First Week Of School Holidays Gone Already.......

Monday: Stayed home as the kids were fighting like wild animals!!!!!!!!

Tuesday: Same as Monday... Went to my sisters for a quick vist....

Wednesday: Took all my kids and my SIL Hayley and her kids down to Castlemaine to visit my other SIL Raquel. Had a nice day just relaxing and chatting, Raquel and Chris had made a beautiful lunch. Thanks Raquel and Chris xx

Thursday: Went to Melbourne to see the Haematologist. Did not really find out anything I did not already know. As long as my levels stay around 50 and don't go below 20 I will be fine. Had 3 more blood test checking for other things so hopefully they will all come back fine. Have to have more tests in a month to check levels again but until then just try and not think about it.........

Friday: Stayed home and looked after Patrick while Hayley helped out at Health Centre / Playgroup street stall / BBQ. Also managed to do 1 LO before going to bed.



Saturday: Clean up the kids bedrooms and did another LO



Both of these LO are made from kits I got from "scrap needs"



Hopefully doing these kits have bring back my Mojo

Thats all I can think off at the moment as all everyone is scream that they are starving...........

Take care
Cherie xx

A few photos from the wedding..............


Just quickly adding a few photos from my brother James wedding on Saturday.

I had a great time, talked lots, drank lots of champagne and danced heaps.

For some reason I did not even get a photo of Craig, myself and the kids alltogether!!!

Just a note to you all, don't spill vodka and rasberry on a $300 dress before you get to the reception!!! I could not believe it, what a dill. At least it looked good in the offical photos. You will notice in the reception photos I am holding the side of my dress, well thats so you don't see the great spill mess. By the end of the night I was not to worried about it LOL





My Family with James and Lauren



Me and James



Chloe and James



Craig and Jasper



My Family with James (Later in the night, after a few drinks. LOL)



James making a speech

Photo Time.......

For the past couple of years around about this time I go mad taking photo's. Why you may ask, well it is almost " The Charlton show" and I LOVE putting photos in the Photography section. I try to have at least 1 photo in each section. Last year I won the "Aggregate" which means I was the over all winner of the Photography Section. So now that it is September and the show is in October I am out getting all the photo's I can. I need to do some landscapes, rural and animal photos too at some stage.

Here are a few from Yesterday.

I love the one with Jasper and his scooter.

I will not be putting in the one of me and Jap (i just think it is cute)

The "Cheeky Boy" LO was inspired by a LO done by Mardi , (I can't take all the credit, thanks Mardi) It was quick and easy but I love the result.

My Brothers wedding is on tomorrow and the weather is going to be great so thats a bonus.

Till next time

Take care and Talk soon

Cherie xxoo

Layout from Kims Class........

Finally got this dam thing to work
















Does anyone know the secret to getting photos to load..........

Not much else going on, hoping to have a quiet week. School holidays start this Friday, I can't belive it is almost 4th term, this year has just flown.

Jasper is coping well with the plaster, I think it would take alot more than that to slow him down.

The two other photos are of the kids haveing a dress rehearsal for my brothers wedding on Saturday. (Don't look at their hair, they have not brushed it and Jasper has got a huge scratch across this head!!!)





















Till next time

Take care and Talk soon

Cherie xx

Tagged.....

Thanks Mardi for the tag,

1. Which famous person would you most like to learn that you are descended from??? Someone super cool like Elvis, James Dean or Marilyn Monroe.

2. Which famous person would you hate to learn that you are descended from??? Like most people I would hate to be related to a mass murderer or someone like Bin Laden or Hitler. (My greatgrand parents are german so hopefully I am NOT related to Hitler)

3. If you could be ancestor to any living famous person, who would it be and why? Someone with a large bank balance would be good, as long as they were old and my name was in their will.

4. If you could go back in time and meet any known ancestor(s) of yours, who would it be? My Grandfather on my dads side as he died before I was born and he is the only one of my grandparents I never knew. Everyone tells me he was a lovely man.

5. Tag 5 people:.........Bri, Cindy, Marie, Ngaire and Julie.



I went with a friend to a shoe and clothes party last night and now I am suffering from a bit of a hangover, too many glasses of Champagine and not enough sleep. But I had a great time.

Craig has taken the kids out for a drive so I could have a rest but I thought I should do the tag from Mardi before I forgot about it.

It has been another busy week with 2 trips to Bendigo and we are ment to be going back tomorrow to swimming lessons but I just don't think I can do it, I am just to tired. The first trip down, we went to see my friend who had her baby last Sunday. He was born a month early and weighed only 5lb 3ozs but is doing well and should be home Monday. He is very cute and made me very clucky, but I have been told by the Dr NOT to get pregnant until I get this blood thing worked out.

2nd trip down to Bendigo was so Jasper could have his arm re x-rayed and checked. All was good, the bone was in the correct position so they plastered the whole arm from sholder to wrist. He is not concerned about the plaster, just doing everything as normal including riding his bike!!! With 1 hand!!! He has No Fear!!!

Inter school sports were on yesterday, girls both went well. The weather was yucky, very very cold. luckly the rain held off. I was in such a rush to get there that I forgot the camera again OMG what sort of scrapper am I???

No new news on my blood, I did speak to my Dr in Bendigo and he said he has spoken to the haematologist in Melbourne and he will call me with appointment details (soon hopefully)

I did a on-line class with Kim Archer last Thursday night, it was great, I will upload a pic when I am finished it (its almost done) Checked out yours Mardi, it looks great.

Can't think of anything else much, my Brother is getting married next saturday so we have that to look forward to. Chloe and myself have new frocks to wear, Georgia will wear the dress she wore to the deb ball when Chloe was a flower girl. Jasper has a new shirt and pants and Craig will wear something out of his wardrobe. I will have to post some photos of us all dolled up LOL

Don't even have any new LO to share.

Take care and Talk soon

Cherie xxoo

PS. Must also write how sad it is that Australia has lost another icon with the death of Peter Brock. My hubby just lives and breathes Holdens so he was glued to the TV last night. RIP Peter.

Photos that should of been in last post.................

Chloe with her de-braided hair and Jasper with his sling on.

















Till next time, take care

Cherie xx

What a way to spend a Friday Evening................

If its not one thing its another.

Friday night while I was cooking tea, Craig and the kids were out on the trampoline, next thing I know eveyone way rushing in and Jasper was crying (not screaming just crying) Craig was shaking his head, OMG this is all we need. We layed him on the couch and tried to get him to move it so we can see if it is broken or not. He would not bend it but he could still move his fingers, so we phone the hospital. No doctor on duty here, they say they will have to get the one on call to come down or we could go to him (65kms away) We phone the "on call" doctors hospital to see if they have an x-ray machine but they don't. They say they could plaster it then send us to a bigger hospital. Oh the joys of country living. So we decide to take him to the Bendigo Hospital. (over an hour away) And to cut a long story short, we leave home at 6.30pm and arrive home 2am the next morning with his arm in plaster.

He broke it just above the elbow. Here are a few photos (taken on my phone) of him waiting to get an x-ray. He was in quite good spirts, very brave. By the time the Dr came to put the plaster on he was sound asleep which made things a lot easier because they could move his arm around without causing him any pain.
















Saturday arvo I took out all of the 60 something braids in Chloes hair. It only took over an hour to do because her hair is much thicker than Georgia's. She was not really impressed with us calling her a frizzy lion as you can see by the look on her face LOL.

Sorry photos won't upload

1 more photo of Jasper in a sling.

1 piece of exciting news, my dear friends Kirk and Felicity had a baby boy today. No name as yet as he was a month early. Can't remember the exact weigh but he was 5 pounds something, I was to excited when she rang, all the info just went out of my head. (Bri, do you know his exact weight????)

I still have no new news on my blood. The only thing I know is that I will be going to see a haematologist in Melbourne sometime in the future to discus my options. I must also say a big thank you to Lusi, I came across her blog via Belindas and read that she had the blood disorder as I have. I asked her some questions and she was kind enough to answer them, thanks Lusi, It was so nice to talk to someone who has been through the same thing.

Well thats about all,

Take care and talk soon

Cherie xx