OZ

Well to say I’m a bad blogger is a bit of an understatement isn’t it!  lol

 

Have just been a very busy these last few weeks since coming home from Oz, catching up on work and dealing with visitors from overseas.  So I’m sneaking in a quick post just to show some photos of our recent trip,  which was totally fabulous…well the two days we all spent vomiting from a stomach bug wasn’t so fun, but the rest was awesome!!!

 

So, here’s the beginning of some pics from our 11 days away:

 

On the Plane

 

 

Movie World

 

The happy family and Tweety

 

 

The boys and Bugs

 

 

They were both pretty chuffed with Batman

 

 

Australia Zoo

 

I got to cuddle a koala!

 

 

The boys got to (gingerly) touch a croc

 

 

Riley had his first ever pony ride

 

 

 

And we all fed some kangaroo’s

 

 

 

I will post more photos tomorrow from Sea World.

 

Needless to say, you can see we had an absolutely fabulous time!!!

The boys and I

I went to do a challenge a week or so ago.  It was a mothers day one and you had to do a layout with your children.  Which had me going through my photos searching for a photo of myself with the boys.  The last one I found was this one:

 

 

Its from Christmas 2007!  2007!!!  How crazy is that????  So during the weekend I thought I would try and get a nice photo of myself with the boys.  Dad has a really great Nikon camera, so I also wanted to have a little play with RAW files as I would really like to learn how to use it properly.

 

That however was not my only problem.  Riley is currently going through a stage where he will not take a nice photo, instead he pulls faces, puts his arms up or moves just as I take the photo……so frustrating, so i didn’t really get the photo i wanted.  That and the fact that the steroids I am back on are making me fat again…..sooooo not happy with that either, so anyway, this is the only one I got that was sort of semi decent (and hid my tummy):

 

 

As you can see Riley is jumping around being a loony and its amazing that it even came out in focus.  See the stress lines on my forehead???  lol

 

I actually really like it, but am going to try again this weekend and see what else I can come up with….and then next on the agenda is a photo of all 4 of us, cos its been too long since I had a nice one of those too!!!

 

P.S.  The twittering….not going so well.  I don’t think a person with the memory of a sieve is very good at twittering….I keep forgetting :o(

I’m twittering

I don’t quite know why, or what I’m doing, but I am now up with the play, so if you twitter let me know so I can add you, and if you want to you can add me too :o). Just click on the link in my sidebar. 

 

Now I guess I will hve to find some interesting things to tweet about!

Who Scrapped?

So it was NSD on Saturday.  Well in America anyway, here not as much, but I did manage to finish a layout I had been working on all week so that was cool.

 

One of the blogs I read all the time is Stephanie Howell’s.  She is on the DT for Studio Calico and has the most adorable two girls, as well as a hubbie who is posted in Afghanistan, so a lot of the time I really just read to see how she is getting on. 

 

When Mark was in the Navy he was posted away for 3-6 months at a time, so I can totally sympathise with her, she has a 3 yr old and a toddler.  Connor was 9 weeks old when Mark went away for 6 months, and I totally know how hard it is to be alone for such a long stretch with such a small baby, anywho I digress, so I read her blog, and last week she posted a challenge for NSD to use something vintage, so I took on the challenge, which actually kind of surprised me, cos I’m not really a vintagey person, but as I was writing the challenge down in my notebook, I found some journaling I had written from Feb last year just before Connor turned 8, and then found a photo to go with it from his birthday a few days later.

 

And then I fossicked around the cupboard in the scrap room and found an old hymn book I knew was in there and used some of the pages along with the cricut to create my title.  I also used them on the flowers.

 

 

And I really love it.  I really love the layered circles, and the title, as well as the fact that I now have this journaling documented!!

 

Hope you all got a chance to scrap too.  I am off to a crop on Saturday to farewell Trace who is moving to the South Island, and I am really looking forward to another day.  I think I have my mojo back, and now its just a case of finding some time to do something!!

 

Oh and keep an eye out on the Sketch Book Retreat Blog, I am about to post the details of the tutors in the next day and am then opening registrations.  Yay!!

A Busy Month

Well a friend kindly emailed me yesterday letting me know its been a month since I last posted. And its been on my list to do, but I have been so busy i just haven't really had a chance.

 

This weekend past for Easter we went camping to Ruakaka, which is a beach just south of Whangarei. We went on the recommendation of one of the guys at my work...we won't be asking for his recommendations again! The campsite it self was pretty good, but the amenities were pretty average. And after our experience at the beginning of the year which was SO great, we were a bit disappointed. But we still had fun:

 

 

We left on Friday and came back on Tuesday, and Friday night I thought we were all going to freeze, it was so cold, but the rest of the nights were not too bad, and I made sure we all rugged up warm, especially for the nightly poker game.

 

The weekend prior to Easter was the Sketch Books retreat.  The weekend was once again awesome!!  Mum and Rachel Tucker taught classes on the Saturday and Louise Williams and Kelly Slattery did a couple of make n takes.  Crafty Tart were also on hand for anyone that wanted to do some shopping.  On the Saturday night we had the infamous dress up party.  The theme this time was “When I grow up I want to be…”  and a lot of the girls had gone all out!  Some of the costumes were hilarious!!  I am going to be adding all the photos to the retreat blog shortly so check them out there if you want a giggle.

 

I was really happy with the weekend and even managed to get 6 or 7 layouts done, which was awesome.  The next retreat has been set for 6-8 November, so put it in your diary now if you are interested as I think its going to book up pretty quickly.

 

Other than that, we have just been busy with life.  Connor started training with the North Shore Swimming Club this week and will now be doing that 3 times a week plus swim meet’s, so that is going to be keeping him (and me as official mum taxi) busy.  Riley is playing Rippa Rugby over winter and Mark is the assistant coach, which is great for them both.  Riley even scored a try in their first game which was awesome.  Definitely seems to enjoy it a lot more than he did Soccer last year.

 

Scrapbooking wise, I finally got my Project 365 kit from Laura in America which is awesome!  I have spent a few hours starting to put it together, but am hoping to spend the weekend getting is sorted, so that I only have to worry about updating it each week.  So far its looking great though, and definitely working for my more simple approach this year.  I will take some pics of some completed pages this weekend for you all to have a squizz at!! 

 

Have a great weekend everyone!