tick, tock, tick, tock

Would love to join in on this CC tonight..... not sure if time will work in my favor... If you think you can make it check it out HERE

I have been working on a secret project that has kept me super busy day and night this week.... I will share in a few days :)

Copeton Road Trip

This is Copeton Dam. It is currently holding 11% of the water it should have. Such a sad sight. This is where I learnt to water ski, approx 14 years ago..... Probably in the spot where the photo was taken is where we would ski.
We stopped at Copeton Dam on the way home from Bingara after meeting Alice. Alice is the newest edition to the Myhill family. I will share pics soon.
Enjoy your day where ever you may be x

Halloween Disco

Yesterday Shawn went to a Halloween disco at the school. Can you guess what he went as???

* the marks on his arm are not part of the costume. They did a Fun Run at school, each mark is one lap around the oval. I don't know who decided this should be called "fun"....

*Update - He went as a 'Cereal killer'

Sky Watch Friday

I have missed a few Sky Watches, but hopefully I am back on track now!

I caught this blue hole Wednesday afternoon inbetween rainfalls. It has been so good to get some rain. Though, I could have done without having to light the fire!

Grommet

Thought I better put a pic up of my little surfer dude!
Shawn has been an extra happy little man lately... He is such a good kid and we are so proud of him. He has started playing basketball in Armidale, just like his Dad. He so loves his Dad!

Mechanical Surfboard

This is my hunky husband on the mechanical surfboard at the Thunderbolts Festival. This was a pretty cool thing! I would have had a go but.......... ;)

Shawn also went on this (a few times) and did really well!

All of the rides/activities are free at the festival. The committee seek sponsorship from local business'. This way kids can go on the rides as many times as they like and mum/dad don't have to keep pulling out there wallets. Kids love it... Parents love it!!

We are getting some good rain, it is loverly. I only have to leave the house once today, bliss!

My view of the parade...

On Saturday Uralla hosted the Thunderbolts Festival... The day begins with the street parade. This is the view I see. My main job on the day is to make sure the street parade goes in order and as smoothly as possible... I think I did well :) I catch a lift down to the park and all of the festivities on a Fairytale Tours horse drawn carriage. They are beautiful horses, sadly we won't have them next year as they are going to live in Cairns. (A long way away from Uralla!) As it is they are currently in Bellingen, a good 2 hours away.

So, it was a great day... I have never walked so much or so fast since I was last at Disneyland!

My baby girl is 4!

Yesterday this beautiful girl turned 4. The day started with pressies first thing. Then it was her Preschool day, so she had cupcakes with her friends there. Then another cake in the afternoon with family. The phonecalls didn't stop for her until 8pm... she is a loved little girl!

To make the day extra special and in true Myhill family form, a baby was born.

Matt's neice Bec had a baby girl 4 weeks early. Alice Mary.

So Liberty is the last of the Grandchildren and Alice is the first Great Grandchild. Both girls are named after a very special family member Alice Ada who was raised on Green Oak. Liberty's middle name is Ada. So there you have it!

Green Oak Driving

Just something I did I on the weekend at Green Oak... With a little help from my friends :)

Bushfires in the Macleay

Over the weekend we went down to Green Oak and this was our changing view. In just minutes the fires could change direction... easy to see how destructive a fire could be.

Sorry I have not been blogging much, I am so extra busy this month... I will be better next week (I hope) So many great photos from the weekend away to share :)

Liberty will be 4 tomorrow.... must wrap tonight!

Pez

I have been wanting to get Shawn a funky USB flash drive for school. The one I like most was star wars themed for $50 USD.... No chance of that purchase happening for a 9 year old to take to school! Yesterday I had a wider seach on the www and found something similar to this. My kids have of heaps of Pez dispensers and a tricky daddy so this is the one Matt created. I love it! Need to find a smaller USB for the next one we make, but it does the job! I always have a USB in my bag loaded with images so I think I will put some thought into what I would like....

Working for $$$$

This is Liberty's new 'Bob' haircut. It looks pretty unkept in this shot as we were spending the afternoon down by the river at Grafton. The kids always have a great time, the look on her face makes you wonder what was going on in her mind.... :)

I worked 4 days this week, that is a big jump when I am used to one half day. All 4 days of paid work.... how nice! I do like my volunteer positions, but paid work is very sweet!

I looked through my trusty Smiggle diary this morning and calculated that I only have 5 free days left this month. That makes me tired... I need a diary for next year as I now have 5 Weddings to shoot over the next 12 months!!!!
My almost 4 year old, Liberty has been unwell. She has a miserable cold and conjunctivitis. She is the best little girl when it comes to drops in her eyes. this is the 2nd time she has had conjunctivitis. It is a horrible thing to have!

Tonight Matt had to do a housecall and have a look at a friends motorbike, tomorrow we are going back over for more riding adventures!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend! :)

We had a lovely weekend away in Grafton. I do like long weekends!

Spring!

I took this photo about 2 weeks ago. 5 seconds after I took this shot, this Magpie flew down and swooped me... Lucky for me he didn't make contact with my scalp. The noise of the beak snapping made me shudder, like fingers down a chalk board. This guy hangs around in the trees at the school... not helpful when I need to walk to the school almost daily. Not much longer and he wont need to protect the nest... I hope!

We have a long weekend in NSW and we are heading off to Grafton to watch the Bridge to Bridge water ski race. If you want to travel the world via the www go check out Sky Watch Friday.

Scrap Share

Only a few days of school left and then 2 weeks holidays... Those few days are pretty full on, lots of things to do and places to be.
Haircuts for the kids today.... I must remember to do a before and after of Shawn, I think I have talked him into getting his hair short again. As long as he doesn't change his mind on me at the last minute. Highly likely!
Over the weekend we picked up some plants for the retaining wall garden. Blueberry, Merrill Magnolia, Lavender, Oleander and Rosemary. We also got another Lilac planted.
The Lilacs came from my Grandmothers garden. Walking the nursery you could easily break the budget so I am very happy to receive unwanted plants from gardens. We are off to Grafton this weekend where I plan on digging out some Bird Of Paradise from Amanda and Roy's garden. It won't survive the winters hear, but if I pot it, I can give it a go! It is my favourite flower!

Dust Storm September 2009

As you may have noticed/heard half of Australia was coated in fine dust on Wednesday.

These photos are of my front veranda rail that is black. The first image was taken at 7.30 am and the second approx 4pm. It had started to rain and the colour cleared fairly quickly then. Sorry the first pic is out of focus... I was cold! :)

I have held off on the clean up as some reports say it is expected to happen again over the weekend.

So this is my different take on Sky watch Friday, thanks for stopping by and if you have the time go visit some other skies!

Better than chocolate!!

I am soooo excited!!!

I ordered these online from USA Foods in Melbourne. I LOOOOVE dill pickles and they are just not the same in Australia as they are in America... and I have searched!

I just had one as a snack, sooooo good! I am sure you are reading this not sharing my excitment, but I don't care, pickles make me happy! Even if I paid $30 when I know I can get them at Wal-mart for $2.98... :)

The Who Grandfinal

Yesterday Matt's Basketball team had their grand final. It was a great game to watch and very close.
Matt's team 'The Who' always ahead by just a few points the whole game. With 1.32 on the score board they were up by 7 points....all very exciting, edge of your seat kind of stuff... Then the guys on the score sheet and board communicated and added 6 points to the other team and took a point off The Who... Not sure what happened when, but someone wasn't doing their job attentively... If you have played or watched basketball you will understand that the last minute or 2 the winning team slow down that ball and play safe.
Anyway... the other team won by one point... Matt is doing very well to be a good sport, like he always is. It was great to see him play, it had been awhile.

Anyone know where September went?

Not the image I had planned to use for Sky Watch Friday, but as I was looking for it this one caught my eye. I actually only took this shot to record the damage to this post. The blue against the red is divine! I didn't play with the image, though it is tempting and I might tinker in photoshop another time...

happy Sky Watch Friday all!

Another camp page.

This is another page I did at camp. It was my entry for last months White With 1 challenge. I found out a few days ago it won a prize! Yay me!!
I have had a busy morning with Liberty at Preschool. I have the sewing machine out...Yay Me!!! :)
I have baked a cake and have cooked dinner ready for tonight... I am off now to play some more with the sewing machine... bye...

I made something!

Look what I made last night! I am not a big card maker and when I do they are fairly basic designs.

Last night the Cyber Crop started over at Scrapbooking Top 50 and this was a mystery challenge that had to be completed over night. The instructions for this card can be found following THIS link. It really is quite easy to construct.

I am having a pretty slow start to the day and decided to skip Sky Watch Friday today... Hopefully I will make the time to visit some of the SWF bloggers over the weekend.

another favourite...

I have a few favourite photos from Rick & Amy's wedding, this is one of them. I didn't quite capture what I was after, but I still like the result... I loaded 2 more over at Happy Snaps yesterday and I might get another one on before the washing machine ends. Then I have to go over to the school and do a few P&C jobs.

Happy Father's day!

Happy Father's Day, Father's!

Concerning sky

This was the sky one week ago, the day before I was to shot Rick and Amy's wedding. This image was taken at the same time of day that I would be taking their wedding photos... There was no horizon, the sky and ocean were the same colour. In this photo the Coffs Harbour Jetty breaks the two. All was good on the day, and I got my horizon! :)

Happy Sky Watch Friday!

This just in...

Jodi's Scraphaven has blog candy galore on offer! I met Jodi at camp a few weeks ago... she is one talented and busy scrapper.

Click HERE to check her out!

My 2 groovy kids danced the night away at Rick and Amy's wedding. We dragged Liberty off the dance floor around 11pm. Shawn did the Nutbush better than most seasoned night clubbers!

This tricky Polaroid look is soooo simple! best part is that photoshop is not needed, just a few minutes of your time. The site is Rollip and there are a few varieties of templates to choose from. Since I couldn't decide what one to use I used a few :)

I have started another blog to display some of the wedding pics I took on the weekend. If you are interested have a look HERE.

It is a beautiful sunny day in my part of the world...

900 photos later...

At Rick & Amy's wedding I shot off about 900 pics and another 100 of various non wedding things over the weekend. I do enjoy playing with my D90!

I am soooo tired. After 2 nights with not much sleep, my eyes are struggling to stay open and focus. Hopefully tomorrow I can have a good look and start culling wedding shots. This pic of Liberty was taken after the ceremony as we were heading down to the beach to get some shots... she wanted me to push her on the swings... Well her face tells the rest of the story.

It was a lovely wedding, so good to see everyone.

Sky Watch Friday

I shot these last Sunday evening on the way home from camp. I got to the top of the Moonbi Mountains and it was beautiful...

Tomorrow we are off to Coffs Harbour for Matt's Nephews wedding. It has been about 10 years since I went to a beach wedding. This one is extra special. It is the first Myhill wedding since ours almost 11 years ago (yikes) and I get to play photographer... nervous and excited about that...

To check out other sky images from around the world visit HERE.

Happy weekend :)

This is my entry for Augusts 123 Challenge. Criteria was to use a blurred photo, at least 5 staples and something metal. It is a pretty basic page, but it was a very funny moment in time :)

Anyone for blog candy? Check out THIS talented scrappers site to find out how!

Camp stuff

These are 2 more pages that I did at camp. Both I have entered in challenges over at Scrapbooking Top 50. I seemed to do bright pages at camp... I must have been happy :)

My Cullen boy...

Today over at school they celebrated book week. Shawn went as Edward Cullen from the Twilight series. He looks a little more Jasper than Edward :) Shawn is really enjoying the books. A good challenge for a 9 year old! We (I) had a great time this morning doing his hair and powdering him with baby powder for that pale vampire look :)

I was thrown the job of helping judge the children, not an easy task as so many of them put a lot of thought into it.

I will share some scrapping later...

Camp Prize!

This is my award winning scrap page! LOL


We were given a sketch to inspire us and this is what I came up with... It is made completely from scraps. I was happy with it but really didn't think anyone else would think so. Work was judged and voted on by all of 50 ish women that attended camp. For me to come out with 2nd place is pretty exciting!


Below is a pic of the goodies I won. Some Making Memories papers and a photo cube. Maya Road rub-ons and dial and a Loverly book on Photo Decor.
I will post more of my layouts from camp over the next few days.

Home from camp...

I spent some time this morning watching this lovely Mum and her Joey by the lake. I didn't want to get to close as she was having breakfast. The Joey had a great time playing in the pouch, very funny to see long legs and nothing else sticking out.
Camp was great! Fairly productive, I got 13 pages done, some were doubles, and I like all of them. I will take some pics tomorrow to share.... time for sleep.... zzzzzzz

* Meg and Pam I am going to start blackmailing you both, I have some *interesting* pictures of you both :)

Road Trip!

Don't these look yummy! One of my super girlfriends delivered them to me yesterday... thankyou x I plan on cutting them up and snacking on them for my road trip this afternoon. I am off to Lake Keepit for 2 nights to scrapbook... and eat... and laugh... and drink... did I mention eat :) This year I am driving the 2 hour trip myself. It will be my first road trip on my own with my fully qualified licence. I have the ipod ready to go!
I better get busy packing and getting this house into order so I can leave knowing it didn't look like a demolition site!

Goodies!

My new treats! :)

I have been drooling over these vinyl decals for a good few months now and I finally ordered me some! The camera is on my laptop and the cupcake is on (one of) my camera bags. I got some other goodies that I am not sure where they will go yet so stay tuned! 3 days after I ordered these, a vinyl sewing machine became available to purchase! Typical! :)

They came to me all the way from Springfield MO. I love Elsie Flannigans creations. I loved her scrapbooking range when she had one... I ordered these from Red Velvet Art where a group of uniquely talented people sell their creations. I would *love* to own one of her original girls one day...

4 Sleeps till camp!!!!

SWF

This is a shot I took last Sunday out at the Ferris'. This is the view while we had lunch.

Hopefully we will get some good rain to add some colour to the grass and fill up the dam.

Shawn had a disco on tonight at school. He loves them, my groovy boy :) Tonights theme was 'bright colours'... He went with blue and white pants and a lime T-Shirt. You don't get cooler than that! lol Once home he got busy planning what he will do for the Halloween disco...

Enjoy your Friday, for a look at wonderful images from around the world have a look at Sky Watch Friday

Hump Day!

Today is Jessica's 3rd birthday and her brother Lucas' 1st birthday! Clever parents they have :) I got this shot on Sunday of Liberty and Jess. I think it is very sweet...

Did I???

I am sorting through some files for camp and came across this image... not sure if I have posted it before, sorry If I have :) At least it is a cute shot!
All day (and I mean all ALL day) this beautiful 'big' girl has talked about her friend Molly. I love Miss Molly, but I am sick of hearing about her today!!! Keeping in the M theme, Liberty asked how to type her friend Meg's name today, that didn't take long and she quickly moved back to calling Molly on her duplo phone... I hope Liberty doesn't get the bug the rest of us have so she can see Molly at Preschool tomorrow. Bring on some sanity!

Sunday with this little man.

Sunday was a lovely day. It was Lucas' Christening. It was a lovely sunny day we all sat out and chatted and laughed for hours. Then I got home and my occasional small cough turned into fever, aches and a yucky cough... Super!

Today I have had some naps while my wonderful husband stayed home with Liberty and an unwell Shawn. I am thankful x

Here's to a better day tomorrow!

Useless, but interesting!

Today is the 7th of August.

At 34 mins and 56 seconds past 12... the time will read 12:34:56 07-08-09......... 123456789.

This wont happen for another thousand years.

I spotted this on a friends post on facebook and thought I would share.

Empire State Flags

2 months ago I was on the observatory level at the Empire State Building, NYC. Looking up (and I fear heights!) I snapped these flags against a beautiful blue spring sky.

This was my second visit to the ESB. the first time was winter at night time. The view was amazing. It was also the coldest I have ever been... The wind chill so was disabling, I could not inhale...

Happy Sky Watch Friday. If you are in the mood to blog hop stop by and visit some wonderful skies from all over the world.

Looking forward to warmer weather!

The past few days have been beautiful! We went and got wood on Sunday and it was the perfect day, so good to feel the sun hit you. Today is another beautiful morning, when you are out of the wind...
This is a pic I took 2 months ago!!!! Times Square NYC. The city has closed Broadway at times square to traffic. The chairs are supplied by the city. It was rather strange seeing people just sitting and chatting amongst all of the neon. Apparently 2 million people cross times square daily!

babys got blue eyes...

Miss Bitty has beautiful eyes, just like her Daddy. they change colour depending on the current mood. I snapped this pic a few nights ago while I was checking on a lens that I let someone borrow. So far so good!

I can't remember what she was about to tell me at this moment... it was pretty serious! :)