Monday, June 23, 2008

I'm Superior!

I have seen this on a few blogs and thought I would see my score too......

As a 1930s wife, I am
Superior

Wonder what DF would think of that??? hahaha

Sunday, June 22, 2008

A grown up party & another hospital trip...

This weekend has been eventful to say the least......Mum came down to help me out with a birthday dinner at the Wy Yung Pub Bistro for Ashlee and 9 of her friends. There was just no way I could have handled all the girls and my 3 little ones on my own. Just one day prior to coming to stay Mum had also developed shingles....AHHHH! More on that later.

Ashlee's party went really well. Everyone had a great time and were no real problem at all. She does have a lovely bunch of friends.

{All the Girls}
Ashlee is 3rd from left

3 of her friends stayed over the night. They had a good time - so I am told. See I was not there from about 11pm onwards as I ended up having to make that all to familar trip to the hospital emergency room with Anna. More on that soon. I'll leave you with some pics...

{Mars Bar Mud Cake}
Made by Nanny, iced and decorated by Me
This pic is also post candles so it looks a little worse for wear...

{Blowing out the candles}

After having a great night out we got home and the twins went to bed as usual. Everything was fine. About 11pm Anna woke up screaming and struggling to breath. I gave her her ventilon and watched her but she didn't improve so down the hospital we went. This time she was diagnosed with Croup and not her usual Bronch or RSV. They kept her in over night for observation because of her age, we are now also on Redipred again for a few days......oh the joys. She seems a lot better now but relapses at night because of the cool night air. I'm just doing my best to keep the entire house nice and warm, so far so good.

Better head off, we have twins playgroup today in about an hour and I am not even beginning to look ready! Its the last one for this term so I don't want to miss it today.

Take care everyone!

Naomi
xxoo

Thursday, June 19, 2008

New LO

Here is a LO that I 'whipped' up today.....hahaha. It only took me about 15 minutes this afternoon while the twins were having a nap (and I should have been doing something else - probably house work related).

{Home}

(Thought I better start adding credits for these pages, so here they are..)
Credits: to come...

xo
Naomi

A look into my Digi-Scrap Addiction....

Recently I discovered Digital Scrapbooking. Due to being on the move shortly I have had to pack up all my scrapbooking supplies. I was feeling a little bored and came across some digital pages on Angela's - An Angel's Antics Blog. They were so great and sometimes you really can't tell they are digital pages at all. So that's how my addiction started.

I then Googled Digital Scrapbooking and Digital Scrapbooking Freebies. This opened up a whole new world! I started out just downloading freebies from places like Digifree, Digitreats and Cuppycakes Digital Designs. This got me some great free papers and embellishments to get me started. I then discovered Pickleberrypop blog and fell in love with A LOT of there stuff. They are Australian and have there own website here with a great store that has heaps of really affordable (I use the word affordable because the word cheap would just not do them justice!) kits, Alphas, Embellishment packs, grab bags and even Actions (for PSCS - even though I use Paint Shop Pro 9), Brushes, Doodles & Stamps and Overlays and Textures. They also have a great forum that I have recently joined and am loving!

So I am still downloading great freebies from HEAPS of different sites (I will add a list below) but I have also moved onto the world of actually buying from these great designers. My first buys being All I am saying Vol. 1 Elements Pack by Tara Dunstan Designs, Alflafla Alphas by Kaye Winiecki, Pins & Straps elements by Alice Koh Designs, Tagged Elements also by Kay Winiecki and Distressed Stamp Alpha also by Tara Dunstan. I also picked up there Kitbash Vol 3 for free!

I made the page below with a mixture of Alflafla, Tagged (the staples come with Tagged) and Distressed Stamp. The papers are Kit Floraly - Benexav-Digiscrap faded & layered over Folded & Lined Overlay - Gunhild Storeide.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Working on it

I'm still working on a post regarding digi-scrapping but in the mean time here are a couple of layouts I have been working on lately....

{Our New Car}

{My Boys}

{Birthday Cake}

And my absolute favourite at the moment

{Sweetest Thing}

I know they a bit Anna based, I am still working on other non-Anna pages....hehehe. She is just easy to scrap! I'll BBS with more.....

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3 .... ha ha

Decided I might try out a signature on my posts...I'm just testing it at the moment. We will see how it goes :)

ETA - Don't know if I like that ... ?? Not clear enough. Might have to go with something simpler - is that a word?!

Monday, June 9, 2008

I'm going to play too!

Have a lot to blog about but that will be in the next installment as its late and I'm tired.....

Flickr game!

from here: www.flickr.com/photos/7413096@N02/2542216933

1. Naomi 2. Roasted Vegetables 3. Trinity 4. Blue 5. Josh Holloway!!! 6. Water 7. London 8. Butterscotch Cheese Cake 9. A mummy! 10. My family 11. Wacky 12. Two_and_twins

Turned out quite well - apart from the last one....apparently it couldn't find anything for my user name! P**ed off! Considering I AM a member - maybe it has something to do with me on F&F only ..... ??

ANYWAY,

the rules: a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page, pick an image. c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker

the questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Let me know how you went :) !

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Just stuff

Today started out really bad. At about 4am this morning Anna (who was sleeping in my bed after her 2am feed) fell out of bed. A *bang* and I was up, then a *scream*. I felt soooo terrible! She was so upset, I checked her over and she seemed ok so I just snuggled up with her again and gave her a feed (this time in the middle of the bed!). Once we got up 2 hours later I noticed a big bruise on her head, boy did I feel even worse then! It has gone down a little through out the day but it is still there, a reminder of how careful we need to be with our little ones.

Had a good friend drop over today and after being here for a few hours decided to take Mitchell home with her to play with Caleb (4 in August) and Jase (18 months). I didn't know what to do with myself then. The twins went down for a sleep and I made the most of the peace and quite and had a lovely shower followed by a quite cup of tea than did some house work while I watched (well bits of) Dr Phil. Boy do they have some weirdo's on that show! Once the twins woke up I went down the street to pay some bills (that can't be paid via Bpay - really, who doesn't have Bpay these days!) and had a little browse in Spotlight. My sewing has been badly neglected lately so I decided to have a look at some patterns and material, instead I got side tracked chatting - as usual - and ran out of time. I did find that they have Dot Minky in stock! In 5 different colours! So I'm going back down tomorrow morning before the rush to get a 1/2 metre of each. Also found some lovely soft chenille, Zach and Anna are going to have lovely soft bums now! (The fabrics for nappy making.) All I need now is a metre or so of bamboo fleece and I'm set.

Better go, bubs crying and I need to get Ashlee from squad training soon.

Take care all!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

800!

Wow, 800 hits to my little blog!

ALSO - I will try and do a post regarding how I started Digi-Scrapping. Especially for you Mel : )

Cakes and Candles

Well the party on Saturday went well. BBQ was lovely and Zach and Anna got a few nice pressies. Ashlee got mostly money, but she was happy with that. Mum was here and I really wouldn't have been organised with out her, I have been pretty busy lately and there were a few things that I hadn't gotten around to doing so mum picked up the slack **THANKS MUM!** . Anna wore her new party dress with gorgeous little stockings that Uncle Dan & Aunty Mel gave her. She looked sooooo cute! **THANKS DAN & MEL!** A real little girl. Zach wore his new blue top and black pants also from Dan & Mel. My little baby boy is looking so much more like a big boy everyday. Still have to pinch myself when I think that they are one!

We had a lovely suprise when Brett's 3 aunties turned up to help us celebrate. They are so lovely. They brought some lovely clothes for the twins and gave Ashlee money to buy something herself. They find it a little hard to buy for young ladies now. Overall we all had a lovely time.

The cakes were not what I had planned. Left that to the last minute and ran out of time to make them, really disappointed by that but I'll get over it I guess. We added up just buying a cream filled sponge cake for the twins with white icing and yellow sprinkles and a chocolate mud cake for Ashlee. They were both YUMMY!

Ok, its photo time now...

Firstly, Anna in her oh so pretty party dress

And Zachary in his party clothes

Zachary enjoying a piece of cake ... wasn't to taken with it really

Anna loving her cake!

Can't forget the cat 'Oreo' having a try of the sponge that one of the kids left on the ground

Zachary just being Zachary

And Anna and Zach - its been a long day....

Some of the people that came to help celebrate

And lastly *The Cakes*

Zach & Anna's

Ashlee's

Oh and must add this one, its of Ashlee and her friend from school (although I've erased her face as I don't have her permission to post it)

Thats it for tonight. Its getting late and I still have a few things to do before bed.

Take care all xx

Just a quick one

Just passing through to leave another scrap page, I'll be back later tonight.....

This one is titled 'Just the way you are' - it wasn't completely finished but Ashlee saved it for me and saved it as a .jpeg instead of a Paint Shop Pro file so I can't update it any more.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

My little girl is growing up....

Today you turn 11.

I can't believe it! You are growing up so fast.

Hope you had a wonderful day.

Love you Ashlee!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Tired

Thats how I am feeling today. Last night was quite a night. Zach and Anna were both up from 2:30am to 5:30am. Anna ended up falling asleep on the floor in the loungeroom. Zach took a bit more to get back to bed though, he's a cheeky boy!

Oh oh, Anna is now commando crawling!! She started doing it last night and is quite fast. Faster then Zach! She also cut her first tooth for her birthday. It was truely a day of firsts. Also Zach is nearly sitting up all by himself. He can do it for a little while but I'm not game to leave him like that on his own yet.

Better go, can hear Anna waking up - sounds like she is in a good mood too! I'll leave you with another Digi Page from me.....

Titled 'Sisters'

Our Here and Now