Birthday fun and a hospital trip

We had Katelyn's 12th Birthday recently she had a great day with a few of her friends. The fun started at 10 pin bowling, everyone each played 1 game and had some food and we also had her cake there, then we all went off to the movies to see Narnia - Price Caspian. It's always fun with a bunch of giggly girls, here's a few snaps to share......














Early the next morning we had to take Ethan over to the hospital to check in for preparation for his bowel surgery the following day. He had to have a nasal tube put in to administer the medication he needed, that was horrible it annoyed him all day as it made his nose run, poor boy. It was a very boring and slow day having to be there at 7.30am and sit around with him all day while he was starving hungry was very hard. He had a visit from Tara, Tia, Tenika and Thomas in the afternoon which staved off the boredom for a little while. He did fall asleep rather late and Mum drew the short straw and got to sleep there with him, luckily they had quite a comfortable flip out bed next to his. Thankfully he was put first on the surgical list the next morning and he went in at 8.30am and we got to go home by 11am. All looked fine but we will find out more at his next Doctors appointment.

Other news I got a little present today..........a new lens for my camera. It's a 50mm 1.4. I can't wait to have a play with it but the weather is rather dismal here today so I'll have to wait a while. I have lots of plans for photos I want to take with it. I still have a few baby/pregnancy shots I want to take which will look awesome with the new lens, I also got a remote control for it which will make taking my own belly shots easier. Anyway here it is...........



The next one on my list is a 24mm to 70 mm 2.8. That's quite a bit more money though so it may be a while. Hopefully before the baby is born.

Second Ultrasound

On Friday the 13th we had our anomaly ultrasound done. All looks great with the baby, right size all things in the right place and accounted for. It has large feet and toes that look like mine, we got to see some images of it in 3D. I think it looks like Tahlia, Craige and Mum think it looks like Katelyn & Ethan ....Hmm we will see in about 18 weeks. We did find out what we are having but I won't share here as I know Marie doesn't want to know and she will probably read this post. After the scan Mum, Tara and I went to have lunch and then they took me shopping at a baby store that is closing down, they had 40% off baby clothes and 20 to 30% off other things. Tara got a Noah's Arc mobile and some gorgeous clothes and Mum got us lots of clothes and accessories. I tell you I won't need to buy a thing. We were really spoiled. I always seem to have a theme for each baby, probably most of us do. This one seems to be Noah's Arc, it is a really popular story in this household at the moment, Ethan recently bought a pop up book with that theme and I got the most beautiful feeding gift set recently in the mail from a very lovely friend Mishell, with the Noah's arc theme also.

Here are some photos of the scan. The first one is a regular one and the second is the 3D one, bit odd looking I think, but still cool none-the-less as we haven't had one of those done before. We also came home with a DVD of the entire ultrasound....that's cool.

Scrapbooking

How would you describe/explain it??? Hard question I think. In the course I'm studying we have to do an electronic presentation and to save time on research ect I decided to do it on Scrapbooking of course. Well easy I thought..........Not after all. Well in saying that it isn't hard but Scrapbooking is so huge that how do I do it justice in a 10 minute presentation. What do I put in? what do I leave out? How much do I back up the information with images? Really you can spend a week just going over products, then do you incorporate design? History? Mini Albums? BTP? The Tutor wants me to incorporate How to get started, because he is interested in that?Hmm it's an interesting quandary??

We had a great photo shoot the other day, we were lucky enough to photograph an Aboriginal Artist and some of her work. The brief was to use Photo Journalism type photography, we had to pretend we were working for a newspaper and were given an outline of what was expected. It was a wonderful experience, some of us had a piece our work printed in A3 size, one of mine was and it was fantastic having a professional photographer critique your work and express his reasons for liking the image.

I have been scrapping a bit lately, which is wonderful. Tara and I had our last official workshop on Saturday with a kit designed by Giovanna The ladies loved it. Thanks so much Giovanna for you wonderful work. I have a layout in this month Scrapbooking Memories. Sadly it is one of my all time favourite layouts and they have photographed it terribly, I was very disappointed. So I will share it here now to show how it really looks. The wonderful chipboard tree is from Remember When and I have painted it with the those awesome Twinkling H2O's.