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Lately I have been creating a few scrapbooking pages, very simple one's but at least they are getting done so I thought I would share. I have been trying set aside a Wednesday that I get together & scrap with a couple of friends and normally I am very non-productive but this week I was very pleased with how much I achieved. It's been another busy week - I can't believe how fast the weeks are going before we know it it's going to be Christmas. To start of my week this week we had a bit of an event on Monday - after Steve took the girls out horse riding on Sunday they came home and on the way home in the car Madison was scratching her belly and just above her belly button she has a little scrub TICK so Steve pulled it out (I don't like things like that, I'm scratching now just typing) and told them to get in the shower and check there warm spots to see if they had any more, Sophie had on just above her ear so we got that out and that was that, but later that night Sophie woke asking me to put cream on the bite cause it was itchy but she was pointing to the other side of her ear, so at midnight I turn the light on only to find this teeny tiny tick, I got Steve up and got him to get in out except it was so tiny he got the body off but the head was still in there AGGHH so we rang the hospital to see what we should do and they said just leave it and take her to your GP in the morning, so we made and appointment and Steve took her - Thank God cause they had to give her a local anisetic and cut/scrape it out (BLAHHH) Steve said she was so brave so that's it for horse riding I think LOL. Been doing the everyday running the kids around after school to and from there dancing classes, I also got to catch up with my Aunty that I haven't seen in about 3 months it was so good to sit and chat and catch up with her. Got our poodle clipped this week, it's the first time we have had him professionally done and he looks so good, normally it takes us about 2 days to trim him where as they had him done in 2 HOURS! He looks so skinny now with all his fur gone. Tahlia is at Youth tonight doing a HIP HOP Class which looked very fun and we now have a very busy weekend with Madison having a sleepover at her friends house tomorrow night, going to another friends boys 13th Birthday with the other 2 tomorrow afternoon and then going Ten Pin Bowling, going to Church on Sunday and then catching up with another friend for lunch on Sunday then it's back to Monday again and it will be another week gone - so I hope you are having a great weekend whatever you are doing.

Take Care,

Raechel :o)

Girls

Playing with Picasa!

I thought I would have a little play see how easy it would be to create a collage using Picasa! Anyone else ever tried using it, it's pretty simple but I'm still figuring it out because as you can see some of my pictures have been cut off so I'm not sure it I have to crop my photo's before I select them or what, but it's a nifty little program I like very much!

We have had such a busy weekend and Steve has taken the girls out to a mates house who has horses for some horse riding so I am having some nice time at home by myself doing what I want 2 on the computer, I really should be doing housework but decided I will get stuck into it all day tomorrow. I hope you all are having a lovely weekend whatever you are doing.

Raech :o)

QUILTS, QUILTS, SO MANY QUILTS

Today we had a fundraiser for the Church that we attend to raise money for a team of Youth that are going over to Thailand in the September holidays who are volenteering to work in an Orphanage, what a great experience - I would love to go and do something like this with my daughter and experience another country and just how blessed and privledged we are to live in Australia. So some of the ladies in our church are into Quilting and something I also love so we organised a QUILT DISPLAY - it was fantastic, I have never seen so many different quilts and how talented these ladies are, I think there were a total of 80 Quilts! I am so inspired after seeing such beautiful work and brought myself so really nice Fat Quarter materials now I just have to get my machine serviced so that the reverse button works and I'm going to do some more quilting, I don't think I've make anything for a good 1 1/2 years and most of it is still packed in a box from when we moved so I am going to dig it out and set it up and make some nice little projects, the day was a huge success and I'm not 100% sure but I think they nearly raised $3000 - here are some photo's from the day.

SOMETHING TO SHARE

Today I had a chance to get together with a friend and we scrapped all day, it was wonderful and I had a really great time (thanks Deb) I got 3 pages done and was so happy with this one that I completed, it was a little out of the box for me - I actually glittered all the letters and the chipboard swirlies and then Dimensional Magic them, my scanner ate abit of it but you get the picture.

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Tonight I am taking Tahlia to a orientation night at the High School she might be going to next year.................. YES I SAID HIGH SCHOOL, I can't beleive I am sending her off the Highschool next year.............. I AM NOT READY FOR THIS STAGE it seems like just yesterday that she was born and now she is nearly a teenager with lots of personality!!! It will be interesting, I think I will be more nervous than she will be when it happens LOL!

THIS IS ME

RIGHT NOW BECAUSE LOOK WHAT JUST GOT DELIVERED

AREN'T THEY GORGEOUS!!! THANKS BABE I LOVE THEM.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Today I have been married for 14 WONDERFUL YEARS, thankyou babe 4 so many wonderful years and many, many more to come... not doing anything special today as Steve is out of town working so it's a bit hard to celebrate but we will do something special when he is back in town. LOVE YOU TOO PIECES BABE xoxoxoxoxo