Holidays and stuff

Yay, it's the holidays. I love the holidays. It means I can do things with the boys on our own time. We already have the whole holidays planned. Today we had friends over for morning tea and then my sister and her boys came over for afternoon tea. Tomorrow we are going down to the cousins in Paraparaumu. Clare has a specialist appointment in Wellington so I will look after Hannah and Adam. Wednesday we are probably going to the zoo with the other cousins. Thursday Isaac has a playdate at the park, Tobyn will have to tag along, I am sure he will be fine he is so good with the little boys! Thursday afternoon my Sister and the boys are coming over so Annie and I can do our 'Music in Me' blog challenge. And finally on Friday Tobyns friend is coming to stay with us at the lake house. We are all going for the weekend and then Steve and Thomas will come back to Palmy with Steve returning again the next Friday. This is the 1st time Tobyn has invited a friend to the lake house and the first time I will be staying on my own with the boys. I am really looking forward to the break. It is nice just to be out of the norm.



Home news- we are in the process of having a big clean up!!! The garage needs such a huge tidy up, and that is Steves domain! He bought a big deck box on the weekend and put all the outdoor toys in it. Already it has proven invaluable! The boys were all out on the deck this afternoon playing with all the balls. Tobyn was even motivated to take the play tent and tunnel out for the littler kids (although truth be known I think was for him as well!) Yesterday afternoon Tobyn and I had a waterfight, FUN! Isaac sort of joined in although he was pointing the water pistol at his own face and giggling, very cute!



Scrapbooking news. The Scrapbook Essentials comp is over. Where did that 7 weeks go? It was such a great comp to do. Everyone was so wonderful, kind, thoughtful and talented! The winners were very deserving. I found myself challenged in ways I didn't expect. I have a new found appreciation of my scrapbooking. People have always said they like what I do but now I have a 1st placing in a pretty big comp. I am very proud of myself! And I think Steve is pretty proud of me too. It was quite amusing because he checked all the layouts out as well and whenever there were placings to be announced he was as impatient as I was. Pretty cool to have a husband so supportive!
And here's last weeks challenge layout. It took me ages to decide on what to do, but once I had it all fell together pretty well. I love the colours and after I had finished it I realised I could hang it in my living room and it would match perfectly! Our living room is the blue and brown and we knew that red was the perfect accent!

So what now? I am planning on doing the 'music in me' challenges and then maybe try and do some layouts that just take my fancy. I also want to submit to some mags and see how I get on. I don't feel all that confident but hey I deffinately won't get anything excepted if I don't put myself out there!

I may or may not get back to the blog until after the holidays! The lake house doesn't have internet access, so I deffaintely won't get on next week. What will I do without my fix? so have a greta holiday, those that have them and 'I'll be back' said in my best Arnold accent.