October Birthday....

COREY TURNS EIGHT!!!

Proud of his 20 Zac Power books

As the Queen gave him the day off school for his birthday ;) we went to the Dome for a lovely birthday breakfast

One tired, happy boy

Rocket cake - BLAST OFF!!!

Ready for takeoff.....

No girlfriends for this boy ;o)

Balloon popping game. Very funny to watch

They had to get two frogs out of the jelly without using their hands. A long tongue was useful in this game

 

Gifts from his family and friends.

Monty

August Birthday....

TRAVIS TURNS SIX!!!

Opening presents

Igloo birthday cake

Singing Happy Birthday

HOORAY!!!!

Huff and Puff and BLOW the candles out

I gave the boys a tub of chalk. They spent heaps of time drawing all over our driveway. Was a great time consuming activity.

We got to enjoy the pictures for a few days before the rain washed them away

One spoilt, tired six year old.

Monty

July Birthday.....

ROSALEE TURNS THREE!!!

One happy, excited girl

Time to open presents

Butterfly cake

Singing Happy Birthday with my friends

Hooray!!!!

Blowing hard

Very spoilt

VERY, VERY, spoilt.

We had a lovely day with a few friends.

Birthday Invite....

I quickly whipped up a few of these birthday invitations for my son to hand out tomorrow. Time is going so fast, I almost forgot. Hope his friends will like it and be able to come.

close up view of this gorgeous crab.

Hope you are all having an enjoyable day. Am going to go and play cricket outside with Travis as he has been bugging me for a while now.
Cheers, Monty

Baby boy.....

For something different, a baby card. I love this alphabet stamp set. The letters are all different sizes and you can stamp them whatever colour you wish. Putting the baby's name on the card makes it more personal. This little boy is already 5 weeks old. Somehow this card, along with a present is not moving out of my office. Think I had better move it along... sigh ....

Cheers, Monty

I just love.....

this stamp from La-La Land Crafts.
Meet Winter Marci.
She is just adorable and soooooo much fun to colour in.

On this card I paper pierced her hat and coat with DSP paper from the new Stampin Up catalogue. I really love the new In colors for 2011-2013. So Fresh!!.

I purchased her from a stationery shop in town. There were lots to choose from, but this one caught my eye straight away. Might have to go and get some more... mmm hopefully hubby doesn't read this :)
Hope you like my cards.
Cheers, Monty

Birthday cards.....

Thought it was about time I posted some of my cards on my blog. These cards I made quite some time ago. They've been sitting in my drawer waiting for the right recipient :) I love stamps that I can colour in. That way the image can be coloured to match my papers.

Am going to give this one to my son who turns 8 on Friday. He loves running round the yard, always has his shoelaces untied and he also loves animals.

Hope you are all having a lovely day today. Its been raining on and off here. Hopefully the sun will come and share its happiness with us all here sometime soon!!!
Cheers, Monty

PS  Corey told me he loves the Queen for giving him the day off on his birthday. Not a bad present I say :)

Holiday Fun........

Our first week of holidays was spent mainly at home as we had a gastro bug slowly making its rounds through the family. Nobody seemed to mind because they were enjoying playing Wii, Lego, playdoh, soccer... without having to be stopped to go and do homework :)

Every holidays we like to hook the bikes up and go for a ride. I usually park at Emu Point where we then ride to Middleton Beach. It takes approx 25 - 30 mins. Its a great way for the kids to expend some energy.

All loaded and ready to go.

Lets ride!!!

Destination: Middleton Beach playground. More energy expended :)

Chloe ready to head back to Emu Point

Corey

Travis

Rosalee and myself

FUN ON THE FARM!!!!

We spent one afternoon at the Mostert's farm. There is never a dull moment at this farm, and theres never a shortage of animals, whether big or small either. It is a place that my kids could stay and play for a very long time. Whenever we go, its just never long enough. To get the kids back in the car to go home takes an eternity in itself ( winking at you Rita )
By looking at these photos, you'll understand why :)

Having a ride on the back of Dylan's ute

Hamish, Travis, Corey and Zachary

Corey feeding one of the baby calves

The calves love sucking on your fingers

Rose isn't too sure whether to let this one suck her finger

Sitting around in the sun.

Hamish, Zac, Corey, Trav and Rose

Rose and Chloe wanted to have a ride on the back of the ute too. Roxanne had just hopped off to open a gate. She looked after Rose.

The ride stopped here. The ute got bogged. The kids thought it was really cool. Especially Chloe, beacause she didn't want to go home later on. She was trying to find any reason for us all to stay for dinner.

I was in the patrol with Annette. We stopped and watched Dylan try to get himself out ( minus kids on the back ). He had no luck. He told us we had to pull him out, but when we tried to get going, we were bogged too :)

The kids didn't care. Dylan told them all to get some sticks and branches to put under the wheels and then they all had to give him a push ( minus me, I was the photographer ). A few of the kids ended up getting splattered with mud. That only added to the excitement of it all.

The patrol successfully pulled the ute out of the mud.

A one day old lamb with its protective mother.

Rose feeding a calf up at the house. The milk bottle was very heavy.

Casey took over from Rose