Goodbye

Its been nice knowing you,

but glad you are leaving....

The year hasnt been too bad for me, but

for 2 of my dear friends, its a year

that they would like to forget.

Me ... well nothing exciting happened,

we are all healthy, happy  & I have a job I like.

There have been a few ups & downs

mainly disappointment in people and their actions ....

but I cant change that.

 So moving on with what I love and what makes me happy.

My 2 favourite people

thats Madeline & Sebastian

incase you didnt know  :-)

my 3 Fabulous BFF girlies..

my 2 good friends

my cyber friends

and my family - well some of them lol

and of course my outlet

for fun..my hobbies / interests.

And I would like to thank all of my

blog readers for popping in and reading

this blog, its nothing exciting

but its my life and hope that those who

do pop in enjoy it.

I would also like to ask , if you do pop

in on this post.

Leave a message and let me know where

you are from, would love to know

who visits me ..

I hope you all have a safe & happy New Years Eve.

xxxxxxx

Christmas day ...

 2 Fat Santas..

on the right is Seb ..

 getting the popper board ready..

more photos below

 nephew Tyler & Seb

 Little elf Knox

 we have a crappy $2 santa visit us

on christmas eve

 santa trying to sit..

we have presents like..

disposbale toilet seat covers

old Mcdonald happy meal toys..

daggy videos..

its such a laugh to see who gets the crappiest present

 Santa has been

 even to Milo

 milo loved his grunting pig..

 mad got a heap of clothes, vouchers,

beauty products, shoes, dvds

seb got an Xbox, games, and of course

his Man U T, shorts, socks & guards

Mad & Seb 

Now about our party poppers at Christmas.

about 15 years ago we started this "tradition" ..
We stick a strawberry & cream lolly on the end of the popper, then pull . The lolly then flies thru the air and someone on the otherside of the room tries to catch it in their mouth...

 Yes choking hazard big time !!

kids are not allowed to do it,

 they can catch it and all wear goggles .
Last year my brother Chris made a board that held 50,

this year they have upped the challenge between Chris, my cousin Shane, uncle and Sebs dad Jon
this is Sebs..Seb it holds 24...

 This is Jons..

it holds 205 ...
I am getting the fire extinguisher ready ..

 Safety is my first priority rofl..

 even jon screwed shoes to the board..

ready for the grand explosion...

 the mess.............

 Chris, Shane & my uncle didnt do theirs.

but did indivudual ones..

think we had over 500 poppers let off ..

 The Santa Hat Family

photo

christmas tea at grannys..

she even got some

Man U crackers..

lucky me got a Man U key ring ..

Boxing day is my nephew Knoxs birthday

he was 3.

He had a Wiggles party and we all dressed as a wiggle.

I made the above ice cream cake.

chocolate with crushed maltesers

vanilla with choc mint chocolate

strawberry with fresh srawberries & marshmellow

its was devine..

Christmas Eve ...

and the Santas are in the house..

yes 2 santas..

the one on the right with no shoes on is

Seb...

in  blow up santa suit ...

tonight we have 16 here for a bbq tea, then we have

the $2 santa gift,very crappy ones given out

by the blown up santa...

some are sleeping over, then we will

have all 18 of us here for breakfast.

my uncle will slice the ham off the bone and we all have it on toast.

its been a family tradition for a very long time.

now the kids are getting into it, lining up

for there ham on toast, and choc milk..

then its present time ...

and all will be here for our traditional

hot lunch of ham, turkey, roast pork & chicken,

pickled pork. roast vegies galore, carrots, cauli, brocolli, beans

then my mums home made christmas pudding with

custard...and of course a coin or 2 in it..

then the party popper challenge..more details & photos later.

its going to be..well lets just say i have the fire extinguisher ready...



Corals Christmas tree bikkies

One of my Fab 4 besties Coral

makes these bikkies every christmas since her boys

were little. She uses jelly tots on them. We have

been on hunting expeditions for them

on our fab 4 days out.

I found Jelly tots here...

so she shared the recipre with me

and these are my

Corals Christmas Tree Bikkies..

as now they are referred too..

I ran out of jelly tots, so used

some green & yellow M&M's

Seb wants to give a plate to his

teacher for christmas..

so off to plate them up and drop them off

thankyou dear Coral

for sharing your tradition xxxx

Proud mum brag time...

Seb got his end of year report tonight, he is in grade 4.
they have a grading system that the majority of kids get C's, as it's the standard they should be at the time time reports are done.

Seb got 9 C's for English subjects - reading listening writing , communication. Thinking ,  civics etc

1 B for science - which is above the standard expected.

AND

6 A's for maths - which is well above the standard expected.

He is doing grade 6- yr 7 maths...

and I admit I don't think he takes after his mother in the maths gene pool .. Lol

He might just get what he wants for Christmas now ...lol

Madeline's report is delayed due to printing problems, I did ask if she had hidden it, but we got a note home explaining why, she is the English whizz...

This is what happens...

when you leave Hansel & Gretel..opps I mean 2 kids alone

with lollies

 and a bare gingerbread house .....

kids gone wild...

 notice the headless & armless gingerbread man

on the roof ....

they both had a 2 sides & a roof each to decorate, I forgot

to cut out doors & windows when I made it,

and they forgot to make any..so if any little

Hansel & Gretels are in there, they are trapped ..

and we did have some..not many ...lollies left over..



My 2 most favourite people ..

took these this morning under duress

from them both, told them

Santa would not come if we didnt

have a photo. and they refused to go see Santa

and sit on his knee for a photo..seriously

who doesnt want to sit on santas knee

especally if he is cute ..lol

oh and there is another post below of our

day yesterday

A day in Bendigo

not shopping, but a

soccer tournament for Sebs

SAP program he was selected for.

The Wimmera region

held a day and off we went.

Left at 7.30am with huge supplies of water, food & sunscreen.

It was stinking hot, windy,

and the place we went to is under construction

so heaps of dust..therefore

dust storms ...YUKKK.

my least favourite things..heat, wind, dust ..

He played 3 games, and kicked 1 goal

in the last game, and had a great time.

I was so proud watching him as he played in

a team 2 years older than him and he did very well.

arrived home just after 8pm,

there was a demand for the shower as we

were all covered in dust, sweaty, stinky - especially Seb lol

and sunburnt.

I am postitve they need to bring out a factor 100 in sunscreen

for me, I lathered it on all of us, kids are a tinge red..

me... my arms and neck look like a beetroot ..lol

David Beckham ....

Last night was the

Melbourne Victory Vs L.A. Galaxy

soccer match.

another tick on the bucket list done

 after quite a few years being on there...

see David Beckham play.

It wasnt for Manchester United

but it was still great.

Seb was so excited..thing even more

than me ..

here are a few photos..

 Melb Victory - above

LA Galaxy - below

warming up

 the line up ..

from behind  .. David is the last on the right

Melb Vict - blue tops, LA Galaxy - white tops

 there he his...drool....

and again.. 

 ok and again..and yes there

were others playing ..

ohhh taking the shirts off..

but no david  ..

LA Galaxy won in a penalty shoot out 4-3

It was a fantastic night for a game,

and beautiful night for it ..