Lucie's First Week!

Well it's flown by and she's already 1 week old today. She's such an easy baby - she's already drinking 120ml bottles every 4 hours and sleeps the rest of the time. She's very easy to settle and doesn't keep me up too much at night at all.

So we're now counting down to Christmas before our big move in just over 1 week! We're moving home back to Brisbane and all our family can't wait to finally meet Lucie and see the other kids as well.

Here's a few photo's from her first week anyhow...

Day 2

Day 3

First trip to "The Strand"

Xmas photo with Lachlan and Lily.

That's all from me this time. I can hear Lucie crying out for a feed! xo

Introducing...

our newest addition to the family - Lucie Avah Lynne Goulding!
Born on Tuesday 15 December 2009 at 10:48am. 9lb (4.08kg) 53 cm after a drug free water birth!
I had been having some niggling pains all morning but they were the same as one's I'd been having all week. Nathan had decided to take the day off work for no reason because they weren't very busy (and lucky he did!). I got the kids ready and we headed off to Playgroup for the morning. Just as we pulled up to Playgroup at 9:30am my water broke in the car so I left the kids at Playgroup with a friend and we rang the midwife who said to come in whenever we were ready. We got in the car and left anf the contractions were 2 mins apart but still easily managble but we decided to head straight to the hospital which was 10 mins away. As soon as we got there I told them to run the birth pool as I didn't think I was far off giving birth! I got in and the contractions were pretty much on top of each other and after a few pushes Lucie was born in the water at 10:48am, just over an hour from when my water broke! After a very quick but fairly easy labour we came home that afternoon and she's settled in pretty well already!

That's all for now but more photo will come later...

xo

Well it's still a waiting game here! Only 13 days til baby is due now but we're hoping she'll arrive next week instead! I'm so exhausted all the time now and really over being pregnant. We just want it to be over so we can concentrate on Christmas and our big move!! Can't wait to start using all the baby things again...



I have a few little shares...

This LO was for the November Write Now Challenge over at Bon's Scraps


Then these LO's were both for the November CyberCrop at Bon's


I love this LO I created for Round 4 of Bon's Kit Comp - we needed to create our own "mask" and I love how this one turned out!


And finally some good news! I won 2nd Place over at Stuck Sketches for November with this LO!

And that's about it from me! I have some other things I'm working on but I can't share as they are for a Creative Team application! I figured I might as well try my luck but I don't like my chances...no harm trying I guess?

xo

Just a few shares...

Nothing much exciting going on here this week. Just the usual "Mummy stuff" and some scrapping here and there!

I finally finished the KaiserCraft Wreath I started and it's now proudly hanging in the lounge with the other Christmas decorations.



This is a LO I created for the November Room Challenge over at Bon's Scraps.


And this LO was a "Kit Challenge" over at Bon's Scraps. You had to create your own kit containing the materials listed, then turn it into a LO! Lots of fun this challenge was!


Oh yeah! I did have some exciting news this week. I came 3rd in the Scrap The Boys October Challenge! Just have a look here

And guess what my prize was? A Boy Kit from Bon's Scraps! How lucky am I? Can't wait to get it and start creating!!

A sad day...

It was a sad day in RAAF history today when we formally farwelled the DHC-4 Caribou from Australian service. There was a ceremony with lots of important people there say good-bye and thank the RAAF and the Caribou for 45 years of service in the ADF. Unfortunately after 45 years the plane was too old to maintain anymore so it was time to go - they will be keeping one at the War Memorial in Canberra and another at the RAAF Museum in Point Cook, Victoria.


It was great to see Nathan in his service dress and marching for once instead of his dirty old cams! The kids loved it, especially when the Caribous did a "fly over" right over top of where we were sitting. Very proud of Nathan today and happy to say he was a part of hisotry in working on these planes! Now we're looking forward to the new challenge next year when he gets to work on the new C17 Globemasters that have only been in RAAF service since 2006.


So after the ceremony they had a big "open day" where they opened 38 Squadron up to families and let them inside the planes. They also had a FA-18 Hornet, Chinook and a Black Hawk as well as some Bushmaster tanks for everyone to look at. The kids thought it was awesome that they got to sit in the cockpit of a Chinook and also a Caribou! There was a free jumping castle, balloon animals, face painting and snow cones for the kids and a bbq lunch. Was a great day all round!

So, do you like the new look?

Well I've been busy trying to update my Blog and made it look a bit more important! I'm still trying to figure out a few things but I think it looks great already!

Lily is finally all better and back to her old self! The weather is starting to get a little warmer now, so we've been locking ourselves inside during the middle of the day with the air-con on! I've nearly completed all my Christmas shopping as well, and the tree is up and looks awesome! And of course the kidlets wanted to pose in front of it wearing their Christmas shirts!


A couple of LO's to share as well for Round 2 of the competition going over at Bon's Scraps.

This one was for the Felicity's November Sketch
And finally this LO was for Charm's 123 Challenge


I think I need to get better at photographing my LO's!! xo

Heaps of scrapping done here lately...

So I've been very busy scrapping this week - I probably haven't scrapped this many pages in such a short time ever! These were all for a competition over at Bon's Scraps.

Here is my Round 1 LO for Skye's Scraplift Challenge. Requirements were to follow the sketch and include a heart, staples and masking tape.

This was for Bon's Round 1 Colour Challenge. Needed to include red, green, dots and a slogan or song for title.

And here was my take on Felicity's Sketch Challenge -


Haven't done anything else new in the last few days. Lily is sick with a virus and has had very high temps for 3 days now. It's horrible with her being so sick cause she just wants to be held all day and isn't eating much. Hopefully she'll get better soon. xo