HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB

Happy Birthday to my little nephew Jacob .... a big 4 year old!



On Saturday, we had a birthday brekkie with yummy pancakes followed by birthday cake.

Gosh time flies, it only seems like yesterday that he was born



(Jessica and Blake look so young too!)


Blake went back to school last week, although it was only a 3 day week ... Monday was a holiday for World Youth Day and Friday was an inservice day. Blake's opinion was "what's the point of going back for 3 days, why don't they just give us another week off"!

Anyway .... we're back into the school routine and this term we are eagerly counting away until the next school hols 'cause we leave for our USA trip .... just 10 weeks to go! We are also off to the snow at the end of August .... this is our annual group trip which is always a blast but is a bit overshadowed this year by the excitement of our big holiday!!

After the birthday brekkie on Saturday, we headed off for soccer and then a quite weekend for the rest. Sunday was a house day .... one of those "stay in your pj's til lunchtime kinda day" ... i did some constructive housekeeping - washing, cleaned a few windows, dusting and some cooking.

I have done lots of scrapping over the past few days too ... but nothing i can share yet ... however, one of the projects i completed is an upcoming workshop at SnB using flocking ... i luuurved using this stuff.



Well .... enjoying a day at home again today (back to work tommorrow) and off to make a big pot of homemade chicken & vegie soup.

Don't forget my RAK giveway (last post) which is running 'til 31st July .... all you have to do is leave a comment ... don't be shy, come and say hello!

Have a great week, try and stay warm, keep smiling :O)

JULIE x

I'M BACK ... WITH A RAK

Hi everyone in the land of blogging ... i'm finally taking some time to update !

Gosh, the school hols is usually a time to 'chill out' & 'kick back'; but not for us i'm afraid, thing have just been so busy .... not necessarily any one thing in particular ... just BUSY !

One of the good busy things i have been doing is scrapbooking ...

This month at SnB is Christmas in July ... so, lots of activities, giveaways, challenges etc.

This month's SCRAP YOUR STASH is a 'blast from the past' creating embellishments with 'paper piecing' ... here is my example LO



Last night was the CC with lots of fun challenges & games ... here was my LO for the free sketch workshop



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On a different note ... the weather has been getting quite cool here and even better, very cold down south which means plenty of snow .... in 6 weeks we set off for our annual snow trip with a group of 26 .... we always look forward to this, we are lucky to have such a great group of friends and sooo much fun every year(which seems to come around soooo quickly). This year whilst we count down to our snow trip that means also counting down to our USA trip .... just 10 weeks to go ... i am feeling slightly excited !!!

Last but not least .... all this Christmas in July activiy this month has prompted a RAK ... yep, i'm in the mood to send someone a present .... don't know about you, but i loooove pressies he he !! Just leave me a comment (cause it's nice to know you still visit even though i've been a really bad blogger!!) by midnight July 31.

Hope you've had a great weekend, have a great week,

Keep Smiling :O)

JULIE x

BE BACK SOON ....

Busy, Busy, Busy ....

Hope to visit again over the weekend and do a decent post of the past few crazy busy weeks ...

in the mean time ....

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Be back soon ....

JULIE :O)