Scrapbook layouts

For these next two kits, Mum sent me her page first so not only did I use the same kit, I chose the same photo too...

Mine

Photo taken Christams Eve 2010

Mum's

Mine

Photo taken on Aiden's birthday (13th March)

Mum's

Scrapbook layouts

Mine

Mum's

Scrapping for fun...

Mum and I have re-established our game where one of us picks a scrapbook kit then we both do a layout... here's our first couple...

Mine

Megan blowing out candles on Aiden's birthday cake

Mum's

A day out treasure hunting

Mine

We're actually sitting on a boat on our way out to Penguin Island

Mum's

Dave's Birthday Present

What do you get a guy that has everything he needs?  A day of rally driving!

We headed out to Northam yesterday (2 hours from here, north east of the city) for an afternoon of fun.  Dave got to drive two different rally cars (one was a Subaru WRX and I can't remember the other one) then the instructors took them for a "hot lap" at full speed.  I think it's safe to say Dave had a blast.

This is the track they drove round.... very dusty

A smile of anticipation

He drove pretty well..... we re-discovered a well known fact - red cars go faster than blue cars

Getting ready for his second go around the track

More Scrapbook Layouts

Scrapbook Pages

That's all the highlights so far.... here are a few layouts I've done...

The first three layouts have one photo from every month of 2010

Aiden's Birthday

The night before Aiden's birthday Grandad & Grandma came over for a fish & chip feast (the choice dinner of a 6 year old)

His birthday was off to a fantastic start with some Star Wars Lego...

The next day was his actual birthday.  Nana came over early so we could do presents then we took the kids and one of Aiden's school mates to Adventureworld.

There are lots of rides at Adventureworld.... most of which Megan was too little or too scared to go on.  But Dave managed to get the boys on a few.  The most popular by far were the water slides...

Nana (my Mum) confessed she had never been on a waterslide in her life.  So, we took a group vote that decided today was the day.... she loved it!  We turned her into a waterslide junkie.... she went on them again and again.

This is a tandem slide... me in the front, Mum in the back

A brilliant day was had by all....

Dave's Birthday

The early morning wake up call...

Dave wearing his new Richmond hat

Lucky my husband loves me.... I (and the kids) managed to bake the world's dodgiest (burnt) cake. 

Poppy

Some friends of ours are traveling around Australia for 4 months so we are babysitting their budgie, Poppy.  These are some photos taken not long after she arrived to stay with us.  The kids are pretty excited about her but Megan still hasn't worked up the courage to go near Poppy when she's out of the cage.

Beach 4WD Part II

Check out this scene below... why would you want to go anywhere else in the world when this is just down the road?  It was beautiful...

Shark bait...

It was a big day for the kids.... we'd been in the car for about 5 minutes and Megan was gone...

Beach 4WD Part I

We hit the beach with some friends to do some 4WDing, fishing and general relaxing.  It was a magnificent day, the weather was perfect and the kids had a ball.

This is the beach about an hour south of us.

We drove down the beach for a bit then pulled up at a nice spot to set up camp.  The boys threw in some fishing lines... but the two fish below are the sum total of their catch!

Lunch

There wasn't much surf but that didn't bother the kids.  They spent a heap of time running up and down the beach collecting dead blowies (blow fish, puffer fish or toadies).  They had a bucket full by the end of the day.

See next post for more photos...