You know this blogging thing is hard to keep up with!

Things have been really busy around here...

1. Ashlee started year 7 on Thursday and....

2. Mitchell started Kindergarten on Friday

3. Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse......I have been diagnosed with a congenital kidney defect....lovely hey!

4. Our new year has begun with appointments - busy busy

5. Zach has had his follow up from his botox - we will need to meet with the head of anaesthesia at the SCH before his next botox round in about 4.5 months and he has also had 2 lots of casting for 4 and 5 days. Very happy with the result.

6. I have actually been sewing and crafting - as well as catching up on some TV time and enjoying having only 2 small children at home.

7. I'm going to be studying this year too because I didn't think I had enough to do - LOL!

All this will come with pictures and I need to complete my 'a photo day' posts. They kinda went out the window didn't they?! But photo's were still taken and will come I promise.

I'll leave you with these two pages I scrapped recently....

{ LOVE }

Credits: Kit - Smooch

{ 27 years young }

Credits: Free Spirit

OK, make that 3......

{ Merry Christmas 09 }

Credits: to come...

Oh....and before I forget! Rae and Dana are

doing a WHOLE month of......

Totally love this idea and will be following along! You should too!

Christmas Belated (Part 1 - Pic Heavy!)

So far this year we have had nothing but good, which is great right?! We had such a hard year last year with so many bad things happening things have got to be looking up now!

I thought it was finally time to share our wonderful Christmas with everyone.....

We had 4 Christmas parties to attend this year......Firstly we had our Early Intervention Christmas Party/Farewell. You see we are no longer travelling the 1.5 hours back to Cooma for this every week. We wanted to finish the year out there and then change to somewhere closer. The problem I have found though is NOTHING COMPARES. MEIS is so unique I'm yet to find anything that even comes close and thats hard. We all loved going there and were really sad to be leaving, even though we were told we were welcome anytime.

We ate fairy bread

And cupcakes....it's best to lick the icing off and leave most of the cupcake untouched

And said our farewells

The two most influential in Zach's experiences at MEIS

The one's I didn't get photos from.... The Queanbeyan Council Christmas Party - a lovely baked dinner and some entertainment and The Westfield/Spastic Centre Christmas Party - free Santa photos, lovely food, great games and inspirational people. Although none of my children would go anywhere near Santa, so no Santa photos this year.

Then it was The Special Children's Christmas Party....

Eating and drinking

Jumping castles (and a farm yard that I swear I took photos at but can't find them!)

Plenty of entertainment from snakes and alligators (that were a big hit!)

to a junior cheer leading squad - that were very good

Zach just enjoyed wondering around....

There was a great band, lots of dancing and some other rides. Police horses and dogs, racing cars, motorbikes and of course presents from Santa. The present were a hit, Santa not so much.

There plenty of Christmas lights! Our street was a Christmas wonderland!

Our neighbours house...

and some of the others...

More Christmas coming soon....I run out of time!

Wondering where I am?

A couple of people have emailed me asking where I am and if everything is ok - I'm currently working on a post that I just can't seem to finish but it will come. So, short answer......we are here, we are all alive, things are not overly great right now but I'll get to that later. Just enjoying Christmas right now :)

So until than....