It's all happening!!

Hi! I know, I know, it's been a long time between blog posts. I have done absolutely no scrapping in the last few months.... I did make a card for Ali's birthday but that is it! And not much will be done for the next month or so either as it is going to be a very busy end to the year for me. Noel and I are moving back to Brisbane!! He was offered a job a couple of days ago and yesterday was the day that we had to let them know of our decision. We have no family in Brissy... although my parents and Noel's brothers are less than 2 hours away so Mum has said that she'll come down and babysit once in a while. We are hoping to be down there before the end of January so my head is spinning at the moment with all that needs to be done. Moving is going to be so much harder with a 4 month old (well, she will be at the time).


Speaking of Jenna, all is going well. We've had a few feeding issues which are now sorting themselves out but everything else is fantastic. She suffered terribly from wind pains for the first couple of weeks, but a few trips to the chiropracter have sorted it out - it's amazing what a difference it has made! At the moment she is having great fun discovering what her hands can do.... she started out just lifting her arm and staring at it but has now progressed to touching and hitting things and sucking on her fingers. Every day she is discovering something new and it is just wonderful seeing her grow and discover things.








Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year!!

Introducing....Jenna Louise Churchill!

Isn't she just the most adorable girl ever??!! I could be slightly biased.....

(Photo is borrowed from Ali as I couldn't be bothered going through all my photos at the moment...lol)

Jenna was born at 2.58am on 2nd October, weighing 3325 grams and measuring 52cm long. I finally escaped the hospital yesterday afternoon after having a c-section. Jenna is a perfect angel, sleeping most of the time, except at night when nothing we do can seem to settle her. Looks like I'm going to be nocturnal for a while.

I will post more details and pics later... I can't believe how much she changes every day. A big thankyou to everyone who sent us their wishes!! I think I hear my bed calling my name.... zzzzzzzzzzz.

Still waiting....

No birth news yet.... bubs hasn't yet decided to make it's entry into the world and seems quite content where it is for now. My due date is this week so hopefully something will start to happen soon. I finally have everything organised... we've done all the washing, packed the hospital bags and even have about 2 weeks worth of meals stored in the freezer! Now we just need someone else to hurry up!!

Finally, I've got some new layouts to share! Ok, so there may only be 3 but that's a start... I have a couple more lying around which are in various stages of completion (so unlike me... LOL) so will share them too when they are done. Hopefully, that won't be for a while though as I'm praying this kid decides to make an appearance soon. Wish me luck!!!

Only 4 weeks to go!!

And how I wish they would hurry up, or bubs could come early too - that would be great! I feel so unfit at the moment - whenever I walk up the stairs I feel out of breath - I know it's just because my lungs have been squashed up to somewhere near my throat but it's still not good. Here's a piccy of what I'm looking like at the moment....


The last couple of weeks have been a bit chaotic.... everything in our house seems to have decided to break on us... the vacuum cleaner, the computer, Noel's car, even one of my bras (which I was wearing at the time)! I've got my fingers crossed that that's the end of it now. Nesting also seems to have kicked in, which is good for the house - I finally have unpacked the boxes from when we moved here over 3 years ago and the bathroom has never been cleaner.

I have a few layouts to share as well but they are somewhere under here...



We had to rearrange our garage and change the table that all my scrapping stuff was on so it's all just in a big pile at the moment.... Guess what my job is tomorrow??

A Little Bit of Silly....

No sleep and hayfever make Angela go something... something....
(Sorry.... Simpsons reference :) )

Have felt like crap today after having hardly any sleep the last couple of nights and then sneezing all day with hayfever. So found a couple of things on YouTube to make me smile.....

Love this video with Christopher Walken... he is usually so serious...



And Sesame Street in the 70's..... before cookies were a "sometimes" food. My brother and I had this song on a mixed tape when we were kids and we absolutely loved it. I was stoked to see that there is a "film clip" to go with it!



Ok, off to bed for me now.

Why are holidays so tiring??

I am so glad to be home!! You never realise just how comfy your own bed is until you go away, I think it was the thing I missed most while we were away. I can't believe how fast the time went - it felt like we had to come home just as we got there.

Our first day was spent helping Mum move into her new house - she had been living in the shed while it was being built and could finally move everything in. I couldn't do any heavy lifting so I got out of that, but I did end up washing all her kitchen stuff as it was unpacked - Can anyone say "dishpan hands"?? I was definitely over it after spending about two or three hours washing up! The view from her house is fantastic though - even better once the turf gets laid!

I even came back from holidays a year older as Tuesday was my birthday - got a few pressies and a heap of messages from friends and family - Thanks everyone! We went to Montezuma's for lunch with Mum and Dad - I have been craving their guacamole for weeks now and we don't have one here in Rocky. It was so yummy!! Also went to Myer (another thing I miss up here) and bought two little outfits for bubs to wear home from hospital - one is pink and one is blue so we have all our bases covered. I just can't wait to see which colour it will be wearing!

Finally here is a layout that I've finally finished - have probably been working on it for the last month or so! LOL It seems that I have lost all my scrapping mojo at the moment - am just too focused on other things.

Will be taking another belly pic soon as it seems to have expanded greatly over the last week or so. Will it ever stop?? I guess in about 8 weeks it will! LOL

And I'm Off.....

Has it been a week already?? Time is just flying at the moment! It's also really cold, it's been raining and windy for the last couple of days - perfect weather to stay inside! Have done a little bit of scrapping but it's really bad weather so you'll just have to wait and see.... We are off to Toowoomba tomorrow for our last trip away before bubs gets here. Haven't got anything exciting planned but I will get to spend my birthday with my parents which will be good, and I will get to see my Mum's new house which has just been built.

I braved my first toy sale today at Target - I just wanted to get a nappy bag ($25 - BARGAIN!) but I thought I'd get down there early to see just how crazy it would get.... there was so many people lined up out the front, one lady even had 3 trolleys with her! The staff were handing out store maps, catalogues and huge plastic bags before they opened which I thought was a good idea, and when the doors finally opened, people started running inside. RUNNING! I hope I'm never that desperate to get toys!

Well, I don't have any pics to share because of the crappy weather, but here is one of my preggo belly that I took 2 weeks ago. My brother reckons I look cranky in this photo - I didn't mean to - I was probably just wondering what Noel was doing with the camera! LOL

I had a bit of a photo shoot with Ali and her sister last weekend too, so I can't wait to see how they turned out! See you all in about a week!!

Oh My Freakin Gawd!!

The American version of So You Think You Can Dance started last night, and there was THE MOST AMAZING guy on there!! The things he can do with his body is just unbelievable - you have to see it to believe it!



And keep watching, cause about four and a half minutes in, he does the most freaky, crazy backbend ever!

I forget.....

The last couple of days I have been thinking... "Ooh, I need to put that on my blog" when certain things have happened. Do you think I can remember any of those things now - NO .... gotta love that baby brain! LOL

Oh, that's right... Nic presented me with my first ever blog award, so I guess I should pass it on.

Who gets the “Brilliante Webblog Award“?

Websites and blogs of your choice for their designs that are especially noteworthy.

Here are the Award Rules:

1. The winner can take the logo

2. Place a link to the person that send you the award

3. Give the Award to at least 7 other Scrapbooking-Blogs, which by its currency,the issues of choice and for their designs are especially noteworthy

4. Put a link to these sites on your Blog.

5. Write a comment on their Blogs that they’ve won an Award

So I am passing this award on to:

Ali What can I say about this girl - my best friend and an AMAZING scrapper.... When I first met her I was just so glad to find someone in Rocky about my age who scrapped like I wanted to scrap - had no idea what the next 2 years would bring!

Jo Her scrapping has changed so much over the time I've known her - another amazing person!

Irene Just always surprises me with what she does - she's never afraid to try something new. She even started up her own blog at 60 years of age!

Kirsty and Dee The messyhappyfun girls. Their ecclectic style is just fantastic - nobody scraps quite like them.

Maz Her work is always bright and funky.... I love it!!

Kelly Another fantastic girl and a great scrapper!

Retro Girl Love her funky style!

Embellished Idol has started again, and although I haven't entered this year, my darling hubby has! Here is his layout for the first round...

Can't wait to see what he comes up with for this weeks challenge!

I was going to post the most recent pic of my ever expanding belly, but blogger seems to playing up today so I will leave it for later. You'll just have to wait...

BYE!!

Back to Reality

What an exhausting last couple of days! Brisbane was fantastic and have since been catching up on all the washing and grocery shopping as you usually do when you get back from being away. After my antenatal appointment yesterday and all the shopping as well as a few other bits and pieces my feet were starting to swell... they still haven't got over all the walking I did down in Brissy. The news from my appointment is that everything is good with bubs - all my blood tests are good, so was my glucose test (even though I almost passed out as she was taking the blood!), I even got a nice jab in my arm!

I didn't take as many photos as I had planned while we were away... I didn't want to lug my camera everywhere but here are a couple. I mentioned the pancake place after my last trip away and we were back there again this time. You can tell that it was an old church in this photo - the inside is just gorgeous!

Noel trying to steal my pancakes....

Just in case you weren't already hungry, get a load of these blueberry pancakes.... YUM!

The hotel where we stayed is built on the former site of Festival Hall - I love how they have this memorial to it in the front lobby. They even have old tickets from concerts and floorboards with the seating numbers on! I remember going to see Alanis Morissette there about 12 years ago - I got the worst flu in my life after that concert! The whole of SE Queensland was flooding at the time and it took about 6 hours to get to Brisbane instead of the normal one and a half. It was pouring rain and after coming from the boiling heat inside and standing in the cold rain outside I got so sick! Was a good concert though....

At the moment, just seeing this is making me happy....

Since coming back from Brissy I have started organising all the baby stuff that we had all over the house and putting it somewhere a bit more permanent. It's starting to make it a bit more real now and I am realising that it's not too much longer now until an actual baby will be here (as opposed to a big lump in my stomach... LOL). The baby expo was great - I have never seen so many prams all in the one place before! I managed to buy myself some nappies - some Itti Bitti's and BumGenius - I just can't wait till the baby gets here and I can actually use them. Until then I will have to be content just to play with them and muck around with the inserts. I also got some great book bargains from QBD - it is by far my favourite book shop as you can always find something cheap, only problem is we don't have one here in Rocky! But anyway, I managed to get over $70 worth of kids books for only $22! They are so cute - some have different textures and furry bits through the books so they will be fun for a little one to play with. This kid is going to have so many books it isn't funny!

That's about it for now - must go and finish reading a book!