MY BABY GIRL IS 7 TODAY

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY SOPHIE, I can't beleive that my baby is 7 years old today!! Where did those years go? It sometimes seems like life goes so slow but then all of a sudden your kids seem all grown up, it seems like just yesterday that I was holding Sophie in my arms and here she is so big and Independent. We had a very eventful day with her sister waking her up @ 7am (I think she was more excited about the presents than Sophie) and she received some lovely presents and being the girl that she is I couldn't beleive that her favourite present was these gorgeous little pair of shoes, as soon as I spotted them I knew she would love them (which she hasn't taken off all day - even with the blister that it has made on her toe), Highschool Musical 2 DVD, some nice new clothes, a Bratz Lil Angelz, a Mystic Baby and some money from Grandma & Grandad which she brought a little kitchen set & Daddy brought her a pink fishing rod (she can be so girly one minute and such a tomboy the next). So we went shopping, had a nice time (man can my girls shop, my feet were so sore when we got home) then we had a little party @ home which she had one little friend over and a sleepover tonight, took them all out for lovely KFC for dinner tonight and then had to go to a meeting for the Relay for LIFE that I am doing this year to raise much needed funds for the CANCER FOUNDATION, so I baked a cake & we all sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY and enjoyed CAKE!! I hope you had a wonderful day Sweetie I know i had fun....



I love you Baby Girl, but please slow down with the growing up I would like you to be my baby for a few more years yet xxx

... PANDORA ...

Who has a Pandora Braclet?? I had never really heard of them until my friend got one for her birthday and now that I know about them it seems like everyone has got one, it's very addictive though, my beautiful husband suprised me and brought me one for VALENTINES DAY and since then I have been trying to control myself and slowly buy the charms (yeah right). I got the beautiful Magenta Glass bead when we were away on holidays, it is so pretty.

I will share some more when it slowly fills up.

Take Care........... Raechel :o)

WOW..... It's been a long time

Since I BLOGGED...... actually everytime I went to post on Blogger it would lock up or not let me do what I wanted to do, so out of frustration I haven't bothered and then the other day when I thought I would try again..... I couldn't for the life of me remember my Password LOL :) But I finally worked it out and am back, so I will try and be abit more diligent in the world of Blogging, I know there are probably not alot of people out there who read my poor pathetic BLOG anyway but thought I would use it more for my own reference and see how I go.

So what has everyone been up to??? Well we have definately been kept busy here this year, starting with my oldest DD starting Highschool (let me tell you the first few weeks were a struggle with her getting used to the new workload and assignments man it never stops - I am so not prepared for this part of my life!!) then we had all the rain and we survived the flood with absolutly NO FLOOD damage to our place... PRAISE GOD but the amount of houses and people who lost almost everything is just devastating, just driving around was not nice seeing trailers of stuff just being taken to the dump and driving past houses with which looked like everything they owned on the front lawn. The weeks just seem to fly past and I can't beleive we just celebrated Easter and I am so looking forward to the holidays after this week!! And that we are in April already, my baby girl turns 7 this month!! eeeek where did that time go? I have been scrapping up a storm - not for myself but, one of my most cherished and beautiful friends Talia had a birthday back in February and since she is a working Mumma who hasn't scrapped since her boy was little I decided to do some scrapping for her... it was such a challenge since she has a little boy and I only have 3 girls it was so different to be scrapping a BOY! She was estatic with the result and I was very pleased that she loved it. I have also been busy making a quilt, one of my more experienced quilting friend helped me cut it out and helped me along the was so I will share some pictures when it is looking more like a quilt, I so love it the colors are just divine.

I have been slack with taking photos lately it feels like I haven't taken any in ages, but I haven't scrapped any of my own photo's for ages and I have so many to catch up on, but (doing a happy dance) I am going on a scrapping weekend soon............ YAY................. I am so looking forward to it, my friend Deb and I are going for a weekend away with the local scrapping shop at the end of April, which means between now and then I have to get organised....... hahaha can I do it!!! YES I think I will I so want to get some serious scrapping done so I am on a mission, I cleaned up my desk and supplies big time the other day so I know where everything is (well nearly everything).

Well I think that is it for me now.... so until next time.... take care....

Get Creative and Enjoy Life each and every moment.

Raechel xxx

The Mum Song

I saw this today on You Tube and thought it was to funny!! How on earth does she remember all those words, but it is just brilliant it's so accurate is so many ways LOL. Hope it makes you laugh like it did for me.

Raech :o)

...OH WHAT A NIGHT...

Well can you beleive that at this time last night I was laying in a hopital bed next to Sophie, how things can change in a matter of 24 hours... what started out as fun turned in one sore little girl & it all started like this... oldest DD had a friend over for the night & they were out the front filling up water bombs and playing games & during this time my brother-in-law turns up so we went inside for a chat - now I was thinking that they were just playing water bombs, but Tahlia's friend got Tahlia's electric scooter out and decided to go for a ride which was fine but it's when she asked Sophie to hop on for a double that the disaster started, & we have told the girls over & over that this is not allowed so they all felt doubly bad when it all happened but thank God it could have been alot worse & there were no broken bones or teeth knocked out - the freind got up speed & then lost control and they stacked it & the bigger girl fell onto Sophie who banged her head pretty hard on the concrete the other good thing is that all our street is concrete so her grazes weren't as bad as they could have been if it had been bitemen! So in comes Soph with blood pouring out her nose & one enourmous egg on her head, I stayed calm until she started vomiting & her eyes started rolling back in her head so we headed straight to the hospital were they admitted her & kept her in for observation for the night & she just keep vomitting which was not very nice (especially when the poor darling says: Mummy I don't like it when it comes out my nose) so I was glad that they kept her in just to keep an eye on her which meant 3 hourly ob's and when it was morning she said to me Mummy that was such a long night & how come they had to keep checking me, but PRAISE GOD there was no signs of any other problems & now just needs some very good sleep to recover which she is doing very quickly & has been eating constantly since we got home... I sure do hope that the rest of the school holidays are a little less eventful than the last 2 days that I have had, I think I will take the girls to see HAIRSPRAY tomorrow as it's cheap day (anyone seen it? I've only heard good reports!) & then I think we are going to go camping for a few days when Steve gets home later in the week but apart from that I think I am going to make the rest of this week relatively quite.

Thanks for a the SMS'S that I had regarding Sophie your thoughts & prayers are very much appreciated.

Take Care whatever you are doing.

Raech :o)

OH MY...

Look what I had at my back door this afternoon!!!!!!!!!!! Why do these things always seem to happen to me when my hubby is away, the kids had not long come in from playing outside on the tramp when the dog kept barking and barking which he usually does when the kids hide his toy bone that he is totally obsessed with so I went to the back door and this is what greeted me!!! I nearly wet my pants - luckly I had a male friend that was here with his kids for a visit & he imformed me that it was a carpet snake but he is also petrified of snakes & I think he was more scared than me LOL, now I think any snake is a dead snake whether it's venomous or not but there was no way either one of us was getting near it - so we called up the snake man & he came to the RESCUE... thank goodness - so all up we had 5 squealing children & 2 whossie adults but I will definately sleep better tonight knowing that its not still outside somewhere!!

BACK FROM HOLIDAYS...

We had a great time away, just what we all needed the only hiccup that we had was when we went to the Gold Coast Tahlia came down with her ashma and we had to take her into the hospital and she had to go on the nebuliser for 5 hours, the girls had a blast at DREAMWORLD & WET -N- WILD and it was great to catch up with some friends I just wish we had some more time so I could have caught up with some of my on-line buddies (a must to do next time). I can't beleive that I took about 850 photos while we were away & I so love my new camera I got some really great shots and have so much scrapping material now LOL. The place that we stayed at on the Gold Coast was great for the kids the kids club was so worth it even if the room was a little outdated there was so much to do for the kids at PARADISE RESORT and they had a absolute blast. Only a couple more days until the kids are on 2 weeks holidays which I am looking forward to even though we just had a holiday its like the saying you need a holiday at home when you go away for a holiday, so I am looking forward to the late nights and the sleep ins. Well I will end my post with some holiday photo's, take care whatever your week holds.