Bits and pieces

I woke up to this site this morning! Boys sleeping everywhere! As some ladies came to my house today to do some scrapping in our teachers absence, I had to get them up quite early! We had a great time scrapping though and are planning to do it again next Tuesday as our teacher is really galavanting all over the place! Lucky thing, I think I am just jealous!

This is my gorgeous daughter that turned 14 on Saturday. She celebrated by having a whole crowd of teenagers over on Friday night for a party. It was rather loud, but luckily we could close the interleading door and have reasonable peace. It was actually quite nice as they played games, listened to music and basically acted silly all evening.

I wanted to add a photo of Colin working on the roof, but the silly blogger wouldn't download it. Will try again tomorrow.

I'm bored!

I guess I have to be bored to sit on the blog for the second time today! Colin and Robyn are playing Scrabble, Andrew is down the passage somewhere and the big boys are out - not to forget that there is cricket on TV! Not even anything to watch! I went to the chiropractor this afternoon as my neck is very painful. She really is great, I am already feeling a bit better and must go again on Friday before my romantic weekend away! For your viewing pleasure I have included a photo of the house we are going to stay in this weekend.

I had an e-mail from a friend today complaining that I haven't blogged since last week. At least I know she reads it!! LOL

Andrew just brought me a headless Kendoll with one of Barbie's outfits on. Very interesting! Anyway I lied and my neck is still very sore, think I must take a painkiller and go to bed!

Bye for now!

School holidays

I enjoy school holidays because I can stay in bed later and I don't have to worry about snacks for school, etc, but I hate school holidays as the kids drive me crazy!!!!!! Took them to see another movie yesterday, The Spiderwick Chronicles - VERY weird, about faries and goblins and stuff. It was relaxing though as you can basically sit back and forget about the world out there for a while.

Had my usual Wednesday morning breakfast with my mom and spent some time at Tygervalley and the beadshop. They have such amazing beads that I actually feel like doing some again! My hubbie is home for 3 days to work on the house. The pool is now scrubbed and ready to pack away until next summer, sounds odd I know, but the plan is to buy a "proper" pool pump during this coming winter and then to set the pool up properly next year as the current pool pump is not very effective and the water stayed murky. Soooo we have a huge piece of ground back again where the pool stood before. He has now gone to buy the "stuff" to do the barge boards.

Had to take Jessie the staffie to the vet on Monday. She was limping badly and the vet wanted to take some x-rays. She has osteo-arthritis in her left front elbow and has to go onto tablets for 3 weeks. She also has to start eating a special diet formulated for joint disease. She also has to loose weight and go back to the vet in 3 weeks time. Poor thing, she loves to eat and is suffering terribly! She is already walking better though, so here's hoping! Colin had the audacity to ask the vet if he could feed me the same food as I also have osteo-arthritis - cheeky creature!

Any ideas of what we can take with this coming weekend for our wedding anniversary celebration? I decided that it is pointless buying a new negligee, but there must be lots of other suggestions.

Game Plan

I took my kids to watch Game Plan this afternoon. It was rather cute, but as always very predictable with the daddy loving the daughter soooo much in the end. We enjoyed it and had a few good laughs. The best part was, as always, the popcorn and smarties!

The rest of my day was good too - did scrapbooking and had a great time as always! Didn't quite finish 2 layouts as I must still do journalling on the one layout. Will probably have to do it tomorrow when my other friend comes for a visit.

Sorry, not much else to say!

My day

Had a pretty good day today! I had breakfast with my mom while Robyn and a friend went shopping at Tygervalley. I spent some time with Robyn yesterday shopping and what a performanh.ce! She looks at everything before she decides to buy and her taste is just as expensive as mine! Much easier giving her the money and letting her shop with a friend. My mom and I had a lovely morning. We also walked around and did some window shopping and ended it all with tea at Dulce. Afterwards we met the girls and came home. Oh yes, picked up Robyn's boy "friend" from church and he spent the afternoon with us. It is amazing how mature the Grade 8 girls are and how boyish the boys are! Anyway, he seems okay.

I went of this afternoon to have more photos developed for scrapping tomorrow and then took a photo of a nightie in the window at Temptations to "tempt" Colin with as we are going off to celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary next weekend. Showed it to him and he rather likes it! Maybe I will still go and buy it before we go. The two of us also went to gym as Discovery will cancell our membership if we go less than twice per month. Swiped in, sat down and had a smoothie, and then left again! Best workout I had in years!

Job Hunting

I was always under the impression that staying with one company for a long period of time is a good thing, showed dedication, loyalty, etc. Seems I was wrong, as now after working for the same company for 10 years I find myself lacking the skills that is needed to get a job nowadays. After being a Personal Assistant for 6 years I don't know how to take minutes and I also don't know how to use Excel very well. Both seem to be very important to the Personal Assistant seekers out there! Soooo, I am either going to have to go on a course to improve my skills, or I am going to have to teach myself. Fortunately I have a husband that is very good at Excel and he can teach me. Anyway, enough of the moaning, just so that you know that having "experience" is not always enough. And loyalty means nothing.

Overview of the week

Andrew doing homework on the computer.

My frontpage for my 2008 scrapbook - using Techno pop from Autumn Leaves.

Elvis (green) with his girlfriend Roxy. Stunning little bird!

Andrew eating cornflakes for lunch!

I took these photos earlier this week, but never got around to blogging them. So now you are getting them all at the same time! It has been rather a busy week for him, but it ended on an absolute high after the service at church this morning. Richard preached about how we must celebrate the crusifixion as it is something to celebrate as a christian, Jesus dying on the cross so that we can have everlasting life with Him! He really preaches very well and it was the best Good Friday service I have ever listened to. The whole congregation was very excited by the time he was finished and I can't wait for Sunday.

We are having family over for a bring and share a bit later this afternoon. Tomorrow should be reasonably quiet as I am not sure what our plans are yet. On Sunday after church we are driving up to Langebaan, sleeping over and coming back on Monday. It is going to be very nice!

This will be the last time I blog until Tuesday. Have a very blessed Easter!