Busy Birthday Morning ...

Warning - as usual lots of photos!

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It's my Darling's ___ birthday today :-) He was woken at 6.30am by Aaron getting into bed beside him heheee He took the day off so we've had a busy morning!

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While Lyndon was receiving birthday phone calls and checking emails the kids iced and decorated a little mini banana loaf each for his birthday cake.

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Sieving the icing sugar.

Aaron doing one of his numerous taste tests!!
Mixing in water & vanilla essence.
I put the icing on the loaf and gave them a little dish of heart & star sprinkles and chocolate drops to use for decorating (or eating as the case may be!!).


Then the left over sprinkles & choc drops got consumed with a teaspoon of left over icing! :-)
After Lyndon had finished with his phone calls the kids gave him the cards & pictures they made yesterday (nearly gone through another 6 bottles of glitter glue!!).
Opening first present ... Aaron picked this one out all by himself!
Yep ... a packet of smarties! heheee
A dinosaur excavation kit,
Aaron hadn't seen it before, but here he is telling Daddy ALL about it anyway hehee
Some watch magazines :-) (the only present really for Lyndon himself LOL)
And some foam thingy-me-jigs that you put together ... one was a crocodile and one was a crab.
Croc
Nearly finished the crab ... love the way Maddison is sitting!!! ;-)
Then time for some excavating ... the boys looking for dinosaur bones and Maddison getting into the smarties packet on the quiet :-)
Found the head.
Daddy was in charge of the knife & Aaron was in charge of brushing away the dirt and cleaning the bones :-)
Excuse me Daddy ... look what I found!
After all the hard excavating it was time for cake :-)
Daddy never got a look in to blow out the candles! :-)
And that's just been our morning! :-)

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I suspect there might be bubble blowing later on in the playground. After all what else are birthday's for apart from things to entertain kids!! ;-)

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Scrap-it-Lah 2nd Challenge for April

Scrap-it-Lah's 2nd blog hop challenge is up. You can read about it here. Here's my take ...

Decided to use the butterfly pics I took last week as I wanted to use the beautiful Prima blossom vine that Mrs F gave me when I met her last year and it was too bulky for my holiday album ;-) Also used some swirly bling that I got in NZ as well! I cut it in half - I am allowed to do that aren't I? hehee And a couple of different butterfly punches from Martha Stewart.

Scrap-it-Lah 1st Anniversary

Scrap-it-Lah have been going for one year and in celebration they are having a blog hop with challenges every five days. The first one finishes tonight ... go here to check out the details. :-)

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First challenge was to include multiple photos, stamping and journaling on your LO. I've stamped the title, a couple of arrows, a dotted circle around Aaron in the larger photo and journaling block.

Join in the fun - Scrap-it-Lah welcomes international scrappers as well :-)

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And I've completed another LO for our holiday album hehehee :-)

Butterfly Park

This morning I went to the Butterfly park with our visitors :-)

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It was very very hot, but there were heaps of butterflies. The really bright orange ones were gorgeous, but they didn't stay still, so I didn't manage to get any photos of them. Here's some I did manage to photograph though.

This butterfly was like it was kissing this big turtle's eye!
Or whispering sweet nothings to it or something!!






This frog was all on it's lonesome in a tank of weed.
Thanks for visiting.

More fun

We have visitors staying :-) The kids are having the time of their lives!

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They bought the kids some books, and for some reason "Smelly Bertie" is a hot favorite. Must be read before school, after school, before bed and whenever else tickles their fancy hehee :-)

This afternoon in between rain showers they spent an hour in the pool ... I sat and watched again with the camera!



Like I said ... they are having the time of their lives :-) Maddison fell asleep on the couch again! But I still think she will have a good sleep tonight!

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1st of April today ... oh you so don't know how tempted I was to do an April Fools post about this baby! ;-) heheee 7 weeks till due date!