeks. Most nights (bar maybe 3 in that time) he's been up from around 12-2 (the worst night was 12-5!!!!). Suffice to say, Andrew and I are stuffed!! But we still love him. We've pretty much been going to bed when Joel does just to make up some sleep. We have discovered Joel now has 4 molars which we think is the reason for the wakefulness. We are hoping it finishes soon!!
Andrew is up to his eyeballs in reports and trying to do them tired is not fun for him. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel and they should be done by the middle of next week.
The most exciting thing that happened for me was the Scrap of Faith Retreat. I flew up to Brisbane on Friday 7th for the retreat and it was so much fun. I've been chatting to these girls for a couple of years now on the SOF forum and it was so good to meet a lot of them in person. Words cannot describe how it was to spend a weekend with these awesome awesome women of God. And shock horror, I actually got some scrapping done on the weekend as well (amongst all the chatting!!) I so hope I can get to the next one - whenever that will be. I'm better start saving now.
Just wanted to share some pics of the weekend. I will load some pics of the LOs I did on the weekend tomorrow. Too many pics to share today!!

My roomies - Suse, Gayle, Leanne, Nat and Kat

The gorgeous and extremely talented Ro Field

Tracey (who reminds me of someone famous and I still can't pick who!!)

Lou, Ali and I laughing (this pretty much sums up the whole weekend)

Awesome Gayle from WA - one very cool chick

SOF Creator and Awesome God Chick Sal

Nat Mardon and I doing Blue Steel (love this chickie!)

My roomies again

So that was the SOF Retreat in a few photos. So not enough to sum it up but it'll have to do.
Layouts to share tomorrow.

Till next time!