The life and times of leonie

New MDU Challenge

2009-12-07T15:44:00.002+10:30

theres a new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under and I actually have time to do this one.

Wonders will never cease. The theme is Bedazzled...bling it up!!

I had to use all my new yummy Magnolia Xmas stamps that I got from Kellies shop.

Here is my effort!

I have tried to make one of those 3D window type cards. Im pretty happy with my effort!

Not sure if the photo shows up all the glittery bits. i have put Kindyglitz(lots of...lol) on all the presents and gold kindyglitz on the tree as baubles.

Ok off to try and control the chaos that is my life...AKA a moody 10 year old and 2 crazy boys under 3....argghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Magnolia....yum

2009-11-12T19:39:00.003+10:30

I have loved and admired the gorgeous Magnolia stamps for quite sometime. but never been actually lucky enough to own any. Well.....I'm now the proud owner of quite a few...slowly building up my collection. So now I thought..well you have some...you had better start using them. Hence me making a few cards lately!

I'm not really a card maker, and I actually get nervous making a card. no idea why i just do. Anywho.....I've been scouring a few blogs to get some ideas and came across Kellie Winnell's blog. She also has a Magnolia challenge blog...this week the challenge is a sketch so I thought..why not give it a shot. Now its only very plain, which is so not like me at all, but its done, even if it does follow the sketch really closely..lol. Again so not like me!

So here is my effort for the sketch at MAgnolia Down Under Challenges.

I so want to whack some flowers on it but seeing as I'm actually going to be mailing it to someone through the post i decided not to.

What I've been up to...

2009-11-11T10:39:00.002+10:30

Not much...lol.

Kids and work take up so much of my time I hardly know if I'm Arthur or Martha most days.

I havent even been scrapping much. i know shck horror. Its been a big shock to me as well.

But scarily I'm not missing it. Maybe I needed a break from it.

hopefully it wont be too long a break Ive got so much stuff here to use..lol.

I have done some things just not much. Even been making a few cards which again is scary. i dont normally make cards but i am loving doing them.

A change is as good as a holiday dont they say?

Well here are some shares.

What I've been up to...

2009-11-11T10:39:00.000+10:30

lets push our luck..

2009-11-10T11:38:00.002+10:30

and try for a third post...O my! Such a risk taker i am..lol

Now the third installment in my family.

Flyn.....lets just say he has his own personality...he is a bit of a princess at times...and already at nearly 18 mths I can tell he is going to be my nightmare child.

he is into EVERYTHING....and I do mean EVERYTHING.
He wont take No for an answer and just keeps doing whatever he is doing.

But he is just so darn cute!! And he knows it.. O my!

ok lets try again while the going is good..

2009-11-10T11:31:00.003+10:30

Still cant figure out how to move my photos around...Grr at blogger.

Ok next Child update.

Jack is now nearly 27 months. OMG where has that time gone?? No idea I tell you!.
he is such a character, cheeky and so sweet.
And a live wire...OMG he never stops from sun up to sun down.

Ok look slike another succesful Post...well heres hoping

i dunno....

2009-11-10T11:22:00.005+10:30

what happened to my post yesterday.
maybe Blogger was in such a shock that i had actually posted anything it couldnt cope?? LOL

It was pretty photo heavy so maybe I overloaded it.

Ok will do smaller posts today and see how it copes.

Basically yesterdays post was just about how crappy this year has been for me and my family but we are trying to keep our heads above water and soldier on.
Not going to retype the whole darn thing cause frankly I'm over it!

But here is some updated photos.

Will do one child in each post so I dont freak it out again.

First K...she is growing up so much.

Now 10 years old and hormone territory so watch out!!

Loves netball and basketball and school.

Ok cant getthe photos how I want them...Maybe Im no longer blogger savvy??
ok will post this before it disappears on me.

i duuno....

2009-11-10T11:22:00.001+10:30

i duuno....

2009-11-10T11:22:00.000+10:30

2009...is it over yet??

2009-11-09T13:10:00.001+10:30

still not much to say.....

2006-12-03T06:59:00.000+10:30

its been nearly a month and i still dont have a great deal to say.....sad isnt it!

Well what has happened in the past month???

Scott had his tonsils out, he recovered well, surprise surprise!!

We went to see U2 which was amazing!!! Was just a huge pity about where our seats were but hey !, the tickets were free, so no use in complaining!! we were on the 3rd teir of setting i the members stand. The echoing from the stand was shocking! you would have the music come past you and then bounce back off the roof of the stands!! Terrible, you couldnt understand a word that Bono was saying.... :(. I was also sad because i never took my camera. It said no cameras on the ticket so i didnt risk taking mine. Nearly every second person had a camera!!! They didnt even check you when you went through the gates!! i was SO peeved!! O well...we were so far away and on such a weird angle the photos wouldnt have been much stick in any case!.

what else???

Got to see scan photos of my future neice or nephew! That was pretty cool.

I did this for them. The photo looks a bit dark in the scan of the page but IRL is much easier to see!

Not much else to report...o yea we had baby bunnies born. We had 7 born but have only 2 left. the heat here has been terrible. We had temps up past 40 degrees and it was only November!!!

Anyway here are a couple of pics of the babies.

Kloe has named them Diddy and Diddilina! For those who dont know they are Japanese cartoon characters, a bit like Hello Kitty, but are male and female mice! kids!!! We are not keeping them though so I dont know why she named them!!

Off to adelaide tomorrow for a doctors visit at repromed, then on tuesday ROBBIE WILLIAMS!!!! i so cant wait!!! So a very busy week. I am going to be so tired come wednesday!!! but hey Robie is SO worth it!! And thank god we have way better tickets!! we have oval A tickets which is basiclly the Mosh Pit!!! I want to get some great photos!!! Is going to be hard to stand all that time but will be so worth it!!! And hopefully we wont get that horrible echo like we did with U2.

Ok betta dash.....hopefully i wil be back on wednesday with Robbie photos.......

robbie williams..better late than never!!

2006-12-30T11:58:00.000+10:30

Ok I know I promised to get back on here.....well i'm back albeit nearly a month later...whoops, where did december go in anycase???

Now Robbie Williams...where do I start??? He was absolutely awesome!!! Would have to say it was the best concert EVER!!! His energy was non-stop from go to whoa!! He loved playing with the crowd, he loved showing off his chest (thank you god!!), and his singing just couldnt be faltered. have I ever mentioned how much I just love him??? Such a hunk of a man!! And my height to boot!! What more could a woman want?

Here are some photos. Most of my photos didnt turn out really great which kind of peed me off. Not sure what the problem was.....he always seemed out of focus but everything else was fine. Strange! Also probably didnt help that I'm a totally short ass and had to hold camera above my head to be able to get some shots...he he he. but then the ever so fabulous Julie sent me some great one sfrom the brisbane concert.

xmas photo.....

2006-12-30T12:54:00.000+10:30

O bugger thought i had better share Kloes xmas photo with you all before its next Xmas!!!

We managed to get a girly day in adelaide before Xmas. Scott was fishing in elliston with mr. Mack, Kloe had finished school for the year so we snaggled a day and went girly shopping!! We had a ball, spent a wee fortune, and managed to convince her to sit on the big fat guy in red for a snapshot. She did it, reluctantly, but she did it!!!

I cant believe that she stil hates him. Shes 7 for gawds sake!!!

Dont you just love her body language!!! As soon as the picture was tken she was off his lap in a flash and stood about 3 feet from him and had a chat with him. Even when he gave her a bear on a lanyard for visiting him she wouldnt go any closer!! Just leaned over for him to put it around her neck!!

Ok think i have caught up on december!!

Other than to say I hope you all had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and may you NEW YEAR be filed with love, joy and happiness and that all your dreams come true!!!

Love you al and catch you in the new year with some very exciting news that i have been dying to share!!!!

My exciting news.....

2007-01-02T11:26:00.000+10:30

You all have absolutely no idea how hard it has been to not scream my news from the top of my lungs. i have been bursting at the seams with my special secret since the 10th of November!!! i have absoutely no idea how I havent done some magor damage to myself by keeping this secret in......but now the time has come to share my secret with the world!

Are you ready???

Are you sitting down???

Are you sure you are ready????

Ok here goes........

I'M PREGNANT!!!!!

After doing 11 lots of reproductive treatment over a period of 18 months we got that fabulous phone call only about an hour before scott had to go in to have his tonsil operation. talk about timing!!! So baby has already been to two rock concerts U2 and robbie Williams, had its first Xmas (no alcohol though...i'm a good mummy!!) and its first New year.

Here are a couple of scan photos.

this one is from the 8 week scan we had at repromed in adelaide. it showed two egg sacs but only one with a developed baby in it. Our first look at our little peanut!!!

These two are from our twelve week nuchel fold test scan (for downs syndrome) they are amazingly clear. i was so happy. the top one kloe was allowed to come in and she saw it sucking its thumb. You can kind of make it out in the picture. it was just so amazing!!! And needless to say Kloe was wrapt!!!

We have just found a place in adelaide that does the 4D scans so I told scott thats what i want for my mothers day present!! i want the scans done!! He reluctantly agreed!! (although secretly i think he wants them done too!!)

Ok so thats my news!!!

o yea I'm due July 9th if anyone is interested!!!!!

Has it really.......

2007-02-11T18:57:00.000+10:30

Been that long since I blogged??? o my where did january go?? is it just me or is the world spinning faster or something??

ok well I think we need a january update before we go any further. Ok January consisted of...lets see.....work, stinking hots days, being stuck inside with the a/c flat strapped, work, and umm...that about it!! Seriously!! i hibernate when its so hot and that was about my life for january. We had so many days above 35 degrees it wasnt funny!! I hate the heat and just lounged around inside and did nothing!! Kloe did practically the same, was too hot to go anywhere and do anything. totally horid month!!!

My one hi-light was getting to go to Creative Edge in Adeliade. i had such a ball!! i so wish I had been able to go for the whole weekend but the finances throughout January and never brilliant so the old budget just wouldnt stretch to it! I did have one awesom time though!! i really needed it, to get out of he house, out of Town and scrappig for a whole day! My idea of heaven!!

Have itold you Icant scrap when its hot as my scrap room isnt air conditioned?? Well its not and its always about 10 degrees hotter in there than outside!! I kid you not!! So this was really my first lot of real scrapping for the whole year!!

Ok enough rabbiting on...I had better show you what I did!

With the faboulous gorgeous Steph, and I got to sit next to Marilyn for this class as well!! How lucky was I?

I just loved this one!! Was a bit miffed that you can see the KI gloo through the transparency but well you know it happens!!

next class was with Kate mason. i had never done a class with her before and lets just say it was different. Something i'm totally not used to! Got to sit next to Marilyn again though!! And a girl who for the life of me I cant remember her name, but she always goes to Steph's classes at the station! We had a ball laughing and being the noisy ones in the class!!! So heres the end result!

Well after lunch i did a clas with Zina Wright. Wow!! She is one gorgeous lady!! i loved her class alot!! We did a quote book and I just LOVE it. Did i mention I love it??? Only I havent taken any photos of it, but promise I will and i will upload them.....I promise.!!

Ok well thats about it for january. Will now try to catch up to february!!

Ok February so far.......

2007-02-13T14:35:00.000+10:30

Kloe went bck to school full of enthusiasm and energy! She is so looking forward to being in year two this year. She was extremely 'over the moon' when she found out who her teacher was on book day. She got exactly who she wanted and most of her friends are in her class. What more could a girl aske for?! So far i love her teacher. She is a bit older than the norm, which is great (nothing against young teachers but sometimes....well i;m sure you all know what i mean!!), and you can just tell that she is notgoing to take any lip from a snotty nosed 7 year old!! Yea for that!!! We have already had readers and words and tests home which is just amazing after last year where we got virtually nothing!!! seeing her tests is a big thrill for me! we never got anything like that sent home last year and just never knew whether she wa sreally doing any good or not...iykwim??

But on a sad note on February 2nd kloes beloved minature rabbit Max died after being bitten by a european wasp. We were all very sad at her passing. We have had her for 4 years and she was a part ofour family! Kloe used to wrap her in her dolls blankets and push her around in her dolls pram. Kloe took it extremely hard as it was her first real pet of hers that ha sdied. We have other rabbits and chooks die all the time but Max was her rabbit and it made such a great difference. But i feel it was a great lesson learned. i do think kids need to know about life and death and not be as shelteredas we were growing up when our dogs 'ran way' and all that guff. We try to be as honest as we can with her....but still she took it very hard, my poor fred bear!!

Maxwill be greatly missed.

And before I chuff off and go and pick the squirt up from school, i just want to say thanks to Kate Mason who left a comment on my last entry. Thanks for coming by and reading all my junk and I really truly hope you didnt take offence to the way i worded my entry about your class. I didnt mean 'different' in a bad way. i loved your class just as much as the others. So please forgive me if I offended thee. i didnt mean it!!

this is some photos of a mini book that i have made for my brother and his soon to be wife for their upcoming bubs. It wa smade from a class kit by Kate mason from the Creative Edge weekend called shabby little treasure. thanks Kate i just love it!!!!

Photo shoot from today......

2007-02-24T15:36:00.000+10:30

Ok so far February has been pretty well no descript. Hot and boring!!! i had my morphology scan....found out what the peanut is. NA na I know and you dont!!! (imagine me sticking out my toungue at you all!!). we are in the middle of totally re-arranging our house, and so home life is general chaos!!

But a good thing has come of it all!! i have a perfect wall at the moment to take photos against!! Woohoo!! How excited am I????

hers some from today. She co-operated for a bit then was being a wicked witch.....cant blame her though its pretty hot and sticky!!

Her being sweet and innocent!!!

Being her cheeky self!!!!!

Fish kisses to you all!!!!

the peanut....

2007-02-24T19:30:00.000+10:30

Ok well i thought i had better share a photo of the peanut with you all, or you will think i'm ignoring it! The scan was ok but we didnt get ultra goo pictures as the head was right down in my pelvic bone and the lady doing the scan was killing me pushing trying to get good pictures of the head. This is aboutthe best we got. Cute profile so better than nothing!!

Totally looking forward to my 3D ones now!!! I wish they werent so far away!! Can i last another 7 1/2 weeks without seeing its cute face?? Gonna have to I guess!!! BOO HOO!! :(

Some Scrapping......

2007-03-03T16:29:00.000+10:30

I still dont have much to say.....boring life I lead i tell you!!! Its been terribly hot and horrible and I hibernate when its like that.....so not much happens.

Our house reno's are coming along nicely (thank god!) and have actually turned out way better than I had hoped. Now the trick is to get him to finish what he has started...lol.

Here are some LO's that i created from our impromtu photo shot we had the other day...nothing spectacular by hey i scrapped!!!!

2007-03-07T21:11:00.000+10:30

Well here it is...my first LO of our upcoming miracle.

The title refers to the amount of treatment (eleven) over a period of months (eighteen) that we suffered through reproductive intervention to acheive our pregnancy.

The journalling reads as follows:

It was on the 10th of November 2006 when we got that phone call from Repromed in Adelaide. “Leonie, I have your blood test results”. Ok hit me with it, we failed again didn’t we. Another month down the drain and only one more month to go until it’s all over. But no, that’s not what she said. She said the most magical words in the world. The words we had been waiting to hear for the past eighteen months.
You’re Pregnant!
I couldn’t believe it! I ran in to tell Scott who was getting ready to go into hospital and have his tonsils out. I don’t think he quite believed me. For the next couple of weeks we were walking around on eggshells. Didn’t want to tell anybody but was bursting to all at the same time. But we had been through too much over the past year or so to be hurt again so our lips were kept well and truly fused shut!
On the 3rd of December 2006 we had our last visit with repromed. Sitting in that waiting room, waiting to get called in to see our last scan was agonising. It was almost like being a prisoner on death row waiting for that final walk down the corridor to certain doom. So much was going through my head. What if they had made a mistake and there was nothing there. What if it was just a blighted ovum and my body playing heartless tricks on us? What if it had just never developed into anything and was just a useless ball of cells.
Our doctor came and with it the moment of truth. My last transvaginal scan. Something I wouldn’t be sorry to not have again! And there on the screen in hazy black and white, you appeared. Our little miracle! Your heart was beating so fast and we could see tiny stumps that would develop into your arms and legs. Such an incredibly heart-wrenching and emotional time, and so beautiful to boot! We were told that there was another egg sac in with you but that it was empty. We didn’t mind. You were there and you were healthy and real and I just wanted to hold you in my arms right there and then…..but now the waiting begins.

Wedding daze...........

2007-03-26T06:46:00.000+09:30

Just wanted to share some photos from our weekend. Kloe and i were both in my brothers wedding. Kloe made a beautiful flowergirl......and i was in there too.....lol.

Before the wedding but after the hair being done! Very rare a photo of me!!!! O MY!!!!

Totally transformed????

Dont ask me why the photo is on this angle......and i hadnt even had anything to drink!!!

Another one of me!!! Boy you guys are getting quite the thrill today arent you!!! LOL

Such a cute photo!! Kloe with the page boy Cooper!! He was totally besotted with her and he wasnt even two!!! he had a bracelett that he was plying with and I love this photo because it looks like he is handing it to her.

Ahh......cutting the cake...its nearly all over guys!! my brother and his new wife!!! (wazza looking a bit worst for wear??? Ya think???)

And finally...............

I just love this photo of Kloe and poppy!!!!

i hope you enjoyed all the photos!!!!

April Happenings.....

2007-04-22T19:07:00.000+09:30

O My where to start?? I have to try and start blogging more regularly but i just never seem to find the time....and I guess the time factor thingy isnt going to get any better over the coming months is it??

Ok well April started off fairly routinely....then came easter. On Good Friday we had Kloe up at our local hospital all afternoon. She fell off her scooter the night before but never really complained about any injury until the next day. She was saying her shoulder hurt so we took her up to get it sussed out because it didnt feel quite 'right' and it sounded disgusting. this real crunching clicking sound...YUK! Well it turns out that she had a fractured shoulder blade. She had cracked the bit they call the 'neck' of the scapula up near her neck. So she had to have it in a sling. Luckily she wasnt in much pain with it!.

Easter Saturday Scott and I went to see THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS in adelaide! they were awesome!! Anthony is just so gorgeous!!!

Easter Sunday we went to Bundaleer Forest Easter Egg hunt. Yep she hunted for eggs broken wing and all!!!

The rest of Easter was uneventful, thank god!

My brother and SIL came back from their honeymoon and went and got their 3D scans done in Adelaide, so I got to see some photos of my future neice or nephew. Nope they didnt want to find out what it is!! Spoil spoilts!!!

Pretty Amazing arent they!!! (i have since had mine done but will put them in a separate post!)

Kloe is now on school holidays. Scott took the first week off as well and they have done lots and lots of fishing!!! Kloe caught the biggest whiting one night and was SO proud of her self!!

The photo is pretty average but it is from Scotts phone!! And thats about it for April so far.......

Ok here is My bubba....

2007-04-23T18:06:00.000+09:30

Ok I know there is quite a few of you out there who are just dying to see pics of my bubba......so here it is in all its glory.......We know what IT is and if you are very clever you might be able to tell as well. *Hint* look at the one which is the foot photo!!! LOL........

I have to say this was the most awesome experience of my life. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is having a baby who even thinking about it!......What an experience!!

just a brief update......

2007-05-05T19:58:00.000+09:30

Yep thats my bubba bump. Kloe took this photo today so i thought i had better do something with it while i had a spare 10 minutes. It was also for a sketch challenge I had to do so it got me scrapping! Yay! Its not over the top but none of my bubba LO's so far have been. trying to keep them a bit plain jane for a while. See how longthat lasts.

Just thought i would give a bit of an update here. i have been quite absent from a lot of things just lately and I hope you all will understand why.

We are having some dramas with bubs at the moment which is part of the reason for me being so quite. Dramas that we had with Kloe are resurfacing their ugly heads again! Just trying to convince myself that things turned out just fine with her so not to panic about this bundle, but much easier said than done!

Drama o drama!! Getting sick of Drs appointments and specialist appointments and waiting rooms and poking and prodding..you get the picture i'm sure! And now the whole ultrasound saga is starting again as well. We always said that Kloe loved getting her photo taken because we had SO many ultrasounds when she was inside that she just thinks its a part of everyday life. well its looks like it might just happen again. Got one booked for tuesday of this week, see Dr on wednesday to find out when my next one is.......then the next and i guess then the next......
Glad you only have to pay for your first two now and the rest are free! I've already had my two so yea for me!! LOL

And blood...my poor fingers!! Lets just not even go there shall we!

On a much brighter note Kloes arm/shoulder seems to now at long last be mending ok. She played her first game of netball last week and because I couldnt get out of work i missed the whole thing!! Got there jus as the final whistle went! What a bugga!!! And she scored two goals!! And i missed them..O nO!!! O well. She had a bye this week, think her whole team has a bye next week then I have made sure I've marked myself as unavailable for every saturday after that!! Determined to see her play!

ummm....and I think thats about it! Not sure when i will ge back on here for another update could be awhile.........lets just see how things and life pan out for now!

Some stuff i've done of late.....

2007-05-17T13:44:00.000+09:30

Not much happening in my world at the moment. taking each day as it comes...seems to be working! Ultrasound of bubs was good. So far no problems!! yay for that!!! Unfortunately for me the photo machine wasnt working so o pictures! :( they are just a bit concerned with me and my weight loss. yep you read right...weight LOSS!! So far for my whole 32 and a half weeks i have lost 5 kgs!! Not gained...LOST! Woohoo for me!!! 3kgs in the past week!! But seriously its not a good thing and i have to now be monitored even more closely!! o joy O joy!! Dont you just love it! I swear to god it would be so much easier and less stressful if we never went to the drs until it was time to actually give birth! At least i dont have BP problems on top of everything else!

Speaking Of BP problems, i'm constantly thing of my Brother and his wife! Hope everything is fine over there and just think not long now!!! Only a few short days and I will be an official auntie!! yea i cant wait!!!

Kloe is getting more and more excited everyday. her latest thing is to lay with her head resting on my belly at night and she says she can hear my bump breathing and hear the heartbeat. its so cute!!! She has been helping me get the nursery ready as well! She is such a sweetie and a HUGE help!!!

She played another game of netball last weekend and I got to see it!!! Yay!!! The whole game!! they are so funy to watch. Especially when they change ends at each quarter and they dont remember which end to throw to. So funny!!!

here she is shooting a goal. She got two goals again and her team won 4 to 1! Dont you just love the score!! just wish i had the camera around the other way so i got the whole thing in, but it happens so quick and by the time i focus...its all over!!

not much else has been happening! i have been doing quite a bit of scrapping lately! my mojo seems to have returned after a very long abscence. Dont know where it went but glad its back!

here is some recent stuff for you all to look at and i'm chuffing off!!!