A Relaxing week away...

Well, for a weekend away, in a 3 bedroom house, with 8 kids ages 6 and under, it was quite relaxed! I wouldn't say relaxING but it was so much fun!

We had great fun catching up with our fave family!

*Joely (1.5), EJ (1.5), C(3.5), Liji(2.5), A (3.5), Roo(4 on Sunday!), O (6), Zo, (5)!!* This was the scene K and i came home to after Jamie kindly offered to babysit all 8 kids! What a man!! (And he has good legs! ;)

I had to go down by myself on the Saturday, Javi wasn't able to join us until Tuesday night, because of work. The N*****ls joined us on Sunday evening! The kids were so good together. We had 5 kids sleeping in one room, and they were pretty good! They had great fun digging in the sand hole, riding bikes, playing with balls... playing in kennels....

Who needs a dog???

Hmm, an extra 5 kids! Our fave Whanga Family comes to visit!

Elijah and Joel on the tramp, with a bike and a screwdriver. You've got to have your screwdriver you know. (I didn't know this was happening!!!)

Easter egg slice

This was created after we received a cake tin full of these little eggs! 2 weeks after Easter! AGGGHHH! More eggs, we still haven't finished the original ones!

Easter egg slice! Created by....ME!

Ingredients:

4 oz (125g) butter
1 small c sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 c flour
1 t baking powder
2 T cocoa

20 marshmallow Easter eggs (or how ever many you have!)

This makes a small roasting pan size slice!

• Cream butter and sugar
• Add egg, beat well
• Sift ( or don't) flour, baking powder and cocoa and combine on a low speed.
• spread in a baking paper lined tin!
• break choccy eggs in half, place in microwave on medium for 1min.
• Stir
• Continue to zap in 30 second intervals, stirring in between!
• Spread over the top of base.
• Bake @ 150 C for 35 minutes (give or take! it should look chocolaty brown and bubbling!)

YUM YUM YUM!!!

It may not be the prettiest, but it definitely tastes good!

Mmmm...fritters...

In our family we love fish and chip night, sometimes at the park, sometimes in front of a family video.... This is how much Joely enjoys it....

Are you finished Joel?

An Easter holiday at Red Beach

You can't go to the beach without a rugby ball! (And yes Jarrod and Jamie, it is on an angle!!!) Over Easter we House sat for some friends in Red Beach! We had a great time looking after their 11 week old puppy (mini Schnauzer, I forgot to take pictures!!!) We spent lots of time at the beach, and the rest of it at another friends place! Oh, and Jen (SIL) and i went clothes shopping... For me!!!
Liji with a starfish! I told Ruby to look cute!
Playing cricket with Drew (2)
Joel is TOO confident in the water! he just runs straight in, doesn't even bother him when he is swamped!!

We love rock pooling! We found starfish, anemones, periwinkles (we call them cats eyes) and one crab!

And next weekend we do it all again at Whanga, on our 3rd annual Family holiday! 8 kids age 6 and under, 4 adults, a 3 bedroom bach! I so can't wait!!! See you soon N*****l's!!! Oh and neither of us a pregnant or feeding this year... I don't think!!!!! ;)))

Shaving cream + 4 kids = 20 minutes time out for Mummy!

Take half a can of shaving foam...
One plastic table....
Four kids....
a sunny day....
and let the fun begin!!!!

To finish, take one hose and squirt like crazy!!!!

My Mobile

i have loved making the mobile for Elsie's mobile swap! (excuse the pics!) I made a hand sewn, paper bird, leaf and button mobile. Hung on copper, with a brown polka-dot ribbon tie. It was inspired by one of the beautiful packs of origami paper i picked up at the Sallies! (4 packs 4 $2, all unopened!) paintedfishstudio It is on the way!

OK, finally a picture (Really bad one) of Zozo's quilt! It is made from memory fabrics, clothes of Zoe's, mine (as a child), Mum's, fabric from Mum's duvet, fabric from my Mother-in-law, Great-Great Nanans shirt, The girl's dress fabrics...etc!!

Blog slackness, Craft sweetness!

Dunno how that last post made it through! Sorry Rach, i saved it as a draft and it posted the title!!

Talk about being slack with this blogging thing! I have SOOOO much to catch up on!

I have being crafting EVERY day. I made all my Christmas presents (plus Zoe's birthday on 24Dec). I have done tons of swaps over at swap-bot. I missed wrinting about Zoe's 5th birthday, christmas, Jarrod's promotion! I also missed writing about Joel FINALLY starting to walk (25 steps!!!!)

So, to start... here are a few crafty pics...

These are button fairys, swap-bot has swaps for them... EVERYONE (except Brigdy has laughed at me for making these!!!

For Lijis Christmas present... A little track in a bag. Pull the ribbon and it gathers up, had to include Duck!!

A pair of owl cushions for my brother and his partner... My own design. Sam always wanted to be an Ornothologist(spelling?) and Mel loves Freedom (Did you notice their owl theme last season?) I was very proud of these!!

I made these letters for Izzy's door, sorry they are not in order! They have the ribbons tied into bows. Also made her a cute retro donkey

Still to come.. Zoes birthday post

The silouettes of the kids i did for Mum and Dad

The etched glass nativity i did *for* Jenna

Pictures of the Kiddlets

Zoes quilt