Where does the time go..................................

Wow February all ready. And school starts in two days :(. Not looking forward to that at all really. It will be nice to be in a routine again, its just there will be no sleep ins and there will be only three of us at home. This time next year there will only be me and DH. Where does the time go..................

Over Christmas I had three photos published in the Otago daily times. One was of Abby and one was of Olly and the other was a freinds of mine child. It is so nice seeing them in print.

Christmas was brilliant this year. It is one year where I felt we got exactly the right presents, some years I think "wow, shouldn't of got that, or should of got something else" There wasn't too much and there wasn't not enough, so we did well :) The morning was beautiful then about 1.00 it poured down and we got 2 1/2 inches for the afternoon. This year there was only 8, us Mum and Dad and a x-brother-in-law of ours. So it was very quiet and relaxed.

New Year we went up to Kelvin Heights at Queenstown with some friends of ours and it was supurb. Awesome night and we sat outside on the deck till 3.30am.

My eldest has now turned 8......Oh that just doesn't seem right....I can still remember the day he was born like it was yesterday.....doesn't seem like 8 years.

Olly has been back to the specialist about his eyes and we got a great report. Haven't worked out how really as he was meant to be wearing a patch for the last 3 months for 2 hours a day and we have only succeded in probably 20 times all up. But now they say we don't have to wear one till we go back at the end of February.

We have also been to see the butterflies in Dunedin. They were just supurb. Mum has just turned 60 and she wanted to take the kids to celebrate. It is a 3 story room with a swinging bridge etc and there is just thousands of butterflies. The temp is about 27 and humidity is about 75%. It was just amazing with butterflies flying around the waterfall and landing on us. Some were as big as the kids hands and amazing colours on them. If you are in Dunedin put this on your must see list.

I've also not long done my first horse Trek. Part of it went through our place and then onto Lawrence so I rode on it for about 2 hours. It was just awesome. me and a friend are going on one next weekend too. She wanted to do it but didn't want to go alone and she has a double horse float. So what could I do, I just had to go.

Now on the scrapbooking page, I haven't really done much LOL. There are these two that I did from sketches from scrapbook outlet. The first one is based on the thrid sketch and is of Olly competing in the under 7s athletics where he got first for everything except DiscusThe second is of Abby at Christmas based on the Sencond sketch. I have done a couple of others that I must photograpy. I'll put that on my to-do list.

Well that will do for now. Till next time, take care