Happy New Year

I've always said that New Year Eve’s celebrations is the most over rated celebration, I've had very few “good” New Year's Eve nights and often end up bored and watching the clock so I can go home.  I'm up after midnight every night it’s no big deal.  This year we decided to go out and to make matters worse we were going to Mooloolaba Beach where 40 thousand people were expected.  The reason we were going was that Lucy who is 15 1/2 and asked us if she could go with Tess we said yes but Tess had to work and didn't finish until 9.30 so it was 10pm before we even got over to Mooloolaba.  We thought it silly to drop the girls off, go home then back again at 12.30- 1am.

Surprisingly  it was one of the best new year eve’s I've had.  We had dinner at the Nambour RSL which is always good and just waited around for Tess.  We thought parking might be an issue as a lot of the streets were blocked off and Mooloolaba was  a no go area for vehicles but thankfully we were able to park in the primary school and only had to walk a block and a half.  Also another good thing the shop, street and beach areas were a dry area so no alcohol, yes there were drunk people wandering around but everyone seemed fairly well behaved. They had two stages and heaps of bands one was the Whitlams which unfortunately we missed and the other two bands I had never heard of.  One was The Floating Bridges, they were really good

 

The next band was Amy Meredith

Please with my camera because I was a distance from the stage.  Unfortunately my fireworks photos are crap. There was a barge just off the beach and all the fireworks were lit on the barge.

This is a close up of the front of the barge, note how the fireworks are attached  to the front and all the orange tubes are fireworks also.

Anyway off to the beach to take the dogs for a walk.

Bye for now

A Lovely Christmas

Christmas is done and dusted for another year, how quickly it passed.  Christmas Eve Tess had to work so we went to Tony’s mum Sonja’ s house for dinner, this was lovely as Tony’s sister, brother in law and nephew had come down from Middlemount for Christmas.

We were woken up by the girls at 4.30, something's not right here they are 15 and 18 aren't they supposed to sleep in.  Sorry about the terrible photo I don't function very well at that time of the morning as well as bad lighting and the  ironing board in the background.  We were all really spoilt  Ipads , Ipods, Apple Mac Pro’s (I think) .

 

We needed to leave by 7am as we were travelling to Macleans Ridge in NSW, we drove to Sonjas place to drop Tess off and then headed off.  It was such an easy drive as there was not much traffic on the road.

I missed going over the gateway, I fell asleep.

Over the Tweed River and into Northern NSW We arrived there about 11.30.  My brother in law Jon is a fabulous cook and was busy in the kitchen preparing lunch.  I don't know why but I forgot to take photos of the meal which by the way was delicious.

Lucy and Nanny.

My nephew Darcy

My sister had a house full of people staying so Tony and I booked a motel in Lismore, after lunch we went to check in, have a sleep (too much lunch) after we woke up we went for a drive around Lismore.  I love old buildings our motel was right near the Catholic church. These photos are from the Catholic, Anglican and the Uniting Churches.

Nanny and her great grandchildren Olivia, Darcy and Lucy.

We headed back to Danielle’s for dinner, which was a whole snapper, our friend Scotty had caught.It was superb .

We had an early start boxing day  Tony had to be back in Brisbane by 11am as he was heading to Broken Hill to pick up his new race car.

Poppy

My gorgeous niece Izzy.

Traffic was awful for no reason, we crawled along at some spots we were only doing 20kms after doing this for half an hour we past a speed camera and that is what was causing the congestion.  Crazy, if people kept to the speed limit  traffic would have flowed it was a really long trip home.

Tony and Kiwi headed off to Broken Hill at lunchtime on Boxing day Monday  and got back at 4am Wednesday morning that’s over three thousand kms I think they are nuts I'm so glad I didn't go with them.

This is what they went to pick up

I think it’s rather ironic but our new car is the one behind ours , Tony assures me that it is a more powerful car.  We will see.

Only a couple of days until a new year begins.  Looking forward to 2012 it’s going to be a good one.

Bye for now

Merry Christmas

 

Just stopping in quickly to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  We are just heading off overnight but not leaving until Christmas morning.  Tess has to work tonight and Boxing Day so has decided to stay here and have Christmas lunch with Friends while we travel to northern NSW to my sisters place.  It’s been years since I have had Christmas with my parents and grandma so I'm really looking forward to that.  Tony and I will overnight in Lismore then unfortunately leave early as Tony is travelling to Broken Hill to pick up his new race car and needs to get back to Brisbane before lunch time on Boxing day.  I have to be back in time to pick Tess up from work.  Have a great Christmas, enjoy spending time with your loved ones and those who are travelling drive safely.

Bye for now

Jackie

December Daily Days 1 - 4

Thought I had better get these scanned how many times I do these projects and then never share them.  I decided  to use a 8 1/2 x 11 sized album this year.

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

I'm not liking this last page might redo it.

A Quick One

 

I'm guessing everyone is in the same position as me, very busy at this time of year.  I did take some time out to do my December Daily Diary.  I'm keeping fairly up to date I don't print at home so am only getting photos printed once a week so it’s a bit of catch up on the weekends.  I hope to get my pages scanned in the  next day or two.  I receive two kits from Jenni Bowlin a  month I just adore her products but they are accumulating so I thought I had better get a couple of the project kits done.   This one is the Project kit for November.

It took a few hours to make but I think it’s cute except for the glitter, I really hate the stuff (too much of the stuff when Tess danced )  I'm still brushing it off me tonight.  If you haven't been to Jenni Bowlins website and blog do go  there’s so much eye candy. 

Bye for now

Jackie

A Bit of an Update

 

Cant believe it’s been over a month since I have written a blog post and less than a month until Christmas.  Haven't been doing a great deal Lucy has officially finished school for the year but in reality has missed the last three weeks with a really bad case of conjunctivitis I'm amazed nobody else in the family got it.  She’s been housebound and bored out of her brain, poor thing.  Tess is getting plenty of work and really enjoying her job.  Tony as always is flat out and I'm trying to keep it all together  I must admit I've enjoyed the last few weeks out of the school routine.  So what have we been up to.

This was a few days before Lucy stopped going to school new glasses were in order for both her and Tony.We went to Specsavers and got the buy one get one free so ended up with four pairs of glasses

Tess and I went to the Wednesday Eumundi Markets I haven't been here for years, when Tony and I first moved to the Coast in 1989 we used to go to the Markets every Saturday morning they were real alternate markets, original goods, organic foods etc it’s a bit too commercialised these days but still nice markets.  It was such a hot day lucky there were so many beautiful tree surrounding the area which gave some respite.

 

There was so much food on offer it was a toss up between a Japanese dish and savoury crepes, the crepes won

The result? Beautiful crepes I had the savoury and Tess had the jam and cream.

I really wished I had written this bands name down I thought I would remember it but didn't and they were really good they had a great sound.  If anyone can let me know I would be grateful.

Will finish up tomorrow my other photo’s are on a different computer and it’s a bit late now and I have an early start.

Bye for now

Jackie