Day 7 and 8

I'm still on track with the photo taking, just behind on uploading to the blog. When I did my layout last week I found it was very easy to journal my page by copying and pasting from here, into a work doc editing and printing. Voila..done.
DAY 8
This is my work coffee cup. It's the subject of today's photo purely and simply because I actually managed to finish a cup of tea before it went cold! And thinking of Cups...I'm not sure my Australian Open Cup (gift from M) is still on my desk...I sure hope it is, because if it isn't it means someone light-fingered it :*(

This morning's photo could just have easily have been the rabbit, Sam. He was hiding behind the dog's lounge instead of in his cage. The dog ITurner) knew he was there and was acting very strangely until we figured out what was making him crazy! M was able to pick Sam up
and he was returned to the safety of his shredded paper filled cage!

It could just have easily have been a photo of Turner who managed to escape...again!!! Thankfully our new neighbours like Turner and they rescued him, watered him and kept him company until they dropped him home! We took some Chocolate chip cookies over to say "THANKS" and I think B has a new friend in their daughter who must be about the same age...time will tell.

DAY 7

Kirsten aka Kirsti and Smurf is our life saver!
She minds the kids for us when we have to work during the school holidays.
She babysits for no other reason than she believes A and I should have a night out together.
She runs my kids to sport at the end of a working day so that I can have an hour to myself.
On Day 7 she even cleaned my floors!!

We've known Kirsten for a long time, I can't remember living here and not knowing her - that's around 14 years! We've had our ups and downs but they are in the past. Last year K asked me to be in her wedding, which I readily accepted - my first Bridesmaid job ever! We had some dress dramas - the zip broke before we left for the church but it was lots of fun. It was a very relaxed wedding day with a bbq reception at the local club, which suits K and P to a "T". A spent the night cooking the bbq so I'm not sure how relaxed he'd say it was LOL, but it was a great night :)

Thanks Smurf - we love you!!!

DAY 6

This is what my Scrapbooking Area looked like when I got up this morning! Legs out from under the "cubby" house belong to T's friend. And that's T on the bed. LUCKILY they didn't knock my cricut off!!
I had planned on working on my albums last night but I didn't get there - I was distracted by the computer and the TV. Looking at the room, it's just as well I didn't lol
It was all cleaned up when I came home from work, and T is now sleeping over at R's :) B still hasn't organised a sleepover IN ADVANCE for her friend E.....
Edited to add... When it came time to do some actual scrapbooking at my desk tonight I hit a brickwall. First I couldn't find my album (you can probably see it on the floor near the drawers if you look closely...) and then when Bonnie finally gave me my album we couldn't find the photo. After lots of searching we came up with the PMP and journalling but had no luck with my photo..so back to the printer we went for my third and final attempt at Scrapbooking a page about "Spike" the Japanese fighting fish.
In the end I had a very productive evening, finishing two pet pages, a 7x7 dps for Julie's Christmas album and my first layout for my 365 layout album...almost a record for me!!

One Year On...

Wow! I've had my Blog for a year! I just re read it to make sure it was all ok to share with A's family (that's why I set it up initially anyway!) and read my Anniversary entry from last year...
Well, it seems Last year I gave him his wedding ring all spruced up...(top)
Guess what I gave him this year? A new one.
His old one got stuck in a lock at work and broke. I had it repaired but the filigree pattern was cracked and would most likely break again soon. We picked out a new ring and put it on lay-by. I paid it off early and gave it to him for our anniversary...(bottom)

DAY 5

There was no doubt about what today's photo would be. It was my first day back to work after a lovely (almost) two weeks off. It was a nice day, albeit a little long.. I spent the day doing some Statement work that I just don't get time to do on a regular basis...It felt comfortable. Like I was in my own little corner of the world.
The kids were home with their dad. B went to play with her friend E and spent no small amount of time trying to convince us E should sleep over!! Unfortunately she hasn't learned to preorganise these things and as T already had a friend sleeping over and A wasn't feeling well, the sleep over didn't happen. Oh well, I'm MuD instead of MuM for a while as far as B is concerned!!!

DAY 4

Tyson took this picture of M and Me in the pool. I had to record the moment because it is so typical. Probably typical for anyone who has ever had kids around them. I went up to the pool and discovered I was alone. I was quickly joined by two very excited children... The kids convinced me to pump up my previously unused blow up chair. I jumped into it and made a big splash (which was obviously very funny to little people..) LOL - of course as soon as they were able they were on my lap, sharing my chair.
This picture shows Mel's fascination with her feet! One of her Singstar profile pics is of her feet with her toes splayed just like they are here:)

DAY 3

Still on track! Today's photo was another toss up..
I was working on my "dead pet" album and was rudely (cutely) interrupted by my cat Ice who decided I was working on HER table and it wasn't going to happen LOL. She kept crawling all over my desk, sitting on my lap etc. all the while leaving her hair behind her as she went :)

This is probably the best photo I've ever taken of Ice, but it's not the one I'll use in my layout.

I'm going to use this picture of the girls instead. It's not often they "play" nice. I love moments like these so I had to photograph this one. B and M decided to make chocolate chip cookies. They took turns mixing and adding ingredients and shared the job of making the balls of mixture into cookies on the tray. If I was in a more artsy mood I might have just included a pic of a cookie. But I wanted to get the girls, both smiling, into one picture!
I'm hoping one day we could do a layout using:
Sisters by blood - Friends by choice