CANBERRA TRIP

Ok so it wasn't exactly that night that i wrote, but bugger it i'm here now :)

(unfortunately i can't add photos yet cos i am on another computer as our main one is knackered...sorry)

So our eventful Canberra trip....Mum, me & mum's best friend Anna headed up to see Nicola & the girls as Kade was going away with work for a few days. Nicola was working every night so we all went up there to look after the kids.
It was quite nice weather everyday so we were quite lucky. During the days we headed out to the war museum, the zoo, shopping & all over the place. It was nice just to have a kinda girly week, there were 7 chicky babes in the house so you can only imagine the amount of estrogen flying around everywhere! haha

The week was good, went really quickly & before we knew it, it was Saturday & we were heading back to Melbourne....or so we thought. (insert evil music here)
We were coming back on the Saturday because it was Anna's 28th Wedding anniversary so she wanted to spend some time with her husband...who wouldn't!
So our plane was boarding at about 4:30pm so we had to leave for the airport at 3:15pm.
Then at 3pm i got a call on my mobile & it was from a lady who worked at Virgin Airlines. My immediate thought was that our plane was delayed or that it was early & we had to get to the airport a.s.a.p. yeah well i wish.
they were actually ringing to inform us that our flight had been cancelled completely & the only way that we could make it back to Melbourne that day was to fly to Adelaide, wait there for about an hour, then get on another flight to Melbourne which would get us in about 9:45pm instead of the 6pm like we initially had organised.
i automatically got the pisser on & told her to book us in otherwise we wouldn't be getting home!
i was just worried about travelling with Charlii, she gets restless as it is on a normal 1 hour flight never mind changing planes!
anyway once i had resigned myself to the fact that we were leaving later i was all good.

So we get to Canberra airport in plenty of time for the plane, only to find out that the plane wasn't even there yet! The flight that was coming into Canberra was delayed, which in turn delayed our plane.....yes a lot of "should we have a coffee or do you think we will be boarding soon".....we should have had a coffee..
So we finally make it on the plane to have a 1 1/2 hr flight to Adelaide.
Once we hop off the plane in Adelaide we get told that "if you are connecting onto Melbourne unfortunately your plane has been delayed!!!"
can you bloody believe it! by this stage it is now 8pm & we have been on the go since 3:30pm (can i just remind you that it's a one hour flight normally)
so the pisser came on again, haha & we decided to go get some tea, coffee , feed & change charlii so we would be all ready for the flight to Melbourne.
But the way Adelaide airport is set up, it's like a long corridor so we were up one end & where we wanted to go was all the way down the other end. now i didn't feel like walking anywhere cos i was carrying charlii & a big pregnant belly so we decided to steal a wheelchair, put me & Charlii in it & head down the other end.....such a good idea! kinda naughty but good.
Plus when we got back down to the gate where we had to be Charlii needed another nappy change so i asked one of the staff to take me down in their 8 seater buggy...haha it was so funny, i felt like royalty being driven around everywhere! everyone was looking at me funny but id didn't care!
Once we had got all our food there was an announcement asking all the passengers that we flying onto Melbourne to come to the service desk. Once we get there they give us all $6 each for food & drink! WE JUST BOUGHT DINNER! hahahaha we couldn't believe it, all we could do was laugh. so we bought some more coffees & decided to leave the other ones to spend on the plane. (let me tell you when we got on the plane we bought muffins, chips & all sorts so we could use up all their money!)
They ended up delaying our next plane & we finally got into Melbourne airport at midnight, only 6 hours late.
what an adventure!

WATCH THIS SPACE

cos i haven't got lost i am just being a slackass....
i will hopefully write a post tonigh about our eventful trip to canberra & post a few more piccies!

A quick congratulations to my cousin Scott in England who has just had a beautiful baby boy called Jack! Well done!

LATE BIRTHDAY / S

Ok so i know that i am so late posting this but i have been really slow lately, again i am going to blame it on the pregnancy! (gotta love being pregnant)

SO my little munchkin is now the big 1! She turned 1 on July 26th & had her big party on the 28th.

Nanny Bev flew down from Brisbane for the week which was really nice & Auntie Nic, Uncle Kade & cousins Taylor & Maddy came down from Canberra for a few days to help celebrate so Charlii was very lucky to have lots of family around her.

After months of planning the party we ended up having a Fairy Princess theme & Charlii was dressed in a purple fairy outfit, with 2 purple clips in her hair to match & a purple dummy to go with it all (she was very co-ordinated)

We had it in our garage at home & it was all decorated with purple & pink fairy balloons, signs, streamers & lots & lots of food! Luckily the day turned out ok & it didn't rain, was just a bit chilly.

There was about 25 people there so she had a really good turn-out, a huge thank you to everyone that came & to everyone that bought her some really lovely pressies!!!

After a big day of dancing, cuddles & eating it was finally time to put the princess to bed (2 hrs after her bedtime) but Charlii had other things in mind.

She definitely didn't want to go to sleep. i think she had a sugar overload, was way overtired & had a tummy ache. (i could hear her tummy grumbling)

I tried everything to get her to sleep & after i took her for a 45 minute drive around she eventually nodded off. She had a restless sleep so thank god a birthday only comes around once a year!

Again a huge thank you to everyone!

AMEND

Ok, so Clint was reading my latest blog post & wasn't too happy at something i wrote.
Apparantly saying that he was a huge help by doing the ironing, cleaning & all that sort of stuff for me when i was sick was "ruining his image!" He is a tough, rugged man so he doesn't want people knowing he does that sort of stuff...so.....
here is the amended version

Clint was a huge help to me while i was sick. All he did all day was drink beer, mow the lawn & scratch himself!
haha, there you go Clint, you are a man! :)

GETTING THERE

So all is confirmed now with the pregnancy & i am due on January 23rd 2008.
As of today i am now 13 weeks along & getting a little bit of a belly. Clint keeps saying it's everything i am eating thats giving me a belly but i know it's not, haha i'm not eating that much!
My next appointment with the doctor is the 27th of this month so she will do some other checks, make sure my blood pressure is ok & things like that.
The morning sickness is still here but not quite as bad as it was. Last weekend i was feeling dreadful so i was really lucky that Clint was home all weekend to look after me. He was such a big help cleaning the house, doing the ironing for me & things like that! i don't know what i would do without him!
so, so far so good! :):)
i will update you more when i see the doctor next.
bye for now!

PLANES, POLICE & AMBULANCES!

What an adventure mum & i had last night!
Now don't get me wrong the news i'm about to share with you isn't exciting or actually good at all but it was so sudden & unexpected i just had to share it with you!

We were heading to the Airport at about 6:30pm to pick up Dad as he had to go to Brisbane for business. All was good we were having a laugh when we heard heaps of sirens as we were pulling into the carpark. We had a look around but couldn't see anything so we didn't know whether it was the police, fire trucks or what it was.
So we headed into the carpark and as we were getting out of the car the sirens got louder & louder & pulled into the airport. It was fire trucks, ambulances & police.
First thing we thought was that a plane had crashed or something terrible like that!

So we decided to go up one level to be sticky beaks & check out what was happening. When we came out of the lifts we saw an old man on the floor being resusitated!!!!
It was pretty bad, he must of had a heart attack or something. I got really upset & started crying cos i felt really bad for the poor guy (i am blaming it on my pregnant hormones. i am crying at everything lately, especially T.V!)
anyway so we left them to it & went into the airport to go to the gate to wait for Dad.
Then we heard more sirens so being the big nosey parkers we are we went back to see if he was o.k. As we were walking across the bridge a security guard & a lady were running towards the man, clearly it was his family.
when we got there the paramedics were still trying to resusitate him. :(
( about 15 mins later)
the police turned up, more ambulance men & then we left. To be honest i really didn't wanna see if he died or not, too much upset.
By the time we came out again once we had picked up dad everyone had gone so who knows the outcome!
Like i said though it's not great news, just something you don't expect to see when you go to the airport!

ALL CONFIRMED!

So last week i had my first ultrasound for the baby.
I had an appointment with the hospital & my doctor thought that i was either 10 weeks along or 14? we couldn't work it out because my blood test results aren't 100% accurate so shebooked me in for an ultrasound to confirm everything & find out my due date.
I went in & immediately sawbubba (who we have nicknamed peanut cos thats what it looked like on the pictures. haha)
the lady said that everything was looking pretty good so far & according to the size of peanut i, at the time of the ultrasound was 11 weks along. which will make it this wednesday i am 12 weeks & due on January 23rd 2008! gosh it sounds like so far away but i bet it will fly by!