Well seeing as you have been nagging for it....

Here at long last is an update!!!! I know I have almost been as slack as the lovely Rach at updating this and it has been soooooooo long that you are all missing the inanities of my life (chortles behind hand). My big problem is remembering what the hell I have been doing with my life - not a darn lot I can tell ya.

We had the wedding of the year for which i was cheif cake maker, photographer and provider of gorgeous wee attendants. The cake turned out pretty good for a first wedding cake (one guest declared it the best cake he'd ever had and he looked like he had been to a few weddings in his day.

My gorgeous wee nephew Cameron was dying to have it since he clapped eyes on it "Grandad's birthday cake" he ended up helping Dad & Sylvia cut it. Didn't get his seal of approval he only ate the icing!!

I was really pleased with how the photos came out seeing it was an evening wedding with a dark venue. Here are some fave shots.



It was a lovely wedding and Dad & Sylvia are very happy together.

Aislinn loved being a flowergirl and really came out of her shell alot that night. Poor old Quinn was sick and not very well at all, I couldn't keep him at home cos he was soo looking forward to it. I didn't get any nice pics of him and ended up dressing them both up in their finery a few weeks later to get some nice piccies.

The next day I went round to my brother's place to take some family pics of them as he is off to Afghanistan in a week for 6 months. Kids were tired and not very co-operative. I so need to do a photography course so I can get better shots. There was only one niceish one of the 4 of them.

Apart from that we haven't been up to alot in our day to day lives. Have had alot of difficulties with Quinnie's behaviour recently. He has taken to howling everytime i take him to school & I ended up persuading one of the other mum's to walk him from kindy round to his class. I don't like my chances of it not occuring when he starts again this week as he has done it a few times in the holidays, once when i left him at Gran's and again last week when we were at the library for a clown thing, he didn't want to join in just clung to me bawling. We are trying to sort him out but tis a slow process - he is a stubborn wee soul - lord knows where he gets that from??? ;)

Poor old bean has been doing well until the monday before the holidays, she has a new friend and is really enjoying kindy and ballet. that monday I had my friend Liz and her kids Anita & Dylan (who are my kids new mates) here for a coffee after ballet. The kids were all playing nicely outside when we heard a blood curdling scream. Rushed out there to find Aislinn holding her arm sobbing. Sat on the back step with her and as soon as I saw the arm I knew she had broken it. There was a bone poking out at her elbow where there shouldn't have been. Of course all my nursing training flew out the door and I hit panic mode - thank god for Liz who helped me figure out what to do and took Q to her place for the night.
Off to A&E we trotted it was indeed broken, she broke the ends off her humerus and dislocated her tib & fib. Ended up in surgery and in hospital for the night. Masterton Hospital were awesome to us. She is going in on Tuesday to have the cast off and back in 3 weeks for day surgery to remove the wires. Poor wee thing has been miserable and is missing her newly discovered swinging ability.

What else?? Have been scrapping, need to finish sewing LOs so I can show you. HAve even mananged a few original ones too. Will get to it. Exciting month for me I have a guest designer spot on Scrapbook Outlet this month and am looking forward to working with Andrea and the girls on that. Am very sad not to be going to the Pohongina scrap camp this month *sobbing onto keyboard* I hope they don't miss me too much, but funds are extremely low and we have a dearth of birthdays this month.

Quinny had his first school disco a few weeks back, he had a blast and I have to scrap this dag of a pic of him dancing?? He also had a wearable arts show that the whole school was involved in.The 5 year olds made hats and bags and here he is looking all adorable in his. He has now moved up a class and has a great teacher, I do worry that he doesn't have as many friends as he used to and wonder if something is bothering him at school, he misses Apiti School dreadfully and especially his mate Huntah.


I am still plodding along with WW, have hit the 20kg off mark and am having a small hiccup in sticking to it at the moment (too much wine and chocolate!) Onwards and downwards.


Aislinn had a powhiri at kindy and had her pic in the paper (not this pic) she was a cute wee maori princess.

Am getting RSI typing this here are a few more pics of the kids looking gorgeous..