January 22nd, 23rd and 24th

I just realized that l hadn't updated my photos. I'm having so much fun doing this Project life, it's making me look at things in a different way. I joined Shuttercal too and am loving it. It's this great free website that allows you to post a photo a day to your calender page and then print them at the end of the month if you want. I'm enjoying having a look at other fellow photographers and their amazing work. Everyone is also very nice and often post comments on your photos, l love good feedback and some appreciation for my photos, who doesn't?

Ok so without further ado here are the photos.


I was in need of a Hostess thank you gift and found this at Costco. Love how colourful they are.

It rained pretty much all morning and by the afternoon this was the sight that greeted me when l came out my front door.

Craft day today, worked on making these props for Darren's work skit.

PAD 21st January

On Thursdays after school, Liam goes to Kumon, so we decided that Maddy would come with us today and we would try out a new frozen yogurt place that just opened up near there, "Yogurt Story". It's such a cool happy little place, and you get to fill up your cups with all sorts of yummy yogurt and toppings, they price it by the oz, and Liam's cup weighed almost a pound!!! The kid is nuts about yogurt!

January 16th -20th PAD

Dinner (at Brio's) and a catch up with May, who was in Dallas for work.

Lunch at Sweet Tomatoes and some shopping at TJ Max/Home Goods with Anna.

Time to organize the kids for the new year.

Coco and Olivia celebrate their 2nd birthday. We had a mini party for them at the Fenton's. Laura even made them a cake in the shape of a dog bone.

Celebrating our 16th Wedding Anniversary with dinner at the Cheesecake factory and watching Leap Year.

Project Life update Jan 13th - 15th

My weight loss lunch for today.

Coming home with Coco after her visit to the groomers.

The kids and l made mini homemade pizzas for dinner...yum!

Grocery shopping today...fully stocked fridge makes me happy.

Project Life 2010 (aka PAD 2010)

Here is my new challenge for 2010, a Picture a day aka Project life.

A recap of March and April 2009

So l had started well, intending no actually promising l think to post at least once a month, if not every week (who are we kidding!) And then, I'm just not sure what happened, but here l am Monday December the 28th, 3 days till the end of 2009, and my last post was in August the day the kids commenced school! So much has happened this year, some good some not so good (l'd actually love to forget the bad stuff if l could) all that occurred this year has had some impact on our lives be it good or bad, it's what makes us who we are. So my intention is to sum up the year, not really fair l know, but then again, what can l do? except to promise that maybe in 2010 l will try harder to post more often? I mean l love reading back on what we did, experienced and felt that year, and god knows as l get older l need all the help l can get in jogging my memory :)

I could and maybe will blame it partly on Facebook, since at the start of the year l discovered and got into Facebook. Finding so many old school friends and Ansett friends has been a great joy and to be reconnected with some of these friends is amazing. So yep l think l'll blame it on Facebook.

Anyway without further ado, here we go, a recap of 2009, the good the bad and the ugly (well maybe not the ugly)
January as you can see was already summed up, and a little of February too.

MARCH

So March it is! March came and we were back into Liam's baseball season, his 2nd year with the Alliance Raptors.

For Spring break we headed off to Taos for a Skiing vacation with our friends the Oakley's. This was the first time skiing for the kids and Darren and l had not been for years (well before we got married). The kids took some lessons, Liam got sick on the first day there. We think it could have been altitude sickness, but luckily it didn't last long and we were all skiing down the green and blue runs in no time at all! We had amazing weather, and the scenery was absolutely breathtaking. We stayed right on the mountain and ate some amazing German food, and l got some great pictures. Isn't that what it's all about? ;)

APRIL

So onto April, let's see, more baseball and the Raptors won their first 2nd place trophy.

Spring came and l enjoyed photographing my garden in bloom. The bluebonnets reappeared and we took the usual photos near Solana. This time l also took the kids to a field l had been admiring for a while. I just loved the soft glow of the light in the afternoon on the field and every time l drove past it l would comment to myself that l really need to take some pictures of the kids in it. So l did!

Then we had Easter, and our 2nd annual Easter Egg scavenger hunt which the kids loved. This year, mum and Tiz sent over a care package of Aussie chocolate Easter eggs, which we couldn't wait to eat.

Well that's it for now, I'll recap May soon, it was a busy/good month and requires a post all of it's own.

I have been bad, really bad!!

OK it's not like l have done something bad, or illegal, it's more like I've been bad with the blogging part. At the start of the year l had promised myself l would blog, if not everyday, or once a week, at least once a month. You know, so l could one day look back and see what l was doing in 2009. So now I find myself at the end of August, and my last post was February, and I'm thinking to myself what the heck have l done for the last 7 months?!!!

Well that is going to have to be an entirely separate post. I couldn't possibly cover a whole 7 months in one post, I mean sure it's not like I've been super busy every month, but come on, my life re caped in one post!

So for now, I'm covering what's still fresh in my mind at the moment. First day of School!! yep, the summer vacation has come and gone and on Tuesday the 24th of August my kiddos started school. This year Maddy is in 8th grade, her last year at middle school, and Liam, is starting middle school. I will admit l was fine all summer, happy to be finally finished with elementary school, he was happy too! We hardly even thought about it, except as the day got closer l started to think, and think. Would he be OK, would he be able to cope with the change, the amount of homework, the no recess and the extremely long hours, even l have to admit that 8:45 to 4pm, 7 periods, half an hour for lunch and no recess is a little scary! I loved my recess when l was at school, those were the times we got to hang with our friends, and chat, and complain about how unfair school was!
Well Monday night all was good, it also happened to be his birthday, so after dinner, showers were had, clothes picked out, bags all packed and ready to go, lunches made and all that was left was to go to bed. Maddy was off, she was actually excited to be going back to school, see all her friends, and get started on the work ( the girl loves it!). Liam on the other hand, was anxious, he couldn't get to sleep, so l lay with him (totally taking advantage of this, l remember while lying with him, thinking that in a couple of years, my boy will not be wanting mum to lie with him and scratch his back) and assured him all would be good. Not to worry if the locker doesn't open, ask for help, or if you're late to class, they expect that on the first day, ask questions if you need help or don't understand etc etc. After he was calmed down and asleep, then it was my turn to be anxious. Here l was sending my little boy to a big school, where all walks of life frequented, no longer kept safe from things by the walls of elementary school, was he ready, was he strong enough to handle it all, heck yes, was l ready!! Well l had to be, cause as they say, you can't go back!!

That morning we all woke up early, I come to find out none of us slept well. Had breakfast, dressed, and out the door with time to take the usual first day of school photos. Maddy wanted me to come in with them but l was stopped at the front door, as l had expected to be (there's no mothering in middle school, cut the cord fast and quick) so l bade them goodbye, told them to have fun and l'd see them at 4:30 that afternoon when they got home. Then l got back in my car and drove home, past the elementary school where l could swear it was only last year that Liam had started kindergarten and Maddy was going into 2nd grade, why the heck had l blinked!!!