All grown up

I just wanted to share a couple of the photos I took of Casey while we were in Portugal. She's looking so grown up now; not a little girl any more and, although I'm totally biased, I think she's such a gorgeous young lady.



I also wanted to share a pic of something crafty but I've not done anything since before I went away - oops! So, this is just a little peek of my class for the Design Collective from last week.

Happy Friday everyone. The kids are going round my Mum's today so I can have my first couple of hours peace in 2 weeks, yeah!!! Maria, I meant to say that the kids wanted to bring home all the pebbles in their buckets but I think it would have blown our baggage allowance lol. They each chose a couple of their favourites to bring back. Oh, and Casey sneaked home a dead crab in my rucksack!!

Excuse the weeds!!!

I took these pics of Danielle a couple of weeks ago but have only just got round to having a proper fiddle with them in Photoshop. We'd only just got back from 2 weeks away, and the grass was about 6ft high after all the rain. If I was a true Photoshop whizz, I'd clone all the weeds out, but I'm not, so they'll have to stay.

Danielle adores this dress (so do I!!) and insisted that I take some photos of her twirling in it. I might even get round to scrapping them sometime this century and my beloved SR papers would be the perfect choice.

Some more holiday pics

We went to the beach for the first few days and then, all of a sudden, the kids decided that they hated the beach and we spent the rest of the fortnight around the pool instead. I love the look on the girls' faces in the last pic - they both look lke "wtf!" - I think they were getting bored of the camera lol.

My holiday

Just a few of my fave holiday snaps. I didn't take that many pics because I think I spent most of the time in the pool keeping the kids amused. They all absolutely loved the water. Casey finally managed to swim more than a width of the pool on her own and, by the end of the fortnight, she was jumping in, putting her face under water, the lot. Danielle and Charlie have never been in a real pool and I thought they would be a bit apprehensive but they both just got right in and started splashing about. They had all kinds of inflatables because every time somebody went home they would pass on their lilo's/rubber rings etc on to us!!

I'm back.........and I rock

I haven't blogged in absolutely forever. For anybody who doesn't know, we went on our hols to the Algarve, Portugal for the last week of June/first week of July. I got caught up in a mad rush of last minute preparations before we went, and life seems to have been manic since we got back.

Anyway, I woke up to a lovely surprise this morning - I've been tagged by the lovely Maria and Gertie who both wanted to make me a Rockin' Girl Blogger. The idea was originally started by Roberta.



I now need to tag 5 people - I would originally have tagged both Maria and Gertie but as they already officially rock, then I need to try and find 5 other friends lol. So, I choose:
Marja
Paula
Tracey
Eleni
Sharon

You all rock too - it's official!