Abbey ...

My sweet baby girl .. who is growing up WAY too fast! Little Miss Chatterbox, Little Miss Independant, Little Miss Messy!! You are the girly girl I never was and a rough and tumble girl too. You were Daddy's Girl for sure!


Abbey was so brave when she put ALL her Binkies in the basket out the back door for the Binkie Bunny to collect in the night and take away for the baby Bunnies!!



First Birthday without Daddy .. BIG 3yr old girl, despite everything we still managed to have some smiles and laughs




My wee angel is not a baby anymore :(

Riley ...

My kids are amazing .. they have coped with everything that has happened over the last few months amazingly .. I want to do a post for them both ...


Riley you have lost your Daddy and become the 'man' of the house, you will need to protect your baby sister as she grows and look out for Mummy too. You have your frustrating moments but you are sweet and smart and fun and I love you so very very much xxx



Riley fit into his new school and routine with surprising ease .. enjoying Blue Day when some of the Nortland Rugby team visited his school, he got to pull the tug-of-war with some of the rugby guys, got his arm signed and got a big Taniwha supporters poster!




He did awesome at his first School Cross-Country!!!



Riley wanted to be something quite different for Storybook Dress-up day, he went through his books and decided he wanted to be Sticky Beak Sid from the book "Slinky Malinki Open the Door" by Lynley Dodd



The school disco was a Super Hero theme and Riley makes an Awesome Super Hero .. although turns out he ain't so brave cause when we got to the disco his ol' fears of loud noises came back and he only managed to stay 10mins before he wanted to leave!

Mummy and Daddy are VERY proud of you baby boy xxxx

Snapfish .. you ROCK!!!!

I got a free snapfish photo book from Orcon (thanks Orcon) for being a great customer teehee!! And OMGoodness!!!! It arrived yesterday and I just HAVE to share!


JASON PALMER aka DADDY


Mummy & Daddy loved each other very much, so much that they got married on 15th November 2003


And had two beautiful babies together. First we became a family of three with the arrival of Riley Jay on March 19th 2005


Riley had Daddy wrapped around his finger from day one! Our first holiday as a family to USA, we sure had fun in new York City


We did lots of fun things as a family, like feeding the ducks at Mair Park with cousins Jasmine & Zane. Riley and Daddy always had alot of fun, at the park, on Guy Fawkes and goofing around at home.


And then along came Abbey on July 27th 2007, and we became a family of four. Abbey also had Daddy wrapped around her finger from Day one, but she also had a Big brother to adore her as well.


We had lots of fun together as a family, going to fairs, having parties, dressing up at Halloween, and just goofing around together. We all loved each other VERY much.


DADDY LOVES RILEY >>> DADDY LOVES ABBEY


Riley and Abbey love Daddy and we ALL miss him VERY much


We miss doing fun things with Daddy and miss him catching us when we fall. But we will always remember all the best times we had and the sad ones.


We will remember Daddy's love, his infectious grin, his sense of humour, his silliness and his loyalty.


We will love you forever Daddy and even though you aren't wit us we will always be a family and will never forget you ... RIP xxxx


The Palmers

Getting on & Off Horses ...

the last 4 months of my life have been the worst I have EVER experienced. I lost my husband, my ENTIRE life changed. We moved house, cities, schools. I have to go to bed alone every night and wake up alone every morning. Jason was my rock and he was my comfort in times of sorrow and to have him not here when I am the sadest I have ever been is hard, very hard. In all honesty I wish I could stay in bed forever, never get up and just sleep the rest of my life away but I have this one thing that keeps me getting up every morning and that's my two adorable Children. There are days I sure wish they weren't here, days I just want them to go away so I can give in to my grief and curl up in a ball, but there are also the days where I am so incredibly glad they are here and I can't get enough of them. Crafting has not been a priority to me but I have done some. I have bursts of enthusiasim and go crazy like when I totally revamped my craft space into and orange and white theme. but then, like this week, I can't even be enthused to write a word let alone do a LO!
But as they say once you fall off you need to get back on that horse so I am trying. I have arranged a Beginners Scrapbookers Class at the local Community College here which will be run in November, I have submitted a few more LOs to the Up2Scrap magazine and I have started my Wedding album. I am slowly trying to get back on that horse but it's going to be a long and slow process, this is not something I can just get over and move on from, this is something that will live with me forever. I love him so much and miss him just as much.

Here are a few of the LO's I have done over the last couple months .....


This was the first LO I did after Jason's death, I felt the need to scrap this, and I will be doing a whole album of photos from the funeral, since the media was involved I have alot, I think it will help me heal and will also be a great resource for my kids as they get older. You can read the journalling HERE


After Jason died I emailed a couple of Professional photographers which we had photos taken asking if it was possible to get more copies, I was totally intending to purchase these copies. Positve/Negative Photography had done Family photos through my work for us for the last 3 years in a row and I was completely blown away when they sent me a dic free of charge of the last 3 years of Pics, I cannot thank them enough! These are some of the pics that were on the disc. Not my favourite LO. This was the first time I've ever used mesh as an embelishment.


These pictures were taken Halloween 2009, they are some of my favourite of Jason & Abbey. The pic of Jase looking at the camera and smiling was the one we cropped and released to the media. I hope that through my scrapbooking I can let my children know how much their Daddy loved them.

Sorry about the awful photos of some of these LOs, the lighting in my new house is simply AWFUL!!!


One of My new Favourite paper lines Kasier Craft Hey Birdy Collection and of course my favourite girl!!!


November 08 - July 09 Jase was away in America, while he was away I decided when we were together as a family again we needed more photos of US as a family as well as US as a couple, so one day I decided to do a little photo shoot, Jase held the camera (cause his arm was longer) and we took a few pics of just the two of us. I am so very very thankful for these photos.


This LO was for a Fiskateers Challenge ... guessed what the challenge was???? ORANGE of course!!


Some more of the 'Photo Shoot' Pics ... This was a little mini challenge from Danice & Nic if i remember rightly the requirements were:
*something metal
*staples
*a colour in the title
*ribbon
*Stamp
*2 patterned papers


Another mini challenge from friends Janine & Ruth, and I hope they have done theirs!!
*Scallops
*bookpage
*ricrac
*staples
*2 photos
*aqua/teal colour


Again not one of my favourites .. I really struggle with boy LOs ... Tips PLEASE!!!
But useing my new Little Yellow Bicycle Generation Z kits kindly sent to me from Kelly-Jo over at Fiskateers


Another Little Yellow Bicycle Fresh Print Clothesline kit .. I LOVE scrapping girl LOs!!! Too easy!

That isn't everything as I have submitted quite a few of my pages so can't show you ... I have more stuff to update but will leave it here for today! getting back onto that horse slowly!