Yep... It happened.

So after about 6 months of not blogging a lot has happened... Including a big driving adventure across Australia and an interstate move to Brisbane! Since we've been here the girls have loved being amongst all of their cousins and aunties and uncles... And there is certainly NO shortage when it comes to that here!

... Here are some shots I took during our journey across Australia...

the boys, the boys!

mick's sister danni has two gorgeous little boys, brigham and cooper - who we still havent met!... i don't really have any photos of them but managed to scrape up a couple for their pages... but once i get better ones i will no doubt replace them... but until then here they are along with mick's sister katherine's cute little boy called iverson... despite my dislike for 'red' i think his page actually looks pretty cute! Yay!

scrap scrap SCRAP!

so i'm still scrapping away on the computer... slowly chipping away at the gigantic task which is the family scrapbook! there has arisen a slight problem though {apart from trying to get photos of EVERYONE... seriously, it's a battle! i have quite a few more pages done but they are without photos... the search continues} ... as i move on to the next page and then the next one... i am starting to learn new techniques and find new 'products'... and unfortunately my earlier pages have become less appealing to me... i am so tempted to amend them... but i guess such is the pattern of development in any form of art... so, at the present time i am resisting the temptation and soldiering on with the remainder of the pages that need to be at least started!


after much anxiety i have completed mick's page... which i am actually really happy with... i think because i love him so much i wanted his page to really be something that i was proud of... and something that he would be impressed with also... so without further adieu here is mick's page... he really is a stunning man!

Beautiful Yolanda

yolanda {yol} is my brother jaise's girlfriend... she really has become part of the family... therefore she gets a page in my family scrapbook!

Nina + Taylen = two more down!

these little cutie pies are the girls' cousins... 

      Nina 

                                                            [Mick's sister Monique's little girl]    

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                                               Taylen 

[Mick's brother Mark's second little girl]

... confusing... i know!

Laaken!

i've discovered that i actually really enjoy doing 'boy' pages... here is one of my nephew Laaken...

Reach for the stars!!!

i often wonder what my girls will become in the near and far future... they are constantly changing and growing {much to their wardrobes despair} and making me laugh!

whilst chatting to them the other day the topic of work came up... so i asked them...

"what sort of work do you want to do when you grow up?"

Lingy replied quickly...

"i want to be a fashion model and a makeup artist!"

... clearly i have made my mark in her life, nice...

to which Jordy replied...

"i want to work at Maccas!"

reach for the stars girls! reach for the stars...

Danni

A page for my sister-in-law Danni...

fun filled family fantasticness!

mick's footy team [subiaco lions] won yesterday... which is always a great thing but nothing could beat our family bush walk and rock climb yesterday afternoon! we drove up to john forrest national park and just started wandering down the tracks... we walked through an old train tunnel where mick scared the girls with his boogy man voices... hilarious. but then we went off track and started climbing all the huge boulders surrounding the tracks... i was really amazed at how well the girls climbed the rocks... especially ling in her pretty dress and ballet flats! they climbed some massive rocks with very little assistance and confidently paraded around on top once the feat was accomplished! it makes me so proud of them, seeing them grow and be so confident in so many situations. 

towards the end of the walk the girls had picked up sticks and were using them as magic wands, pointing to us and saying 

"magic wand, magic wand, turn them into a..... " 

and they were saying different things such as a tree or a house or a horse etc. etc. 

at one point jordy said 

"magic wand, magic wand, turn them into a funny running lady!" 

so we all started running crazily, laughing and carrying on... but then, from behind us came this lady... running... and she ran really funny... on her tippy toes, like a prancing pony! mick and i stopped, looked at each other and burst out laughing! to which jordy then continued with her magic wand trying to turn the lady into a leaf... coz she was still being a 'funny running lady'.... without even knowing it...... maybe you had to be there...

but so many laughs were had out there in the forrest... a few tears from prickle bush encounters... but all up just great family memories that will stay with me forever. 

only 29 more to go... WHAT!!??!!

cousin giorgia...

One more down...

I'm slowly chipping away at the family scrapbook... and this is Hunter... another one of Mick's brother's daughters {the youngest one}...

mother of the year...

i woke up this morning to the beautiful serene sound of rain on the rooftop... 

it was 830am... the girls were playing nicely in the lounge room together... mick was next to me... life couldn't get better... 

but... then i remembered it was friday... a school day! i jumped out of bed ready to do the fastest lunch-make in history when i was greeted by jordy... she was sporting THE worst fake sick voice in the history of the world! 

"i'm just so sick mum... *cough cough*..." 

ok, jord, it clearly sounds like you have the black lung... pffftttt...nice try! but unbeknownst to you we've woken up too late anyway... so school's off! 

mother of the year award goes to me, yet again!

we enjoyed a family day together indoors, having snoop dogg dance parties and eating bakery treats... like i said...

mother of the year.

but just look at those happy faces!!!

 {interpretive dance involving a fitball}

 {jammin}

 {giant sausage roll}

 {classic}

 {chowin'}

 {ling's fancy finger is a regular at lunch times}

{my crazy girls}

and my mick... also enjoying the day off with what the girls call a ---

"lemon cheese pork roll"

{mick loves the vietnamese pork rolls from the little vietnamese lunch bar across the road at girrawheen shops... one day, a while back, when we were trying to decide on what to get for lunch [quite possibly on a day just like today... yes, this is not the first sleep in incident] he suggested we get pork rolls... to which jordy yelled out...

"yes! lemon cheese pork rolls!!!" 

classic jordy.

i never want to forget the moment when that happened}

man, i love my family!

yes... this is happening!

i'm so proud to say that i'm actually soldiering through this massive 

{family scrapbook} 

task, much to the disappointment of my anxiety that keeps trying to get in my way!!! two more down! yeh!

these are of Monique... [mick's youngest sister]... and Loganne... [mick's brother's first daughter]... or the girls' cousin... ... ...


more to come with hopefully less anxiety about the whole ordeal...

another family scrapbook page...

my fave little man... taco muchacho!

my new found obsession...

digital scrapbooking...

i am making a little flip book for the girls with a page for each of their cousins, auntys, uncles, nannys and poppys... and i have discovered digital scrapbooking is perfect for it, as i want to laminate it to protect it, but this way the pages wont be too chunky to do so.... like the one i attempted in the past! here is a little preview of what i have attempted so far....

so... three down... about four hundred to go!!!!!!! hahaha!