Flat Brandon

at the shark show

at VBS

at Tooan Tooan Creek by the flying foxes. see them hanging in the trees?? Flat Brandon looks a little worried!! maybe it was just the smell?? =)

AHHHHHH......

picture of Nathan in his Christmas outfit from Tasha.
He's changed just in the three weeks or whatever since I took this.

I'm feeling a little behind so will do my random dot points in a desperate attempt to catch up.

• VBS was last week. We had over 75 all week and got to 100 on Friday.
• Apparently another church was running their own VBS last week as well. So I'm thinking our numbers were really good.
  
• I'm glad more churches are starting to do something like this.
  
• I've asked someone else to run VBS next year in hopes that we won't be here.
  
• Anyone who has some insight or help for us writing our VBS programme entitled Jesus to the Rescue???
  
• I've already figured out the Bible stories in correlation to rescue services. And I've got general ideas for our skits. Just need them written in skit format. No clue about songs or crafts or games.
• Flat Brandon came to visit us last week. We had been waiting for him to show up. He even got to visit VBS with us!! I have pictures but now have no way of uploading photos as Josh decided to reinstall Windows on the media centre computer and so far it has taken 3 days. And it will have Windows 7 so not sure if it will be compatible with the camera. If it isn't we'll install the card reader...even if I have to do it myself.
  
• I miss blogging.
• I miss blogging with pictures.
• As part of homeschool we are going to make flat versions of ourselves to send out in the world. Thinking about setting up a blog for them though.
  
• Homeschool started again yesterday. We got about half done what I wanted. And so far today we've done nothing. Of course instead of 15 minutes to get photos printed it took 1.5 hours!! I really should hook up my colour printer.
  
• Catie turns 7 next week!!!
  
• We're going to our new local water park for her birthday. It's the first day of school for everyone else so hopefully we'll have the water park to ourselves (well, mostly)
• finally went to the wholesalers here in town. They aren't any cheaper but I love their store. Bought a 2.4kg miracle whip!!! and a 3 litre maple syrup!! No cheaper than the grocery stores but we shouldn't run out anytime soon. Seems like every time I turn around we're out of those.
  
• They also have 1 litre bottles of imitation vanilla. i'll have to try those when my vanilla runs out.
• Did I tell you about my vodka/vanilla bean experiment??
  
• Nathan is changing SO MUCH!!! Just last week at VBS he reached out with both hands and grabbed my cup and tried to drink out of it. He's never had a drink from a cup in his life!!
  
• Last night Josh was holding Nathan at the computer and Nathan was having so much fun just banging on the keyboard.
• The girls are all doing well. We're hot and cranky and tired after last week but we're okay. Gonna try some new discipline techniques around here and see how they work.
  
• Finally took my christmas tree down on Sunday afternoon. It makes me feel like I can breathe again. weird!!
• Floyd had to buy a new truck and bought a dual cab so he and Gwen can use it to take the girls around. =)
• He took them for ice cream at McDonald's on Sunday night after church. Just him and the girls!!
• Floyd and Gwen are taking the girls up to Rockhampton for the weekend. Gee, what am I going to do with myself this weekend?? =)
• TTFN
  

My room updated =)

I've been wanting wooden blinds for my room and they went on sale at Big W last week. So Josh bought them and hung them. I LOVE THEM!!!

Catie and Emma's room

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After moving Catie's bed into the room Josh decided to measure the beds and realized that the bed wouldn't fit where we were putting Emma's bed. So we took apart the bed and Emma is just sleeping on the trundle that goes under it. We put cork boards up in the rooms (I let them paint them) because the girls kept taping pictures up on their walls and we didn't want the paint messed up. The girls are all playing with their "paper" dolls from Grandma. She made the dolls with her embroidery machine. They have glue that let you stick the clothes on but remove them easily as well. The dolls are so lovely and Gwen made them little "books" to keep them in with plastic pages for the clothes to stick to and little "beds" for the dolls to stay in. They each have a boy and a girl doll and the designs are each a little different too.

The best part about the girls switching rooms is that they have kept them clean ever since. LOVE IT!!

Beka's new room

This looks a little bland but she loves it and it has been staying clean. Her Dora kitchen got moved out doors to clean and hasn't moved back in yet but will probably go next to the doll house. That doll house is one we bought them for Christmas and they love it. They each have a peg doll family to go with it. Nathan will be in this room when he moves out of our room. His crib/cot will go under where his name sampler is hanging. The black shelves are there right now.

Goodbye Yellow!!

I'm glad to see you go!!

Wanna play again?? Where's the baby??

There he is!! =)

New Year

photo from Sydney Morning Herald

What is about these holidays that I just want to clean and paint and de-clutter? And it seems this phenomenon is the same all over the blogosphere. Everyone is cleaning and de-cluttering. I'm the only one silly enough to repaint my house. =)

Anyway, so far I have totally cleaned the master bedroom and all but the shower of the master bath/ensuite. The girls' rooms have been cleared out, cleaned, de-cluttered, one of them repainted and changed around. Josh and Jason painted the hall yesterday. I'm considering leaving it pictureless for awhile. We'll see. I think today we are going to do the main room. Either that or the girls' bathroom. Josh said to leave the toilet and the laundry room for now as they are simple enough to do as a weekend project sometime. I'm really liking the new colour. Although come to find out, after all that trying of paint samples, it is VERY similar to the colour in the girls' bedrooms. HA!!

Josh has taken the girls to the school while he does a job or two and Nathan is taking a nap so I really should use this time to prepare for painting. hmmm...bathroom? main room? bathroom? main room?