School Holiday Fun

The second week of the school holidays, after the Grand Final Party was out the way, was very busy for us.

On the Wednesday we had Jaeda come over for a play. She spent the whole day with us and I took them for a ride on their bikes to the lake at Berwick Springs to feed the ducks. They rode and I ran. The feeding the ducks part was over very quickly. I think they threw in bread slices whole, they went through them so quick.

These photos were taken on my phone so they're not very good quality.



After they fed the ducks they went over to play in the park before riding home again. I had to push all the kids up the hill on the ride back. I ran while pushing Bailey and Micayla together and then ran back down the hill to push Jaeda up again.





Jaeda is under Micayla and Bailey if you can see that.

On the Thursday I picked up Paige and took her and Micayla to Artypants to do one of the kids classes. I then dropped the kids off to their Oma and Opa's for a sleepover because Adrian and I went into the AMTEL Awards at the Hilton (it's an awards night for the engineering industry). Iscar was the Gold sponsor for the evening. It was a black tie affair so of course I had to get a new dress. Apart from the boring awards the rest of the night was fun thanks to Tammy, one of the girls from the Sydney office. Thank god Tammy was there to party with is all I can say. If not for her the night would have been pretty boring, with the boys off doing their networking. Although we had Marty Fields as our MC and he was pretty funny. But some of his jokes I had already read on email. We didn't get to bed until 3am and I suffered a wee bit of a hangover the next morning, which was not good considering what was install for me for the rest of the day/night. I had visitors in and out all day after I picked up the kids, but at least I just got to sit around. But..........

I don't know what I was thinking when I agreed to let Micayla have 3 of her friends over for a sleepover. From about 4pm, 3 screaming girls invaded my house plus Micayla. Not real good on a hangover let me tell you. I let them burn up some energy before I settled them down to some quiet play. I gave them all a mask each and some paints, glitters, stars etc and let them go for it. Including Bailey. Bailey was loving it, doing what the girls were doing and he did a pretty good job of it too.

Here they all are making their masks.



now wearing them....


Then Bailey wanted a shot with Monty in it too, but Monty was not really co-operating.


They also did a vote on which mask was the winner and Sarah won. Then they put on a parade around the house wearing their masks.


with Bailey in the lead.

We then had dinner of fish and chips, and put them all in front of a DVD after getting their beds ready. After they finished watching the DVD they were put to bed, but of course, 4 girls in one room together, were not going to sleep in a hurry.

Kealy and Paige were picked up Saturday morning and we kept Sarah with us and took her home at about 5pm that night when we all went to Marty and Julies for Pizza, including Scott and Tania and Erwin and Kerrie. Then Sunday was a rest day before going back to school the next day. YAY!!! for that!!!

I'll leave you now with some scrapping stuff I've been doing. These are class samples for classes coming up in November at Artypants.

Christmas Gift Boxes





Paper Pinecone



I have been doing layouts for AED (Alison Ellis Designs) with their latest Christmas paper. I can't share atm. They are releasing the paper this weekend at Paperific, so I'll come back after the weekend with those layouts. I also have another layout I did for the Artypants monthly instore competition, but it's still on my camera and I can't be bothered getting it off right now, cause I'm about to go to bed to watch All Saints. So I'll come back later with that layout to share too.

Thanks for making it all the way to the end. Until next time...........