James' Plants

James got lots of things for his greenhouse for his birthday from Nana, Grandad, Auntie Karen, Uncle Gary, Ruth and Bevan and was given them a week before his birthday. They have started to sprout.

The beginnings of a pea plant.
Mmm might be eating them for Chrisy lunch!

James going into his greenhouse.
He had turned the hose on for the sprinklers.

James enjoying a shower in his greenhouse.
(There is that random behaviour again lol)

And this is how they grew so fast - here he is talking to the plants.
And yes he really is!

Bull Vallance

Callum feeding his calf Roseta (after the one who won NZ Idol)

Had a busy day at school today with a Super 4 Tournament, James was playing Soccer and they won one game, Callum was playing hockey and was very excited to have a scored a goal. He gets stuck into the game just as he did with Rugby. I was surprised to hear the other kids at school also calling him Bull so I guess that will stick. Sold lots of Moozees (over 200 of them) so if you are looking for a good thing to sell at a school function that would have to be it!

James' Birthday

James celebrated his 12th birthday in the weekend and had his mate stay the night on Friday. After a chosen birthday breakfast of hash browns, eggs, bacon and pancakes, we all then went fishing down at Pikowai Reserve. We didn't catch anything but the kids really enjoyed playing in the stream and sand, Phil had the weekend off and cooked us a sausage sizzle on the beach. James was heard to say later in the afternoon that he had the bestest birthday ever!





James has had a great desire to push a cake into his face and asked very politely whether this could be his day to do this ... so after we all got a piece of cake he slammed his own face into the cake and then proceeded to eat it. Sadly I think he gets this random behaviour from his mother, who gets it from her Auntie Caroline lol. The good thing about this act was that we were down at the beach and he was able to clean himself in the sea and there was no mess!

The lamb thinks its a puppy!

Rebeccas lamb - it thinks its a puppy and follows her around everywhere!

Random Feet

oh and this is posted just to make you all laugh ...... laughing .... its really good for the soul!

I hate feet and these are ugly!

This is my pic of the moon.

Very random photos lol

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One of the Challenges

1st challenge and no doodling!!!! not the picture that was asked for but .... couldn't come up with anymore favourite things lol


I started this one down at CC it was supposed to have more on it but I like this better.

Been a while!

Hi everybody - its been a week or so since my last post and I've been trying to work out what I've been doing lol. Certainly haven't been out to my scrap room and I know I have a couple of challenges that need to be finished ... mmm ... I've done one of them but still another to come. Will post when done.

My challenges are:

No.1----computer generate title and journalling,no fave colours like pink or purple,make the page about things you love most about your new environment--no people allowed!!

No 2----use your gorgeous black and white blog photo to create a black/white layout listing 10 of the favourite things about yourself--not Phil,the kids etc but YOU!

I'm still working on the first one. The second one I altered slightly - sorry Lani and Heather as I already had a half finished one of that photo from CC07 so I finished that one. But I did another one and only came up with 7 or 8 favourite things - its really hard to thing about yourself and your favourite things. Does anyone else have that problem? I will post those over the weekend. Thanks Heather for the 10 facts about me from your view - not sure whether I entirely agree thou lol.

We had a lovely weekend with Phils ma and pa- bummer that Phil was working all weekend but they caught snippets of him anyway. We all got shouted out for tea on Saturday night by the 'boss' (thanks 'boss') to a lovely family resturant called Bureta Motor Inn - really reasonable for a family and Callum has already asked to go there for his birthday. It is in Tauranga and I got to drive the 'little round bug' (ma and pas car) I was a bit nervous of driving it but didn't come to any grief apart from going a bit fast in a 70 km zone and getting a bit lost lol. Who else does that mmm forgets that its 70km and still carries on at 100km. Oh and don't tell Pa but I also did a little tiny skiddy as I pulled out onto the main road ... oops ... it wasn't really me it was the stones!

Well its James' birthday tomorrow and he turns 12 - can't believe where that time has gone it only feels like yesterday when he was a tiny baby in my arms - now hes this lovely big boy with a cool sense of humour struggling with the hormones of a 12 year old!!!!

Well till my next post hope everyone is well and happy. Have a good weekend - looks like we are in for rain which might be nice to get out into the scrappy place!
Take Care
Nicki

My handsome Boys!

James - aged 11 years

Callum aged 10 years