Mothers Dance

5 & 1/2 weeks till ballet concert, YES you heard me right Ballet concert.
Our 14yr old daughter has her annual ballet concert early December, and it is the mums turn to do a dance. Each year the studio either gets the dads to dance or the mums.
Last year the dad's danced to "It's raining men" ( i know, how original) the year before that us mums did HAIRSPRAY.
Our dance this year is the Glee version of "LET'S GET PHYSICAL" 
There are 15 mums doing the dance and Mr Martin, one of the teachers at the studio is our choreographer . It is so funny. He is married to a ballerina who dances with the QLD Ballet and this is his first year with doing a mums dance. We are loud and crazy (as there wouldnt be any shy mums doing the dance) and we want him to be in the dance in his red speedos (just like the film clip) and we all dance around him.
Well that is of course not happening but we still try each week to change the dance.
We have practice every Saturday at 4 - 5pm. We take turns in who brings the wine and we learn about 20 seconds of the dance each week (well we cant remember much more than that at one time). So we have been practicing for almost 4 weeks now and we have learnt about 1min of a 4 min dance.
So much improvising will be done on the night.
We are to all wear fluro or black tights, coloured leotards or shorts, leg warmers, sweat bands etc.....

                                                    and of course we will all look like Olivia did.
So i am off to eat more lettuce as OMG i need too!

Pen x

GC 600 Weekend

Yes, well after many years of the kids asking, begging to go to the GC 600 we gave in and we went on Sunday.
We were um ing and arr ing on to drive or bus it. We drove and to our surprise we found many parking spaces in Tedder ave (extremely close to the track, if you know the gold coast area). So we slapped on the sun screen and headed in. General admission tickets $80 each us and kids under 12 are FREE. Our 14 yr old daughter still looks like a 12 yr old so we snagged that.
My hubby insisted we walk around the track first before we found a spot to sit for the day. So we did just that and my middle child came up to me and said he had tears in his eyes with such excitement. Ohhhhh Love him xxx
We brought the boys a GC 600 cap and found our spot.
Best part was people watching.

Gotta love this chic, she had no teeth and was thinking she looked like a promo girl. i watched her for hours. Her and her man were having so much fun.

The entertainment was Vanessa Amorosi but as we couldnt see her though she sounded great. Then these motorbike freaks came onto the track. They were unbelievable.

Our shady spot

what a great job. Water Police

 The overall day was fantastic, even the food was great and no line ups. We spent $100 on food/drinks and we were back home within half hr of the finish time.

Of course walking back to the car i am checking our house colours. 

 It is my birthday tomorrow. I wonder if i wake up to a present, as normally they all go shopping the afternoon of my birthday. I will let you know.

Enjoy your day
Pen :)

Decisions, Decisions.....

Now i am getting confused...
This is a major decision and i so don't want to make the wrong one.
I keep going back to white with white stone features . Maybe just to be safe i guess.
Here are a few pics i keep looking at.

This is my house, but i don't want this new paneling that is in the drawing

I like these colours but not sure where to place them

and i also like just the dark brown with the white and slightly lighter timber roller door and front door (i would go a bit deeper than the roller door colour that is in this pic though)

But this is my favorite. i love whatever is around the roller door. So this could be it, Your opinions PLEASE

 Do i need to go to my builder and get the people that did the 3D images of the plans to do some up in colour. IS THIS POSSIBLE. (as i don't want to start annoying my builder already)

We are also having a rendered fence out the front with an electric gate.

God, i don't know how i am going to get through this build and it hasn't even started yet! So thought i knew what i wanted but as you can see, i have NO idea.....

I will love any of your thoughts.

Cheers
Penny :)

3D Image

OMG OMG OMG.

Not sure what i think yet! Not sure if i even like it!

I will need loads of help from all of you out there, and i will love any suggestions. PLEASE.
The land should be registered on  Monday 10th October, then plans can go to council (just waiting on the plans including the pool and front fence and we will submit them together)
Not sure if this is the norm, but they say it can be 4 weeks minimum for approval.

So sometime in November the building will start.

That paneling wont be happening, don't like that!

This is my pic, i hope i can have something like this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am getting very excited now,

I have wasted my day on the computer so i need to go eat and then hang washing out, then that will be time to go pick the kids up and visit a friend who just had a baby,

Till my next blog,
                         Be Good
Pen :)

Letter for u

I just had to share this.

School went back for us today and this is what came home with our youngest son, James. He is 9 in December and is in Grade 3.
He asked if he could check the mail box when he got home and i said "sure", then he came inside and gave me a letter addressed to Mr & Mrs Barns etc...

This is a keeper.

 

 

 

 Happy end of day for me,
                                         off to cook lasagne for the family's dinner tonight.

Pen x

Still Waiting

Well guess what?

Plans are not in council. As our land is still yet not registed. So you can't have plans approved on land that is not registed. "PLEASE EXPLAIN" (said in my Pauline Hanson voice)
It was all to be finished/registed (last stage of the Observatory) by Sept 20 and we received an email saying October 10.
So fingers crossed we start to build by the start of November, which unfortunately doesn't make it to lock up stage by xmas, as we had planned.
Nothing ever goes to plan so i guess i should've expected this.
I will then come up against the seasonal rain and storms that we get on the Gold Coast in January.
Maybe i should just look forward to being in our new home by xmas 2012. That way i won't be disappointed.

I find my self driving past houses and taking pics of them. This house i like the different colour timbers they have used. Not so keen on the green but will keep the timber colours in mind. (this house won a Master Builder award for Landscaping. Apparently behind the fence is 3 pools joined with japanese style stepping stones etc

 So i will just be blogging about my every day life till i have some house news.

This morning i started back doing Group beach sessions. So i was up and at Burleigh Beach by 6am and my youngest James (almost 9) came along and joined in too. Last Summer i lost 25 kilos but over the winter i have managed to put on 7 kilos, so back into again for me. (i may post before & after pics as i become more confident with this blogging) They are amazing (well they were before i went and put on 7)

My hubby has been away for 2 weeks with work and returns today. It has been nice to have some time away from each other as we normally work side by side every day 24/7 as we both work from home.
We have been married almost 17 years and most of that time we have worked together.
Trust me we have days where we can't look at each other, but we must do something right as we are still going strong.

Anyways, today i have our 3 kids cleaning their rooms top to bottom and i am going over the house with my magic cleaning wand (i wish). As i want my hubby to think i can cope without him and still keep a clean house. Little does he know, i have taken the kids out to dinner most nights and haven't picked up the mop since he has been gone.
His favourite meal is Beef Stog so i have it in the slow cooker for when he arrives home.

My two boys James at the back. Jack in the middle and their friend Saxon enjoying teppanyaki

Well back to cleaning this house.

                                               Pen  :)

House Plans

                        ok, house plans are finished and off to council. No more changing !!!!!!!
                        i am so nervous about how it is going to look, as it is one BIG piece of house.

our view of the gold coast, Q1, Broadbeach and  ocean views

how it will look from the front

                                                          

                                                                 

top & living level

                                                                      

ground/entry level

                                                               

elevations

                                                                      
I  am thinking earthy colours with sand, latte, cream, white, timber etc...will look good, otherwise it will look to Sovereign Island (e) if i go White, white and more white.....

Jason wants large white/off white high shine tiles through out the living areas and i think timber stairs will look great....I KNOW how hard it is to keep both clean and yes i will hate cleaning it but i want the WOW factor when you walk in.

                         

we are having a glass roof like this

i would like my kitchen to look similar to this

thinking of doing this in my lounge/dining area

Oh let the fun begin,
                            Penny x