So excited!

I have so many layouts to show you, but today I am going to send you blog hopping for it.
First up you should stop off at Danyale's blog "ByGone's Custom Scrapbooks", I RAKed her this week, cause I felt like it and today I stop by and wow, not just one gorgeous layout but two! You should go and see them!

And the next place you should visit is Michelle's Blog "Fun with digiscrap". Michelle wrote to me yesterday if she could join my CT, the funny thing was, that only a couple of hours before I got the email, I was at her blog, wondering if I could send an email and ask her if she wanted to join. During the Xmas DAC blog train, she had done some great bragbook pages, and I knew she liked my kits, but she beat me to the email! Welcome to my CT Michelle. Click on this layout to go to Michelles blog, where she has a surprise giveaway for you!


This is Michelle's nephew and he helped make the layout! Great job both of you.

Now speaking of blog trains! I have signed up for another one, yep DigitalArts-Cafe are chasing away the winter blues starting 15th February! If you want to join in the fun, click on the picture!


I still have more layouts, can you believe it, I'm loving it girls. But I will show you them tomorrow
CU then
PS: No news otherwise, another boring day at work, and ironing in the afternoon, I think the scrapbooking news was better, right?!

A lovely weekend

Yesterday whilst Florian went to see his cousins up north, the kids and I went down to see my parents, who were looking after Zoe and Mia for the day. The kids hadn't seen oneanother since our holiday together, and it was so cute to see how pleased they were to be together again.
We all went to the indoor playground in the afternoon. And Zoe, who is now at that age, where girls love looking after the little ones, so she looked after Richard all afternoon at the playground, and so Mum and I had a very relaxing afternoon, just watching them have fun!
In the evening Mum and Dad took us to a restaurant, and we all had chicken and chips. yummy! Robert only stopped eating cause we ran out of food for him! Goodness only knows where he was putting it.

and today we played at home all day, until Florian got back from his outing to the "cousin reunion", then the boys got a bit overexcited to see Daddy and one of his cousins! But they sort of behaved themselves were just a bit giggly and wouldn't talk properly.

they are now both tucked up in bed and will hopefully sleep better than last night, where at 4am they had an argument about who had what juice in bed... Just what I needed!

I have another layout to show today, this one was for the "Mix my Scrapbook Challenge" at Been There Scrapped that. this month we had to use 5 staples, one patterned and one plain paper, a string thing and cardboard, and as much glitter as we could take. And this is what I came up with. the boys splashing around in the paddling pool. I used Wendy's great new Kit "Splish Splash" available at Do It Digi (see sidebar for link).

Credits:
Splish Splash by BrokenJar Creations at Do it Digi
Staples from A Thing of Beauty by BrokenJar at Do it Digi
Cardboard Alpha by Ptitesouris

I got another challenge done tonight, this is for the ABC Challenge at BTST. J is for JUMP! And boy can Richard jump, there is no stopping him now! I used Michelle Herron's new kit "Seth" for this layout!

Credits:
Seth by Michelle Herron
Alpha by Tracy King

Bye 4 now

An expensive day!

Yep, today we got to go and pick our car up that was in for repairs and MOT - ouch it hurt! But had we not had the work done, it wouldn't have passed the MOT, and we would have needed a new car, so we took a deep breath and handed over some plastic - that's not real money anyways!

I picked Florian up from the station this morning, he has the day off, and before we went and got the big shock at the garage, we went into town and finally ordered a new pair of glasses for me! Not too long after having been to the eye-doctor! (it was at the end of May, oops). There we did get a pleasant surprise!!! I was expecting to have to pay around 250 Euros altogether for new frames and the lenses, and when he said it would be 67 Euros, it was such a pleasant surprise. I had told him that it was only really an emergency pair as I wear contact lenses, and he then didn't even try to sell me the all singing all dancing lenses! I can definitely recommend this shop, oh and the frames were free!!! Shame we didn't carry on that spree at the garage!

The boys were pleased to have Daddy home again, and even more pleased that we BOTH picked them up at Kindergarden. They were so excited.
In the afternoon Florian had an appointment at the bank to find out if they will finance a house for us, when we move to the south of Germany, if we rent this house out. And yes they will!! Now all we have to do is find someone who wants to rent a BIG house with a BIG garden - oh and look after the chickens! We'll see!
We also phoned up one of the firms that had been to give us a quote on having the back of the house painted the order. They'll be in touch next week, with a date for that. So we were on quite a spending spree today.
Unfortunately we didn't really get outside today, it has rained on and off all day long. Which is a shame, cause tonight our village festival starts, and that is not so much fun in the rain. Well, we aren't going to night anyways so maybe by Sunday when we go all will be better.

I did a couple of CT layouts yesterday. Michelle Herron has an AMAZING new Kit soon to be released, its called Baby Drew and is just gorgeous. I did this layout of Robert, when he wasn't even 24 hours old. I managed to combine CT work with a challenge again, this one is for the "Say it with Music" Challenge at BTST.

Credits:

Baby Drew by Michelle Herron

And this one is for BrokenJar Creations (Wendy). I used Wendy's Kit Serene Summer for this layout. I just love this photo that Dad took at Zoe's First Day at School Celebration of Lee (my brother) and Mum. They both look so proud and happy.

Credits:
Serene Summer by BrokenJar Creations

Oh, and you should definitely pop over to Dinphy's Blog today, she has just released her DSO Colour Challenge Kit and it is just too cute! I love it, Dinphy!
Right the boys are quiet, we didn't wear them out outside, but we had them doing all sort of jumping indoors and they are all nice and asleep now! I hope they can keep it up now!
I'm off downstairs, a) to update this with the layouts and b) to do some more..
Bye 4 now

A LOOOOOONNNNNGGGG Day

without TV! Yep, the kids blew it last night! They finally settled at around 8.45pm! That is nearly 2 hours (!) after I put them to bed. Even the threat of no TV did not make them stop fooling around, as I had hoped it would, and the way they are going now, it looks like there will be no TV tomorrow too! It wasn't quite as difficult as I had thought it would be, but it did make my day a lot longer.
I can hear them in there again now, and they are getting noisier and noisier. I have already got to the threat of no TV after cancelling a surprise I had planned for the morning, I thought that as threats got me nowhere yesterday I would try the treat approach. It wasn't going to be anything that special, just a Brezel from the bakers after the trip to the doctors, but ... they just blew that one, so now I am back on the no TV threat.
I wonder what would happen if I just let them get on with it? would they fall asleep quicker? Am I winding them up by going in and shouting at them? I am nearly at my wits end!
I want to thank Dinphy for yesterdays comments, it really helped me and cheered me up! thanks!

But this morning I got an even bigger surprise from Dinphy,


yep, I have got another award! Yippee!
This also reminded me, that in the past week or two I got two other awards, one from Laura and one from Melothria, both I know from Digital Arts Cafe and who in turn have great blogs!


I am going to pass on passing it along this time though, I had trouble coming up with 5 people to award last time so this time I will just say thank you very, very much. I love the thought, that you are out there, reading what I get up to! And I enjoy having you here! Thanks so much!

I did another layout last night, but it is downstairs on the computer, so I will add it here as soon as the boys quieten down! (just to let you know, they had their last chance, and now it is another day of no tv!! BOTHER!) by the way, I tried ignoring them, but Richard ended up screaming and calling me - Robert had poked his head and pinched his dummy! AGHH!!!!

OK, I'm off to work on the wedding photo book for my cousin and maybe get a little bit of scrapping done.
Bye 4 now

UPDATE: 8:06 and all is quiet!! Could be in luck here! Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: 11.30pm and all is quiet and has been since the last post! Uff!

And as promised I am back with the layout I did last night and a new one I did tonight!
Here is last nights. I used Michelle Herron's Whimsical Hearts (a freebie on her blog). This is a photo Florian got at the wedding. I just love it, and I thought it went well in the heart.

Credits:

Whimsical Hearts by Michelle Herron
Flowers from I believe by Bunny Cates and KimB's Designs

And this one is a FUN one. The Word challenge at BTST this month is to use the word "free", I wanted to do something completely different and this is what I came up with! I like it! It's also for the Font challenge at DSO, together they work well, don't you think!

Credits:
July Girl Grab Bag by Sweet Digi Scraps

Oh, and I did get 8 pages of the wedding book done too, so once the boys were finally asleep, it has been a good night. Plus Mel Gibson is on TV right now, so some "eye candy" too! (that is a fun expression too!)
Bye 4 now

New Arrivals!

Yep, Treacle or is it Miffy? is now a Daddy!!! Our neighbour's rabbit Minnie has had 3 babies! Of course this had to happen now, when our neighbours are on holiday and I am looking after her! I went over this morning to give her her food, and there was fur everywhere. I had a little chat with her and asked if she was moulting - of course she didn't answer. Then I opened her hutch to a nest full of fur. So cute. Then as I was looking the fur was sort of moving - so I moved it and to my amazement found 3 baby rabbits. It was a cute moment, just a shame that baby rabbits that are only a matter of hours old are not cute. They are really quite ugly, no fur and all wrinkly!
Our neighbours unfortunately forgot to leave their mobile phone number, so they don't know about the additions to their family yet. But I am documenting it well. Here is a quick layout I threw together for you all to see. I may yet add some journalling but here it is so you can meet our new neighbours!

Credits:
Triple Frames by Michelle Herron (a freebie on her blog)
Paper from Juliana by Michelle Herron
Wordart by Elegant Wordart
Date Stamp by Sweet Digi Scraps

This again is taking me forever to write, only the threat of no TV all day tomorrow has made them shut up (my boys that is!), when will bedtime return to normal? Did we really want them in the same room together?
There is a good side to it (or at least there was the past two nights) they are sleeping through the night. Hardly surprising though when I think at how late they are actually getting to sleep. I just heard one of them then, going "shh, shh" so they are still awake! Now I hear talking, which I am trying hard to ignore, cause I use those TV breaks to cook in peace - so I might regret my threat in a minute!

OK, have to go and sort them out, they are getting louder and louder, so I cannot ignore it any longer!
Bye 4 now

I forgot to blog!!

Oops! We were back later than expected from a birthday party today, and the kids went straight to sleep, so I wasn't sat at the computer upstairs, and when I came downstairs I got into a programme on TV and totally forgot to blog!
I had a good day today, I only had to get up once last night (3.30am) and then I got to sleep til 7.30am! Not bad really!
Luckily Robert did wake me up, because at 8.30am someone was banging on the door! Richards bed was delivered. I still had my nightie on, but thankfully it wasn't a short short one! (some of my T-shirts have shrunk) so my bum was hidden under that, but I really was not a pretty sight. But I'll never see the guy again, so who cares!
We went in the garden in the morning and the boys and I had great fun picking all the red currants!
Unfortunately Richard got stung by a wasp - annoying little creatures they are. So I rubbed it down with Onion (in case you didn't know, Onion or Lemon for a wasp sting, and Bi-carbonated Soda for bee stings!), and then put some cream for stings on it. And he was fine again, as long as every so often I kissed it better!
once we had emptied the bush we came back in and then the boys were kept busy for nearly an hour pulling the berries off the stalks and putting them in a separate dish! So cute.
Tomorrow we will be making jam together! I hope that is a good move and not only a sticky mess!
This afternoon it was a 5th birthday party, the boys had a great time playing and I had a great time chatting! We stayed for tea too, then home and straight to bed for the boys, which brings us in a full circle!

I have a couple of layouts to share, these are using Michelle Herron and Lioness3 Legacies other Collab Kit - Amber Waves.
this was a challenge for me, as it is a 4th July Kit, and we don't celebrate it here. But I made it work for me too!
This is Richard thinking about sliding!

Credits

Amber waves by Michelle Herron and Lioness3 Legacies

And this is me and Richard on one of the rides at Thomas Land. I used this for the "Say it with Music" Challenge at BTST

Credits

Amber waves by Michelle Herron and Lioness3 Legacies

Bye 4 now
and check back here tomorrow for a BIG surprise!

Florian's home!!

And we are all rather excited about it! He walked in, and once Pocoyo had finished (yep he lost out to the TV this afternoon!), the kids were all over him, so I made the most of it, and let them be! So nice to have a break this week! After they had built "swimming ships" (Richard), "a wall" (Robert), "a lion" (Florian) ,they went into the garden and I had a chat with Leigh (more about that further down my post) and made tea for us all in peace! Wow, what a change that makes. Unfortunately Daddy being home didn't mean they ate any better!
It was the last day of Kindergarden today, which means 3 weeks of the boys - I will have to come up with some fun things to do, otherwise we might all go insane, within days! No, I love them to bits really, just need some sleep!!!! (again, I was up to them both!)

Now about my chat with Leigh - she has made me my very own Logo Watermark for my photos! She did three versions and I had a very hard time choosing, and I may mix and match until I finally decide, but for today, these photos have the version on that I liked best!
These are photos of our outing to a nearby farm (on our holiday still), they had pedal go-karts for the kids to go on and they even had one, where Richard could reach the pedals. He was great there. We got there and he couldn't really do it, we had to keep rescuing him out of the hay, as he couldn't pedal and steer at the same time, and pedalling was all new to him too! Well after 15 minutes he had it all worked out, and off he went, no stopping him! So cute! And Robert, well, Robert he just had a BALL! And so did Florian and I!





I also got a couple of new layouts to show you, Michelle Herron has joined forces for this one with Lioness3 Legacies and they have come up with a fun doodley Kit called Lexi Doodles (available at ScrappinFreeStyle)

I used it for the "Scrapper Say What" Challenge at Been there Scrapped That, where there are lots of ice-cream related quotes. I chose the one that had "scream" in it, as I have heard my two doing a lot of that this week!

Credits:
lexi doodles by Michelle Herron and Lioness3 Legacies

And then I spotted these photos of my nieces and made this layout for them!

Credits:
lexi doodles by Michelle Herron and Lioness3 Legacies

Bye for now

Birthday presents and other things...

Well, Robert's birthday is right around the corner (Thursday) so it was about time, that we got him a present! I went to his favourite toyshop and had a look around. In the end - with the help of a friend that I bumped into in the shop - I chose a BIG lorry that tows cars away that are wrongly parked, it has another car on its back and a crane thing. Plus it flashes and makes noise (didn't notice that bit, til I got it home! oops!), I think he will love it.
Unbeknown to Richard he also has a present for Robert. He has got him a game, it has chickens in it (fitting with us having 7!) and you play it with a dice. It looks like fun, and something I will enjoy playing too, seeing as I will be the one playing with him!

Mum made lunch for us!! No she's not here, but she packed me up a goodie bag yesterday. So the boys had "Nanna's spaghetti" again, and I had Mum and Dad's Sunday Roast left overs. Delicious!

We spent the afternoon in the garden again. And what did the boys want to play with most - my clean washing! I convinced them that they weren't going to hang it out for me, but they then after putting ALL of the leftover pegs on the string hanging down from the line, ran around and around in the washing. Grrrr. (Although if I am honest, I seem to recall doing that myself and having a great time. My poor Mum, here's a very belated, but heartfelt "sorry")

Bathtime after tea, and now they are in bed sound asleep - I think!
And I have to remember when I go downstairs to get the washing off the line, otherwise I might have to start again in the morning!

I have two layouts for you, that I made at lunchtime, but they are downstairs, check back later for them.

This first one is of the boys with their new bikes! Both trying to get on them, I shouldn't say trying they did get on them fine!

Credits:
Sweetest Boy of All by Phillsboo at DigitalArts Cafe

This is Richard on his "new" skooter bike, it was Robert's but Richard is trying to master the art now!

Credits:
My Pop by Michelle Herron at ScrappinFreeStyle

And this one, was difficult! It was for the Snap It Challenge at Been There Scrapped That, we had to take a picture of ourselves. It has taken me until now, to do this one and the month is nearly up! But I really like the picture I got of me (I did take my glasses off to get it, so I couldn't really see, what I was smiling at!). Scrapping it I found a bit difficult, much easier to scrap the kids!

Credits:
Uncertain by Sweet Digi Scraps at Been There Scrapped That

Not bad going for a day 3 layouts posted here, and two that I can't post on the blog, they are for friends of my brothers (a couple of their wedding photos!)

Bye 4 now

Good and Bad News

from the eye doctor today! I was there for my yearly check up, where they enlarge your pupils and look at your retina. I have a mole on mine, which has to be checked regularly, that is all OK. So whilst not wearing contact lenses I also had my glasses checked, and here comes the good news. I need new glasses but not because my eyes have got worse, NO THEY HAVE GOT BETTER! (I am extremely short-sighted and NEVER thought I would be told they had got better!) They haven't got that much better, but they are better.
The bad news, isn't that bad, but the reason I have been having problems with my lenses lately and not been seeing well, is I have a scratch on my cornea, which needs treating. I have to go back next Monday and see if the drops have cleared it all up! Until then, no contact lenses. And glasses that are too strong for me, as new ones won't be ready that quickly! Oh well, never mind!

Whilst I was at the doctors the boys were with Mum and Dad, and were behaving nicely until I walked through the door, and then they started arguing again! Typical!
In the afternoon Dad took the boys to watch the airplanes at the airport and then to the playground! They had a great time. So did Mum and I, we walked into town and had an ice cream (another Spaghetti Ice Cream), and did some window shopping!

We are back home now, quite an uneventful trip the boys fell asleep quite early on, so it was nice and peaceful.

I found this when I got home:


Michelle Herron's new kit. And that is what I have been playing with this evening and why I am late blogging! If you like it, it will be available in the store on Friday.

This first layout is Lee barbecuing at Easter, I thought it was the perfect picture for the barbecuing elements in the kit.

Credits:
My Pop by Michelle Herron at ScrappinFreeStyle

And this one is one of my favourite pictures, Robert and Florian mowing the lawn. This picture is nearly two years old, but they still do it - Saturday as the last time they did it, but no pictures from then!

Credits:
My Pop by Michelle Herron at ScrappinFreeStyle

Thats all for tonight.
Bye 4 now

I did it!!!

Yep, I got the lawnmower to work today! All it needed was the blade or was it the whole lawnmower - to be lowered, and hey presto, the lawn is short again! Do you have any idea how difficult it is to mow a lawn with two boys. We do have a toy lawnmower, but only one, so one mowed with the toy one (Richard) and Robert "helped" me! In other words, he stood in front of me and helped push, you should have seen the funny walk that caused me to have! Luckily or unfortunately no one had a camera to capture the moment, so I won't be scrapping this years first lawnmowing session! The boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves though and have hopefully worn themselves out for the night!

Speaking of which, I was so surprised when the first "Mummy" call came last night. Cause it was no longer night, but early morning and light! Yep, both Robert and Richard slept through and so did I. Robert called at 7.15am so even that wasn't too early! We stuck a sticker on Robert's Bob the Builder calendar, and when he has 7 stickers in a row (!) then he gets a present. We'll see how it goes!

I got some scrapping done in my "lunch break" and I actually remembered to save it to the network drive, so I should be able to post it here now.

This first one is of Zoe and Mia trying to "gracefully" get out of their new hammock! So cute!

Credits:

Juliana by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

And this one is Mia, I found so many pictures of her dressed up, that I thought I should scrap them. Isn't she cute!

Credits:

Juliana by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

I have a couple of challenges still to do for April, so I might do them later on, we'll see.
Bye 4 now

Gardening and arguing

Don't you just love the things kids argue about! My two started early this morning. They spent all the way to Kindergarden arguing over who was going to have a cocoa at Kindergarden, as if there was only one cup of it to share. They even nearly had a punch up over it!
At least once there I didn't have to hear anymore. I had a busy morning with the ironing and cooking.
And this afternoon we went in the garden. I decided to surprise Florian (well it won't be now! This is his blog after all!) and do the lawn-mowing, however after having mown next to the barn, a neighbour and I decided that it didn't look like it was mowing at all. So rather than do it all with a not working lawn mower I stopped. And will have to chat to Florian about it tonight, and see if I was getting it all wrong or whether after its winter break I should have "done" something other than just start it!
As it happened the neighbour stayed and her son Lorenz and my boys had great fun together, and we had a good natter! All the neighbours were out in the nice weather today so we got to chat with another couple again. Most wanted to know where Robert had been and how he was. Hard to believe just how ill he was, when you see him running around outside. But that is GOOD news!
I had the camera outside with me, but I forgot - can you believe that - to take any pictures, oh well, I have enough still needing to be scrapped, so I won't be at all bored!

And here are tonights layouts, these are for Michelle Herron's CT, she has a new collab kit out, and these are using her part "And Beyond!"
This is Richard playing what could have been his version of "rockets" in his play tent! Check out who is peeping out of the window of the rocket!

Credits:
And Beyond! by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

And these are the two of them discussing their drawings on the blackboard, Richard looked like a little professor at the time. So they could well have been working out the route to the moon!

Credits:
And Beyond! by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

Bye 4 now

Silvia came again!

so I didn't blog yesterday! This time she brought both her daughters with her, the boys were so excited about it all. But I'll start at the beginning.

Silvia, Belinda and Vanessa arrived on Friday morning, when the boys were still at Kindergarden. So we all picked them up together! Robert and Richard were so excited. They didn't actually go and throw themselves at the girls, there they are a bit shy, so instead they threw themselves at my legs, nearly knocking me flying! So cute!
Once home it didn't take long before Belinda and Vanessa had to go upstairs with the boys for "animal fights" and all the fun other games the girls made up for them.
Silvia and I hardly saw them all afternoon! We of course did a LOT of chatting! Silvia got a bit of inspiration for future kits - what inspiration that was I will tell you whenever it appears in a kit!

One of the funniest moments was when we tried to get the airbed upstairs! It sort of got stuck going round a corner on the stairs. So funny, I really thought we were going to have to let air out of it again!
Silvia and the girls stayed the night, so the fun carried on this morning. We all went to the "Restaurant" (Sieberzmühle) for lunch, where we all had to watch Robert totally deflate. From one moment to the next he went all quiet, didn't eat, cuddled up to me and nearly fell asleep on my lap. He has quite a high temperature this evening and is dosed up with Calpol in bed. Don't know what he's got, he kept complaining that "his legs had gone to sleep" and that they "wouldn't wake up". He made us giggle though, when he pretended to be a cockerel (rooster) and went "Cock-a-doodle-doo" at the top of his voice in the restaurant, to try to wake them up.
If he is still complaining about that tomorrow, I will take him to the doctors, its not a symptom I have heard him complain of before!
Well, as we all seem to come down with something about the same time, how are your kids Leigh, Liz??!! Try not to breathe in too deeply when reading my page tonight, just incase it is contagious!

Well, Florian just crept past me, with his "game" in his hand, so I won't be doing any layouts tonight, but Silvia took lots of photos over the last two days, so I have plenty of material for during the week.
Did I mention that it was a GREAT two days. It is uncanny, really how much Silvia and I have in common!

I did get some time on the computer after all, and this is what I came up with . These are using Michelle's Springtime kit, which you can get at Scrappin Free Style.

This is Robert smelling the daffodils.

Credits:

Spring Time by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

This was last Sunday at the park by the restaurant, that was when we thought Spring was here to stay, no sign of spring this weekend!

Credits:
Spring Time by Michelle Herron at Scrappin Free Style

Bye 4 now

A busy but satisfying day!

After being stuck indoors with both kids for most of last week, today was GREAT! For a start both of them are back at Kindergarden and life can return to normal! I got a lot accomplished this morning (housewifey sorts of things, washing, dishwashing, feeding all the animals and washing the floors!) I even got a chance for a break, in which I did a layout! Show you it later this evening.

Well, here it is! Mum bought me a present at the weekend, 2 kits from Weeds & Wildflowers! Absolutely gorgeous, this is my first layout with both kits. It's my Nanna (my Dad's Mum), she always dreamt of having her own little cottage with lots of flowers. Well here it is!

The pictures are 69 (!) years old. Credits:
Frames - Bunny Cates
Paper - Patricia Christensen from Weeds & Wildflowers
Grandma's pressed Flowers 3 by Gina Marie Huff, Heidi Williams, & Patricia Christensen from Weeds & Wildflowers

The kids enjoyed dinner and had a good nap/break after it, so I got another 2 layouts done! These ones are for Michelle's CT using her Aargh! Kit.

Completely different to the last layout, but fun! The first is Robert, whilst on holiday in England last year! Unbeknown to me, he had stripped off and gone in the sea! it was freezing, but he wasn't complaining, and someone got a picture!


This is my niece Zoe I think they were on holiday here, when she had her face painted, perfect for this pirate themed kit!

And on this one, I practiced my extraction skills again! I am really pleased with the results. Thanks Mum for remembering the picture! I think it looks great now!


After Richard's nap, we went outside to play in the garden. It was really weird out there, it felt and looked like spring, but there was this huge black clowd lurking, it is still out there in the same position, still no rain. but that was fine by us! The boys did their usual, round and round the front garden on anything with wheels, then some football, and by then the neighbours started joining us, and I got a good ole natter in too!

Then it was back in for tea and bed! which is where they are now, still both awake (could be the time changing, but they are just restless, should be quiet in a minute!)

I did another layout! This one is of my Mum's Mum, my Nanny. She is so beautiful. I have another picture of her I would love to scrap, but I don't have a scanner, so it will have to wait until I get to Mum and Dad's.

Credits:
Frame - Bunny Cates
Paper - Sunshine Sweets by Franziska Altmann
Grandma's Pressed Flowers 3 by Weeds and Wildflowers

Bye 4 now

Yippee, they're in bed!!!

Uff, what a long day! We got up to more snow this morning, snow that had to be cleared from the path this time. Poor Florian did that before he left to catch his train, so sometime before 6.30am!
Of course it snowed on and off all day, so we couldn't really go out in it, and were stuck indoors.

A friend phoned at lunch time and complained of the same dilemma, a 3 year old who didn't know what to do with himself, other than test his Mum's nerves - that rung a bell!!! Well, we decided to meet up at her place, and let the boys play with one another. Mine thought it was great, so I did get a bit of a break there. But hers decided he would not leave his Mum in peace to talk to her friend. So I suppose today I was the one that was better off. If she has a blog she is probably writing the same heading!

I did get some pages scrapped last night and one more today, I will put them up later, with whatever else I manage to do tonight. Now to wait a bit more and see if they quieten down (been in three times to Richard whilst writing this short piece and once to Robert). HOpefully Richard will sleep better tonight, because today he was not his normal happy self. He was extremely grumpy!

Here are some layouts from our Easter weekend. Two with another great Kit from Michelle (check her store on the right!). This Kit is called Caitlyn and is GREAT!

The first layout is Mia trying her hand at photography! She needs a bit more practice!

Credits: Caitlyn by Michelle Herron

And this one again is Mia, this time on the Wii boxing, she was better at that than photography!

Credits: Caitlyn by Michelle Herron

And this is our Easter tradition. Start the barbecueing season on Easter Sunday. Not so sure it was a good idea this year - delicious yes, but look at the poor guys out in the SNOW!!!

Credits: Easter Egg Hunt Goodies from Scrapkitten

Didn't get anymore layouts done tonight, but I had a great chat with Silvia instead!
Bye 4 now

I'm a lucky girl!!!

The day got off to a much better start today, whilst the boys were playing (without fighting) in Robert's room, I checked my emails....and.... I got accepted to Michelle Herron's Creative Team!!!
I am so excited, she has beautiful designs, and I "know" her from her Challenges at DSO, she does the Sketch and Quote Challenge, two of my favourites.
So when I spotted her CT call, I thought, why not apply, and today I am part of her team. I already have a kit to get started on, so check back later when I upload my first layouts with her kit "Jaxon!.
Isn't it cute, just right for my boys!!

Well, that was the exciting part of my day, the rest was spent daydreaming about scrapping... no just kidding! Shopping for a couple of Easter treats and the normal weekly shop as tomorrow everything is closed! And this afternoon I played with the boys, if they weren't fighting with one another!
Florian came home and they were as good as gold! Strange that! Robert was fine all day, until about 30mins before bedtime, when the earache returned. Typical, all day we could have gone to the doctor, but no, he gets it when the doctor closes for Easter! Fingers crossed, we don't have to go to the emergency doctors over Easter. He's dosed up with Calpol now and will hopefully get a good nights sleep... which reminds me, I was worried yesterday about my sleep. Well, both boys slept right through till 6am! Can't complain about that, maybe again today....watch this space.

Well, Robert is not sleeping well, and I could well be up all night, he is in quite a lot of pain, so tomorrow definitely the doctors! Despite being up and down to the poor soul I did manage to have fun with Michelle's kit! I got 4(!) layouts done.

This one is Mia and Robert digging on the beach in England last year!

When I saw the wordart, I immediately remembered this photo from one of our trips to Roberts favourite restaurant. Richard had spread the ketchup from ear to ear!
This was the sketch Michelle gave us for February's challenge at DSO, I still love it, so I used it again!
This photo of Richard was taken at Centre Parks in September last year. He wasn't too sure about the dinosaur, we wanted him to sit on it, but he wouldn't , but he did have a chat with it!

Credits for all above layouts:
Jaxon by Michelle Herron (click on preview at the beginning of the post to see her store)

Bye 4 now