Just Around The Corner

Christmas is just ten days away! I'm so excited, but to me the year has gone really quickly as it always seems to do, maybe its just me. Well Christmas preparations are underway here, Elise is making a big Christmas pudding, I'm planning to make some goodies, the Christmas tree is up, we've finished school for the year and well.... Christmas is in the air.

As most of you would know, us Australians are just beginning summer when Christmas comes. I see all the dreamy pictures of Christmas online and there's snow, a big Christmas tree by an open fire, lights everywhere and people having a merry time, something like above.

But, I have to be honest with you, this is much more like an Aussie Christmas....

I love this video, its a classic. I hope you liked it.
After Christmas, (New Year), my family and I are going to have a little holiday with our Grandparents who live on the coast. We are really looking forward to that.


Anyway, what are you plans for Christmas?

Zip a dee doo dah

I honestly don't know why I've titled this post like that, I guess its just a random name for a random post. Anyway, it is absolutely soaking wet here, it has been raining nonstop for about an hour now, cricket has been called off for the whole weekend and I'm in misery because of it. I get so upset when sport is washed out.

But there is one good thing, its my birthday this weekend!!

I'm really excited, I'm going to have a big chocolate cake with drinks and pizza and lots of yummy foods. I don't have clue on what I'm getting for my birthday, hopefully there will be some good stuff. We have some streamers and balloons and we're going to decorate our living room and have great time! Just a quick post today, I can't think of what else to say. I just wanted to post something new. I might be able to post about my birthday, hopefully I will.

Adios!

A New Blogger Award

I was given this award by Vellvin. Thanks Vellvin.

Ok, according to the rules of the award, I must share seven things with you.... so here we go.

1. We have had about four thunder storms in two days here. Last night we had a real beauty of a storm with with a great show of lightning.

2. I played three games of cricket over the weekend, now my hamstrings are pretty sore.

3.My laptop is feeling really nice and warm on my lap at the moment. *ahhhhh*

4. It's my birthday in about two weeks.

5. I'm super excited about Christmas approaching.

6. There was just a two second black out here.

7. I'm immensely scared that the up coming week of cricket will be washed out due to rain.

Now, I must pas this award on to 5 other people.

Alice over at Me & My Sisters and Alice's Place. I love popping over to Alice's blog, she writes so well, has such a great sense of humour and a really nice blog.

Annie at Ocean Heart. Annie has a great blog, have been friends for a long time and I love to read her blog and read about her world.

Naomi at One Out Of 8. My twin sister, her blog is umm well....... its not that great and, I'm just teasing you Naomi. Naomi has great blog and is enjoying her recently discovered skill of taking photos.

Lauren over at Jilla. Lauren has been writing a big story about a horse called Jilla. It is really good. She writes really well and the story has been very enjoyable so far.

And last not least iGirl. iGirls blog is iDream, her blog is really nice, she write about all sorts of interesting things and is quite the writer too.

I wish I could pass this award on to more people, but I can't. So there you are girls, an award from me, to you.

10 Things That Has Happened Since I Last Posted

1.Naomi and I went to Sydney for cricket! It was the biggest, most fancy and official cricket weekend I've ever had.

2. I have started cricket here at home and I'm playing U/14's, U/12's again to make numbers, I might be playing for the U/14's rep side and are most likely to get a few games in 3rd grade. So there is a lot of cricket.

3. We had school holidays and painted our dining, lounge room and bought new lounges to go in the room.

4. I bought some new clothes.... if that counts. (I'm only up to question four and I'm already running out of ideas)


5.I finished Rangers Apprentice book #5 and #6 and I'm now reading book #7.

6. Fishing, fishing fishing and a bit more fishing.

7. Naomi bought a smashing new cricket bat.

8.During the holidays when we were painting, we brought three book shelves into our room, we have managed to get one out, but the other to are still here.

Isn't that cool!

9. I cleaned up my room

10. I received a new award on blogger.

(Will be back with more shortly)

One Lovely Blog Award

I've been awarded this award by Alice and Lauren. Thanks girls.

Now, I have to list seven random things about myself that you may not know.

1. I have asthma

2. I have a big chicken pox scare on my back

3. I always plait my hair before going to bed

4. I love playing the games Twister and Balderdash

5. When my hair gets wet, it goes all curly

6. I adore Huskies!

7. I don't have a clue on what I want to do when I grow up

Now, I have to tag 15 other bloggers.

Holly Roses & Bluebells

Bri Diamonds and Pearls

Naomi One out of 8

Vellvin An Irish Maiden

Annie Ocean Heart

Anna Bella Vita

Monica Laughin' At Cloulds

Eve Learning 123 A Different Way

Bailey A Note From The Author

Katie Beauty Like A Kaleidoscope

Emii Girlz 4 God

iGirl iDream

Regina Live Like Your Dying

India Grace Heaven In My Heart

Elise Ribbons Of Light

Grand Final Winners!

Naomi & I Won Our Hockey....

Grand Final!!!!!

It's so exciting!!!!! It is the first hockey grand final we've won.

Random.....

It's the weekend!! The weekend has got to be the best part of the week. I get to hang out with friends, play sport, watch sport and just relax. I don't have sport today. My hockey team won our semi final, so we are straight into the grand final which will be played next weekend. Its very exciting!! So with hockey finishing, the cricket season will start soon. Naomi, my brothers and I are signing up for cricket today.

At the moment I'm sitting on my bed, in my pajamas, my hairs a mess, my little sister is playing games on Naomi's laptop while I'm blogging away on my laptop. I haven't been blogging much lately, I should probably try harder. Since spring started (ten days ago), I have been for two swims with my siblings in our pool. It is very chilly, but it was a lot of fun. Any way, before I leave, here are a few photos.

Toodle Pip!

All I Need Is You

I got this tag from iGirl@ iDream
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag 20 friends.
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun!

Here are the questions: 

IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY?
"You Are Loved"~Rebecca St James (Ummm... ok)


WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

"When I First Spoke Your Name"~MercyMe (Personally, I don't see how that describes my personality)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Nothing But The Blood"~Hillsong United (Is that good or bad?!?!)


WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Lift My Praise Up"~Citipointe Live (hmmm...) 

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"The Letter"~Newsboys (That makes no sense)


WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
"Captivated"~Citipointe Live (Not sure about that)

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
"Awesome God"~Hillsong (Interesting)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Like It Like That"~Guy Sebastian (hehehe!)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"Breathe"~Sixpence (Is that good or bad?)


WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"New Start"~Citipointe Live (I do?)


WHAT IS 2+2?
"For Your Glory"~Christian City Church (That doesn't really add up)


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Us"~Sixpence (Ok)


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"Safe And Sound"~MercyMe (That would fit really well, besides that fact that I don't like anyone)


WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Eternal Salvation"~Christian City Church (Thats not a bad answer)


WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"Selah (Perfect Love)"~Hillsong London (Suits me)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"You Are Faithful"~Hillsong (Thats weird)

WHAT WILL YOU DO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Turn"~Sarah Brendel (Turn to where?)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"You"~Praise and Worship 2008 (Thats a possibility)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"In The Mystery"~Hillsong (Not really, I must have a lot of Hillsong on my iTunes)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"Babel Towers"~Sarah Brendel (Thats a cool answer!)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Angels Brought Me Here"~Guy Sebastian (Thats an Awesome answer!)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
"We Were Made To Worship"~Praise and Worship 2008 (That doesn't make much sense)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"On Your Knees"~Newsboys (Thats not what I think of my dear friends)

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
"Keep Singing"~MercyMe (Maybe)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
"Goodbye"~Alabaster Box (Huh?)

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
"Better Than Life"~Planetshakers (I don't think that makes sense)

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
"Shout Unto God)~Hillsong (Not at all, so long as its in a good way)

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
"Something Beautiful"~Newsboys (Hopefully thats a yes)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
"3:42am"~MercyMe (I'm usually asleep then, so I don't think its scary at all)

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
"I Receive"~Hillsong London (I hope so)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
"Miracles"~Newsboys (Are you crazy?!? Defiantly not!)

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
"I need you"~Rebecca St James (I don't think so)

WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE PERSON WHO TAGGED YOU?
"Son Of The Living God"~(Umm......)

WHAT WILL YOU NAME THIS NOTE?
"All I Need Is You"~Hillsong (Ok)



Wow!!!What fun! I tag anyone who wants to do this because it is ridiculously fun!
(It is that first day of spring here in Australia!!!!!!!! I'm so happy!)

Photo's 2

Here are some more photos from the past few days.

Photo's 1

Yesterday my mum set my siblings and I a task to take a photo and write about it. After taking a number of photos, I've suddenly decided that I love taking photos. Here are some photos from yesterday afternoon.

Caterpillar 

Busy Buzzing Bee

Coriander Flowers

Dandelion

A third flower and... I don't know the name of this one 

Same flower as above

Sorry about my lack of knowledge with flowers. I have some more photos that I will post later.

How do you like my new background?

I like it, whats your opinion.

Captions Contest Winners...

Sorry I'm a bit late with this, anyway, here are the winners.

1.

Autumn:

 Rapunzel : " Oh pascal! Just think, your picture will be in all the top magazines!?!?!" Pascal: "pity she doesn't understand that animals aren't models and that I am an animal."

2.

Naomi:

 Toothless: You smell funny

3.

Vellvin:

Jeanie pink: "Hello!!" Jeanie Green: "If anyone asks I don't know her!!!"

4.

Vellvin:

 Bolt: "Mine!! Mine!! You can'r have it!!!"

5.

Autumn:

"How is my make up now?"

So there you have it guys! Well done everyone.

Caption Contest!

I haven't posted for a little while, and I was getting a bit bored. So I have decided to have a caption contest!
I love caption contests, I think they are a lot of fun. Here are the images.

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3.

4.

5.

There's only a few there, I will announce the winner on the 6th of August.

Sorry I haven't posted in so long, by the way. Naomi is back on blogger, check out her blog.

My Weekend

This weekend, on Saturday I played two games of hockey, won one and lost the other. However the second one was for another team in our club, but in a higher grade. It was really exciting. Then on Sunday, my family and I went to visit our grandparents. They live right on the coast, so we were able to go to the beach. Now that my computer is able to read SD cards, I will share some photos with you.

The view, it was a overcast day

A rock pool 

A small crab

Then the next day, we went to visit our uncle and his family who are having a holiday further down the coast. It was a really nice sunny day, we had lots of fun.

Ocean waves 

 Shallow water

The sea and rock pools 

Sand and stones 

Sea shell

As you might have seen in the sea shell photo, there were quite a few white stones around the shell, Naomi my little brother and I collected enough stones to fill this small wooden box, for no particular reason. I just thought it would be a cool thing to do.

Anyway, that was my weekend.

I'm Still Here!

It has been quite a while since I've posted on here. I don't know why though, I guess I just haven't got round to it, although I have had plenty of time. Hockey is going well. I play tomorrow, again, but I'm very excited. I always get excited about hockey games. I had my laptop sent away a week or so ago because the SD card slot in it was not working, so therefore I was not able to put photos on my laptop. But it is all fixed up now, so I will probably be posting a few more photos now.

In less then three weeks, the homeschooling group that we are a part of here, is having its Athletics Carnival for the year!!! I am very excited. I love competing in it, its always so much fun.  I'm usually ok at the track events, however, me being very small, I'm not very good at the field events. But it is all great fun!

At the moment I am watching come AFL, (Australian Football League). I love watching it!! And I am also drawing a mini map of the hockey fields here, just for fun=)

Photo Contest

iGirl is having a photo contest.
She usually only gets one or two entries, so it doesn't really make it a contest.
Please have a look at the contest by clicking the button on my sidebar.

I'm entering and this is my entry.

Giveaway!

Holly over at Roses & Bluebells is having a giveaway! After reaching her goal of 30+ followers and her 100th post, Holly is having her first ever giveaway.
She is giving away................ this!

Alice from Alice's Place has donated this little beauty for the giveaway.

For the details, hop over to Holly's blog and take a look.