One Big Sunshine Spritzer: Family

BLOGTEMBER CHALLENGE - Day 28...

12:35 AM

A day in the life.

Well, a day in my life is usually about kids, hungry kids, housework, hungry kids, laughs, breaking up fights, hugs, i love you's, family, entertaining kids, cleaning kids, hungry kids, hungry husband, cooking, snuggles, and if I'm lucky some crafting and some TV time.

Ha!

In a nutshell anyway ;-)

Unless, it's a town day. Or I've got meetings. Or I've gotta work in the shop. Or there's a school thing happening for the kids.

Then the day looks a little different.

But today...

Today was the start of school holidays for two weeks AND it was a public holiday here.

So the kids didn't have to go to school AND the hubby didn't have to go to work.

So I'll give a snippet of what today was like for us.

It was a beautiful day today.

So we made the most of it and got outside.

I had lots of laundry to catch up with so while I was hanging out clothes and such the kids played in the backyard chasing the dog, totem tennis, and in the sandpit.

Later on in the day, we all went for a bike ride around town. Together.

In the evening, after baths and while we were eating tea, Finding Nemo was the movie selection for the evening. The kids love to watch a movie before bed.

And most nights, I end up here. On the couch. With my lappy, cuppa tea (and tonight some chocolate snuck in there), and the latest TV series I'm watching on DVD.

At the moment, it's McLeods Daughters.

Loved it when it was on telly years ago, still love it now!!

Has been an alright day all round really!

How bout yours?

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

Anna

Family

Here I Stand Right Now #8...

10:29 PM

Hi peeps!

I have been away most of this week so I haven't been as avid taking 'where I stand' photos.

I have also been snapping away with the #hscapturelife photo month that Heidi has running for this month of August!

So, today I thought that I would show you where I stood TODAY and a few photos that were captured throughout the day.

I was reunited with my tribe today - haven't seen them since Tuesday morning so it was lovely to hang out with them again.

So here is where I stood today...

on the beach with my fam!

And it was so awesome, and pretty, relaxing and calming.

We then walked along the beach and stopped by the playground.

Mr Awesome snapped some piccies of myself and the kiddies playing.

I'm so glad he did!!

It was just such a beautiful day today.

I love the beach - it always calms me and clears my head.

I feel so fresh and alive!

How has your day been?

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

Anna

Family

Today...

9:42 PM

It is always a highlight around here when we receive HAPPY MAIL.

And that is just what happened today.

The girls scored some goodies from their Gran and Popi in Tasmania.

Here they are opening their special pressies...

Such sweet little excited cherubs :-)

And then it all went goofy from there ;-)

Bahahahaha!

Gosh I love these two. They make me love real big!

Thanks Mum and Dad (Gran and Popi) for making our day :-)

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

Anna

Family

Around Here - Over The Last Month...

2:31 PM

It's been a tad quiet around here on my little blog apart from the usual routine posts.

So I thought I'd pop in and share a little of what as been happening in the life of us :-)

My sister came to visit. It was great to have another part of my family here - she cooked some yummy treats for us ;-)

Mr Awesome turned another year older!

And we celebrated with a birthday bonfire night in our backyard with some of our neighbours :-)

My sister and I headed into town one weekend and attended a retreat held by the local scrapbooking store. Awesome creative time - I really needed it!!

Thanks Mr Awesome for looking after the kiddies :-)

We attended Miss J's Learning Journey at school - she thoroughly enjoyed taking us around her classroom showing off all her work. Completely in her element she was ;-)

And I must say she is doing very well - she has had some issues with concentration and getting pieces of work finished on time but, as reported from her teacher, she is improving in this area and learning to apply herself better!

Miss J turned six years old!!!

We celebrated Fathers Day!

Crazy kids ;-)

I registered for the Escape 2 Create 2015 retreat...

AND GOT IN!!

Exciting stuff :-)

I became a YOUR INSPIRATION AT HOME consultant!

I am loving all the products these bods put out - and it makes cooking a whole lot easier and tastier! I can whip up a snack in minutes which is awesome for me!

You can view the catalogue and order the products through my YIAH website HERE.

You can also find recipe ideas and such there as well.

I plan to share recipes and product updates over on my YIAH Facebook page HERE too (it's a work in progress but I'm aiming to build this up more soon!) so click LIKE to follow and get up to date info :-)

As you can see, my bench is getting quite full - and this is not all of it!! I haven't included the other bench full of tea blends, chocolate powders, and flavoured sugars!!!

I have sent letters and received goodies from my penpals.
I signed up for the creative pen pal swap a while back that was run by Mel from One Crafty Mumma blog - I have one international and one Aussie penpal.

Unfortunately, the last month has seen me with a bad back and hip. Last week it got the better of me and I headed into emergency - I was ordered some heavy duty pain relief and to stay active (well, doh). My back is much improved but my hip is still causing me some grief. Living on nurofen at the moment. Might need to get to a doctor again - if I can get in!!

Spring is creeping in with some lovely sunny (and rather warm) days. This week we've had some rain too which is great for the farmer's crops!

Smiles all round I think :-)

I have also been [slowly] getting some creative things done where I can as my hip/back allows. Will share some more of that in detail soon.

Take care!

With Sprinkles of Sunshine...

Anna

Family

Around Here Lately...

2:04 PM

I haven't blogged much everyday 'goings on' in our life at the moment. This would most likely be due to the fact that we had school holidays and time just goes swoosh!

Anyway, I thought I'd pop in and share some piccies of my fam and what we have been up to over the last couple of weeks or so...

It's definitely Winter here. We got a tad low on wood there for a while so I was taking Little K on small walks around the house to collect some bits of wood, sticks etc to burn in our fire to keep it going and to save wood and make it stretch further until we could get some more. It was quite a fun little exercise to keep up busy and active so no complaints here :-)

I received this awesome canvas from the super talented Jodie of Polka Dot Creative - I love everything she does. And her script writing is just divine!

Now just to get it mounted on my wall somewhere - I'm thinking in my bedroom so I wake up to it EVERYDAY :-)

Miss J was invited to a 6th birthday party of one of her school friends - this was the cake that the mother made. She had coloured the icing herself using natural products AND drew and cut out the ponies from scratch too. And as if that wasn't enough she also made a trifle cake piled up with fruit on top which was delicious!

Chalk Art!! Always a fun outdoor activity for the kids to do :-)

Because of holidays, my town days now involved both my children which was interesting. It was Macca's for tea this particular town day and they were rather chuffed with their StormFly dragon figurine in their Happy Meal :-) Huge 'How to Train Your Dragon' fans here!

We went for walks and played in the park (dodging the rain as best we could!)...

Picked flowers on the way home from the side of the road and I enjoyed many cups of tea to warm up ;-)

Being school holidays, some treat times were in order. A few times, we made a trip over to the 'Road-shop' as Miss J refers to it as -- bought some drinks and maybe an ice-cream or a chocolate and walked around to Daddy at the shop and had a little picnic style catch-up together...cos we can :-D

There was sleep-ins...well for me anyhow. The kids still got up at their unearthly hour but they know they are not allowed out of their room until 7am. And then they entertain themselves fairly well while I have a little bit more of a snooze. Miss J enjoyed coming and sitting beside me in my bed and reading one of my mags -- "Once upon a time there were fairies..." *I had totally missed the part of my knitting/crochet mag having fairies in it ;-) hehe

One weekend we stayed in town for a couple of nights so I could complete my First Aid training. It was nice having the Golden Arches close-by again for the purposes of a special midnight snack ;-)

Can't do the grocery run without a car ride! We don't usually give them money for it but this time we said Yes.

Just for the record - Little K did actually enjoy the ride once she got over the initial grouch over not being on the side of the car she wanted!! Ugh...kids hey!?! ;-)