Crazy Time......

Well we have finally hit the crazy time of the year where it seems to be everything is happening.

(That's why I haven't been on in so long).

In this crazy time we have had 2 lambs be born (1 died) the other is still going strong, 24 ducklings born, an got a new bird.

Plus the endless amount of rain we have been getting, its become just like a lake at our house, and the other day it was so heavy and so much water already around that our house started to flood inside.

This is our back yard at the moment, (it becomes a bit of a problem been the last at the end of our court and coping the water from all the house before us in the street). But all good - its nice to see green grass & lots of water.

new curtains

Last week I was doing my very belated 'Spring clean out', and as I was cleaning out the spare room I came across some really cool material that I brought a year or 2 ago to make one of my friends an apron (since she loves aprons) - but I still haven't got around to making that for her..... Well I'll take the credit for it but normally husband is the one that would of ended up doing it. So instead I decided that I would make something out of the material so I got it out and started cutting it up and this is what I have ended up with..... 

This is only one side and the other side is just about complete to be hung up tonight. These will now be our kitchen curtains - nice and bright!

These are our new curtains in the dining room and lounge room. My lovely mother-in-law came and made these ones for me (I'm not that confident yet).

My bargain from the op-shop that I thought wouldn't work anywhere, but they ended up fitting perfect in our bedroom!

And these are Mini Me's curtains - 

One day I need to get around to putting some kind of backing on them.

Holidays

We went on holidays a few months back to Phillip Island, it was so nice.

This was our view from our bedroom - it was the best!

It was so nice but it was freezing cold when we were there!
Will defently go back one day.

Baby!

Oh, I bet I know what you are all thinking at this moment......

THEY ARE HAVING A BABY...... 

But sorry to break the news this isn't the case at the moment.....

We are just sitting here waiting on our sheep to give birth so we can have baby lambs.....

Will keep you posted as to when this will happen!

Dolls

This is a 3 dolls in one....

It is a little bit freaky that there was 3 in one, but Mini Me loves it.....

Mini-Me's Nanny brought this for her as a present when we painted her bedroom.

This was a 21st birthday present for me!

Crazy Things

Well, this week there has been lots of crazy things happening. 

Like my father randomly telling me that they are getting an alpaca, crazy I know....
But why not start a real zoo if your going to have animals I say :)

 

So Mini Me and I went on the journey to pick up 'Caramel', and we also pick up a pregnant sheep called 'Bella' from the same old lady. She was selling her property and didn't want to sell these 2 animals with all her other, she didnt want them to go to the same house because she knew that they wouldn't have a good life - so now we get to watch a sheep give birth (maybe), she is not due til January.... 

Oh I can already feel how hot its going to be that day.....

She is getting shorn tomorrow. 

Mini Me & Husband enjoying the farm life!

Random

I still do find it very funny that for my 18th birthday my now husband brought me a water filter!

Was a cool present thou, use it everyday!

Oh there is nothing better than the smell of fresh bread cooking - as you can see that had 1 minute until our fresh loaf came out for tea! (I must say it went down very nicely).

Oh I am not too sure why I let the doctor put a band aid on me today when every time I get one I have a reaction..... Weird......

Mini me, just enjoying looking out the window!

Foxy!

Very sorry I haven't blogged lately, had lots going on around our house.

We have had a very BIG pest hanging around our house lately.... 

Of a night time starting about 9:22pm and hanging out til about 12:30am or so.....

This is our pest!

Yep, you got it right its a fox (can you see him - just in between the barrel and the table), and that stinking thing keeps on hanging around hoping to get all our chookies. He has already taken about 15 of them and now we only have 4 left, oh and we found a 5th one the other day with 6 baby chooks hiding in the neighbors property, running in between all there bushes.

So this morning i went for a drive to pick up this baby!!!

And a chicken to put in there to suck him in!!!!!

Hmmm, Food!

My favorite, Black forest! (I also love black forest chocolate too!!!!!!)

Last week we went to Ballarat so Husband & I took Mini me to Sovereign Hill 

(because of course she will understand everything at her age)..... 

But they had some of the best  lollies there.... Its worth it just for the lollies really!

This is food in process - its the newest veggie patch, cant wait for it to start growing!

I love cooking random things - banana muffins!

Random

Hmmmmmm............

Thats right, I knew you couldn't imagine it without a photo. It's a super-dooper mega huge freckle.... 

Just so you know it tasted the best :)

If I did drink real coffee, I would probably have a real coffee -

but sorry I'm only a fake coffee person!

Who ever would know what this is meant to be........

Maybe a Dog? Car? Human? 

I'm very confused - someone please tell me what it is meant to be, I just found it on the kitchen table....

Life!

Well, lots has been happening in my life in the past few days (not really sure what), but I have had a few busy days. First of all I have been doing lots of cross stitching.... At first I thought it could possibly be boring and for old grandma's, but then Husband taught me how to do it and it is very relaxing! Husband knew how to cross stitch and I didn't

(I was very surprised)! I love how we teach each other different stuff everyday!

The game of all games these days "Settlers of Catan".....

Once we finished tea tonight at about 8pm, I decided that I would get super-dooper prepared for tomorrow nights tea and now I have made the meat sauce to go into the big trays of lasagna that will get made in the morning. 

(Please note that the saucepan I am using belongs to my mother-in-law)!

Work in progress 2.

It feels so good to say that finally today we started to do the paves out the back area of our house, and of course as husband would say "it takes time", so we haven't finished yet but what we have done looks amazing!

This would have been the best part of today!

And last of all, this was a very cute frog we just found roaming at our back door, lucky he didn't get squashed by the bobcat. Mini me thought it was good while husband was holding it, then we went and sat it next to her for her to have a look at and every time she went to touch it, it jumped away (there were lots of tears).

Around the house

A few months ago we decided to paint our bedroom and Mini me's bedroom. This is Mini me's bedroom walls, the dark purple been a feature wall and the light wall is the same on the other 2 walls in our room's. To start with on the paint sample card, I really didn't think I would like it because I am a total pink girl (but husband wouldn't let me paint our rooms pink) so i trusted him that the purple would look OK, and as always it looks fantastic!

My favorite job, I love been a house wife & mother!
A few weeks ago my father-in-law came to our house and had a coffee and sat down and noticed that we didn't have a coffee table which made me think that we probably actually do need a coffee table, so I went to a few op-shops and the last op-shop I was going to stop at I was praying they would have a coffee table, and that they did, they had this great bargain out the front marked down from $4 to $2, it was great. Mini me thinks its the bomb, she sits on it to watch TV, she can push it around the house, she just thinks its great (I'm not sure that its going to last long thou.)

Work in progress

So about 2 weeks ago my husband decided that he would rip up all the stones and bricked area at the back of our house and re-pave it. 

It was such a great thought at the time, but then after he did it we realised that for about the next 3 weekends we didn't actually have time to fix it up and re-pave it. 

 So now this is what I'm looking at around out house.

Ahh, and hopefully soon I will be able to post a photo of it totally finished!!!!!!

Around the Farm!

Today we went out and about on our property. It was great. There is currently 14 sheep, about 8 ducks, there use to be about 20 chooks but the other night a fox came and took them (bit sad) so now there is only 3 chooks & 1 rooster, a mini horse (his name is Rocky), 3 Guinea Fowl, 2 Indian ring neck parakeets, 3 dogs & 3 cats.... Please understand these aren't all our animals, some of them belong to the next door neighbors but it is very interesting to go out and around looking at all the animals with husband & mini me.