Remembered With Love

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life.

And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani

I love you Nan & I miss you every day xxx

Easter Hat Parade & Easter Egg Hunt

On Thursday William's school had their annual Easter Hat Parade and Easter Egg Hunt. The kids were so excited, wearing their various hats they helped their mums and dads put together.

Here's a couple of photos from the day.



Sing it loud and proud Will....



Off and running to find the Easter Eggs...



Surely there's some eggs under here...



The loot....

The Champion!...

Determination

Action!

When the kids play backyard footy, William is determined to tackle Caitlin at any and every opportunity. Lucky Caitlin is a good sport and doesn't mind playing rough or there could be many many tears.

LSBS Monthly Avatar Club

Over at the Little Scrapbook Shop forum Jenni gives us a new theme each month for our avatars.

My avatar is almost always a pic of Robbie 'the Hottie' Williams. I've never made a secret of the fact that I am in looooove with him lol. Anyway, I'm very lucky to have a little lady who is very talented to dress him up each month for me.

Here's what Kerryn did for me in March, which was all about dessert...

And here is my new April one which is all about our favourite products found at LSBS...


Aren't they tops! Thanks a million Kerryn... you are the woman!

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud!

It's been raining here for a few days, which has meant no outside action for the kids. Now, William has to have outside time everyday or he goes a bit stir crazy. He loves to be outside on the trampoline, kicking a ball, finding bugs and all that fun boy stuff.

On Thursday afternoon we had a break in the weather and William was begging to go on the trampoline. Even though it was muddy we said yes cause the poor kid hadn't been able to jump for days.

He soon discovered a mud puddle under the trampoline... I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story!

Russ even got his shirt off and joined in. What a laugh. Thank goodness I was on bar cause I had the camera. 100 photos later!

What a top way to spend an afternoon.

Pirate Pete

What a fanstatic day William had at pre-school on Thursday. It was PIRATE day, and what little boy doesn't like dressing up and pretending to be a pirate.

I made his costume from a pair of tracksuit pants which were way too short, an old singlet, and a shirt that was too small. I took to them with scissors and tearing, and then rubbed walnut ink over them to make them look dirty.

They had a treasure hunt and found coins of gold and precious jewels. They had priate food... well, lots of food beginning with the letter P like pinapple, pizza, party pies, and pirate potion (actually a banana smoothie, but don't tell the kids!).

All the kids looked awesome in their pirate outfits, and the teachers did an excellent job dressing up themselves and the classroom too.

Getaway...

Is there anything better than a weekend away with the girls scrapping? Ok, there probably is, but Scrap Girls Retreats are so much fun I can't think of anything else that would be better right now!

Even though I worked most of the weekend as Little Scrapbook Shop was the on-site shop I still had a ball.

A little tradition that has started with Kylie, Tracy, Cath and I is to take some time out on Saturday afternoon and take some funny photos of ourselves. Here's a little sample...

Here's the best group photo taken on Saturday night, which if you can't guess was PINK pj night. Some of the girls got really dressed up and looked unreal.

So in 3 nights and 4 days I only managed to scrap 3 layouts! A terrible effort on the scrapping front, but I did have a fantastic time helping the ladies with their shopping, chatting, catching up with old friends and making new ones.

The next Scrap Girls Retreat is on the 30th of April to the 3rd of May. See you there!