Wow its been a long time between posts, but its nearly the school holidays so i can get back to scrappin and bloggin..lol

I did get a bit creative back in September, went to stick and giggle retreat at Noosa..so good to do nothin but scrap and chat...
Got some great pages done which i will share...

Nothing much happening here just work, and more work..but its nearly over for the year!!!

Bring on christmas!!!

Love this last one, the colours are so subtle..

Any way promise to update soon..and get all christmassy!!!

Well another month..time is flying..So to continue on with my journey from my last blog, August came..I went to visit my in laws in coffs harbour. With Jack and Alex in tow....Always lovely down there, and decided to return to Brisbane Sunday night. The drive home, five hours was great until.....I was on the Canungra road, it was black, people kept leaving on their high beams and this was annotying me . The road is windy and hilly with no lights. I came around a corner doing 80 when someone flashed their highbeams, my only thought was what the !!!! then a it felt like we hit a wall, then nothing..i blacked out for a minute or two. When i realised what was happening the car was full of what i thought was smoke...I couldnt see any thing or breathe, i could hear jack crying and Alex yelling. The car had stopped running..I yelled at Alex to get jack out the car, i couldnt get my belt undone and couldnt see why...I thought the car was on fire..I saw lights of a semi coming over the hill and prayed i was on the right side of the road. The semi stopped. Alex got jack out the car..i was trapped. Someone finally got the door open and my seat belt off. I still was having trouble breathing from the smoke and the pain in my chest, and back, which i later realised was friom the sudden stop and the seat belt. I got out the car and round the back to where jack and alwx were. I saw someone running up the hill to me, and heard a woman screaming... i was coughing and still couldnt breath.i then saw flashing lights and sirens, police and firemen and ambulance on the scene. What had happened? When i turned around a saw a person bending over a large shape on the road. My god i thought ive killed someone!!!! i was yelling, but wasnt sure what i was yelling. A woman grabbed me and told me it was a cow, we were lucky to be alive!! I stepped back and turned to look at my ford sedan which now resembled a honda civic, crushed and dented and smashed..

I was taken to the ambulance with the boys and found i was having an asthma attack due to the fine mist that had come from the air bags in the car which had gone off on impact... and due to the sealt belt crushing my ribs.. we were taken to hospital..we all walked away from the accident, which according to the firemen and police we were so very lucky. A rather large cow had been standing in the centre of my lane just around the corner, someone had flashed to let me know, only i didnt realise what they were on about, and didnt see the black cow on the road,he was put down at the scene, poor thing. Well needless to say my car was a rifght off, the insurance guy was impressed that i was walikng, when i saw my car i cried, The cow had hit the front, onto the bonnet pushing that up into the car and up the windsecreen, which didnt break, he rooled over the top and down the back and off the rear. scratching or denting most panels and causing the car to be severly out of alignment, the motor had been pushed into the car and that whay my door wouldnt open. We had someone watching over us that night...

I thought how lucky i was, my friends helped me out with transport, and for a while things were running smoothly..But once again things change in the blink of an eye and by october our lives took another beating.....

More of that later..we just got back from the snow....sooo cold in NSW at the moment...but we had a ball...here are some photos of our trip...

Mount Selwyn

Canberra

Sydney

Harbour Bridge

Big Guitar Tamworth.

Stanthorpe, first stop.

Well thats all for now..got heaps of photos to edit..

And lots to scrap!

Wow here we are the end of the month already!!!

Well ive had a couple of hectic days...

its taken me a day to get over..lol Yester day jack had two appointments at the mater childrens hospital, one for hearing and one for speech. Last week we had our first speech appoinment after a year of waiting and me telling everyone he had a problem and everyone saying, no he doesnt.. but guess what..he does have a problem quite a big one or two... so before they could do a formal speech assessment he needed his hearing checked as Alex had grommets at his age and his speech could be related to hearing loss. So i left at 8am just me and jack (as craig started new job yesterday.)left early so could get carpark, food for jack and find exactly where to go with time to spare..or so i thought.....what should have been a 40 minute drive turned into two hours due to a break down on the M1 in peak hour....grrrr, i get to the hospital 10 minutes late by now to find the car parks fulll...what the !!!!! had yto park at the mater private parking..just got in before they closed that...turned up late, hot and sweaty for running around looking and jack starving.... go in for check look in ears, only to hear the doctor say..he has something wedged in his ear, blocking it.... great..just great i murmer. after two other doctors look at it they inform me its not wax but a foreign body.(yes there was probably an opening for a joke there but i wasnt in the mood, still angry over the car parks full, how you supposed to get to appoinments....) any how i digress,,,the doctor informs me....needs to be removed...but we will givve him the hearing test and see what happens..well left ear is pefect right ear, where foreign body is holidaying we cant give a positive reading as he isnt responding to testing in this ear which could be because of the blockage pr perhaps somthing else...so they ring ENT could they look at it...no we need a refferal from a GP..what!!!! im at the hospital surely they can reffer me?..oh no..i can go to emergency and wait to get looked at but they seem to think its going to need surgical removal due to where it is and jacks age (not good for keeping still) ok so then we go off to our speech appoinmetn only to be told we cant do formal assessment until hearing test is done... what the!!!!! yes by this time its 1pm and i am going home..what a waste... but on the other hand i went to day care and got jack in ..so today he had his first day at day care and he loved it...yay!!!!!! couple of photos to share...

Now here is a link to a blog that has some interesting stuff on it!!!
HOUSE OF 3

Now for an end of month share...

And here is an advertisement for our Cyber crop over at scrapping4less: ill be hosting it next month (March)hope you can pop by...

Well thats all for now..cheers Fran

Well some things in this world we just take for granted...like washing machines, dishwashers, showers, baths, hot water, running water, or in my case any water...

Our hot water service died last weekend, i didnt realise when i hoped in the bath saturday night that the lack of hot water wasnt due to five teenagers in the house..No..But when sunday night came and everyone was complaining of no hot water i thought something was up..So a phone call late Sunday let us know that due to ekka show day on monday noone could get out to look at it..So darling man of the house thought he could fix the leak....Yay!!! Well we thought the handy man had fixed the problem till we had no water!!!! Yes his fix it up job on the hot water system had caused a small explosion in the side causing all the hot water, in fact any water to pour out into the garden. So water was turned off at the mains...No water sunday , now no water monday..Tuesday morning turn on water for one hour, no hot water but at least running water..Daughter is disgusted and stays at boyfriends, eldest boys also stay at friends. Guy who was to deliver water system doesnt turn up on tuesday...so no hot water tuesday.. Mean while washing is pilling up, dishes are too, jack is using the sink with kettle to boil water...lol takeaway is looking good just use the wraping it comes in..Wednesday, cant contact the guy delivering said already paid for hot water system...Thursday, starting to feel like perhaps we all smell, talcum powder and deodorant not cutting it,,havnt seen teenage kids in days, jack hates the tiny sink and ive lost the laundry and kitchen sink....Finally hot water system arrives with many appologies....yeh right mate just hook it up...

Friday morning very early still no hot water grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! what now..Call an electrician, arrange to come out around lunch...

cold morning head into shower, outside temperature 6 degrees shower temp...bloody freezing..wash hair very quickly go to work , pray for a miracle. come home

HOT WATER!!!!!!!!

i will never take it for granted again, as i plow into the laundry taking deep breathes as i dive under in search of washing machine.

And here is some scrapping ive been doing whilst having no showers...

Well that it for now!
Oh and ive joined up over at Scraptacular and am hoping to take part in their competition so you think you can scrap...
check it out!