In Loving Memory of Kevin McKay

Dave's Dad passed away on Wednesday the 28th January at 3.15pm. Kenny and Dave were there with their Mum when he went ...It is a blessing that he is now no longer in any pain and is where he belongs.....In Heaven.

The girls will miss their Grandpa very much.

Love E x

Christmas, Photos and Toots!

Thought I'd go back and share some Christmas pics now it's January and no-one is interested in Christmas anymore !!LOL!! So here's just a few.......

Dress up time a few days before Christmas

The girls with their Santa choccies

(check out Ella's face!)

Ella's new big girls bike!

Olivia's present, she loves to take photos!

We took Mum to the city for the day and went to Chinatown and did "Yum Cha" and then walked around the Brisbane Botanic gardens ....here are a few of my favs from that day.....

My gorgeous girl Ella!

(Ella is pulling her hair away, love this one.....such a nice gesture!)

Ok, here are my toots! I recently received an email from the lovely Lou from AussieScrapjacked asking me to be their first Guest Design Team Member for the year. Of course I will!!!!!

You can check out their website from this link......http://www.aussiescrapjack.blogspot.com/

Here is my take on the Jack and I have to say I love all the other girls Jacks too!!! Thanks again Lou for thinking of me!Here are my two latest published Layouts that are in Scrapbook Creations Vol 7 No. 11.

Thanks for visiting...don't forget to leave a comment so I know you've visited!!

Have a great week ....last week before school goes back ........................YEAH!!!!!

Love Ex

In loving Memory of .......MAGGIE.

I remember the day when we brought Maggie home from the Kilsyth Animal Shelter, 3 weeks after we moved into our new home in 1996. Dave always said "we're never getting a cat!" then one day we went looking......she actually hissed at me through the cage when we chose her!

Driving back through Mt. Evelyn we named her Maggie...she was our first "kid" and I actually trained her to sit and fetch! This is her as a kitten.

She had been losing weight so I took her to the vets and they did all sorts of blood tests which turned up nothing, just keep an eye on her. We went to Fraser Island for a week and Mum was looking after her....she wasn't getting any better. I told her to make an appointment for me as soon as possible when we get back. The day after we returned I took her to a different vets where he confirmed what I had suspected.......CANCER.

Maggie passed away in her favourite spot in the garden this afternoon, you will forever be in our hearts and memories.

We love you.

E x

Happy New Year........Holiday snaps

Warning! Lots of holiday photos!! We went on a lovely family holiday to Fraser Island for 7 days and had a great time !! The kids really enjoyed it and experienced a lot of different things.

This is our campsite.....we camped at Waddy Point, which has a dingo fence around it. We saw 5 dingos all up and most were on the beach at night!

We also got an extra large awning made up (which arrived the day before Christmas!) that gave us alot of extra room !!!

This is what Santa gave the girls for Christmas this year....they loved it!!!! So much more comfortable for them to sleep in. Think I'm putting in a order for Santa next year!

Olivia received this for Christmas....she has a love of photography and snapped off a couple of hundred photos just on Christmas day!!! She took some good shots on holiday too.

We did the usual tourist sites, eg: Lake McKenzie, Central Station, Eli Creek etc but this was our favourite destination.....The North end of the Island, the Great Sandy Cape! It is like "paradise" so Olivia said. We went up here twice, the first time doing the walk to the light house. The second time doing just this......the water is so clear (photos don't do it justice!) we saw all sorts of things swimming past......heaps of dolphins chasing fish, a couple of turtles and a few mystery dark shapes which were probably noahs!!!!!!

We also had the shade made up for the side of the car which is excellent . Couldn't have done wihout it and it only takes a few minutes to put up and away.

On the way home we spotted these.....there were lots of them up the north end. Turtle tracks!

then further down we saw this! We had to be quick before she disappeared into the sea.

This is Waddy Point where there were the best rock pools and so many fish in them! Dave also went rock fishing around the other side a bit more and caught a Dart (which he ate!)The girls and Dave went swimming in the rock pools with the fish.

This is the girls swimming in Eli Creek....they got their surf mats for Christmas too and loved them especially Ella!
This is us canoeing (we brought it up with us!) on Ocean Lake.







On the way home there is a real trickybit of sand through Indian Head where you have to go flatout or you'll get bogged which we didn't want to do with a fully loaded car and the tide not in our favour! There were also some bumpy bits which loosened the canoe straps and then we discovered this had happened.......

A fishing rod holder had dislodged itself and went through the back windscreen! Luckily Dave had lots of tape handy! So we limped it back home, carefull not to lose all our gear!!!!

But we had an excellent time and took over 900 photos, some video too which I'm yet to see.

Happy New Year to all our friends and family that may read this .......I'll come back soon with a few Christmas day photos ......

Love E x

It's here....

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

From my family to yours ....wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas

and everything you wish for in 2009!

Here are a couple of LO's as promised that I haven't uploaded anywhere yet...these were for my LSS Design Team theme of "distressed and inking"

I have another LO but I can't show it to you yet.............

So have a lovely day wih your family and friends and we'll "see" you next year!

Love E x

10th Wedding Anniversary

On Friday we celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary and Dave surprised me with a weekend at this gorgeous place http://www.hunchyhideaway.com.au/ (I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a romantic getaway in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland!)

This is the cottage we stayed in ....it was beautiful!

When we arrived these were waiting for me ....

1 for every year we are married and one for each of the girls....how sweet!

Treated ourselves to a massage from these people....

http://www.templemassage.com.au/

Which was fantastic!!!! It was Daves first time having a massage and he loved it !


This little girl and her baby entertained us on Friday night......


Soooo cute.






I got an Eternity ring too which Dave had made to suit my other rings and the designer made it exactly the same as my wedding ring so it all fits in perfectly! I gave Dave a chunky gold necklace ( so now he looks like wog boy !!!)LOL!

Saturday we went shoppingup the Sunshine Coast and bought one of these.....




and of course all the accessories that go with it !!!!

Also did a lot of camping shopping and generally going into about 100 different shops (which is not easy when you've got small children hanging around!)

Then had Thai at Moffat Beach to avoid the storm and that's when Dave told me the bad news...

Due to the storms and weather conditions the surprise he had for me ha d to be CANCELLED!!!!

He had booked a Hotair Ballon Ride over the Glass House Mountains!!! Which would have been unbelievable! Anyway we'll just have to postpone it until after New Year I think. It was a bit disappointing and would have topped off an amazing weekend.

Thankyou Darling! (if he reads this!)

Love E x

Award

The rules for receiving the award are simple:

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees

WOW!!! Blossie's, my LSS has given me this award!!! (I don't know how to link using the name so here is the link to their shop and blog)http://blossie.typepad.com http://www.blossies.com.au/

I am on their DT and they have a wonderful shop FULL of goodies ...they are in Morayfield so if you're ever in the area pop in and have a look!

So now I have to do the nominating bit?????

I'll come back to that.....

Thanks again Annette.

Love E x