Wheels keep on rolling....

and pedometer keep on click over!!! My goal for the week is to keep my pedometer over 12,000 steps a day... each day!! I love having the kids ride beside me while I either walk or run. For something different we take the bikes into town and ride around the creek! The girls love it as there are a heap of 'jumps' around the track.

I love my hair.. will take a photo and share once it is dry.. having just hopped out of the shower, it is currently dripping wet!

Today is going to be a home day. The kids are buggered. They have a full on Monday! With kinder, childcare then they go to my fitness program we run for little kids. They eat well on Monday!!!

I have a bit of housework to catch up on and I took several lots of photos over the weekend, so need to sort and post them!

Have a great day!

Introducing....

My beautiful nephew Cooper William John...

Isn't he beautiful...

he really did melt my heart!!!

Dan and his family came up to Hopetoun for my Grandfathers 90th Birthday party, so FINALLY got to meet him!

Ok.. more tomorrow. I have booked in to have my hair cut and coloured tomorrow. I am the only woman on earth that dreads having her hair done??? I hate sitting down for three hours!! Lucky for me i only do it twice a year!

Tummy shrinking...

True or False??????????

I was just on the telephone with a friend that is on a new 'diet' program. (Tony Ferguson i think)

Anyway.. she has quite a bit of weight to loose and is going to do the program to loose the bulk then she believes that her tummy would have shrunk and she will be right then..

W.T.F....

I have said it before and will repeat again here...education...education.... education....

moving on.....

My new computer is cool....

very cool....

All set up with thanks to a file transfer cable and cooking with gas. I even shared with the girls!

I have been clocking up between 13 to 15,000 steps a day recently and really feeling quite firm. I also shoveled duck crap yesterday morning for a couple of hours... all helps!!

My food has been great also... moons are aligned!!!

did I tell you how cool my new computer is????

It arrived!!!!!

I am nearly wetting myself I am that excited!!! I got home from the morning kinder run and a message was left by a courier that my new computer at arrived and was in Warracknabeal!!!

So I am sitting at my new 22 inch screen typing this!!! Very quick, but vista is very different!!!

Can't beleive how quickly it arrived, i only ordered it on Friday!!

Ok.. programs to install!!!

Gym...

hurts when you try and keep up with one of the fittest people in town...

ok.. lesson learnt!! But I slept well!!

i need to de-clutter again!!! I find (like out Beck) that i tend to flounder a little and not sure where to start if things aren't organised. Neat home, neat mind. That "neat" home needs to start in my cupboards. I am sure I would be able to throw out something that no longer is worn. When girlfriends clean out their warerobes, they ask me around. I have then reputation of being the 'warerobe nazi' and throw out anything they hesitate over!! And, I drive a ute, so I remove all offending clothes before they have a chance to think twice! Time to do mine!

So.. that is job one today. My girls are growing like mushrooms and have outgrown so many items in their warerobe, so I need to go through theirs as well. The girls, being only 12 months apart, tend to share a lot of clothes, but Laura is very narrow, so some of Emilie's clothes just get handed on to friends!

I finally get to meet my new nephew on the weekend. My grandfather is turning 90 years old and they are coming down for that. Cooper is the only one carrying on the family name so far.. very important to my grandfather! Can't wait!

Ok... I am going to make a pact.. starting from now! I have become a little lazy with comments, but reading with Goodgle reader.. but from now on.. I promise to comment if I have read!!

Ok... time to make a walk date with my neighbour who is recovering from a little op!

Frosty...

Burrrrrr... how friggin' cold has this week been. I have cleaned out the fire box of my wood heater for the second time this week, usually a once a week job. Imagine how big our carbon footprint is!!

Jack's dad flew home this morning, but was delayed by about 90 minutes as we had to wait for the plane to defrost. I know that it isn't an excuses NOT to exercise, but man, it is so much harder to get outside during this weather. At Gym, they heat the room that you do floor exercises in, I did a few more this week, just so keep warmer for longer!!

I brought a new computer today. Online.. Will be delivered in 10 days.. can hardly contain my excitement!! 22 inch screen (i currently have 14 inch!!) 500 Gig hard drive, 2 Mg RAM.. and windows Vista premium. I am excited, even if some of you aren't!

Emilie and Laura will have then their own computer for their Dora the explorer CD-roms... no Internet access, but hey.. they are 5 and 4!!

BTW.. my weight is almost back to my lowest. I am fronting up to the WW meeting in Horsham before swimming in the morning, so fingers crossed for me that my scales at home haven't been lying to me!

Tomorrow night I have the Apex changeover dinner.. just not sure what to wear. have a couple of choices, depending on how many degrees below freezing it is!

Okay.. gotta keep on ! Have a great weekend!

Fitness for life....

That is what we are calling our new program that started last night for little kids!! I was VERY pleased how it all went. There was between 25 to 30 little people rock up at our gym for an hour of physical activity and fun. The basis is basic game

Not sure how many little ones would be attending, we sort of set up a program for pre-school aged and school aged based around soccer skills.

The kids loved it! It was amazing how quickly 1 hour went and how they soon cottoned on to what we where up to.. sure we had the odd little dummy spit with kids, but we worked through it!! Very happy!! Might even be a few more rock up next week!!!

We have just swapped Internet providers. We have been with Bigpond since they first started dial-up... we moved areas several times and where able to keep the same email address, but out here we have a two-way satellite. We where paying $70 a month plus excess usage (satellite expensive Internet service, but when you live in rural areas it is the only option other then dial up and 9kps download) but with our new providing it is only $9.95 a month... HUGE difference and worth the mucking around with changing email addresses etc!

But, when the guy was here yesterday (he cam all the way from Bendigo up to install one satellite) I got him to move the point. We have a large family room off the lounge here and we are going to split the room in two. It was once a carport and was filled in only a year after they built it, so you can't tell that it was a carport, but it is too big. So, half will be a bedroom/office and the other half will be storage until we get serious about moving my kitchen. Jack's Dad is flying in on Thursday, so that it the deadline for me sorting out the family room..

Have you all been out bargain shopping??? Love this time of the year. Check out my favorite kids clothing store. TOFI... Have brought a few things to get my kids through winter.

Okay... better go and deal with the kids. Home day today.. just as well, bit wet!!

Bones...

Like our Beck and her recent visit to Hospital with Bradman, I have been feeling like a bad mother...

Bad mothering #846
Precious 2 and half year old son was jumping off the couch (like he often does... Helloooo.... he is 2 and a half!!!) anyway, i was cooking tea and I didn't see the actual incident, but a scream like no other was soon heard and my little man was hurt. He tried to get up to walk to me but he couldn't put any weight on one foot.
He was screaming, sweating - Must have REALLY hurt. His little foot was swelling and starting to go a little blue. Finally got him to settle down and rang the hospital (we are 55 km from after hours A & E)... They advised to keep him home as xray wasn't there and reassess in the morning.
The poor little man woke during the night crying "my foot.. my foot" a few doses of Nurofen seemed to calm him down.

Anyway in the morning he was able to put a little bit of weight on it, so I didn't take him in to Horsham. But as the day got longer he started using walls to support him and sitting a lot. So yesterday morning I headed over and it turns out he has broken a little bone in his right foot, but there isn't much they can do!!!

So my little man has been VERY grumpy with lack of sleep and I feel like a bad mother for
A: letting it happen
B: not taking him to Dr's earlier...

hmmm
hmmm

More VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!
I am a AUNT again.. first time on my side of the family!! My brother Danny and his partner Lamie had a little boy COOPER WILLIAM JOHN... so chuffed!!!

The ONLY one so far to carry on my maiden name. (Lots of girl cousins...) Can't wait to meet him!

We collected the girls on Sunday from Mildura and they had a ball!!! I think they saw a different side of their grandies..

I took a car load of kids to Horsham on Tuesday and took them to the YMCA for a swim, great physical activity for them!!

Ok.. so much more happens, should post more. Will try too!!
Ciao for now!

Boy for sale...

My little 'angel' of a boy is driving me mad!!! I think he misses his sisters and his only way of showing is driving me up the wall. He has been SO naughty!!! Example...

Yesterday we went to Ballarat to see my grandmother for her birthday. Popped into Myers to shop quickly and I was in the change rooms trying on something, Mum pops her head in (Mum went with...) and says.. "Hugh with you??" No he wasn't, so she starts just a casual look around level 1... come back.. "Back yet??".. No sign of him. That is when the panic hits!! Mum and I are running around looking for him... (I knew I should have worn sneakers not knee high high heeled boots..) even into the Plaza that is attached to Myers and out onto the street.. no sign of the little shit. They put an announcement over the PA system and he was finally found (over 10 minutes !!) in the fuckin' basement with all of the toys!!!!!!!!!

Naughty boy...

I have made an appointment for his hair to be trimmed today.. he has the funkiest hair, but even I have to agree it is getting a little long. So that will be yet another adventure!

The girls are having a ball in the Riverland with their grandparents. Ten minutes before we where about to leave on Friday, Laura went for one more quick ride before the bike was packed and she came off and put her tooth through her lip.. blood everywhere. But, a little sad and sorry for herself on Friday and much happier on Saturday.. Still a little bit of a mess.. This is a photo Emilie took of me on the way to Paringa.. We stopped at Mildura for tea at McDonalds.. (Drove past Zest Jodie... Looks very nice!!!) Laura couldn't eat much, her lip was too big and sore... then headed on through to Paringa. We had to take two cars to bring home Tanks and benches and other stuff, so the kids rotated through all of the cars.

Saturday morning we had to buy two of the kids new helmets, Check out Hugh.. walking though the streets of Renmark with his helmet on (The plastic at the front should have been removed.. but NO... couldn't happen... woody boy)

Emilie and me at the fountain in Renmark... look at that sun!!

The girls Jack and myself walked/rode into Renmark. This is a snap of the girls crossing the Paringa Bridge over the Murray... they loved it!!!

Anyway.. loaded up and headed home on Sunday after lunch. I cried until we got to bloody Redcliffs (nearly 200kms..) then I pulled myself together, knowing the girls would be having fun!! I feel fine about it now. They are big girls, I am just a sook!

They have been fine.. just Hugh is driving me mental. I don't think I realised how much they played with him until they aren't here!!! We head to Mildura on Sunday morning to collect the girls... I am sure they will be yelling at one another again.. but I am missing them!!

Funny story... (no really.. but amusing all the same..) On the way home from Ballarat yesterday I was pulled over by the police in Rupanyup (only about 50kms from home..) I didn't slow down enough through town (was in the 80's in a 60 zone.. naughty I know)... but anyway I was driving Jack WB Holden ute (this is a ute that country blokes drive.... V8, loud, big bullbar... get the picture - I know CKK will..) anyway, late last year Jack brought another one. He always had V8 utes before kids etc, and decided that time had come again to acquire another one. It is pretty cool and I don't mind driving it... even with Jack's tragic 80's music playing on the stereo..

Anyway... the police officer's first question was "Is this your ute??" - What?? Don't I look like a v8 ute driver??? Anyway.. after telling me that I was driving too fast he starts going over the ute looking for faults... Asking me to start the engine and rev it to see if it was too loud, blinkers, brake lights etc.. this went on for twenty minutes or so and I begun to feel like a 18 year old hoon. Anyway.. goes to his car and return 5 minutes later with a defect notice for the ute (two tyres and a reverse light..) BUT no speeding fine!!!! Quite excited that I got off, travelled home and rang Jack to tell him.

Jack knew that the two things he found wrong where there.. no big deal.. but then he says.. "your not going to believe this... I am being pulled over by the police... I'll call you back..." He was in Dooen.

Anyway.. rings back 15 minutes later. The police asked him his name and address... the police officer said to him... "I just pulled over your wife In Rupanyup... you have a couple of jobs to do on the ute when you get home" how freaky is that!! Jack was also pulled over for speeding.. but he was also let off!!!

So thank your stars for being alignment right last night... could have been a very expensive little night!!!