Basketball Grandfinal!

Well Emerson Had her basketball grandfinal coached by dear hubby.  They played the top team and just lost.  Emerson scored 10 out of 14 points and was so chuffed with herself for getting a seasons all star award by the association. 

I made these cute cupcakes for the girls, but think I may need to go to cake decorating classes!!
Anyway a busy and exciting day for our family, we all yelled until we were hoarse.  We definitely love basketball even Hudson (15months) was yelling xox

Thank you my love!

And finally before I head to bed, this is for my long suffering husband who coaches our girls basketball team every year (he once played in the NBL and still loves the game) xoxo

Organising our medicine shelf

Ok I love love love to organise spaces and things!  I have set myself a task of doing 2 jobs a week to get this house in tip top shape.  I started today with the top shelf in one of my 3 pantries!! yep I said three but I also forgot to tell you I love to cook and do so in bulk all the time.  Anyway here is the before pic

And a closer look at all that junk..

half way through the process..

I ended up putting all like things in glad bags, ie all cotton balls, all scissors ( I had 4 pairs of surgical scissors for bandages) etc, and putting everything neatly into some large decor containers

and finally

Mackenzie's 10th Birthday Cake

Due to my daughters complete and utter love of basketball I decided to make her a basketball cake for her birthday party.  Her party was a small affair, and next year will be her turn for a big party.  She had a small group of girls sleep over and have a movie night.  Anyway below is the cake I made for her enjoy!  As you can see I am no professional cake decorator but I love a homemade cake and this one was no exception.

Cookie Monster !!!! turns 10

Mackenzie turned 10 this year,so I decided to do something special for her classmates instead of the usual freddo frogs.  I stumbled across the idea of doing Cookie Monster cupcakes whilst searching the net one night, and ta da this is the end result.  Yummy!! but maybe some blue faces in class that day!!

Finally I did it!!

Well I have thought about doing this for a long time but finally got around to it - I am now a blogger!!
My posts will be a visual diary for my family who lives both in Australia and in America, to see what we are up to as a family.  It is also a great place to put my pictures rather than clogging up everyones inboxes!!
I am a Stay at home mum to 3 beautiful cherubs, to daughters and 1 son.  I am married to my soulmate and am blissfully happy in my big old house.  This blog will document my craft, my cooking (love bulk cooking), my organisation which we are currently doing step by step, my decorating (love the holidays) my scrapbooking, and our renovations of our big old house, room by room.  So stay with me and any questions ask away xoxox Jodie