Time Waits for No One!

I can't believe it has been so long since I was last here!  Wow, so much has happened in that time......once again my beloved Doggies were beaten in the preliminary final, and as its now history I'll refrain from mentioning that a certain St Kilda player received special treatment from the umpires and a match turning free kick in front of goal......bring on season 2010 - with Big Bad Barry now a Bulldog our forward line with have the height its been lacking....2010 will be our year!  With my doggies out of the GF I was supporting Geelong, just know Dad was 'up there' cheering them on too!  Next day was my great nephew Ethans 5th birthday which was celebrated with a party in the park, Jen forgot the music for pass the parcel, so Pete just had to sing and guess what, he only knew one song  that day - We are Geelong, greatest team of all.....it was a fun day....just love kids parties and fairy bread!

In September we had a fabulous weekend at Maroochydore celebrating Al's 60th birthday, it was fantastic catching up Jan & Al's boys, Darren, Glen & Corey hadn't seen them all together for 18 years.  'The Party' was a cruise up and down the Noosa River, great food and those blue vodka daquiri's certainly went down well!  Jan & Alan have now moved on from Aquavista and between management jobs they spent a couple of weekends here with us......Jan, Al & I were lucky enough to go to a special matinee session of Outback Spectacular, I'd been to the original show but must say I really enjoyed the new tribute to the Lighthorse Brigade so much, Outback Spectacular provides great value, a three course meal which includes, beer, wine, soft drink, tea and coffee, a spectacular show of horsemanship and history lesson....if your'e on the Gold Coast its one theme park not to be missed.
In between then and now I celebrated another birthday, started with a family breakfast at Northcliffe surf club and then the day was mine....Bill had suprised me with a spontaneous gift - a Coles Myer gift card, to some this may be nothing exciting but to me it was as he usually gives me someting I've hinted at, chosen or bought myself.....so we went shopping, he was flabagasted that I bought a blender with some of my $'s....yes, but its an ice crushing blender, mmmm now I can make my own daquiri's! The following week we celebrated with Pete Carol & PJ our birthdays for the year....somehow it took us from March to October to organise!!.....at Mario's at Broadbeach, the best Italian Restaurant on the coast and not just because Paul Dimatina played for the Bulldogs! never had anything but superb meals there.

Nelson Samuel BP was scheduled to enter the world on October 16 and I had a great time the previous Saturday at Kellie's baby shower.....Melbourne Cup Day we called in to meet him and of course I just spent about an hour nursing him....guess it won't seem anytime and he'll be running round helping Dad & Mum at BP Johnson Street.

Bill & I have been taking RV Designs (http://www.oztion.com.au/shop/RV-Designs.aspx ) jewellery to a couple of the Sunday Markets, getting up at 4am does'nt seem too bad, but its the following day I was exhausted yesterday I ended up having a Nanna nap.  On Sunday at Labrador we were next to Tracy, who had a lovely array of handmade gifts and all at really cheap prices, I bought a bookmark for ????? which fits on the corner of the page, very pretty.....hoping to set up next to Tracy again this week at Ashmore.  Tracy also has an on-line Scrapbooking & Craft supplies - yes....I'm excited....I've checked out the website and the prices are spot on! ....yes, there will be an order from me......check out her website for yourself www.my2angels.net  and also Tracy's blog for some great ideas .....I've just gotta try the tissue idea, thankfully I get an enforced though unpaid month off from around December 17 and I'm planning to do a few scrapbook pages then - last touched at Easter! 
Bill and I are currently going through our old music tapes and vinyl and trying to replace them with CD's......lots of them are compilation tapes of various artists and many single tracks are available as MP3 so it looks like we might need to invest in an Ipod for our Christmas gift to each other.....also starting to have our home video tapes put to DVD, the Family tape will need to be edited......not censored....just edited we did sort of tend to go overboard filming when the video camera was a new invention!!!  
Unfortunately this year I had to miss tripping to Sale to witness Dylan in the school play as it clashed with Al's birthday bash which we'd RSVP'd to months before and to be truthful flights were just too expensive (week before school hols) was really disappointed to miss him particularly as he won the Perpetual Encouragement Award, which has encouraged him to continue with drama next year when he enters senior college....this is D receiving his award from Dr Marshall.

The Princess had her 7th birthday last week - Rememberance Day - and had a cooking birthday party, seems like they had a great time.....we are counting down the sleeps 'till Lilly and her Mum & Dad arrive in Qld for Christmas....36 to go.

Gosh its almost time to get ready to adopt out a few more penguins........so 'till next time, take care .......Go Doggies in 2010 with Bazza & Akka....woof woof!!