Busy Busy

Well the boys are out again today with fencing and weeding. They are very enthusiastic and getting through more than Phil thought they would. Bec decided that she like farm work better than office work - she sat and what the Grinch about 2.5 times yesterday while I worked. Shes watching it again this morning - she'll be able to recite it soon! The kids have put their inside tents up in the lounge with all their Christmas presents set up inside them so will have a tidy up today around those and get a few jobs done so that this afternoon I might be able to get some scrapping done. Had some photos printed last week in anticipation! One of my goals is to get more scrapping done in the coming year. This past year has been a very quiet one with the scrapbooks.

Off to Work!

Well we are all off to work today (Phil has been working right throu anyway) but the boys have got a job on the farm nailing in staples onto the fences, Bec is coming with me into the office - she started last night packing her lunch and getting her drink bottle ready - shes very excited. I'll take the lap top in and she can play games on it, shes also packed her bag with her new Polly Pocket and drawing bits and pieces.

I managed to get a little scrapping done yesterday afternoon. Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season.

Waiting to Open Pressies

Here is some pics of the kids waiting for Phil to come home before they open their pressies. Rebecca was most excited and put out carrots for the reindeer. We had a good day and the kids made it special. You can see the christmas spirit in their faces!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone hope you all have a great day. Very quiet one here - waiting for Phil to milk the cows then the kids will unwrap their pressies. Enjoy your day.

Rebecca Angel

Rebecca got a beautiful angel from her cousin Ruth. I just had to share with you all. You did an awesome job Ruth!

Thank you Ruth for the angel picture you gave me it is hanging up on my wall now. It is very special to me I really like it. I hope you have a good Christmas as well.
Love Rebecca

Te Puke Christmas Parade

The kids were in the Whakatane and Te Puke Christmas Parade with the school. Callum was God of the Sea - Tongaroa. The float won 1st prize for best school and overall Mayors award in Whakatane and then second in the Te Puke parade.

They are advertising the fishing competition on Easter Sunday next year.

Callum as Tongaroa

There were two men under the fish moving it - thats Phil you see under the end of the fish.
Thats me talking to Callum. Rebecca and James were up closer to the mouth of the fish.

Happy December to you!

Oh dear I see by my last blog that it's been nearly a month since I have been here! Terrible isn't it. I haven't finished my christmas shopping bad aye. We did have a night away a couple of weekends ago and visited the Te Puna Quarry Park which is on the other side of Tauranga.

Te Puna Quarry Park
It used to be a Quarry but thanks to volunteers they have beautified it.

The Orchid gardens are just beautiful.



China Lady, Man and Callum is sitting on a China dog.

Layouts without photos 9x9's

My workspace- I'm in a state of creative messiness!

Rebecca a her table in the scrap room - she is working on a layout.
She is also in a state of creative messiness lol

The journal centre

Scrapping Room

I'm very lucky - I have a scrap room! It's in a state of creative workings lol. I have just brought the printer out and now I can connect the laptop up and journal, then print, then place on my page!

Just popping in to say Hi! Hope you all have a good weekend.
See ya!

Stockcars

We went to the stockcars on Saturday night to view the fireworks as well as have a great night. It would have to be one of the better meets I have been to - apart from the one in Palmerston North where it was all night demo derby racing! I'm not sure whether its cos I've got old lol or because of where we were sitting - we climbed up to the top and sat just off from the corner and we could see the whole race track. It was very exciting both Phil and I were 'come on you can do it' yelling out to the drivers 'ooohhhh he'll be annoyed he just pipped him'. Lol. Phil was really relaxed and I think the kids thought we were both mad lol. Anyway we had a great night and the fireworks were spectacular and sooo loud! - yep must be getting old! Hope everyone has a safe and happy guy fawkes.

Who's visiting?

I'd love to know whos visiting my blog ... if you are a stalker lol or a lurker ... or just a visitor please leave a note ... cos I'm feeling left out that James has had 8 messages loling

Internet

I have been working around 4 days a week at the moment. On Monday I spent most of the day getting the office on to broadband via satelite - thought it would be a easy task as we brought a wireless router for our place and I plugged it in and away it went ... but the router I got for the office needed to be reconfigered and it didn't want to load any internet not even the page to add your user name etc - spent an hour on the phone to telecom and was lucky enough to get someone who cared enough to go the extra mile as he said at the end of the hour that they aren't actually supposed to help people reconfigure there routers lol I've been calling it a rooter and can't seem to get that name out of my head lol. Anyway I got broadband internet going in the office and now it doesn't take up a phone line with dial up. My mission on Tuesday was to go and get another cat 6 cord (have already brought 30 meters lol) and get a second router (as one of the ones I have been using belongs to someone else) and hook it all back up. Whew I had some issues with that internet - first of all on Tuesday morning the other router I brought to run in the office wouldn't load pages so put the one back in that we used on Monday which was a different type and away it went lol then I tried to get the old computer running with it and here I had 1 computer loading the internet but not the one I had lol I was not going to let this get the better of me - anyway I knew that it would have to be a setting within that computer as it was working via the same line as the other - anyway I managed to work my way thru it and now it is going! YAY.

James' blog

James start a blog site today in an effort to get him writing more. His link is at the side of my blog. Go visit it, I'm sure you will enjoy his view of the world.