10 Things On The 10th (January 2013)

I haven't taken part the last few months as the 10th just seems to have come and gone before I realise.  Is it me or does time seem to fly by so much quicker when you get older?  This month I am going to share with you 10 photographs that I am going to scrap this month.

Boxing practice:

  

 

Looking cute in her bear hat with a hot chocolate:

 

German Market fun:

 

 

Me and my girl:

 

 

Liam feeding Cousin Thomas:

 

Looking cute:

 

Christmas cuddles with Aunty Candace

 

Christmas cuddles with Cousin Freya:

 

Bounce time:

 

First time ice skating:

 



 

These photos are some of my favourutes taken over Christmas.  Not professionally posed but every day life.  Pop on over to Shimelle to see other 10 things on the 10th.



A Different Christmas

Christmas this is going to be very different from those over the past 10 years.

Different....very very different.

This year, we will not have a visit to Santa, you see, they no longer believe.

I am much more upset about this than they are.

No longer will I see their faces light up when they meet that special man.

No longer will they suddenly turn shy and go very quite, mouths open with an eye popping gaze.

No longer will I creep around on Christmas Eve, collecting all the presents from their hiding places.

To be honest, they didn't really believe last year, but we visited Santa and went through the motions. I think it was more to keep me happy, rather than them.

They are growing up, growing up way too fast.

It honestly scares me.

Our Olympic Adventure

Yesterday was a good day, a really good day.  One of the best.  We had a once in a lifetime adventure when we went to the Olympics. 

When I brought the tickets all those months ago I didn't have the money to pay for travel and overnight stays in London and I knew that going down in one day would be too much health wise for me.  I then began loooking what was happening outside London.  We settled on the Footbal at Coventry just over an hour away.  Like everyone else I put tickets in the basket only to lose them.  Then finally I got some, the Bronze final for the Women's Football.  Last Thursday we were wishing Team GB to win against Canada then to lose so they could be in the Bronze medal match and we could watch the home team.  Sadly that was not to be and they lost to Canada last week.

Not excited at all!

 Yesterday we saw Canada play Francce.  I'd say 95% of the crowd were behind Canada.  I was quite shocked as to how many empty seats there were.  The Richeo Stadium seats around 24,500 and yet attendance was just over 12,000 with huge areas of the stadium completely empty.

The area behind us stayed empty.

It was a great match and at the final whistle there were 2 minutes of extra time as the score was still 0:0.  One minute in the Candians scored!

And then it was over.

The only down side was not seeing the medal ceremony.  The players went down to Wembly to be presented with their medals along with the Gold and Silver medallists.  Alot of the crowd felt the same.

 

Off home we went.

 One memorable day.

Freya Hijacks My Blog!

Freya (she's 8 years old) has been scrapping this weekend too.

For some reason we are having trouble signing in to her blog so I am putting her entry in to ATDML's Cyber Crop Challenge 5 on here for her.

Hope you like it.  This is her baby Cousin Thomas on his 1 month photo shoot. We both used the same sketch from sketch savvy.  I am under strict orders to tell everybody that she did her LO first and I copied her.

ATDML's Cyber Crop Challenge 5

Challenge #5 was called 'Olympic Podium'.  This meant you could only use:

1 Sheet of cardstock

2 Sheets of patterned paper

3 Photos

I chose my papers (both double sided), photos and card stock, then collected my inks, thickers, twine and 3 stars and went about making this LO:

Freya has reumatoid arthritis and it has caused her to have one leg longer than the other.  Add this to the arthritis being in both ankles and 1 knee she has really struggled to ride a bike.  This Easter she finally managed to so.  She was so pleased with herself that she had finally maaged to ride her bike and loves to ride as much as she can.  Sadly too much riding agrivates her joints and she pays for it later.

ATDML's Cyber Crop Challenge Four

Challenge four was a sketch challenge.  I am really liking sketches the past few months and I'm loving searching for them on-line and seeing all the inspiration out there.  I have used a 5 x 7 photo and this meant that I couldn't fit two photos on the page.  This is a photo of Freya when she met her baby cousin Thomas for the first time at 3 days old.

I have quite a few flowers in my stash but really don't feel comfortable using them.  This sketch actually showed flowers and I decided to take the plunge.  Not sure if I have pulled it off though!  At least I am getting though some stash by using some of them which is the aim at the momment.  I started my 100 page challenge the 1st June as I have only completed 12 LO's its going to take me a while and until I do there is no more stash buying!

ATDML Cyber Crop Challenge Three

Challenge three was to add more journalling to your page.  I openly admit my pages do not contain much journalling.  If fact the majority have little more than a title, place and date.  I don't feel comfortable with my writing.  I hate my handwriting; it is so messy.  This LO has far less jornalling than the other entries posted so far but it has more than I usually put. This LO is based on this sketch from the Sketch Savvy blog. 

With this LO I wanted to record the special bond my children have.  Freya was prem which means they are very very close in age; just 14 months apart. But the age gap looks much more as Liam is tall for his and Freya is small.  In fact Liam is the tallest in his class and Freya the smallest.  Liam has aspergers and at times srtuggles and Freya has reumatoid arthritis which has such a delibertating effect at times.  Both face many challenges ahead and I just love how they support each other so much now and wish that this continues as they grow older and hopefully closer.  They really do have such a fantastic relationship.  However, they still fight like cat and dog at times like many siblings but these disagreements are very quickly fogotten. 

The LO also a tag with hidden journalling that I don't want my Daughter to see yet.  It's there for her to read when she is older.  Its about how I hope that this special and wonderful relationship devolops and they continue to be there for each other.

One Month Old

Last Saturday we had a two hour trip down to South Wales to visit a little boy who was 1 month old.  He is still waking every 2 hours day and night for feeds and naturally Mom and Dad are both exhausted.  It was a lovely day and I put Thomas in his pram and took him with Liam, Freya and his big Brother Gvidas off to the local Natonal Trust property which is a 5 minute walk away for a couple of hours fun in the grounds.  He fell asleep before we had even managed to get to the park grounds.

He slept lovely whilst the kids played.

When we got back, he had a feed and it was time for posing:

Then he decided he'd had enough!

Come back Monday to see some of these photos scrapped.

Project Life w/c 7 May

As I said on Friday I have also completed up to the 13 May Project Life pages.  This was the week Thomas was born so there are lots of extra inserts this week.  

Oh and the hair had gone a little too blonde, so I've gone back to brown.  Why doesn't my hairdresser understand subtle blonde highlights?

TFL x

Finally Some Sun

This week has been amazing!  Finally the sun is shining and the rain clouds have gone.  What better way to cool down than a water fight:

Long may the sun shine down on us!