Thursdays news

Well today the senior kids had swimming competition, against Lawrence. Olly wasn't in it though as he is classified as a junior so he stayed at school (to his disgust). It certainly wasn't very warm, 19 degrees brrrr . There is no way I would of been swimming :)

After finishing about 1.00 we came home and then went and picked Olly and Abby up a bit earlier and went to the Farmarama in Lawrence. It is a farming thing that is held every two years and there is all sorts of different farming things there. I spent a bit of time in the satelite tent, asking questions etc as this dial up is driving me nuts. Only problem is the price and the usuage. Mmmmm, some convincing Lionel I think :).

When we got home the boys decided that they were going to show Abby how to ride her bike over the motorgate as she wont. She is scared she will fall in. Well it was quite humerous. Jake was doing wheelies and riding over some of it on two wheels Olly was riding like a mad man And even Flo joined in.

But Abby would ride flat out up to it and jam the brakes on. There was no way she was going over it on the bike. Jake was saying "Look Abby, even Flo is doing it". To which Abby replied "yea, but shes not riding a bike is she!" I had to laugh at that.

Fingers crossed

Fingers crossed that I am able to upload to blogger. (Now I'm not sure if it is dial up or blogger, but I'm blaming blogger :) ) It hasn't let me for the last two nights and I'm getting frustrated. Is typepad or word press any better?
The weather has warmed up and it is starting to feel like Autumn instead of winter again, (Although I would rather it feel like summer) which is a blessing as I've got a back log of washing. Mud and boys and wet days don't go together very well when you can't get the washing done.

Well this photo is one of the ones I took Two days ago for the challenge (I had a few to upload but I don't want to jinx it OK?) Jake has put up a fence behind the house for his pet lambs and he is now working it to get it sown so there is some "nice feed" apparently LOLAnd this photo is from yesterday. Some of the family relaxing :)And this one sums up today, not a very good photo as it was getting dark when I went out to get the washing and hadn't taken a photo all day. I must remember to take it when we're out on the farm, as I could of had a nice photo of some sparrow hawkes when I was mustering this morning.

Well thats it from me today. And yayyy its uploaded my photos, not all that I had to share, but it covers some :). Till tomorrow (fingers crossed)

Another wet day

The rain hasn't stopped. We've had 60mm of rain (240 points) . It is needed though, so were not complaining (yet). So not much was done today, been up to the yards and weighed lambs that are going to the works on Monday, and will crutch them tomorrow morning, yayyy. Now for some photos to share.

This little machine is to be blamed for our early morning wake up call. It went constantly, not like when you get a flat battery or anything, like when you get a bug in it and it shorts out, and I can't get the little blighter out, so out came the battery at 3am.here is our breakfast cereals. There is only four as Jake decided he was going to have porridge with me

Morning tea, Lionel and his favourite cup :)

Jake with his Flo. When ever Jake or Flo come inside they seek each other out for a cuddle before they go and do what they were going to do.

I went for a walk outside (while it was pouring down), I was hoping to get a photo of Jake and Lionel coming back from being out shifting sheep on their dirty bikes and soaked, but they went and did another job and I wasn't hanging around outside LOL. This is a old bike that we worked out to be 30 odd years old that Jake found in the gully not far from the house. He put it in his garden and I must admit, I love it :)This is a puddle out the front and look at the rain drops. The drain isn't working 100% yet. :)Here is some photos of our school camp (camped at school and went for a bike ride and visited the local firestation). Abby dressed up in Darrens firefighting gear.Swinging off the back of the fire engine. Abby thought if there was a fire then the firemen have to hold onto the back of engine and fly behind by holding on :)

Real life photos.

For those that don't know. Vicky Gibson is doing a challenge for a week. It is entitled "real life". The idea is to take a photo or series of photos for the day and post them on your blog. You don't need to do any writing if you don't want to, just post the photo/s for the day. Well here are mine, they hopefully show what sort of day were having :)

Its raining and cold so we have our fire going and boy its nice :)

Some of the family enjoying being inside Where Lionel been doing most of the day, and watching Rambo movies :)Flo in her playful mood with a hair tie in one of my baskets
Olly playing farms. I asked him if they were his sheep, he said "no, they're my cattle and I've just weaned them. Look at the size of them compared to my tractor Mum!!! Sheep aren't that big". I should of known that shouldn't I. Other days he will have those mega blocks and they will be his cattle and the lego his sheep, some days you just don't know.Abby with her farm and pigs. My big bite box is her top paddock aparently.Wheres Lionel and Jake? Well they're off to check some stock and make sure the river isn't too high, or they will have to shift some lambs. :)

Here are the people that are joining in to date. I'm sure there will be more that decide it might be fun, they are

Vicky Gibson
Rach
Raewyn
Julie Maree
Vicki M
Julie B
Mich

Blog award

Thankyou Amanda for this awesome award. :) In getting this award there are some rules. They are, I have to say one nice thing about the man in my life. Well the man of my life is the love of my life, he is there for me and hey, he is supportive of my awesome hobby-luckily.

Now list six ways i measure my success in my life.

1] Knowing my children are growing up and have their parents there to support them in everything they do

2] My awesome group of friends around here

3] The awesome friends that I still keep in touch with from my past

4] The group of awesome friends that I have met through scrapping (both in person and through messageboards.)

5] Being able to balance my life both work wise, hobby wise and sometimes house wise IYKWIM

6] Seeing my husbands face when I do a layout that I'm proud of.

Now I pass this award on to 4 fellow bloggers. These ladies are awesome and so very talented. So, ladies, I present you with the "This blog measures up" award and they are. Drum roll please......

Vicki, Penny, Jenny, Heidi.

Well this week Jake and Olly are away to school camp, and I've managed to talk Lionel into going teeheeee. I've been lucky this week, I'm guest designer for Andrea at scrapbookoutlet . My parcel of goodies has arrived and I can't wait to get into it. When I've produced some layouts and other things that I have envisiged I will share with you all and also over at SBO. Till then :)

Hot hot hot.

Wow its been hot here. It is still 27 degrees and it is 9.50pm. Well the long weekend is over and our visitors have left. We had friends from Oamaru come and stay. They arrived before lunch on Friday and left after lunch today. It was so great to have them come and stay. I can't get over how the kids have grown in 8 months. Their daughter is 7 and son is 4 nearly 5. They had a ball on the farm and Baxter wants to come back and stay by himself to help Lionel :).

I've done a little bit of scrapping. The first one is for a challenge on scrapbook outlet . The challenge was to do somthing you (or someone else) loves. Have three hearts on it, red somewhere and something layered. So I did a layout on Jake and how much he loves Flo (yep Fur B has had a name change). The next one was to do a layout of "Five things about me that you never knew.

And the next layout from the same site (sorry can't remember the name of it) was to do a layout "Because of you" so I did this one. Because of you 3, I truely know what living means. About how I thought I was living before I had kids then had three and found the true meaning of it.Well all the kids are back at school, and I truely miss them. The house is so quiet and kind of ....empty. But the long weekend has helped ease me back into it :). We have another week at school then the big class (both Jake and Olly) are going on school camp up to Sutton (not far from Middlemarch) and they will go to the Macraes mine, skink enclosure, salt lake, Hyde railway disaster site. Now its just who is going.... Me or Lionel. Hopefully lambs won't be going away or it is me, which will be fantastic but there is alot of biking involved agghhhh, I'm not fit. But imagine the cool photos I could get :).