A Heart Full of Music

Last night we were lucky enough to go and see the new musical movie 'Les Miserables'

I grew up singing these songs watching the '10th Anniversary Concert' over and over, so after seeing the trailer it was a must see! and it was amazing.

I loved it so much, I love that it stayed true to the music. The performances from the actors was heart wrenching and added it's own quality. Hugh Jackman delivered such an amazing performance along with Anne Hathaway and the entire cast.

Eddie Redmayne did a great job playing the romantic hero Marius, But Michael Ball will always be my most favorite.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The 'silly season' well and truly arrived and I have had such a great time in amongst all the crazy-ness. My Big girl turned 6 years old on the 12th and I can hardly believe she is six years old already. Kerry was away for work the week of her birthday so it was just me and the kids. I had asked Taylah what she would like for dinner on her birthday and she asked for McDonald's. So that's what we did, too easy!

We celebrated Christmas with my Family having dinner on Christmas eve at my aunties. It was such a hot day, the kids run around all day in their under ware or their swimmers. Water fights, sprinklers, food, and more food. In true Sydney style it began to rain and we saw bursts of lightening towards the evening as all the kids hustled around getting ready for their Nativity play.

Nativity Play Christmas Eve 2012

Each family performs an item in our Concert and the kids add extra items. Emma sung 'Skinny Love' and Kimball showed us his fart noise repertoire! After the nativity play we all gave our gifts then ate.

We came home and put our kids into bed, then it was straight onto Santa duty. Filling my kids stockings to place at the end of their bed, for them to find in the morning.

Christmas morning the kids slept in from the late night before, but first thing was first they emptied their stockings. I really loved spending Christmas morning with my little family I don't think we have ever done it before. We cooked up a feast for breakfast, skipped lunch and went straight to dinner at my mums house.

I Love Christmas. I love spending time with my crazy family, even though we all have our differences and disagreements, we can all come together to carry on traditions that have been in my family for years, and that I hope to carry on with my children.

For Christmas I got an ipad mini, which is kind of just a courtesy calling it that as I did buy it myself and I got it about 4 weeks before Christmas!? I'm not a very patient woman and I don't like surprises. I like to tell my husband what to buy me, or even better, I'll buy it myself.

For Kerry I brought him a new cologne  Paco Rabanne One Million which I love, I love the smell and I love that I choose one for him that he hasn't had before {And I really want Lady Million now!} and some clothes.

For Taylah-benet and Mathias we got remote control cars, Taylah's is a Barbie car and Mathia's is Lightning McQueen. They both love them and spent hours playing with them after. And Carter got a Little People Aeroplane.

Now we are gearing up to spend New Years in Cowra at my Caroline's new pad :)

It a Party, a Rainbow Party!

Yesterday we celebrated Taylah-benet's 6th birthday with friends and family. BBQ lunch at a nearby park and a spectacular desert table to boot!

Although I helped put it all together {and paid for it :/ } the visionary talent behind it was my sister. She loves to do it, and she is good at it! So I asked her to design the table for me and we pieced it all together.

The colourful lollies, chocolate Oreos, fruit sticks, rainbow jelly, cake pops, and red velvet cupcakes, I was really happy to see it all come together so well.

I was a little nervous about making the birthday cake as my cake maker has moved country and couldn't be there, I just had to do my best and hope I didn't stuff it up. I was really happy with how it turned out, I have tried to make this layer cake recipe before and it was an epic fail. { I'll post a link to the recipe a little later } But it turned out great! I did a crumb icing with white chocolate ganache, I really liked this as you could hardly tell it was there between the layers and over the cake and it tastes so good! Then, I covered it with white fondant, a rolled icing which I had never tried before. And of course, a rainbow ribbon to finish it off.

The cakepops I made were chocolate orange, with cream cheese frosting, super white melts and 100's & 1000's sprinkled over them.

The rainbow invitations, bottle labels, buffet labels, chocolate labels, and thank you tags I purchased them from the amazing Li-Ann Scott of Ham & Pea, and printed off as many I wanted.

The coloured lollies in the seven jars are Sixlets, they are American candy, Chocolate. They don't really taste very good { they're not awful } but they are fabulous for all their colours. I got them from a shop in Bass Hill which stocks a whole lot of American candy { including dark chocolate m&m's! YUM! } they are sold in their separate colours.

All the party ware, plastic plates, salad bowls with lids, salad servers, knifes, forks napkins etc i got from Party ware supplies in Padstow,Arab rd, they have a fabulous amount of party ware I just love going there.

Taylah-benet had such a great day, the kids just played on the playground, everyone loved the desert table, the cake and the cake pops.

I really enjoyed putting the table together, it was really expensive, but didn't it look amazing!!

Now, Christmas!!!

Taylah-Benet's 6th 'Rainbow' Birthday Party Saturday 15th December 2012 - Blackmuscat Park, Chipping Norton

Six years old

Today is Taylah-benet's birthday and I can hardly believe that she is now six years old {I have a six year old people!!!} it didn't really hit me until this morning, I was sitting in the lounge with Carter and as soon asTaylah woke, she came straight out, stood at the top of the stairs and with the biggest smile said 'Mum, I'm six now!' As if she had gone though the transformation from a 5 year old into a 6 year old, in her sleep.

It kind of makes me sad, she is growing so quickly the time is going so fast. One day she was a newborn in my arms, the next a running screaming toddler, and now... A beautiful little school girl learning and growing everyday.

With Kerry away this week, we had a little celebration with my Mum and sister. We had McDonalds at her request and a little cake.

We got her a camera, a kids 'tough' one, and she loves it, I think she's taken over 200 photos already!? Her cousin Havannah-lily made her an 'octopus' out of a bottle and some papers and she love that too! {she's named it Max} and from Aunty Sariah she got a cd of 'One Direction' which of course, she loves, she had a total melt down when she wanted to sleep with it, but I couldn't find it!

I'm pretty sure she's had a good day, I can't wait until Saturday!!

Being a bad Mum

Kerry has gone away for work this week so to tonight was just myself and the three kids. I was becoming more and more stressed out as Carter wouldn't go to sleep, Taylah and Mathias were playing up and I couldn't get through to Kerry on his mobile, I thought if I could just hear his voice it always make me feel a little better.

After Carter finally went to sleep, I went and got dinner for my big two I was still stressed out and when Mathias came and sat in the kitchen doorway holding his foot and whimpering, I didn't take any notice of him. I went about doing what ever I was doing, while he sat there. After about 5-10minutes I went over to him only to see that he had something sticking out of his foot. On the first grab it wouldn't budge, so, feeling pretty guilty by then, I picked him up as his crying got louder, and tried to pull it out.

After that, Taylah wanted to look after him for the rest of the night. They ate, and I sat on my couch feeling so sorry for myself! Listening to that voice in my head that was reminding me of what a terrible housewife I am, my house is one big massive hideous mess and what a bad mother I was being.

Sitting there drowning in my sorrows, crying to myself, I motioned Mathias to come to me. He sat on my lap and we cuddled which made me cry even more. Once Taylah was finished she came and cuddled too. Then she said to me 'you know I love you mum?'

I don't know if there are any sweeter words than hearing my children tell me how much they love me. I want to be a better mother for them. I want to be a better person for them.

Unfit

I played oztag on Saturday and my legs, butt, abs and arms have been aching for the last two days! I am so unfit it's not funny and I never would have played if Leilani and my husband didn't insist and really, who's going to say no to a pregnant woman!? It has been years and years since I last played sport of any kind and I am certainly not one to jump up a play.

After all that, and feeling like I was going to pass out and die, I enjoyed it. It reminded me of the days when I was fit hahaha!