scrapjack entry

Heres my entry for Aussie Scrapjacked, a sketch from Kim Archer, I love these photos of Ella taken last week, the main one she is poking her tongue out, I managed to capture some cute shots of her!

gifts

I was inspired by the girls from Scrap of Faith to make Jacobs teacher a gift, which he gave her on the last day of school today, its a pen holder for her desk, Jake said she was quite impressed when she found out I had made it, I put boxes of smarties in it, because she was a good teacher and she made the kids a lot smarter because of her teaching! I thought that was clever of me to think that! and I told Jake to make sure he tells her what the smarties meant, but he forgot!

My next gift is a gift I treated myself to a - Clip it Up, I have had my eye on one for ages, but as they are quite pricey I knew Id be waiting for a while, until I stumbled upon one on an American ebay shop, I bought both tiers plus a cover for it and all up including postage it cost me $140 compared to $110 from Blue Bazaar just for the bottom tier and not including postage, plus I received within 10 days!! so it was an early birthday present for me!

I will finish up with a couple of layouts 'peace, joy, love' is just a Christmas one of Ella I did.

'When we were young' is one of myself and Ella and the quote I used is one I just love by Dorothy Evslin - 'What is the price of an afternoon when a small girl is soothed in your arms, when the sun bolts through a doorway and both you and the child are very young' - so that explains the title! lol!

Well its Marks birthday today and we are about to sit down and watch a dvd, Im just waiting for him to tell me to "GET OF THAT COMPUTER" he says that in a nice way of course!!

December

December already! I love this time of the year!! so full of celebrations, love, presents and fun! I am so excited about Marks Christmas work party - which happens to fall on my birthday! we have our hotel room all booked and Mum is staying over to mind the kids, Mark and I can have a full day and night to ourselves!
We had the kids party on the weekend with Marks work, and the kids received a present from Santa, such fun!

I have a few more layouts 'blessed' is of Bethany and Ella taken on Mothers Day,
'Slow down' is of Ella, the photo was taken a few weeks ago not long after she began to walk, I used the wall in the photo to write the journalling and used a rub-on,

and the blue one 'moments like this I love', the girls were sitting together on the chair swing outside, just giggling together and kissing each other, so I just had to photograph them and scrap it! the journalling is just how much I savour and love the moments I have with them!

I really must start scrapping Jacob, at the moment whenever I try and take a photo of him he pulls a face - very frustrating!!!

quick update!

wow another post from me within a week!!

have added a couple of layouts, this one of Jacob 'my love for you is unconditional' was finished a few weeks ago when I had a few days of those 'testing times' that I'm sure other 8 year olds put their mums through at some time! - although it was school holidays and he was getting a bit bored alot!

'live out loud' is of Bethany, I took this photo of her when I was hanging out the washing, she was playing with one of the towels that was flapping on the clothes line - she was having an absolute ball and was laughing her head of! and I managed to take the perfect photo of her! so cute!!

These photos are of Ella feeding herself yogurt, shes getting to the stage where she wants to feed herself and on this day I let her!
not that much fun trying to clean her all up though! lol!

We are taking the kids to the Christmas pageant on Saturday - which will be fun! I was quite surprised when I asked Mark about taking the girls and he said yes - he may think again when it comes around next year! lol! Jacobs the one who doesnt want to go now, he thinks hes to old!