RAKed, a Quickpage and an update

Well, I am as ready as I ever will be for tomorrow. The doctor's surgery phoned this afternoon and the good news is - Robert is first on the list, we have to be there at 8am. That means I won't have to keep him away from his juice for too long after he has woken up! My boys, you see, are always thirsty!
My Mum came up this afternoon by train to help me with the boys tomorrow, and my Dad is coming up in the morning to take us to the doctors, as there has to be two of you there to bring the patient back home again, one to drive and one to sit in the back and comfort him.
The boys are excited that Nanna is here and staying the night, and that Pop is coming in the morning.

I was RAKed this afternoon by Sweet Digi Scraps - just look at the kits I got
both available at Elemental Scraps and the images are linked to the store!



Now I am itching to get scrapping! But one last note on the scrapping front, remember this layout of Mia in the sunshine?
Well it is now available as a Quickpage at DigitalArts Cafe - check their blog here.

Credits:
Fall Swirl by Melothria at DigitalArts Cafe

Bye 4 now, wish me luck for tomorrow - thanks for your luck Dinphy, most appreciated!

Dentist and other things..

I am a very big and brave girl! My pride is hurt, but oh well, 39 years without a filling is good going too, but I was aiming for 40!! Missed it by 8 months!
Yep, my broken tooth, really was broken and it had broken because it had caries inside of it! How did that happen?! Dentist couldn't really tell me either. But he did x-ray all my teeth just to make sure there were no more surprises in store for me. And the other teeth are all fine! Uff!
I think I needed a bigger filling than he expected, either that or he just didn't bother to tell me just how long it was going to take. It took 40 minutes! My jaw still aches! It's all very tender now, and I am a bit frightened to chew on it, but I hope that by tomorrow everything will be back to normal, as it is a bit tiring only chewing on one side. Can you tell, I am not used to problems with my teeth!!!
And I also decided that I am not a big fan of fillings, the noise of that drill is HORRIBLE! So I am hoping that I can go another 39 years at least without hearing it again!!!

Enough about the dentist, although to be honest that was the most exciting thing of the day. The boys are their usual full moon selves, arguing over anything and everything. The best one of the day was the argument over the empty kitchen roll roll!!!! I actually had two of them, one each, but, NO, Robert wanted both and had a full temper tantrum, for which I sent him to his room! And Richard had one, because I did something that he had wanted to do himself, can't remember what it was now it was so trivial, but he didn't think so, he threw his juice across the room and threw himself down on the floor screaming. I just stepped over him and carried on with what I was doing!
So with all of that, I am glad they are now in bed!!!

I got some layouts done these past evenings, I will try and remember to post them in just a bit.
well here they are!
This first one is for the Template Challenge at Been There Scrapped That. I used a kit from BrokenJar Creations. She has a workshop at her Forum called the ABC Workshop, where you get a kit per letter per week. You can still sign up, and as you can see, the D kit is beautiful!

Credits:

D Kit by BrokenJar Creations at Do it Digi
Template by Colie's Corner at Been There Scrapped That

And I have also had the pleasure of playing with Melothria's new Kit "Fall Swirl" available at DigitalArts Cafe.
This first one is a photo Dad took of Mia the other day. Whilst I was scrapping it, the song kept circling in my head, so I thought, why not use it, I think it works well.

Credits:
Fall Swirl by Melothria at DigitalArts Cafe

And this is the same kit, the colours went so well, with this photo, so I scrapped it, I have to say here though that I DID win one game! (out of 4!)

Credits:
Fall Swirl by Melothria

Bye 4 now

Layouts and an award

I think I promised layouts yesterday, well, I have LOTS of them! Some were done during the Design It Contest but never got posted, but you might not have seen them in the galleries.

So I'll start with my desktop for October, this was done for the September Desktop Challenge at BTST, there is a new one up now, but I haven't done that yet!
Its "my boys" on our holiday at Center Parcs, don't they look super cute!?!

Credits:
Swim Fishy by Kristin Aargard

For the next two I used "Boy I'm Fallin" by Colie's Corner. this first one is my boys helping with the apple picking - a never ending story this year - this was the time they enjoyed it, today they let me do it on my own!

Credits:
Boy I'm Fallin by Colie's Corner

And this one is some more pics from Center Parcs from our game of Minigolf (also for the ABC Challenge at BTST) I tried my hand at journalling for this one.

Credits:
Boy I'm Fallin by Colie's Corner

The next three are CT layouts for Melothria (DigitalArts Cafe). She sent me her latest kit before our holiday, but I had to wait for it to be released before I could post, and what with the Design It contest, i forgot to post them. And honest all three layouts are using the same kit, very versatile!
this first one is my grandmother at 18, so beautiful.

Credits
Not another Autumn Kit by Melothria at DAC

This is Robert having mastered the art of cycling!

Credits
Not another Autumn Kit by Melothria at DAC

And this is Sunny our cat sunning himself on the kids climbing frame!

Credits
Not another Autumn Kit by Melothria at DAC

Are you bored yet?! no, good, cause here is one last one, this one is for the Quote Challenge at DSO.

Credits
Fall Splendour by KimB's Designs
Alpha from Indian Summer by Me!!! hihi!

Uff, that was a lot of layouts, and I intend to do some more tonight! Got some great pics of my nieces from Mum and Dad...

Now about that award! Heather (shawtyp) has awarded me with an "I love your blog" award

- Thanks so much Heather, I love yours too, so here is the award right back to you. I love Heather's layouts, and always look forward to finding them in the gallery at BTST!

Now to find 6 more blogs I love! Well, regardless of whether they already have the award or not, it would have to be

Leigh
Dinphy
Liz
Jan
Melo
Karyn (fellow Design It contestant)

Thanks again Heather.
OK, now do I finish watching Coyote Ugly, or do I turn over to CSI Miami?! Mmh, difficult decision! I love both!
Bye 4 now

A much better day!!

And the best thing about it, the SUN woke me up this morning at 7.30am!!!! Yippee! BOTH kids slept all through the night! I couldn't believe it when I checked my watch! I felt so much better for it, now if only they would do it again and again and again, until it became a habit!
Everything is so much easier when you are not yawning all the time!
They were still a bit naughty this afternoon, but that too is so much easier to take, when you have slept better!
So yesterday I promised a bit more about our holiday. The main event was my cousin's wedding! And it was a great one. The weather was a bit iffy leading up to the big day, but on the day, the sun came out right when we needed it. I was the official photographer, and slightly nervous, but I got some great shots if I do say so myself. When I left to go to the brides house in the morning, I was checking I had got everything. And said something like "leave the laptop on, so that I can empty the card if need be" Florian said "you'll never take 1019 pictures (that's what the 4GB card holds)" Well, I tried my hardest and took 1234 pictures of the day! Now in hindsight, that might have been a mistake, as I am also making the happy couple a wedding album. and now I have the daunting task of sorting through them and picking the best! I also have most of the other guests pictures, so in all I have about 2.500 pictures of the wedding! HELP!!! Even choosing a few to show here is going to be difficult.
But here goes
Here is the church, where the wedding service was, I sneaked there before I went to the brides home, and got it with out any people in the shot.


Here is the Bride putting on the finishing touches. She looked so radiant and beautiful.


and here she is! Stunning!

and of course the happy couple

And here the most difficult shot to get, the complete wedding party, as quite a few tried to hide under the tree, but I spotted them all, that's when it is good to be bossy! It's not quite everyone, my Dad is going to "photoshop" me into the picture! I got all dressed up again on Sunday, and stood in the empty courtyard, whilst Florian hang out of the window and got a shot of me!

And on the subject of wedding's I got Melothria's new Wedding Kit "Just Married" and scrapped a few of the wedding photo's with it.
Here is the kit:
and here are my layouts, 2 of my cousin's wedding and one of my grandparents wedding.
Heather and Joe - Sealed with a Kiss!

Credits:
Just Married by Melothria at DAC

2 pics from before the wedding and one where they all were together!

Credits:
Just Married by Melothria at DAC

Here are my grandparents on their Wedding Day, and when Mum and Dad get back home from their holiday, I will be adding the date to the layout!

Credits:
Just Married by Melothria at DAC

That's all for today, wish me luck for tonight
Bye 4 now

Happy Mother's Day!

I had a GREAT day! I got a lay in, after the boys had given me their presents from Kindergarden. They had both made a butterfly for me, and said a little poem - in German - for me! So cute, then Florian took them downstairs and I fell back to sleep again - til 11am! Wow, I was so surprised, when I woke up!
Downstairs, they had picked me a beautiful bunch of flowers, and Florian had made me a card (his first scrapbooking page!). And all day Florian and the boys treated me. We had a lovely time in the garden, the boys played with their boat track and the water again, and Florian and I sat under the sunshade and I had the computer on, it was great fun. The boys didn't even argue today!

The new chickens have already laid 3 eggs for us! I didn't expect them to lay so soon, I thought they would have to get used to their new home first, but it doesn't seem that way. Now about the chicken story I promised. Well.. the chickens have their own little house with a chicken sized door, that is solar operated, so when it starts getting dark the door goes down (very slowly, so as not to hurt anyone). Our new chickens of course don't know this, so at about 9pm I went to check that they had all made it into indoors (safer in there with foxes and such). Not one of them had. I got out there and they had all made themselves comfy on the fence around the chicken run! Oops! We MUST clip their wings if we want to keep them. Florian and I spent a good 15 minutes rounding them up and getting them inside! One of them in an attempt to escape us, even flew into the cherry tree! It was such a funny sight, Ticki joined the fun, well not really I think he was too busy watching us make fools of ourselves to come and help! It still makes me giggle. So when I have finished here, we are off out again to "help" the chickens find their way into their house!

I did a layout for DigitalArts Cafe this afternoon. This is also for the lyrics challenge at DAC, they have some great MiniKits for participating.
This is Mia on her bike the other weekend. And as she is the only tomboy I know, I thought this was perfect for Melothria's new Kit "Tomboy"

Credits:
Tomboy by Melothria at DigitalArts Cafe

Bye 4 now

It actually snowed!!!

What a horrible day - weatherwise that is - it has rained, hailed and snowed. And just before the boys bedtime the sun came out, I suppose that would make it a proper April day, wouldn't it!?

We spent the day indoors, we even had the fire on - I was cold, so Florian was so kind and put it on for me. Robert has been up and down all day. Sometimes he seems fine and then the next minute he has a temperature again and looks terrible. Really strange, at bedtime his temperature was well up again (39.2°C/102.56°F) poor little thing. I hope it is all better in the morning.

We had both tents built up in the lounge today, they thought it was great. Robert and i actually hid from Daddy and Richard, it was so funny (and pointless) really, cause I couldn't stop giggling, cause my legs didn't fit in and were sticking out under the door!! But the boys thought it was great fun!
The Easter Bunny had brought them some new crayons, which Robert found again today, and we did a lot of drawing. I actually enjoyed being a kid again and colouring in Arielle in one of their colouring books!!!

Florian played with them most of the afternoon and I got a layout done for DigitalArts Cafe (the other Creative Team) I am on.

I used Melothria's Kit "Let the Sun Shine In" for this layout of our cats Ticki and Sunny. they spent the afternoon on Monday with us in the garden watching over us I think.

Credits:
Let The Sun Shine In by Melothria at DigitalArts Cafe

OK, time for NCIS now, Bye

Layout of the Week!!!

Wow, how about that! I got a $12.00 gift voucher for being Layout of the Week at Scrapkitten.com. If you call up the homepage, one of the first things you see, is my layout! It is the one I made of our very cold and snowy Easter Barbecue!
I am really excited about it! What a lovely surprise this morning.

And no bad news today. The car started as if it had never had a problem this morning. The kids were good really - considering it rained all afternoon and we couldn't go out. We had great fun in the lounge singing "Ring-o-roses" and "Dingle-Dangle Scarecrow"! Robert sung them once for us on his own! So cute!
Then I had the computer on and my wedding pics were on. Richard brought tears to my eyes when he said "Mummy, was a princess?" "Mummy, Princess!" Well I thought and felt like a princess then, so YES MUMMY was a princess.
Speaking of weddings - here is a layout I made for Florian today. It's us on our wedding day (registry office) 3 years ago today! I still love my hat, perhaps I will wear it again this summer for my cousins wedding!

Credits:

February DSO Mega Kit - DSO Designers and Pixies

After lunch, I "bumped" into Leigh online and we had great fun chatting, not typing really chatting! It was such fun, Richard was in bed, Robert was watching TV, so we got to have a good half an hour natter, about anything and everything! We'll definitely be doing that again! Leigh's kids were still in bed. Mind boggling the time difference at times though!

Oh and one other exciting thing. I am on yet another CT. For DigitalArts Cafe, which is the store that Silvia (Phillsboo) sells at. I have to make one layout a week and post in three different places. I am having so much fun making layouts at the moment, I don't see a problem there. Infact I think you will be seeing my first layout for them, later on tonight. Watch this space!

I decided to enter the Challenges at Digital Arts Cafe tonight - one of them I am hosting, so it doesn't actually count, but it was fun anyway. Even more so, as I have chosen Coffee and Tea related quotes (to go with the "Café" theme there), and I don't even drink either!!! But I still love this quote, and can sort of relate to it, as I really need breakfast to function properly, but as a mother you are on duty 24/7!

Credits:

Just to see you smile by Lynn at Digital Arts Cafe

And this layout is for the Font Challenge, this month there is a choice of two handwriting fonts, I chose this one, which is called Catholic Schoolgirls!! I have scrapped some more of our fun on the Wii on Easter Sunday!

Credits:
Let The Sun Shine In by Melothria at Digital Arts Cafe

Bye 4 now