First Smile

 

Can you believe it my little baby is 4 weeks old tomorrow...

 

Time has gone so fast. Kerry sent me this today it is Jaxon's first smile.That's Emmanuel tickling his face.

 

I know I am biased but God he is so cute....

 

Sorry to you guys I am going to be a pain showing him off but then again I am sure I bore you about the LM and Kevin,its just that I love them so much..

 

Thanks for looking...

Little Easter Bunnie

                       Kerry dressed Jaxon in the little Bunnie outfit that mum made for him.here
                                     What a cutie...Like gee I love this little boy....

             The little suit really fits him so well.Oh I am a bit sad though -his belly button has fallen      out boo hoo my little baby is growing up

            So how lucky am I .....I have the LM who is a bundle of mischief and cheekiness.

And now I have this little angel...... wonder who he will take after mum or dad?...-If he takes after Kerry he will be a quiet little man-If he takes after Emmanuel well that's a different story......Apparently Emmanuel was a little chatterbox ...

                                Watch out Kerry you are going to have your handful.

I can't forget my big baby Kevin......He is cheeky,naughty, a chatterbox and guess what he is MINE...

love

Jaxon

Kerry sent me the cutest photo of Jaxon.Call me biased but gee he is a good looking kid.

I loved the photo but I had to add some bling-you know how it is ha ha

 

He looks so much like Kerry it is weird.

 

 

This is the hospital picture of Kerry.She was 4 days old .

Soooooo Beautiful...

 

LM's First Easter Hat Parade.

Today the LM had his first Easter Hat Parade and guess what I was SICK.....not just little sick but mega I am going to die kinda sick...

I was so upset as this was his "first" school function and I didn't want to dissapoint him by not going..
Like this is the  first time he gets to show us his Assembly and OMG I feel rotten.

I had to get Pam (my sister in law) to take him to school.Then I thought if I have a shower and do my legs (change my dressings)  and just rest maybe.......and yeah maybe I could win Miss Australia...

Kev called to  check on me.... I felt yuck but a bit better  but I couldn't drive no way and let me say the school is at the end of my street......So my wonderful Knight in shinning Armour came to my rescue once again....

Kev came home and took me to the Easter Hat Parade.

 

So she and sweet looking.....

 

I am going to treasure this picture.Look how cute he is ,this is shy LM see how he has twisted his sports shorts.

                        At the risk of offending thousands of other kindergarten boys this year.

                                                  I HAVE THE CUTEST LOOKING.......

Thanks Kev for taking me I will never forget the look on LM's face when he saw us watching him...
                                                                        PRICELESS....

 

Yeah I am one of those mothers.

This was taken when LM was around 8months old.

 

He is still a cute bunnie...

                                                                 One last flash back.
                                  
                                                     Kerrys first Easter Hat Parade 1988.
                               And guess what she makes the cutest little Bunnie as well.....

                                            Happy Easter from our house to yours..xxx

                                                    I love you Kevin Thanks heaps xxx

I won a prize;

I WON A PRIZE....

Yep you heard that right but I will repeat it anyway  as it makes me smile when I say it

I WON A PRIZE.....

One of my favorite blogs that I love to read is The Love Supreme .It is written by Mardi and is a really nice blog to follow,bits of craft ,family cooking,Kinda like visiting a friend.

Well recently she did a post on Stuck on you- who make personalized labels and gifts.
Anyway Mardi had 3 x$30 gift vouchers to giveaway by just leaving a comment on her blog.

I just left my comment and thought no more about it.

BUT!!!!! then I got an email from Mardi saying I was one of the winners.

How great is that.!!!!!!

I ended up getting a jigsaw with Jaxon's name on it....so cute.I was going to get the  stationary set for  LM but changed my mind as while I liked the pencils on closer look the activity book just wasn't what  I wanted so I  just got him the pencils which I know LM will love.....

 

 

The above pictures are examples of what I have ordered....Really happy with my choices.
I cant wait to get them .....

Thanks Mardi, thanks stuck on you.

So now I wait for my gorgeous prizes,I hope I dont have to wait long ......

Do you enter competitions? have you ever won anything?

Photo fun with Jaxon

When mum came down last week it was great.I was sick off and on but I still got to spend some great time with her.

We have this on going joke in our house that when mum comes for a visit I get sick and go to hospital.Stupid but true...

On Thursday  we went to see Kerry so  mum could meet her new Great grand son Jaxon..Mum fell in love with him....it  was really  great  seeing them together...

We did not get our 4 generations photos as Jaxon was very stressed.So I said we would get it later.

My sister Gail also came over for a visit so of course we had to have a photo of her and Jaxon.He was asleep so Kerry wouldn't let us wake him up so Gail got to hold him later though...

I took down some bits to take some cutie newborn photos.

Didn't work out the way I had hoped.

Kerry was a bit stressed Jaxon was stressed I got stressed just looking at those two.The only calm ones were mum and Emmanuel.

One good thing was we got two nice pictures.....these will do for a start.

How cute.... he is smaller than his bears......(not for long though.)ha ha

                                                              Jaxon 11 days old...

I love this one in his tonka dump truck.I wanted him to be a bit higher up in the truck and also put him on his side.But like I said he was stressing out and Kerry .............forget it.....no chance

But  Kerry has been good and took the first picture of Jaxon in a onsie with newborn on it.1 down 12 to go ha ha

Gee I am lucky I love my family...xxxx
 

Sports day

I give up......
When LM started school we were told that they have a  sports days but kindy kids did not need sports clothes or shoes....

Ok I am fine with that.....

Then 2 weeks after the kids  started school we get told kindy kids need black joggers and sports shorts..
What!!!!

Get it straight will you.....

Being sick as usual I couldn't go to the shops so I looked at Target on line to see what they had.I manage to get these "Crusty Demons" joggers for $29 and they sent them to our store for pick up no charge.In all it took 5 days.I wasn't worried if they were crap because I would just get a refund but I need not worry because they are great.
Kev picked up the shorts from the uniform place-no problem...

I took LM's picture wearing them on Sports day check out the face he gave me....

Just want to crab him and smother him with kisses ha ha

So I guess I have just had my first experience of schools telling us the "night before"syndrome
Great 13 more years of this crap

Do you get this problem at home and how do you deal with last minute pop ups ?

love

Phone fun...

WARNING...these photos have been taken by a 5year old on a mobile so some are not the best actually there is one really scary one so if you are easily upset turn away now.....but hey it's a part of our family's history so I love them...(well some of them )ha ha

I never wanted an IPhone but finally got one around a year ago and now  I love it.Apps!!!! dont get me started....

Well that's a bit of a fib I like the phone but love the camera.Sometimes it is just too hard to carry a big camera around where as the phone is always in my bag.

The LM loves to send texts on my phone which  I let him do if he has had breakfast and is ready for school.

OMG the messages he sends are so cute.....He says hello and some other readable bits but then he just copies words from anything (last week mum got a message from him all about Bonds men's undies.....ha ha ha

                                                                Nana and the LM...

Now LM loves to take selfies ( well he just loves to take photos of any kind on any camera) and he loves  to take pictures of a certain person in her nightie looking like death pulling a face.I told you it was a scary photo....

God that picture would scare the dead...but I guess that is how I look in the morning (and afternoon and night ha ha )

Yes I could kill him but then again I let him use the phone.Plus some of the pictures he takes are quite good...

Even though they are a bit blurry I love these.

When Kerry was little I wouldn't get my photo taken as I thought I was too fat (I was ) too ugly no I wasn't going to get a photo taken looking like that...But when I am skinny I will get lots of photos taken.I have been saying that for nearly 30 years....

Well now that has all changed.I realise now that who cares how I look it is more important to have the memories  whether they are good or bad...

I really get upset when I realise how I have missed out on so many pictures that I would dearly love to have and to cherish that now when a camera comes my way I just smile ( well  actually it is more of a grin and bear  it look) .

Sometimes they are good sometimes they arn't but then again they are the truth and it's my life...

"Smile "

White ruler

I love my ruler that I made but I didn't like the way I did the numbers...

 I used a sharpie and drew  them on but while it looked good I wasn't entirely happy with it....plus I thought it was a bit dark as well..
Check out my first attempt here

So off Kevin went to Bunnings to get me another piece of wood and while he was getting me that piece  I thought he may as well get another  piece so I could make Kerry one as well...

Well Kerry has grey walls at her house so the wood stain just wouldn't suit so I did hers white.The white turned out really good...

Nice and fresh with the black numbers.

I stained mined a bit lighter this time so I was very happy with how it turned out (second time lucky)

For the numbers on Kerry's  and mine I got my dad to get me vinyl numbers from where he gets his from (dad makes clocks really great clocks)

 

I have to thank Kev heaps as he marked out the measurements for me and did the letters as I  don't like doing that sort of thing..

Well both rulers have turned out great......I am a legend  (Kev is too xxx )......I am a fool  true true true but I am now a fool with a great looking ruler ha ha ha  

Have you made one yet ?.....

Easter is coming

Well Easter is fast approaching and unless you have been living under a rock you would know that...

Well say hello to rock dweller Dee....

I really didn't realise just how close it was what with all that was happening around us at the moment.

Last year we had an Easter tree and had a few little ornaments around and it felt nice.and urgh!!! don't look at the dust in my tv cupboard I am lazy and only dust the front part not behind the tv but you can be assured that I will be doing from now on-how embarrassing....

 

I bought most of my ornaments from Bed n Bath which has a great selection and great prices.This bunny is from the Reject shop a couple of years ago.The little train set above is this years Bed n Bath.

 

I couldn't resist this bunny ....I saw him last year and thought I would think about it and then when I went to buy it-all gone sold out...Crap...

This time when I saw him I thought your mine and you are coming  home with me now.....

This is our Easter tree....

A couple of sticks painted white and then decorated with beautiful little eggs from the last couple of years.I am just building up my stash abit each year...I just put the leaves in as well to fill the vase top but actually I like the contast with the white sticks.

Our tree may not be the biggest or decorated with diamonds (what a stupid description-I hope you know what I mean though) but it is our tree, and LM thinks it is the most beautiful tree he has ever seen ...that was his words cute hey...

I am going to keep a look out for sticks I like better or maybe a little stick tree but I am not in a hurry as we all love our tree....

Do you decorate for Easter?

Some craft....

I have been doing lots of bits n pieces in craft lately...It's a great feeling when making craft I love knowing I am making something for someone (or maybe even for me ) and if I am feeling sick it relaxes me doing it.
Only problem with doing craft is that my mind won't stop.I can be making something and while I am trying to do that I am starting on something else and will be using the computer at the same time.It drives Kevin mad he says "can't you just concentrate on one thing at a time?"
My answer is always "NO"...ha haha

So here is just a couple of quickies I made up this week.I can't wait to show the big ones I am making but they arn't finished yet .....soon...

Anyway I wanted to make a little gift for a friends granddaughter so I made her one of my favorites.

My cupcake  name frame....

I love these little frames and they look so cute on the little girls dresser or wall.I hope she likes it as well...

While I was doing this frame I painted some letters for some more bits I am doing,

Gee I am a messy crafter but I know where every thing is even if no one else does.

I try to put something down on my desk   to protect it cause Kevin will flip it I wreck or damage the leather top......but sometimes.....

These letters are for Mel (my daughter -in-law to be ) Her sister is having a little boy in a couple of weeks and she asked me to make these letters to match her sisters colour scheme....

At first I wasn't sure about the colours and how it would look but now it is finished I am quite happy with it.Mel had  given  me a photo of one of the pictures in the nursery that I had to match the letters to it..It was hard to match but I think I nailes it...
It is just nice to be different from the usual pale blue for a baby nursery.

Talk about easy..Well it was for me.Our school is having a fete soon and a Mother's day stall so I was thinking about some fast and cheap things to make.I saw these at a market in QLD  and thought what a great idea.

I bought some really nice soap.Now the hard part wascutting the soap in  half.This was Kevin's job.He tried a few things and they were ok but then my mum told me the best way to cut soap was with a hot knife.Yep it works.
Then I just put the soap in a little organza bag attachted a flower and yeah!!! done...A pretty little guest soap.You could put the whole soap in a bag and do the same but I was trying to do a few and sell them at a cheaper price for the kids.
I got the bags from the cheap shop  10 for $2 ,the flowers I had so each bag of soap cost me around 80cents each not bad.

For the block name I raided the LM's blocks.I want to use this for a photo prop in some photos of Jaxon.All I did was steal(I mean borrow) the blocks and used tape and place the blocks on top so they have some movement for display.I couldn't have asked for better colours.

Self explanatry .....Just painted a letter "J" for a photo prop.Later Kerry may put it on the wall.

So there are few quickies for the week that I have been mucking around with... .
Bye