How sad I have let my blog go for nearly 11 months so much has happened since my last post which was full of sadness .
Have been busy making the invitations for Luke and Laureena's wedding which is next month have been out west for the engagement party all happening
On the home front we have gone from having a houseful to almost no one Tom moved out and is now living with Nat in Brissy .We had one of toms friends living here and we asked him and the girlfriend to go so now we are just left with Jeremy and its great. Jeremy got his licence so once he gets a car we plan to do some stuff for us My BF lives in Tin Can Bay and we are dying to get up there and see them and other friends up that way . Hoping to get Noel his good camera so we can go out and get into photography again.  I've been busy painting (yuk) why is the finished product better than the actual painting. still got  way to go but looking better finally i can get to the furniture I have been wanting to do up for soooooo long . Now we have 2 spare bedrooms I now have one for my crafty things and am hoping to spend more time in there  and get a few things finished ....I bought some antique silky oak doors which are my current project and hopefully they will grace the front of our house very soon . I love the old door knobs so bought a new set for a bargain price now just have to get all the inside doors painted so i can get them on . The grandbabies are growing up Anabel is 6 and Ollie is almost 4 ......

June

This month has been so full of highs and lows my best friends little grandaughter tragically passed away aged 7 months from SIDS RIP little one . Noels cousin passed away as well at 47 way to soon and one of the girls I work with lost her little granson at just 30 minutes old all in the same week so so sad xoxoxoxo
Great news for the month Luke and Laureena got engaged while they were in Sydney having a few days break so big excitement for the Todd and Scott familys we wish them all the love and happiness in thier new adventure together xoxoxoxo They are here for a couple of days
Holidays are on again and its been miserable weather and I am stilll battling this rotten flu and most everything I wanted to do involved a hose and water I have given It a miss although yesterday found me out in the rain shovelling the 3 meters of crusher dust that we had delivered to combat the bog that is our driveway but its done but sore arms today
next week we need to reseed the back yard as Jeremy has ripped it up on his motorbike so its also a bog hole as well maybe after the grandkids have been
Anabel Oliver and Mia are coming to stay next week for a couple of days Monday will go to Brisbane and hang out Jeremy has a traineeship day in the city so will be a full week and am yet to conquer the bag of stuff I bought home to do over the holidays

Finally

well I finally got my computer fixed thanks to Noel we have had a shocking run mine lost a file and couldn't get it back and then Noels year and a half old computer dies grrrrr anyhow all good new hard drive coming finally for Noels after sending the last one back and with mine I can finally access things a lot quicker than our olddell that just keeps on chuggin.
Finally we made it out to Luke and Laureenas for the long weekend made extra long when i had the Friday off work we had the best time the house they are living in is great nice and big with a big yard not bad for 113 dollars a fortnight and most importantly a wood fire because it is actually bloody cold out there. We went to Nindigully pub for lunch on the Saturday OMG food overload and also ran into some locals from Beauy in the bar small world .Sunday we spent at the St George show  to watch Lukes junior band play had a bit of a look around and headed out to check out a few places around town and we also went to visit some old friends it was soooo good to see them and check out thier old house. Monday spend travelling home again Jem and I came home with Laureena who had appointment s in Brissy before she headed back out on Wednesday . Next time we are going to go for longer my girlfriend works 3 days a week in Cunnamulla and Quilpie and they have just rented a house out there so she doesn't have to stay at the pub so we are going to stay with her and check those places out just not sure when Noel can get holidays at the same time as me  can't wait.
Happy Birthday to my 2 girls  Kasey for the 6th and Kaitlyn for the 11th we went out to dinner with Kaitlyn last night and had the best time haven't laughed so much for along time.

Farewells

went down last Saturday to Luke and Laureena's to wait for the removalist to pick up thier furniture and to help them clean the unit ready for thier Sunday departure . Luke went off for his driving test and passed thank goodness so laureena and i worked around the movers and cleaned windows . By 1.30 the movers had been and we had scrubbed mopped and cleaned and locked the unit. Almost made my no crying rule when they left ah well...... Sunday they were St George bound on their big adventure and all is well now are in unpacking organising the house we hope to get out to see them in the next couple of weeks grrrr if I had known Noel had an rdo tomorrow we would be in the car this arvo ,,,,,,,what can ya do .......
Went off to take Tom to windsor Brass last night which has moved over to hamilton now so getting further away from the grandkids but still doable .....lets hope if itsbetween hamilton and windsor Hamilton wins hands down for this mummy hopeful that Tom will have his licence very soon and i can hopefully stay home a bit....
Jeremy is also on his Ls and I swear he will have it as soon as he can .....he is a bit of a hothead sometimes but he'll learn .....
Not long now until school starts again and Anabel heads off to prep unbeleivable how fast this little girl has grown up thank god I will be a work or otherwise I'd be there crying
But can not wait for the end of the year for jeremy to finish year 12 not that i am trying to wish the year away but I just want to go to work and nothave to worry about all the other stuff.....
new exercise regeim is going well try to have it finished by 6.30 in the morning so I have time to do everything else before I head off in the mornings......lets hope I can keep it up
Spent yesterday with our other daughter Miss Kaitlyn soooo good to spend some time with her and see what a beautiful girl she has become and it beats her crying everytime I run into her downtown mwahhhhh

HAPPY nEW yEAR

Happy New Year everyone hope that its filled with love laughter and all things good.
Very slack yet again and i plan hopefully this year to spend a bit more time on my blog. Christmas was busy as always and we finally had all of our kids sleepover on christmas night so it was loud and a little bit rude at times but it was lovely its been soooo long since they were all here together.
Anabel and Oliver loved chrissy she is getting that little bit older and the excitement rubbed of on to Ollie . She loves her Dora computer, barbies and pillow pet dog funniest moment when she opened a doctors set from santa 'mummy I don't think santa understood that I only like princess things' and promptly gave the set to her little brother. Ollies favourite was a toy vacuum cleaner and broom he loves brooms mops etc so am now going to buy hima trolley one for his birthday the poor vaccy has vacuumed all our cement and grass and everwhere else and gets dragged everywhere .
Was disapointed with aust post though paid for kaseys pressie to come via express and it arrived 5 days later bought her an Olympus 3000 camera waterproof shockproof freezeproof nifty little camera..... Noel did not get his nikkon camera new plan is to save for this for this year he did get his play station 3 though so not all is lost......need to convince the boys now is the time to sell all the ps2 and the hundreds of games we have here taking up space. Have been cleaning out all the junk and putting my house back together after the years work . have started my chrissy box already for next year I found it heaps easier to do it this way we went shopping just before chrissy and we only spent a few hundred dollars picking up all the adults gift the kids had been finished months before except for hungy hippos game .
Boxing day was a rush took the kids to meet thier dad at browns plains came home and we headed back to see War Horse I loved it very sad though Nat and Tom went to see Tintin . Nathan loves Tintin and has always been but found out that my BIL Paul is too so my boys found a boxed set of Tintin adventures for him while out shopping the other night . nat has filled my watch list on ebay up with all the tintin stuff that he would like and is most dissapointed that he can't have it until either his birthday or chrissy .
It was great to catch up with Jen and Paul and Josh and Chev and Jewels but sadky missed Car and Jay and miss K probably passed them coming home from the movies....
Luke and Laureena's moving date has been bought foward a week so I went up to help them pack on friday. Saturday 7th is the pick up date for thier furniture and they leave on Sunday delivery is on monday in St George we were going to go out with them but Noel is going back to work on monday and he is in charge so its not gonna happen hopefully before i go back to work on the 20th . All the best on the move it funny that you won't be just an hour up the road......they are really looking foward to the challenge Laureena is all decked out with a new computer for all her online study and hopeful that she will have a job at the school as well. Luke is very happy that he got a job and a fulltime one to boot out of his graduating class of 19 only 2 have jobs the 2 that were prepared to go anywhere one is off to barcaldine and luke of course to st george.
b Big excitement for Tom this week when his new car was finished registered and delivered this week so he has been putting all the things that he has bought into it congrats Tom you have worked so hard to get this and its brilliant and a HUGE thanks goes to Uncle Kenny who has done all the work and got it on the road for him cant thank you enough.xoxoxoxoxox
BEST WISHES AGAIN FOR THE NEW YEAR HERE'S HOPING ITS THE BEST ONE YET!!!!!!

catching up

Wow can't believe that it was September when I last blogged now the year is almost over again. Only 2 weeks left to go at work for the year and our little guys have come soooo far they are reading and writing and the days are just flying trying to pack it all in..We were looking at thier pics from when they first started and to the most recent my gosh hey were babies so grown up now love seeing how much they have changed and how much they have learnt. Now we are madly trying to finish of one year and get ready for the next. We are moving from 3 to 4 preps next year .
Anabel is off to prep next year too but she wanted to come to grandmas prep Kase told her that she would have to live with us to go there her only reply was can Ollie come too needless to say she does love her little brother so she is staying home and going to Whites Hill College.

Exciting News for Luke and Laureena they are moving to St George in january for luke
to teach instrumental music out there.Hes excited he will teach 3 days in St George and 2 will be virtual classroom for the outlying schools he only has to travel to them twice a term. Congrats Luke for finishing your degree we are so proud of you .
Poor Nat has not had a great run he has been seeing a chiropractor for a while now for fractures in his back too many falls off the dock now the poor bugger has bells palsy which is looking way better than when he first got it but it is such a slow healing process and they are not sure whether any of the damage will be permanent hopefully not . He is starting work at a new store next week and back on day shifts so hopefully he can get the rest he needs. Thank god kasey was ther to make him go to a doctor otherwise he would never have gone so bloody stubborn (don't know where he gets that from )
Tom is working hard and earning heaps bought himself a new car (2nd hand) Lazer Liata and is just getting a few things done on it before he puts iton the road .Lucky for us Noels brother is a mechanic and can do all of it and roadworthy it there so fingers crossed it is here before we go out to St George in January as our poor old beast just won't make it. We need a new car and its just so bloody frustrating that we have in the bank managers words shitloads of money to service the loan but not enough equity soooo no new car for us feel like running the thing into a tree somedays at least we could get another car. grrrrr.
Jeremy has finished grade 11 and now just one more year to go sad that our baby is almost finished school but excited to enter a new chapter in our lives bring it on . Been doing this for a long time with ours and everyone elses kids but at the end of next year it all ends . We have had one of Toms friends here for the last 2 years living with us and we are over it especially now that his girlfriend has practically moved in the pair of them are lazy and selfish and expect everything to be done for them so by the end of next year he is gone whether he likes it or not I want my spare room back......
Only 4 weeks left until xmas and I'm not sure whether I am ready or not my house looks like a bomb has exploded so much stuff to get rid of and sssoooooo much to do and I can not find any motivation to do it . I have bought pressys and mostly the rest will be cash and vouchers but i want to get a few homemade goodies done as well as some little dresses and hairbands made heres hoping once the holidays start i can find it .......
I am sorry if I missed your birthday since september and I know there have been a few. We had a big night out last weekend for my best friends 50th (scary) started out at a Turkish Restaurant and then did over southbank the choc heaven shop she calls it and then on to the wheel of Brisbane . Noel and I both don't like heights and I am a bit claustrophobic so we were quite happy to watch them all go on it but they bought tickets back for us so Noel and I and vik and greg all went on I enjoyed it I am not sure whether Noel did I think he was ok once he finally opened his eyes and at least now he can say he has done it. Julia however couldn't be persuaded to go on she has been living in london and did the eye of london and she hated it so refused to go on this one . Biggest let down of the night parking at southbank was 36 dollars absolutely ridiculous especially when you see how many cars are in those carparks. all the same it was an awesome night.
Happy birthday to Vik for the 13th Noel for the 17th mine was the 22nd and our neices Serena and Jaci for the 24th . and so on to the silly season........

september

Well September is almost over for another year .Managed to almost get through the winter with no major sickness but de ja vu hit once again and the last week of the school term found me yet again relegated to bed with another virus grrrrrr. I did push myself the last 2 days and went to work much to my doctors dismay but I survived. The first week of the holidays Anabel and Ollie came for a visit for 4 days . How I ever managed with 5 kids I'll never know I was exhausted by the time I took them home but we did have a lot of fun. Picture of the week Anabel and Grandad playing disney princess remembory (memory) her latest favourite game .All the boys at my house now know how to play . I have been busy getting her a collection of Barbie and Bratz dolls etc so she is super excited that she will have one here and one at home I also got her a pack for Nannas house cause she has nothing to do there. I manged to score 2 sets of disney princess draws in excellent condition for 15 bucks so one will stay here and one for her for home to keep all her things together. We did decide though that the Bratz will stay here Oliver simply loves the feet so we now have a pile of feet on the kitchen bench that need a partner am finding them slowly in every nook and crany. Have scored some great bargins on ebay oztion and gumtree for dolls and accessories for them but some of it goes for ridiculous prices.
Have been shopping up a storm trying to get organised for xmas No surprise to most of you that I love online shopping I hate the shopping centers but have braved it a couple of times to pick up bits and peices. Bought Anabel and Oliver a swingset for xmas over 100 dollars cheaper for a brand new swingset online . They already have it logistically its just easier to give them the big things sooner rather than later and they are loving it.
So to the second week of the holidays I think that my trunk for the end of my bed will be done and I have one cupboard partially stripped one to go and my chairs hopefully as well but the days are ticking and I have a half bred head cold /flu who knows but will see how it goes. Have been washing and sorting all the kids little clothes that now have to be listed before I drown in them . I need a couple more weeks I think............definately taking some long service next year.
Have to find some space in the shed I think that my baby is growing up he no longer wants the lego in his room ....he still loves to make stuff with it just doesn't want it in his room . Not sure whether Noels gonna be too happy with more stuff in the shed though. A friend offered to buy it from me but its a lot of years and a lot of kids worth of lego in those boxes and its sooooooo expensive that I have decided to keep it......after all I m sure in a few years that the grandkids will get as much fun out of it as ours did and do. I'm still kicking myself that I sold all Jeremy's matchbox playsets but hey you can't keep everything. Just need motivation and can't seem to find any........