Happy Birthday

To our Darling :-) heheee Here's the cards the kids made for Lyndon - the cream one is from Maddison, the blue from Aaron and the green piece of "art work" is from Aaron :-) It was from my card scrap box and already had the spirals cut out of it. He just added the star punch, scribbles and circle embellishment.

Here's Aaron showing Daddy the card he made!

And them both "helping" unwrap his present.

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And the birthday boy off to work with his cake. Too much to leave here and us eat it all! (My clothes won't thank me!) So his work mates can help scoff it :-)

Yesterday we went to a Thai restaurant for lunch with Aunty Irene and Rachel (another friend). I didn't get the camera out though till all the food was finished! Duh ... so here's the messy table :-)

Mr pop-eyes!
Aaron's got hold of the camera here! He likes cutting off heads for some reason! Or maybe he was getting a photo of his drink bottle!

Found this photo on the camera too ... not sure if this was Lyndon or Aaron ... Lyndon I suspect? :-) Aaron's turned his train tack into a racing car track!

Maddison getting Rosie & Thomas to kiss :-)

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Kids are back to school this afternoon :-) I am hoping to get some scrappy stuff done. So I will scamper off now and get Maddison to bed for her nap and deal with the PILES of washing! (Where does it all come from???)

Scrap-it-Lah

There's a couple of lovely ladies in KL that have started a challenge blog ... the first for Malaysia :-) It's called Scrap-it-Lah.

Here's a wee snippet that I copied from their blog ... "Why the name Scrap-it-Lah? Lah is a very commonly used slang attached every single last word in the sentence. It's a very popular slang -which does not mean anything but we Malaysians used it anyway!"

It's true ... 'Lah' is heard everywhere :-) (I don't think I say it though ... not yet anyway!)

Their first challenge is up ... check it out on their blog and here's my entry.

I actually think this is the first Christmas LO I have done for Christmas 08! Hummmm ... wonder if my Christmas photos will get scrapped before next Christmas appears!! LOL

No long weekend here :(

But the days have been fun all the same :-)
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The kids have been eating those 'cookies' (that's what Aaron calls them heheee) I made on Thursday. They are a bit hard, as you can tell by Aaron's expression LOL. But they are good in the fact that they last a long time haaahahaa (Maddison has hers for simply ages!)

This is a typical expression from Maddison ... lots of times during the day she will just come up to me and do this right in my face LOL Cheeky little monkey.

On Friday Lyndon got home a little bit earlier which was lovely, so we all went to a mall together, had a look around, had tea and then got stuck in the traffic coming home! What would normally take us about 12-15 minutes took us just over an hour. Didn't help that it was raining. But we chatted the kids fell asleep so that was good. This traffic jam was caused by 1 car that had broken down about 4 kms up the road from where I took this photo, after we got past him the roads were pretty clear. Don't understand why he didn't try and push it off the road a bit more!
This morning while the kids and I were in the shower Lyndon took some photos of this dragonfly that Aaron had spotted outside the lounge window.

They are incredibly ugly up close aren't they!

I tried to do Maddison's hair into a pony tail hehehee. Lyndon took some pics ... this one is her giving 'Rosie' the train a bit of a chew!

(Excuse the towel wrapped around my hair!) This is another nice thing Maddison does ... comes up and leans in for a hug. :-)

Just thinking ...

Someone left the shoe cupboard open!!! So out come the shoes.

Ponytail didn't last long ... I put little clips in her hair to hold the front pieces back, but she just kept pulling them out and putting the clips in her mouth. So resorted back to the coconut tree. At least she leaves the hairband 90% of the day.

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Lyndon & Aaron went off late morning to pick up some friends and they came back here from lunch. So we've had a lovely afternoon with them. Lyndon & Aaron took them home again around 3pm, while Maddison & I cleaned up a bit and I scrapped a LO ... need to photograph it though. Will share it either tomorrow or Monday.

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Hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

I want to join Rachel Greig in Scrap-n-Crop.com's ART RETREAT because ...

Well where do I start? :-) Just because I really really really want to go :-) Her name's Rachel so that's got to be good right?!! heheee (and I am pretty sure her hair colour is much the same as mine LOL) even better!!!
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But seriously ... I love what I have seen of Rachel's work plus I would love to met her in person and learn from her ... I mean seriously have you seen her list of published works?? ... oh my goodness it's enormous! Check it out here ... see what I mean! I got blurry eyed just reading that list. She makes some awesome stamps ... from her own photography no less! (I don't own any yet ... but I am sure I can remedy that sooner or later heheee).
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And besides all that Lyndon's looking after the kids for me so I can go ;-)
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If you would like to help by increasing my chances to win a spot to this awesome event, then check out the post here on Scrap-n-Crop's blog for instructions.
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Thanks :-)

Thrills & Spills for Thursday!

We've had a fun day today :-) We talked to Grandma and her sisters and my sisters boys on skype with the video link and they couldn't understand one word Aaron was telling them LOL. Aaron has been telling me tonight that "Mitchell is really sick and had to go to the doctor. He really needs to have a big sleep". ROFL Dr Aaron at your service!! What cracks me up is he gives out remedies that is exactly what he needs himself, but he never seems to take his own advice! snigger snigger
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After our phone call Maddison went to bed and Aaron surfed the Bob the Builder website (calls for some SERIOUS concentration and you must have the right hat on!)

While he was doing that I did some baking. Not that impressed though ... they were crunchy chocolate oat cookies, but they just aren't the same without the New Zealand condensed milk! The sweetened creamer here is quite runny and sugary, so they didn't look that flash once they were cooked. I used white chocolate too, hummm, decided I don't like the cooking chocolate here either (too fussy you say ... yeah probably!) Might try them again with some Cadbury's chocolate in it and see what that's like :-)

After lunch we went to Aaron's little school friends house to play. The kids had a great time. Maddison discovered the kids kitchen and the garden tap!!! So she was soaked in a very short time ;-)

Then they did some drawing ...

And Aaron cleaned the blackboard (note the tongue is on just the right angle LOL).

Oh and I must tell you this because it so cracked us up ... Yara got dressed up in some dress up clothes (see above photos) and when Aaron saw her he came running into the lounge telling us "Look Mummy there's a monster!" Oh my ... I think I need to have a little chat to him that it's not really the thing to do at all to call girl friends (and in particular little princesses) monsters! He's got a lot to learn :-}

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Lyndon's back from Singapore later tonight - he's been there for a couple of days.

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Wonder if he's bought himself a birthday present ...

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Speaking of presents it's our 14th wedding anniversary next week and this year's traditional and modern gifts are worse than last year (they were; traditional - lace, and modern - textiles or furs!)! 14 years is ... traditional - ivory and modern - gold jewelry! That's really handy isn't it! I don't wear jewelry (nether does he) ... maybe I can source an elephant tusk from somewhere LOL I think I'll flag those gift ideas ... save it up for next year ... the modern gift for 15 years of marriage is right up Lyndon's alley ... Watches! :-) :-)