Fathers Day & other things ...

In this part of the world Father's Day is celebrated in June ... yesterday actually. :-) On Friday the kids bought home from school some things they had made. Aaron had painted a photo frame and made a card and Maddison had coloured in a picture and made a tie :-)

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Yesterday the kids weren't in any sort of mood to be picture taking, so we did it this morning in between eating breakfast & Lyndon heading out the door for work! (No he didn't wear the tie to work ... he should of though shouldn't he!! :-) It's made of felt with pipe cleaners to bend around the neck hehee.)

And no matter how many times we pull Maddison's skirt or dress down for photos she always moves so it's all rucked up! Sigh!

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Here's the card Aaron made with a neat picture of Daddy & Aaron on it ... Aaron is on the left wearing a red top (or cape and is that a crown on his head?? LOL) and Daddy is the much larger person with the huge pink "loin cloth". :-) heheee Love how Aaron draws fingers at the ends of the arms - there's no hand hehee :-)

On Saturday afternoon Lyndon and Aaron went off to a mall to do a few things. I stayed home with the 2 little ones. Aaron came home with this bunch of lilies and thrust them at me and said "Aaron's a good boy Mummy"!! heheee The flowers are beautiful they have little pink spots on the petals ... almost like someone has sprinkled jelly crystals on them! :-)

And an update on the floor replacement that was "supposed" to be happening this morning! Honestly I just can't believe it. 10am the doorbell rings and I think to myself, great they are here to rip up the floorboards. NOPE ... it's just the maintenance manager telling me that the floor boards have arrived, but they are the wrong size, so they'll come back on Thursday and Friday to do the job! We have already moved 80% of the furniture out of our room and are sleeping the spare room, so I asked if the floor boards could be removed today or tomorrow and then replaced on Thursday when the new ones arrive, rather than waiting till the end of the week to do everything. At least if they are removed by tomorrow then they will hopefully remember they have a job to come back and finish!!! (huh is that wishful thinking or what??) Fingers (and toes) crossed that it will actually happen. Oh and lets not forget the replacement of the water cylinder element! Lyndon got a call from the contractor last week saying they would be here at 2pm today to replace it! We'll see is all I can say.

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At least the maintenance manager came to tell me that they weren't going to be here this morning. That's an improvement! Usually they don't bother telling you and you have to phone to ask where they are.

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Here's to another great week! :-)

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Recipe Books

Penny has shown hers, so here's mine! :-)

I had a clean out of cookbooks before we left Auckland and put a whole lot in our garage sale that I didn't use and had no intention of using! Others that either didn't sell in the sale and I might use one day have gone into storage. I only bought a few with me to KL :-) Most used over here would be my 2 Alison Holst ones (red & green), Edmonds cookbook and the blue binder which is a collection of recipes I have copied from family, friends or favorites I've tried and liked from magazines etc. I use that a lot too :-)

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I stick to pretty plain recipes to be honest ... sometimes I find it difficult to find special ingredients at the two local supermarkets and I don't have the patience (or time) to go looking further afield.

Anybody know who this is?

Our little girl Maddison has been replaced with a chocolate covered mischief monster!!!!!

The last photo ... I asked her to please give me a nice smile! Sigh ... what a little piglet! ;-)

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Good job I can wipe the chocolate off - wish that I could wipe away the naughtiness as easily!!!

Scrap-it-Lah June Challenge

The Scrap-it-Lah challenge for June is monochromatic white - you can check out the challenge here.

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This took me AGES! First of all deciding on a photo! I would have liked to done a LO for our holiday album - but didn't have any photos suitable. Then I had in mind to use plain white cardstock and use my cuttlebug embossing folders! Well today I have done a massive search for them and I can't find them anywhere! I do hope I haven't left them somewhere or that they haven't been thrown out by mistake! (There's 10 standard size ones and 3 of the larger 5x7 ones in a plastic bag - too big to throw out surely!!) I will have to wait till Tuesday and check with the maid if she has put them in a "safe" place ;-) No good me phoning her because she won't have a clue what I am talking about when I describe them to her hehee

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Anyway - here's my LO for the challenge. I used 3 different textured Bazzill cardstock. The piece I matted the photo with I sponged lightly around the edge with "cement" Versacolor ink. I painted the chipboard letters white, rubbed the edges with "cement" ink and then put clear kindy glitz on them, flowers have kindy glitz on them too.

First LO completed since Samuel was born! Hopefully my motivation comes back soon! :-)

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Caught it ...

That elusive smile :-)

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Samuel was in the bouncer gurgling at his Daddy and holding his hand and I got several (or maybe a few more) photos of him smiling :-)

And of course the frown. His frowns are funny because he doesn't have eyebrows (well he does but they are so fair you don't notice them) sometimes you can't tell he's frowning hehee
I've been to the Dr's today with Samuel for his 5 week check up. He's put on 1.4kgs since birth :-) He has a very rotund little tummy hehee Okay - off to put him back to bed now.

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