Bless This Girl

Teeny tiny baby Renee all rugged up for a winter visit to Dunedin.

Hammered

You've never tried Jagermiester Carrie? We had better remedy that ...


famous last words!!!


But it wasn't Carrie that was hammered ... she was sober enough to take this photo ... of Ashley, hammered!!!

Peek-A-Boo!

We have recently rearranged our lounge and Vienna's table is now by the curtain. I usually seat her away from it but she has started pushing the table away from herself and also using the table to help push her chair away, backwards, to the curtain.

The curtain is more fun than breakfast apparently!

Valentines Day 2010

Happy Valentines Day Ashley ... I Love You!

First Fluffy

When we were house sitting for Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn we were frequent visitors to Karaka Kitchens to see our peeps Sarah, Jess and Christine. When Grandma and Grandpa came to stay we took them there for lunch and Jess made Vienna her first Fluffy. Now, she already knew about marshmellows and sometimes gets teaspoon sips of Mum's hot chocolate but combine these things and add frothy milk and chocolate sauce on the top and she was a HUGE fan!

YUM YUM YUM!!! Thanks Jess - You Rock!

Stack 'em Up

Camp layout 3

Renee and Emily with their cousins Taneka and Kauri at Emily's 2nd Birthday party. I was stoked to have caught this moment of silliness and fun - especially as it ended in a squashed mess a few seconds later!

This page came together quickly and was fun! Yay!

Camp Roast

At camp we always have a roast lamb on Saturday night, and it is always my job to carve the roast, and by doing this job I earn the right to knaw on the bone MMMmmmmm. Vienna got back to camp after spending the day with Gypsy and family just in time to share some of the roast lamb bone with me, it seems that she too enjoys the pleasure of the knawing on the lamb bone.

Camp Challenge - October 2010

Camp Layout 2

Each Scrapbook Camp we have a camp challenge where we are given a number of items and a list of instructions and then let loose to create with them. Sometimes I am really inspired by the challenge, other times not so much! This camp I felt a bit of pressure to the challenge as last camp I didn't do it. This time I set out photos twice and then ended up making a layout that was not in anyway the challenge. I think it was the pale baby blue plastic slide that was screwing with my mojo ... so out came the Staz-On and it was no longer baby blue but now matched the felt stars. One of the rules was that we had to do at least one sentence of journalling ... there was a bit of discussion as to how little we could actually get away with and still complete the challenge and be available for judging - I think Glenna won this discussion with her reasoning that if you spelt out the date it counted as journalling! I had a little help from Gypsy with my journalling - thanks hun!

I love this photo of baby Jacob's feet and the black and white photo helped me to not have to match the blue embellishments to the photo.

I really like the finished layout and am very happy with it.


If you want to check out what items we had to work with and what the rules etc were go here http://cazdezign.blogspot.com/2010/09/october-scrapcamp-challenge.html and if you want to see all the finished layouts (including Shannon's winning page) go here http://cazdezign.blogspot.com/2010/10/october-challenge-layouts.html

She Loves To Shower!

This isn't the first time I have discovered a baby in the shower with clothes on! I am thinking that she must really like the shower and be quite disappointed when the appointed chief baby washer has a shower without her! Luckily he doesn't shut the door to the bathroom properly and that is quite easy to open ... then she just has to negotiate the clothes/towel etc on the floor ... climb over the ledge/step thingy ... push the curtain aside ... and viola!

"Here I am Dad! You forgot to bring me, but it's cool, I sorted it out myself."

May Mini Book

So ... I am a bit behind in the mini books for Vienna considering how quick and fun they are to do, it is that I am behind in printing the photos that is the problem!

Anyway, here is the May installment ...

Borrowed

While we were house sitting for you Uncle Tony I borrowed your beanie to go outside with my Dad, I hope that was OK. Love Vienna.

Vienna loved all the outside time we got when staying at Uncle Tony's place in Mauku, expecially visiting with Beth the Sheep.

Sleeping Beauty

Camp Layout 1

How cute is this baby! And how cute is this page! It all came together so easily with gorgeous paper that Tania gave me when Vienna was born. Of course having a great photo of a gorgeous girl all tuckered out after Emily's birthday party helped.