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Here are some photos that Kerri took at Megan's birthday party.

Megan & Grandad

Charlotte all dressed up!

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The kids helping me make the cupcakes for Megan's birthday...This is the look on Megan's face just after Nana had lit the candles and everyone started to sing Happy Birthday

This is an older photo from Dave's birthday back in March

I designed a baby theme kit for my store so I had to pull out some old baby photos to scrap!

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It's been a couple of weeks so I have a few pages to show you...

Photo taken at Easter earlier this year
A really old (but gorgeous) photo of Charlotte

This was the morning of Megan's birthday... of course, Aiden got a present too

Walking to school in the rain... Aiden wore this jacket and I also had a particularly attractive bright yellow one... we looked like mother duck walking baby duck...

Another one from Megan's birthday... she hadn't quite woken up yet thus the faraway look

Megan's Birthday

Megan had a fantastic birthday! We had 18 kids (plus parents) here for a party and becasue of the bad weather we were stuck inside. They ran amok and let me tell you... it was noisy and chaotic... but fun.

Thank you to all the well wishes and birthday gifts.

Here are some photos of the day...

This photo was taken just as we started singing the Happy Birthday song... she turned a bit shy when she realised they were all looking at her.

This is our favourite photo of the day. When Megan first woke up we all piled into her bedroom bearing presents (she was a little overwhelmed by Aiden's enthusiasm!). They both received books from Oma & Opa and here they are inspecting them.

I decided to do cupcakes this year instead of a single cake - it worked a treat and I would DEFINITELY do it that way again.

Nana lighting the candles and Megan showing her excitement

Megan didn't quite wait for us to finish the hip hip hoorays before she blew out the candles so we weren't ready for the photo opportunity.

Enjoying her cake

Thanks to everyone who came along to help us celebrate Megan's special day. And a special thanks to Cass who took most of these photos for me ;)

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This is a reeeaaally old photo of Aiden This photo was taken on Aiden's birthday back in March

This photo is a recent one - taken two weekends ago

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Me having fun on the bouncy cushion in Busselton...

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Both photos taken in Feburuary this year by my friend Kerri (professional photographer in the making)

Hello again!

Yes, yes, I know... it's been 6 months since I posted here. I have been SO busy with my scrapping stuff on my other blog that this one fell a bit by the wayside. BUT, I am back now after succumbing to incredible pressure from my inlaws :)... OK, maybe it was just a little bit of pressure!

Apparently there are some of you out there who 1) are still on dial-up internet speed so you don't want to wade through all my scrapping stuff just to see pics of the kids and 2) some of you just don't want to see the scrapping stuff! So, here's the solution. I promise when I post a page where I have used photos of the kids I will attempt to remember to post it here too. And I will try to post some family photos too.

Here's your first instalment... some photos from our little family holiday down to Busselton when Hank & Vicki (aka Opa & Oma) came to visit.

It was Aiden's turn to take home his class dog, Dopey. Dopey came everywhere with us and featured in quite a few photos.

At the place where we stayed there was an awesome bouncy cushion (a bit like a trampoline) the kids (ahem... Dave) thought it was pretty cool.

Oma & Opa watching the bouncing

Our accomodation was just across the road from the beach

You can't go to Busselton without visitng the historic jetty (this isn't it... it's right next door to this one). I managed to snap a shot of the whole family all looking at the camera which is a first.

We made a special trip to an animal park where they gave each of us a bag of food to feed all the animals... Aiden was surprisingly fearless from the start...

Megan took a long while to warm up to the idea... it wasn't until we got to the small animals like rabbits and guinea pigs that she felt comfortable.

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Yeah, yeah, I know, I've been bad at keeping up with this blog. I hope you've figured out by now that all the action is happening on my Sweet Blossom blog. As of this morning I have had 100,000 hits on that blog. Yep, you read that right, 100,000!

Anyhow, I am posting a heap of pages for you to look at. They're all on my other blog so you may have already seen them.

This is my latest kit called Happiness. I created it specially to scrap our wedding photos.

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This photo is Aiva, one of our mum's group kids. She's a couple of months older than Megan.

An old photo of Megan (a few months old)

An old photo of Aiden (taken early last year I think)

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The first two pages are photos of the kids putting up the Christmas tree this year. Each year it's getting more and more exciting now they are getting to the age where they know that Christmas time is something special...

Photos of Aiden playing in the backyard taken a few weeks ago

Hellloooooo...

...long time no post! Sorry about that. Things have been a bit busy here at home and with my scrappin'.

Firstly, a super quick update:

Dave: work, work, work... but he's finally got off his butt and gone back to volleyball and is enjoying it

Aiden: is doing REALLY well at swimming lessons. He had a year or so off because 1) Megan was born and 2) he was playing up at the lessons we were doing. The time off has worked wonders! He is loving the lessons, doing really well AND is well behaved!

I'm not sure if I mentioned it or not but we went and got his school uniform a few weeks back. He is super excited about starting school next year.

Megan: has started swimming lessons too. She was pretty miserable for the first few weeks but for the last two lessons she seems to have got the hang of it. It is just now starting to be fun to take her to the pool.

We think she said her first sentence today and it was, "Get my shoes"... which gives you an idea of what a 1 1/2 year old thinks is the most important thing in the world... her shoes!

Megan has spent most of her time playing with Aiden's cars and it is only recently that we gave her a doll in a pram... and what do you know... she has turned all girly on us and dotes on her "Baby"! Apart from her Baby and her shoes, Aiden is still her favourite... she does whatever he does, goes wherever he goes... but still screams blue muder if he takes a toy away from her!

Me: I have just finished marking 100 maths exams for uni... yes I'm over it!

My scrapbooking has taken me to places I would never have imagined. I have been selected to join a digital scrapbooking magazine as a Digital Designer. It means I will do layouts to be published in the magazine, I will be part of designing the actual magazine pages and I will be creating digital freebies to be given away on their website... hmmm I think I'm gonna be busy. If you want to check out the magazine (it's free to subscribe) or just have a look at the forum the link is http://www.scrapnart.com/news.php

OK, that's enough gossip, here's some pages I've done.

Photo of Megan taken October 2008

Photo of Aiden taken November 2008

Photos of the kids taken back in January 2008

Here's a couple of pages done with the latest kit I have designed... I'm pretty chuffed with how this one turned out. I've included a preview of the kit:


This is a photo of a girlfriend's daughter:

Dave and I on our anniversary: