Embracing The Cam-er-ah!

First of all I just really wanted to say that you should get your bums over to the Embrace The Camera bloghop (our favorite bloghop) its a fun little community which get photos with their kids, family and friends every Thursday. I ove it because I am forever behind the camera catching milestones and it gives my kids some great photos of us together! So this one of Jiedyn and I was the first photo taken on our brand new Cam-er-ah! Comments...

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Our First Family Fable

Aunty Kristal, Jeanette, Janae & Hiram came to stay for the weekend not long after I birthed Nevaeh. It was a special time as they welcomed their baby cousin and niece into our family. Cuddles, kisses and lots of long silent stares were exchanged before Nevaeh had to sleep again. Aunty Kristal got all clucky and your cousin Janai just couldn't stop herself for sneak peeks as Nevaeh lay rested in her bassinet. That whole weekend wherever...

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85 Facts About the Queen

Early years 1. The Queen was born at 2.40am on 21 April 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London 2. She was the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. 3. At the time she stood third in line of succession to the throne after Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), and her father, The Duke of York. But it was not expected that her father would become King, or...

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Royal-tea

Today we did have a very royal day! We started our day off with a very royal bubble bath.. Then came our royal breakfast of vegemite toast.. After breakfast we had a royal photoshoot. With hair and make up (otherwise known as lip gloss) the kids got a mini royal makeover. Nevaeh dressed in a fine white dress while Jie looked very smart in his collared shirt. And then had a royal lunch of homemade scones with jam and whipped cream.. mmm.. yum! Then later we had a royal tea party (that took me more time polishing our...

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Their High Tech World

So who has fallen victim to the tech monster? Brought your toddlers/kids a DS, a playstation, a wii, an Xbox etc.. Me! My son in his short 5 years on this earth has has a digimon, a tamagotchi, a gameboy, a DSi, two playstation2's, two computers in his room and an mp3 player! Jiedyn now has none of those things. But he does still have over 300 movies (both DVD's and videos). My son is a movie buff. He loves all things action but at...

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Free Fallin'

While Nevaeh had her afternoon sleep,someone else did too.. I wanna free fall, out into nothin Gonna leave this, world for awhile And I'm free, free fallin' Yeah I'm free, free falli...

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Scrapbooking Challenge 2011

I have been a member of Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Competition blog now for five months. Each month she posts up a black and white sketch which we then scrap up, photograph and email to her. She posts up our layouts in the order of date received, numbers them then at the begining of the next month a random gernerator picks the number of the winning layout! Since being a member I have had more motivation to scrap and am learning so much...

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Thursday Night: Before Bed

Tonight while the kids were in bed I decided to pull out the pop corn, a scary movie (Paranormal Activity 2) and a bottle of vanilla coke. After almost talking myself out of it (because I totally scared myself with the first one ending up sleeping in Jiedyns bed that night) I managed to press play, pig out and only jump once. I have to say, it wasn't as scary as the first one. No need to hop into Jie's bed tonight, or even sleep with the...

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Wednesday Afternoon: A Certificate

Not just a certificate, but the first certificate to enter our house! Jiedyn was super proud to show me and it now has its place.. smack bang in the middle of our fridge! The certificate says that Jiedyn did a great Job participating in the annual fun run! Each child had attempted to complete five laps of an obstacle course set up during their class time. When I asked Jie if he ran the whole five laps and he replied "Nah, just eight!"...

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Sunny Tuesday Morning: Breakfast

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Tuesday Night: Lunchbox Makeover

On Tuesday night while the kids were in bed and I was watching Australias Got Talent I was thinking of ideas on how to get Jiedyn excited to go back to pre-school. He hadn't been in a little under two months because of issues with his father and was feeling a little nervous. I decided to makeover his lunchbox with chuggington, dinosours, smiley, stars and christmas stickers. Wednesday morning he was super excited to go to preschool to...

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Cold Sunday: Sleeping

Honestly I couldn't think of a better way to spend a cold and windy Sunday afternoon than the way the kids did.. The kids slept for three hours today, I guess their Poppy must have worn them out over the weekend. I heard that while the boys were at the footy yesterday afternoon Jie kicked 55 goals! He's going to play for the Tigers he told me! Nevaeh and I spent the day singing nursery rhymes, cooking roast beef and eating starburst lollies....

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Playing Possums

Last week we discovered we had a family of Pigmy Possums living in our roof! For those of you who don't know what they are here is a quick YouTube video link..  Watch "Mountain Pygmy-possum" on YouTube So for about a month now we have heard little pitter-patters on our roof. Sometimes during the day but mainly at night. Jiedyn refused to sleep in my bed because these little but loud friends would wake and scare him with they're...

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