I am closing this blog down...

Go here to find out the latest with me and mine *smile*
A little surprise awaits!

Oh and to be technically "correct" I am not really closing this blog down, I will keep it "open" for archival purposes... but from now on I am over here.

A new era begins...

Bx

Happy Monday...

Last night I was in STITCHES... I went in to give my girl her last kiss good night before I hit the hay. When I put her to bed she had all her clothes laid out for the next day (A DAY AT THE POOL) ... jeans, swimmers and her new pink sparkly "high" heels. When I went to kiss her one last time... she had them ON - yep jeans and high heels, totally passed out and I could not stop laughing. The girl is a crack up!

So we spent our Australia Day long weekend in Adelaide with Nath's family. Kind of, there are just NOT enough hours in the day. We are ALWAYS run off our feet when we visit Adelaide trying to fit everyone in, this time even MORE so as we had lots of appointments for Joshies naming ceremony. I can breathe a deep sigh of relief because we are getting there... in just 4 weeks the day will be over in a flash :(

So we caught up with Tim, Heather and their two girls, Nath's GodFather Ross and his lovely wife Di... Tom (Joshie's GodFather) and his wifey Rach... and of course the GrandParents... Deda and Nanna Jean (who is SO SUPER fabulous with Mikaela)... we also met Temika, Tom's cutie patootie neice.

I will load some photos later... right now waiting for Nath and Mikaela to return from collecting out cat from the catery... then off to walk my girl to holiday programe (and a day at the pool).

EDIT: 1728hrs, spent a day hanging at the pool with Kimbo and her boys, Mikaela with her school holiday program. Was lovely, fresh and pretty cool. I also got a major part of a project done JOY JOY JOY !!!

Here are the photos as promised:
Nathan’s childhood “hood”… a walk into the centre of Mt Barker to get a kitchener bun… A MUST DO whenever we visit…

Getting a tour of GodFather Tom’s work place…

I could photograph Laura all day…

Tim and his girls…

These girls are so cute together, seriously CUTE!

The girls frolicking…

St Stephens where we are holding Joshua’s naming ceremony….

At Ross and Di’s…

Nathan’s God Father, Ross… does that make him Joshua’s Great God Father?? :)


I was super proud of Mikaela being able to do this, however I am embarrassed to admit I was kinda acting like a soccer mum, yelling instruction AT her… sheez how embarrassing!!! …




Temika, the sweetest girl ever…

The lads and their girls…

The Vavic’s so to speak… our little guy was sleeping :(


Love out...
Bx

A day in the life of...

the most gorgeous 4month old babe....
Huh, what, who, me?...

Believe it or not the stupid cat was actually purring, sheez!:

Having fun in his Chrissy gift from Auntie Cass and Uncle Matt:

ALL tuckered out:

And a quick share of a layout I did for Keep'n The Memories, I did eleven (11) layouts and a mini album, such a beautiful kit. Go check them out, great kits and a gallery full of heaps of inspiration. Helps too that Mikaela is such a cutie:

OKAY so 1month TODAY until Joshies naming ceremony, and you know what… aside from the finer details, I think I am pretty much done. It’s a BIG job.

This weekend we are off to Adelaide and have about 8 meetings in relation to the big day fast approaching. I **LOVE** that Nath is super organised like me, makes life easier, we make a beautiful team.

Life is so awesome right now. Seriously blissful. No jinx!

On other scrapping matters… Sine tells me we are on page 89 of the latest Scrapbooking Memories magazine (Vol.9, No. 9)…
I am eagerly awaiting my Maya Memories pack to get started on… my Sissey pack arrived with the yummiest stuff (as always) tho I am not sure when I will get to play.

AND the lovely DanQ sent me a package from her with the most adorable pics, and the cutest little things… I *LOVE* that super talented girl, she is fabo let me say!! Thanks Dan, you are darling heart xoxoxo!
Here is my fav-our-ite (ABSOLUTE). Mikaela, those eyes just totally hit me right in the spot. I was told today about her coming to the rescue of a child that hurt themselves at the pool (holiday program)... Yeah, I know, she is an empathetic soul, my girl:

Okely dokely…
Running out the door for pizza with the family.
ANNE MARIE - I HAVE NOT forgotten you love... I promise, soon I send you a ROCKIN' RAK oxoxoxo!

Joy to ya!
Bx

Simple Joys of life...

These cute little cupcakes Nena, Mikaela and I made… Nath even helped with the icing… they were yummy!

My cuz Jan… she is so gorgeous, a breath of fresh air… and a soul sista too, I feel I have known her forever tho we only just met less than a month ago. We both feel the same, that the moment we met we felt an instant soul connection. I am blessed to have found her and I know our friendship will be long and rewarding, she is just wonderful!! I am looking forward to spending many hours with this woman. We just get each other.

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa

Last night out for my lifer friend Jodies birthday (Happy Birthday Goddess)… we had a beautiful dinner and girly times.
Nath brought Joshie down for a feed half way through (my) night… he wasn’t even hungry, just wanted to play. About an hour later Nath is worried that Josh wont settle, I figure I will call it a night. When I reach the car Josh is already asleep!!!
Getting home early allowed me to start on a new creative endeavour, so its all good…
I am thinking of another blog for these pieces. I just need to make a few more.
Mikaela painting her mask this morning… I love how much joy $1.50 and some of my TIME can bring to her…

Doing some more on my latest project…

The cutest thing I have seen {today}…


Love out...
Bx

How cute...

We are having a lovely time with Nena (Nath's cousin visiting us from Serbia), we've been to the pool, a bit of shopping and general day-to-day life. Josh had a clinic appointment today... and he is doing SO well. He is all babbles, giggles, cuddles, snuggles, kicking, reaching, rolling at the moment and it is so kewl. He is definitely getting to know about "strangers" but has really warmed to Nena this last day or two... at first he was rather wary, now he is all smiles and chats.

Kim and I did Mikaela's hair this past weekend (thanks my darling Kimbo)... and she is so happy with her "long" hair, happy that it moves. She keeps asking me, as she walks away "Mum, can you see my hair moving?" Cute as. She is being so super sweet during these holidays. There ARE times when she tests my patience, but she is so sweet and just an all round good kido who I love hanging out with... trick is to keep her SUPER busy. She likes doing things with "energy" she tells me, LOL! Or reading "Go Girls"...

Life sure is good.
Life is beautiful...
I am blessed beyond measure, that is for sure!
Bx

A few things...

So my word for the year is JOY. Some of you have noticed I have changed my blog name from My Soul Whispers to "A Joyful Existence"... I think I have the "listening" to my soul down pat now :) So onto the next phase in my life...

I am BUSY preparing a naming ceremony for Joshua, we are travelling to Adelaide to hold it there, a small intimate gathering... we are very excited. It is going to be a very special day indeed :)

4.54am...


A few mornings ago at ours, Nath was in Sydney collecting his cousin...

Now she is here, today we are off to the pool for some Aussie Summer fun...

Love out...
Bx

Palm Cove in Photos...

We arrived and our room was not yet ready… it was SO HOT… we relaxed in a nearby café…

Four in the bed… just chillin’ out…

This girl is growing SO FAST…

Big Sister and Cute Baby Bro…

Mum “Can I go in the pool?” (say this about 1000 times over and you get the picture)…

I’m not posing… on our “veranda” of the apartment…

My Man …

An itty bitty crocodile (with its snout taped closed!!)…

Nice crock, niiiiiiice crockie…

New Years Eve… the ragers were out at 9pm to watch the fireworks at the local jetty…kinda hard not to notice those breastfeeding melons….

Oiwwwww pretty….

Then there was the engagement… and home again.

We had such a great time with gorgeous Cass (Nath's sister) and her hubs Matt... they are so easy going. It's so nice to share holiday's with family. REALLY nice! Nice holiday memories indeed.

Been busy busy planning Joshua’s naming ceremony, which is in 6 weeks time.
Decided not to do the French course this time around, not enough time.
Nena (Nath’s cousin) arrives this weekend…
Working on some design team projects, wish I could share. Will do when I can.
MUST finish of Em's cards and post those... AND start the new annual project.
Spending a bit of time at the pool.
That is about it really.
Its only two weeks into the new year and I feel "behind" LOL!
Love out…
Bx

Josh just giggled...

For the very first time... Mikaela was blowing kisses to him and he was giggling his head off.

We were in the car on the way home after visiting my cousins.

Christmas at ours was lovely, much better than I anticipated with my mother and father meeting up after not seeing each other in 15 years... all went well. We had both Nath and my clans here and it was a great lunch.

Flying out to Palm Cove in the am, getting up at 4. Looking forward to some relaxation on the beach and poolside.

I hope all is well at your house.
Talk soon.
Bx

Weekend in Review...

Now that it is HUMP DAY (already???) I can go over the past weekend... Friday night my sister Meeges arrived with her girlfriend Jayne to spend the weekend. Jayne made some fantastic pesto and I chewed their ears off until I reluctantly went to bed ALONE (groan). Nath was in Sydney for an annual work networking function... racing cars!! and staying at Star Casino overnight.

First up... Saturday early morning I had a radio interview with ABC 666... all about creating and recycling for christmas. NERVOUS was I !!! I have never done a LIVE radio interview before (I have NEVER done ANY kinda radio interview before LOL) and it was nerve racking! If I can post the audio here I will, it is rather funny. No photos... but go here to see the instruction sheets I created (links at the bottom of the page).

THEN we had Mikaela's ballet concert at the local Street Theatre, it was so great. Mikaela was really good, tho she did wave to me, which I am sure she is not allowed to do... it was very cute. I did her "stage" make-up just slightly TOO MUCH, but she didnt notice or realise, so thats good.

A quick stop home before we going to see Nath play his social basketball grand final. They lost, which was disapointing because up until about half way through the second quarter they actually had a reasonable lead. Nath played really well and I got heaps of photos. I am so proud of him.

Rush home to greet our guests as we had a house full of people to cook for. In celebration of Lee's 32nd... we had Katie, Lee, Jodes, Jake and Kim come over to celebrate. We ate very late (especially for us as we normally eat at 6-630ish) it was around 930 before we got to eat, but thankfully in bed by midnight.

Sunday breaky with Meeges and Jayne before they took off back to Sydney... relaxing and papers before Nath took Mikaela to horseriding. Kim came over for a few hours, we took some chrissy photos of Josh.

Nath looked after Josh while Kim, Kaela and I did some shopping at Woden. THEN Nath and Mikaela rode their bikes, while I walked Josh in his pram, to our local park for a picnic dinner. A storm was brewing and we saw the MOST incredible rainbow,or a double one, tho the main one was so amazing. It was the most spectacular sight. Gave me chills. I dont have any decent photos because I had my macro lens on.




Home and bed for the little lady, while Nath and I watched Rainman.

Its all good.
Bx