We're all going on a Winter holiday

TOMORROW

so exciting, well I am excited

we are packed,

dh asked why I was packing tonight

my reply was cause I have things to do tomorrow

and I had to make sure the girlies gave me clean clothes lol

with they did except Miss I who insisted that her jumpers

really weren't dirty which they were

so the last load is in the washing machine then I am turning it

off until we are home.

Mind you half of our bootload is to leave there

linen, a big frypan, coffee machine

Picking the girlies up at 1:30 will bring them home for a shower

and to get changed then we are off to say goodbye to

Gumdrops and Frumpa and off on our adventure about

3 o'clock.

Woo hoo I am excited.

Eden here we come :)

Sooooo

I am back for a wee while anywhile. Last time I blogged I was heading off to see dh for his birthday. Well I went and had a great time, drank way to much, met so many people, love the golf club lol, and for the record, I don't play gold nor do I wish to play golf lol lol lol.

The girlies and I head off again next Thursday for our road trip home in the early hours of the 11th (I think lol).

So what have I been doing, well no sewing not a stitch has been done but I will take my Tis the Season along and bluebirds and lolliops so I can stitch my nights away at DH's have a few hours to fill in on the ship so I shall sew my way to Melbourne.

I have been bitten by the Geneology bug, so thats been filling my nights, tracing my dads family tree, and my mums, now I have just been given another 3 families on my maternal grandfathers side to look into. Have to love ancestry.com.au makes it very easy.

I managed to make my 5% weighloss goal at ww this week, yay me I have another 4.2 kgs to go to 10% then I will work on 10% at a time til I get to the ellusive 68kgs...........

So I am still going to the gym everyday, today I had a personal training session with a girlfriend I swear I thought I was going to die and I am hoping I can raise my arms above my head tomorrow lol, he mde me lift 45kgs at a time.......

Slowly but surely I will get there.

Dh and I are taking the girlies on a 5hr walk in Eden from the Green Cape lighthouse

along the coastline, I can't remember where we end up.

I can already hear the complaints lol

So here are some piccies of my last trip to Eden

Green Cape Lighthouse

Disaster Bay

Pambula Beach

Green Cape local

Boyds Tower

Red Cliffs

View from the window Boyds Tower

and these photos I LOVE

My mummy

my daddy

my mummy

and my very handsome daddy

I'm back phew

I have been trying to do a blogger post since the weekend but

blogger wouldn't let me.....

frustrating I can tell you

so whats going on in my house of girlies

I am flying to NSW on Friday, its a very last minute trip

as dh is the big 40 on Saturday, and I fly home again

on Monday

the girlies are going to Grandma and Grandpas for the

weekend so I can go, and a girlfriend is going to look

after the kitties and the naughty puppy.

then

June 2nd the girlies and I are off to NSW again, this time as

a suprise for dh, we are sailing on the Spirit of Tasmania June 2nd and

will drive to him on the 3rd, at this stage we will be sailing out of

Melbourne on the 13th home on the 14th.

But its a secret, the girlies will only know when we pull up at

the Spirit of Tasmania wharf in Devonport and dh will know

when we pull up outside his office :)

It wil be a big old adventure of the girl type lol

I just need to be able to get out of Melbourne and then it

should be ok.

Miss E gave me a voucher for

'A day of no talking' so I will be handing her that as we drive off the ship

in Melbourne.

I had a great mothers day apart from Miss E who had a touch

of gastro, nothing like vomit to remind you, that you are indeed

a mother lol.

No sewing going on, still doing Mother Goose, no more progress

on Tis the Season, and it is absolutely freezing here at the moment.

Will be back soon hopefully with some sewing/stitchng progress

to share :)

lots to tell but blogger won't let me post anything......will tell when blogger plays nicely :)

All's Quiet on the Homefront

The girlies went back to school today

Dh left for NSW yesterday

we won't see him now until August :(

and I didn't weigh in at ww tonight

I have been fighting with the scales

I lose one week,

only to gain the next

its been driving me crazy as I have been working

so hard both food wise and at the gym

so I have decided that from now on it doesn't matter

what the scales say I won't let those numbers

get to me like they have been

So I signed up for a 12 week challenge to see if that

makes a difference.

Its 12 weeks of group personal training

and today I was weighed and measured

I have lost 1kg since last wednesday (last ww weigh)

go me, but there is still plenty more of me to go.

and in total I have lost 3kgs on my own, 3 kgs doing ww

and 14.5cms. So thats

6kgs in 12 weeks

I have gone down a size in jeans, soon to be 2 sizes,

down a size in the bra/knicker department. I should be

so happy but I think I just expect more of myself so its not

that I am unhappy just very disappointed

Sewing wise I have managed to get block 1 of both

Berries and Bluebirds and the Anni Downs BOM stitched

I haven't done Aprils SAL blocks oops

but I am busy doing

Kookaburra Cottages Mother Goose quilt so I can

send it back to WA, I got sidetracked with it

but managed to get

3 blocks completed over the weekend there is only 6 more to go and 3 of those

just need the applique sewn down.

Fingers crossed its in the mail sometime next week

Now my iPhone has somehow deleted my

ENTIRE contacts list in outlook so if I owe

you an email it will be late in coming as I have to

go to a computer dude so he/she can find my contacts

frustrated isn't the word for it lol.

Photo Overload

Good Friday Miss S and I were waiting for the others to finish

the zig zag track

final stairs back onto Kings Bridge

the 1st lighting of the Patio Heater

Hollybank Easter Sunday

a wood nymph

Anzac Day, taking the yard ornament to grandmas

Miss S digging for dinosaur bones at the museum

Miss E testing her dinosaur knowledge

My little egg heads, these chairs were so comfy I want one to sit

in while I stitch so log as I can have a light in the top lol

Easter hoppenings

We had a very hoppy easter this year. We took the girlies on an Easter picnic to Hollybank and grandma and frumpa came too we lit the fire and just sat, chatted and relaxed. The girlies took their bikes and spent quite a bit of time exploribg 'the woods' I can remember going on picnics to hollybank with my grandparents. I have a couple of photos and will share them soon. We took the yard ornament to mum and dads today so its out of the way and ouf of the weathee otherwise its been a quiet and relaxing long weekend. Otherwise its all quiet on the home front dh leaves on Sunday, the kids go back to school next Monday and the car goes into the smash repairers first thing Monday morning for the week thank goodness we always take the hire car option with our insurance. So i will be back soon with our easter pics xx