here are some pitchures i took this morning in karinyup were james recieved his bravory award and trofie

james recieving his trofie and award

james holding his trofie just before we were about to leave

james award up close

okey when we were young we had a milking cow named ivey, she was named ivey cause she was really stubborn so my dad named her after the creeper poison ivey (its a plant lol) anyways we had her for years then something happened to her, she got sick or something and dad either had to put her down or she died or something , anyway, i don't remember those exact details but i remember when she was dead and dad dug a shallow hole in the ground with the tractor and placed her in the whole, then he put heaps and heaps of branches and stuff on top and then lit it, it was a huge bom fire and it burned for a couple of days, anyway me and my brothers went over to it and  most of it was all burnt up except for it s insides, they were all mushy, all the skin and stuff was burnt of its head so i grabed a stick and poked it inside its head and its brain was all mushy lol, so i poked all its brains out (omg i hope i havn't upset anyone) anyway it was so weird i dreamed about it every night for a week, it was really creepy, the dreams were really spooky lol, oh yeh and we had plenty of other cattle aswell and every now and then dad would get out his gun and shoot one to cut up and put in the freezer lol, anyway after he had shot it it would make all these funny movements i actually thought it was still alive but it was just nerves lol, we always hasled mum and dad to get them to let us watch lol, so when we got a bit older they let us watch and we use to then watch the dad gut the cow and then we would help cut the meat up in the workshop, we also had this really mean jersy bull lol, he was always so angry, anyway i dared my brother to go in his padock lol and he did!! and omg you should have seen him run, as soon as he got in there the bull charded him and he ran straight into the electric fence that fast that he flipped straight over it hahahaha man that was funny lol lol

okey well today has been really full on non stop all day, i went to make a call this morning and realized someone had rung me yesterday while i was on the phone and had left a message, it was our realestate agent asking if some people could come through tommoro at 4pm omg!!(which is today) and this was at about 10am, plus i had to get the house spick and span anyway as we have our first home open tommoro and james has his award ceramony aswell gosh!!! i'm pooped, anyway they just left but i don't know what they thought as i havn't spoke to the realestate agent yet, so i guess she will ring me later and let me know, okey well thats about it just flat out lol, oh and i spoke to my brother this morning as him and his girlfriend are buying a house and were going to get there loan through keystart but discovered that if they were to pay there house of faster they would still have to pay the same amount of interest  (totally crap that is) and they would not be able to sell there home if they wanted, not until they had paid the loan and interest in full first (that really sucks) so just aswell they found that out as they were about to sighn the fianal papers, so anyway there just gonna go through the commonweath as they are the best,( we recon anyway) we are with them and i shopped around for a while but they came up the best

for those who don't understand, this is a game were you right a blog about a childhood memory, it is a way to get to know each other a bit better

well one of my fondest memorys was when i was about 10 years old, my dad was a photographer and i use to go with him everywere on his motorbike along with his tripod and camera to really awsume places, rocky valleys and beautuful beaches, he use to take black and white photos that he then sold, i really loved it, i was the oldest so i always got to go with dad, not to mention my the fact that my dad an i always got on like a house on fire anyway, it was so awsume, one time we went near this cave and found this big rock shaped like australia, and it had been there for along time as it was made up[ of millions of tiny coloured stones that had molded together, the whole rock was really smooth from years of being washed over by the sea, mum and dad still have it now, they use it as a book shelf stop

well today was a pretty typical day, (now that things have gone back to normal after our full on week when we went down to albany and back twice and put our house on the market and purchased another one lol, so glad thats over with)so nothing real exciteing happened, the kids and i went to the gym, then walked over to the shops and did some shopping, then dropped in to see a friend quickly then went home and spent the rest of the day cleaning, while i was at the gym though i saw they've stared a new class, its every thursday morning at 10.30am and it envolves mums takeing there bubs in the  pram into the arobics room, its a special class they've started were you do excersies with your baby, sounds really cool, so i'm gonna try it out next week, anyway the kids have all had dinner and i'm gonna put them to bed soon as they are super noisy at the moment, it'll be nice to have some peice and quiet, plus i wanna get the bathrooms scrubed this evening so i don't have to do it tommoro

i have just dicovered thanks to another minti member that we all have photo albums dugh! well i never saw that and i guess now i know and i am SHOCKED lol at how many photos i actually have AND i noticed that someone has gone along and marked them all down to 1 thumb up lol, but thats okey i knows there are some weirdos here on minti lol hahahahahahahahaincluding myself lol because i have blogged for the 3rd time today lol i think i may be loosing my marbles or its got something to do with all the chocolate i've been consuming lately hehe

okey now on another note our house is now on the market (sob sob) well i'm pretty excited actually as we are planning on moveing back down south near my family yah! and were we are moveing is on some acreage, so i can get myself a milking goat, sheep, chooks ect, we want to become self sufficiant so it is very exiteing, and there is a school bus that comes down our road (the kids are gonna love that) so yeh i'm pretty exited, oh and i just remembered this afternoon that james is being nominated for his bravory award on sunday which is when we have our first home open (yikes!) so i'm still trying to work that out, i spoke to the realestate lady today and she said she would come by early and pick the keys up so she could do it without me, fingers crossed we might even sell it sunday

well i've already blogged today lol but i don't have anything to do at the moment (i had all the house work done by 9.30am this morning) and the kids have all had baths and dinner is in the oven, anyways here a couple of photos i took and 1 my daughter took of me in my dags holding kimberly lol

well this photo was actually taken the other day, i am getting really frustrated.... why can i not dounload the ones i want, i tryed to put this one in my blog the other day but it wouldn't an now it is rrrrrrrrr whats going on

(wicked! its working again hehe) this is emma, and katelin holding kimberly, so very cute lol

kimberly in the bath tehee

james, thomas and kimberly tehee, so very cute

james, thomas and kimberly

 

its anzac day today so there is no school (boohoo) well actually its been pretty good to have the kids home today as i didn't need to rush around and get them ready so that was a big plus except i had planened on doing some more food shopping and going to the gym but unfortunatley the gyms creich isn't open today so that throws the gym idea out the door, and i really couldn't be stuffed with the shopping todayso i'll just get it done tommoro when the big kids are at school, anyway so had a pretyy slack day today, just tidied the house up, and the realestate lady came round to talk to me about our first house open on sunday and thats when it hit me that also on sunday is james nomination for a bravory award yikes! anyway it'll be alright i'm gonna leave the house keys with the the agent, well kimberlykeeps kicking the keyboard lol so i better feed her before she gets hostile lol 

sheeshe!!!! yesterday i tried to put some photos on my blog but they ended everywere else but on my blog, and i don't know how amny times i'm startd a blog then realized i've run out of time and i've gotta go do something else sso i give up, but i am now going to do a blog and hopefully nothing goes wrong, and i have more time today as i'm not going to the gym this morning and i only have two kiddies with me today as the rest are at school, okey well speeeking of school i feel so bad right now, my daughter emma who ios in kindy got upset whe i tryed to leave and she did it yesterday also, it makes me feel really guilty but i couldn't hang around for any longer as i had the other two i needed to take home and kimberly was due for a feed as i hadn't gotton a chance before i left, i think its because she hasn't been to school for 2 weeks over the school holidays, but i'm hopeing that next week she will be back to normal, the kindy teacher said she would not cooperate until about the last hour of kindy yesterday (she was still upset), emma is funny like that sometimes, well alot of children are like that, but the rest of mine arn't!! lol oh except thomas he is shy like that also, but not karleee, james and katelin hahahaha shy?? they've never been shy, and katelin she is so funny how up front she is lol always cuts to the chase lol, anyway poor little emma will be okey, her kindy teacher is very nice which is a great help, nothing worse than haveing a grouchy teacher, hopefully her teacher will tell me shes been better today

anyways i di try to post some pitchures yestareday but they ended up somewere else on mionti which was really stranmge, is that like a new thing minti has now?? havn't seen that before, i started to freak whren i saw that as i though omg has it retreaved photos from my computer as yikes! i've got all sorts of photos saved on it,  and i would just die if they apeared here on minti lol, anyway it looks like its only the photos i've ever posted on here, thank goodness!!you never know with these things, i've come across all sorts of stuff on the internet that i'm sure is not meant to be there, yikes! i've run out of time again so i'll blog about whats been happening with our moiveing plans later

well not quite a week after we had gotton home from visiting my family down south we were back down there again, we found a property that we were interested in so my mum and dad went and had a look at it and told us it was worth comeing down to have a look atso of we went AGAIN another 4 hour drive, anyways we checked it out along with a couple of other places but the one dad had checked out for us was just what we had been looking for yah! so we put an offer on it the following day after we checked it out (stayed at mums and dads the night) we went back and fourth with offers till we came to a price we were all happy with and now we just have to sell our house (fun fun) anyway the property were buying is in mountbarker, its 25 acres and has a new (16 months old) 4 bed 2 bath home (its a big home thank goodness lol) it is brick veneer with an ion roof, the property has 2 dams, 3 padocks, great soil, and also has a 90 thousand litre rain water tank which is connected to the whole house, so nothing but fresh rain water yum yum, anyways so its been pretty full on around here, i've been flat out presenting the house for the home open tommoro and photos that were taken this morning that are to be posted on the internet ect, anyway here aare a couple of photos i took a week or so back as i havn't taken any recent ones but i will endevour to do so soon lol

kimberly asleep

kimberly up close

kimberly

james and kimberly

rob holding kimberly

 

hello all hehe, well we've spent the last few days in albany, we left early monday morning (about 5.10am) and got back this afternoon, we spent monday with my parents then stayed at the legrand hotel for the night, then we went for a bit of a drive tuesday morning then headed out to mums and dads just after lunch, our family is jewish (nazarines) so we were getting ready for the passover, my brother and his wife and kids were there and my other brother and his girlfrind also, the passover happens once a year, and it is were we cook a lamb in coles in the ground, gizzards and all and with no broken bones or anything (resembles jesus) and then when it is cooked (takes many hours) we take some of its flesh and eat a small amount each with flat bread and bitter herbs with a glass of red wine in rememberannce of his death, then for week folowing we cannot eat anything with any raising agents at all, also before dark on the eve of the passover we smear blood on the entrance of of my parents farm (which is to protect us) and yeh, thats about it, its always exiteing and we believe in what we are doing, anyways then the next day we went and saw some freinds and then stayed the night at my nandy and pars, the kids stayed the night at a friends of mines to give us a break, we had planned on going out for dinner that night but were to tired so we got take out ,  watched a little telli then went straight to bed, then we left albany about 8.30am this morning after we picked our trailer up from mums and dad, then we got home about 1.30pm, which is pretty good considering we had to stop a few times for the kids and so i could fead kimberly, and guess what!! i don't have any photo's to share with anyone as i did remember my camera, but!!.. when i went to use it the batteries were flat, and no one had the right size then i forgot to get more from the shop and so onsheesh!! ar well you get that i guess, anyways it was really great, and i'll wright a bit more later as my vision is starteing to go a little blury lol

well!!! i am being a very naughty girl tonight hehe, i'm up haveing a couple of wiskeys wilst looking around here on minti, it dosn't look like there is much happening so i thought i might aswell wright a blog as i havn't done one for a while, okey well today i only had kim and thomas as the others were at school (emma has kindy mon's and tue's) so i went to the gym this morning then spent the rest of the day cleaning, then picked up my other 4 kids from school 3 pm ish, then i noticed karlee my eldest scratching her head OMG!! so i checked her hair and sure enough i found a nit, so then i went down the chemist after tea, with all kids in tow of cause, then when i got home i treated everyone including myself (just in case) and guess what, while i was doing myself the bottle slipped out of my hand and it went all over my face, my chest, and on the floor OMG OMG, anyway cleaned it all up and my eyes are still stinging a little sigh! but i'm okey hehe (use to it lol) and then i gave the kids baths, then james his needle, then i put them to bed, then spoke to hubby on the phone (he is at work) then i cracked a can and watched svu law and order, and folded some washing and now i am on the computer