New puppy...girls night out and a little bit of scrapbooking...

Introducing Mack...

Mack is 6 weeks old today, he is a wolf hound / great dame cross..... tiny and cute now but when he gets older he wil be huge!!!

Another brother for Marge, Homer and Astro (our other dogs...)

Velvet is not real sure about Mack, I don't think she knows what he is... Our other dogs are all really big (wolf hounds and a whippet/grey hound x), I don't think she knows what a small dog looks like...

Craig and his new baby....LOL

Just to prove my hair is slightly better now than the perm....

This is me last night going out to our girls night out...

This was our entertainment for the night...

We had the pleasure of going to see "hot shots" last night....LOL

Myself, my 5 friends and about 12 other ladies were the only ones there, I felt so sorry for these poor guys...all the work they put into there show and they get less than 20 ladies turn up...

It did not make any difference to us as well all had a fantastic time, I can't remember when I have laughed so much.... as the number were so small and we were sitting in the front row lucky me (not) had to go up on stage twice....it was so funny....these guys were trying to be professional and we were all just pissing ourselves laughing..

My friend Kylie who is pregnant with her 6th baby and has never been to anything like this had to go up on stage for a contest...and she won a hot shots singlet...which she had to wear and got it signed by the guys afterwards...i wont say what she had to do to win it (she would die of embarrassment)

Thank god no one got any photos of me rubbing oil on one of the guys chests............ROTFLMAO

Kylie and Marlene on stage...

Thanks girls I had a fantastic night....I am still laughing about it..

Now on to something a bit more sedate...

Scrapbooking....

My pages from Kim Archers "do you remember" class

Chloe wants santa to bring her tickets to go to see Pink .....

if she is really good she may get to go... wink wink...

(they went on pre sale today and I would say they maybe already sold out..)

Craig and I are going to this ....Sydney Feb 2009....Craig is very excited...

Thats all I can think of at the moment...im feeling a bit tired, a few drinks of yellow and a late night then getting up at early to meet my trainer at 6am is hard work...may need a nana nap later on..

Love Cherie xx

Do You Remember - THE PERM!!!???

Kim Archer is running a competition on her blog at the moment about the 80's Perm....

Here is my embarrassing photo....OMG...its really bad

Me in year 9 at school....1986...what more can I say....

Talking of bad hair...her is another one.....

Perm gone...but this is just as bad... *platinum blonde* otherwise known as yellow!!! crimped with glitter spray...1989...going to a school social or blue light disco...

No more to add to this post...

If you have added a bad perm photo to your post let me know so I can check your photo out too..

Cherie xx

Happy 6th Birthday my gorgeous little man Jasper



















Here he is with some of his presents before he went to school.
He is having one of his friends over after school for a play and cake.

thats all for now
Cherie xx

Student of the Week....
Local Legend....

As I was away at the Forever Always retreat from Thursday to Sunday I missed out on going to end of term assembly but luckily Craig was there to see Chloe get 2 awards!! She got ""student of the week" at the P-4 assembly and then she also got "local legend" at the P-12 assembly. We are so proud of her as she has been having a few issues with a teacher but hopefully we have worked it all out and I think these awards shows how hard she has been trying to work things out .....well done Chloe xxxx

I had a fantastic time at the retreat....met lots of nice gals (don't want to name everyone in case I miss someone....) and even did a little bit of scrapping....LOL

I have not finished all my layouts but I will post them you will get the idea...

I also had the pleasure of meeting the lovely Lou ..... I have been a fan of her work for a while, it is so unique and different. Lou is so lovely and so sweet. She scraped 2 layouts for me and I love how they have turned out....

Thanks Lou xoxoxox

Saturday night's dinner at the retreat we had dress-up in black and bling!!! We also had to decorate mask's to wear....

Here is Briony, Amie and myself...

It was nice to meet Amie as I had heard alot about her from Bri..

Hi Amie .....waving madly.......LOL

Not much else to report on at the moment....school holidays have started so hopefully we will have a quite two weeks, can't believe that it will be 4th term when they go back to school....OMG where has the year gone.

Must run

Take care and love to all

Cherie xx

Almost forgot I received a blog award a few weeks ago from Sheree and Leeanne ....thanks gals I love yours too...

The rules for the award are -
(1) The winner can put the logo on their blog.
(2) Link the person you received your award from.
(3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
(4) Put links of those on yours.
(5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I think all the blogs I love have already got this award but I will name them anyway.....

1. Belinda

2. Mardi

3. Lou

4. Lusi

5. Celine Navarro

6. Pink Paislee

7. Helen

Layouts and photos from the retreat coming soon

Cherie xx

Seriously Busy!!!

Just want to do a quick update... mainly for my records...sorry if it is boring and unexciting

Chloe had her camp to Cave Hill (Monday-Wednesday last week)...she had a great time but came home totally exhausted and full of a cough and cold so had to have a day a home to recover..well she was not really at home she went to Craig's garage and sat in the office with the heater going flat out while she played on the Internet...she was there because I had badminton as Idid not want to miss a week as there is only 2 more weeks to go....I would of stayed at home if she was really sick....I'm not a totally bad mother....

Last Wednesday Velvet had her 12 month immunisations .....(yes we are 2 months behind) and I had a blood test to check on my platelet levels...it has been 7 months since my last test....I only go when I need to or when I start to see a lot of bruising....my levels were 58 which is down a bit from last time 78 (if you don't know 150 to 300 is normal range) I also had my moles checked and was told I need to have 2 of them removed....the Dr thinks the are both fine but he would like to remove them just to be on the safe side....my platelet levels had to be above 50 to get them removed safely so luckily I just scraped in..... and it saved me from having at have a dose of steroids to bump up the levels.....the Dr also said that if you have a lot of bruising there is a higher chance of getting an infection at the wound site....

We had our house sports at school last Friday, It was jasper first school sports and he was SO EXCITED....he was up, dressed, made his lunch, had his breakfast, brushed his teeth and packed his bag all before I had even got out of bed!!! (it was my sleep in morning!!)

georgia and megan (georgia's BFF)

run georgia....

run jappy....

run chloe....

This week has been busy busy....In between all the usual SAHM stuff, Monday I went to work for a few hours, that's about as long as Velvet can stay at the garage before she gets bored of being in the office and tries to to get out to the workshop and our with Craig!!!....Tuesday up early for a 6am training session, then went to Horsham so Velvet and I could see our new Chiropractor....she was very nice but a trip to Horsham is a whole day outing as it takes 1 hour and 20 mins to get there.... Today we had the inter school sports over at Boort.....(no photos) Tomorrow I have badminton and a hair trim and then after school Jap has to have a trim....Friday I am going around to catch up with Bri and work out what we need to take on our trip to Sydney which is in two weeks time!!!!

I have more to add but I must go as I can hardly keep my eyes open....but I will leave you with a few random photo's....

take care and love to all

Cherie xxoo

Jap making his own lunch...tuna and salad...

2 gorgeous girls....chloe and miss velvet xxx

chloe the guitar hero!!

playing dress ups....

xx

Fresh Vintage...

Just a quick post today as I wanted to upload this for Helen..

This is my layout from her class over at Kim Archers workshop @ home

I love how it has turned out

Thanks Helen, now I need to find time to do the Fresh Vintage 2 class.

Take care and chat soon

Cherie xx

WOO HOO.....IM EXCITED......

I GOT MY TICKET TO HEIDI SWAPP CREATE08

My scrapbooking buddy Bri is coming with me.....

Let the count down to December begin...

Cherie xx

Another two weeks have flown by....

The second week of the school holidays went just as quickly as the first...

Chloe played in the badminton tournament and won two trophies...so she was very pleased with herself.

Georgia went to a friends house for a sleep over and Jasper had a play day a one of his friends house.

Other than that we stayed at home and took it easy.

Look at this tired little chic...

She was so tired she went to sleep in the shopping trolley at the supermarket...all they staff thought is was so cute..

Yesterday Chloe played netball in the Under 12's Lightning Premiership. The team was made up mainly of Girls who don't normally play netball. They did not win any games but they all had a fantastic time and gained lots of experience

Here she is with coach Carmel

Up and coming netball star...

I have a new fav game on the wii...its Guitar Hero III....anyone who has played this will know how TOTALLY addictive it is....

This is what Velvet got up to when I was paying Guitar Hero....luckily it was only Corn Flakes!!!

Tomorrow I am playing in a Badminton Tournament...it will be my first tournament, I don't think I will win many games but I know I will have a good time..

Is anyone else thinking of going to the Heidi Swapp Creative Escape 08 in Melbourne??? I really hope to get tickets, from what I have read it sounds like it will be fantastic...

Speaking of scrapbooking I am going to the "forever Always" retreat in September with Briony....She went last year and had a great time so when she was thinking of going again she asked me if I would like to go and I said yes.... Craig will be having a few days off work to look after the kids and hopefully Velvet will be totally weaned by then...if not 4 days without me will totally wean her....

And just to finish off....look at these silly lettuce heads......

No layouts to share this today,

I also have been tagged/nominated by this gorgeous gal...Mardi but I have run out of time so I will try and do it next time

Take care and chat soon

Love Cherie xx