Bliss

Taking some pictures of our neighbour Rachel's beautiful new baby Chloe

Trying three new flavours of Easy Way Green Tea - pineapple, blueberry and plum

Big Brother big reveal on tonight

Caught up on adding some journalling on layouts I did over Easter

Great night out with Helen and Leanne last night at Hogs Breath and a delicious steak with avocado

Only 2 sleeps until grading woohoo!!!

And a layout of Chris canoeing at Mapleton in December.

What's been happening

We have had a fabulous weekend, it was Andrew's 13th birthday and he had been begging for months for us to give him pet rats for his present. So he is now kitted out with a huge cage, hammock, water bottle, food bowl and food, wheel and two gorgeous little pet rats, both boys, Arfur and Binkie (Chris's rat is Binkie).

We went ice skating for his party and it was so much fun, I did five laps of the rink before I collapsed in exhaustion lol. Chris was a skating superstar, it was his first go and he was so good at it. So was Ben, it was his first time too and he lapped me about six times over! He could do a lap in 34 seconds!!!!

In other news:

• we are loving Big Brother
• looking forward to the Biggest Loser finale (GO MARTY!!!!)
• karate tonight (grading has been put off til next Tuesday), I can do ten full sit-ups in a row if someone is holding my feet and that is a huge improvement.
• had a hair cut yesterday - much shorter and layered (shouldn't have gotten the layers but oh well I always do and always regret it)
• went to a new Scrapbooking store in Blackwood Road, Manly West called Scrapbookers Realm, it is fantastic and excellent prices and great range and I stocked up on 25 sheets each of Bazzill Cottonwood, Ki White and Kraft. The sticky tabs I use are only $4 there, such a bargain and the Bazzill is $1.00 per sheet or 11 sheets for $10! Plus 15% off this week.
• I have been watching Series 2 of Love my Way. I have been looking forward to it for ages and I have Series 3 ready to watch next.

Off to do some ironing now.

Easy way tea

Have you tried an http://www.easyways.com.au/ Easyway Green Tea? mmmm so good. My favourite (and I can say that with some certainty because I have tried many of the flavours) so far is Grape Iced Green Tea with Rainbow jellies. I still have eight different flavours to try and the next will be blueberry I think.

I had a fabulous time scrapbooking over Easter and got at least 10 layouts done, I just have to do some strip journalling to at least half of them.

I love the bird paper and green American Crafts lettering on this one. Love the photo too, of course. My favourite product is lettering stickers and it has been ever since I started scrapbooking about seven years ago.

Truly heaven on earth

This is where we went for five days - Amity Point at Stradbroke Island. The fish were biting, there were reef fish, wobbegongs, kookaburras, cool crisp nights and warm sunny days, big surf waves, creamy gelati - so wonderful. The boys fished from early morning (approx 5am) to late at night - 10pm. We had a jetty in our back yard with a table and chairs and it was perfect. My nephew David (13) came with us and it was wonderful spending time with him too. He also fished til he dropped.

And now home for four days (Easter) to scrapbook (woohoo!!!!) the zillions of photos that we took, also having a family picnic with my sister Linda and her family and of course a bit more fishing squeezed in somewhere.