What Now

What Now.... What a long day. Up at 6am, so I could make pancakes for the little cherubs, to make sure they were not hungry before we got home!

Jade, Nyah and Tumehe from What Now -yes we stood around for ages after it finished to get this photo and of course his signature.

What a great day, they kept them all entertained from 7am right through till 10am, even when they were not live on tv. Did you see us on TV, yes us, they made me get on tv as well, when they were filming the soccer yesterday, I had to stand there and have a ball thrown at my head!!!!

They threw loads and loads of buckets of gunge out into the crowd, thank god we were not anywhere near!!!!

Then we got back home, and Jade and Nyah wanted to have a stall at the end of the driveway, as on Sunday it is Market Day in Sanson, so lots of people drive past our house. So they got out the paints, painted the pots Jade made at art school in Dunedin at Xmas time, and lots of rocks from the driveway. I set them up on the grass right in front of the pensioner flats. Kept them busy for 3 hours!!! They had lots of people stop to look and chat (people from pensioner flats) and they sold 2 rocks, $2 made! Lots of fun though.

Anyway time to do other things - sleep!

Even Hairier!!!

Well here he is another week on - and even more hair, it is not going to be a 9 week growth now, as he has to go to base next week to be given his medal's from Tmor, so he will have to shave next Friday morning.

Week 2

Well today we decided that we should all dress in yellow for daffidol day, can you see me.....
Then this afternoon the first part of the "What Now" filming that will be shown on Sunday morning. The kids loved it, if Jade is not on TV I will be very surprised!!!
Long Weekend ahead, we have soccer tomorrow morning as normal, but What Now is coming to film some of Jade's Team's game so that is cool. Then Nyah is coming to stay the night, and then Sunday morning we are up early to go to base for What Now live filming, they are very excited, so that should be cool!!

Hairy.....

Ralf is on resettlement training for the next 9 weeks, and that means...... no shaving for 9 weeks, how feral will he get.....

week 1

And finally uploaded some pictures of Jade in her new bed, not the new bedding on it, she now has some nice bedding that she selected and goes with her room, looks good! Was funny going to the shop and getting to to pick out what colour sheets she wanted, god knows why she needed to have one that was black.... a bit early for that sort of obsession!!! Then selecting the duvet covers as well, she loved doing that, although was a bit gutted that you could not get a queen size sponge bob cover!!!
A great weekend - we (Jade) played soccer on Saturday in the rain, was not cold, but it was very wet, I think it was worse that the field was very very very wet! Then today we had a family portrait taken, hope they turn out okay, we shall see.

It is funny how much I have not been on my blog since Ralf has been back.... do you think I might have missed him just a little bit? Well if that is the case, ssshhhh don't tell him.

Well I hate to be the soccer mum saying this, but when is the season going to finish... it has been so long, why is it that this seems to be the sport with the longest season in the world! I mean it started before Easter I think, and does not finish until half way through September. In saying this my girl's team has done so well this year, they are into the finals which is just amazing and there is such a really good chance of them winning that game.

We went out for dinner on Friday night with Gundi and Deb, went to our favourite the lonestar, yum fantastic, tastes so great. I just love their Kahlua and Moro bar cheesecake mmm one of the all time favourite desserts to be had, well in Palmerston North at least.

Sunday I went to see Mamma Mia with Jo, even though I am a massive ABBA fan, this movie is well and truely recommended. Fantastic. Loved it. Laughed and laughed so hard the whole way through, adn then burst into song with all the music (well in my head), fantastic! So much so I am going to buy the DVD when it comes out.

Did some scrapping on Saturday, a slow page, looking good, but just fiddling away with it here and there, might have finished it by the weekend.

Anyway "The Unit" is starting.... catch you later...

The slackest blogger in the world

God it has been two weeks, time has just flown by. Ralf has been back now for almost a month now. He had a couple of weeks off when he got back, caught up on all the programs I had taped for him, and of course got used to living back at home, and vice versa, Jade and I had to get used to having him home as well. You don't think it would make any difference but it is surprising how strange it is having him home again. I have to consider what he thinks again!!! Which is quiet funny.

He started back at work last week, which was funny. It sounds to me as though he spent the whole time planning his new job and organising his leave, resettlement training etc. So next week he starts working for a builder which is cool, this is for his resettlement traiing, and he will be doing that for the next weeks. Will be quiet good as he will hopefully learn heaps of things, not that he does not already know how to build a fence and a deck etc, but building a house from scratch I am sure he will learn quiet a lot. Even better the house that is being built is right next door, like just over the fence - what a saving on travel!

The he starts back at work in November I think - after a week of golf of course - and then he works until Xmas, then more leave until he starts his new job at the end of February. He is quiet excited about that.

Anyway enough about him ,more all about me! Well alright I will talk about Jade first. Jade now is such a big girl that she is in a big bed, like a queen size bed, man I wish I had a bed that big when I was her age, so much room to move and spread out. And if your Jade of course you would be happy to know that you now had lots of room for your soft toys, they fit all the way accross the bed! So we then had to go and get another bed for the spare room, as some people did not want to come and visit and stay in a single bed, cannot understand why not!!!!

I scrapped again on Sunday, ate lots of lollies and of course sponge fingers - mmmmmm my favourites!

First one is a picture Kris took of Jade and I about 2 months ago I think, quiet a nice picture of us. I forgot to say I scrapped all day on Sunday but achieved not much - maybe I talked to much? This one I think took four hours!!!!

Then this next one is when Jade and I went to Dunedin while Ralf was away in Timor. Larnach's castle, a very cool day we had there.

Anyway that is about all that has been happening in my life. Nothing exciting planned for the next week of so, so do not be surprised if I do not post!