Huge week

Boy, has it been crazy mad busy around here. Mostly good, we finally received approval for our house, and we have a pretty cool rental to move into. The removalists turn up in 3 weeks, that will fly.This is the room I am looking forward to being in, it is huge and we may even be able to entertain friends - how cool is that??

Friday saw Matt turn 20(!!).Alex came over and he choose cheesecake for his birthday cake. It was all a bit reminiscent of 20 years ago, in that the Olympics was on then, the only difference is that we won a gold medal in rowing while I was in labour. These Olympics, labour nor seeing a gold medal seems likely...(love the sailors though..)

I have used the August sketch from Get Creative and just for fun thought I'd show you the same LO with two different background papers.

I think I prefer this version, more masculine -

 But I quite like the fresher feel of this one - Notice they are still both wooden papers, with chevrons, still loving that look! Let me know which you prefer - very interested...

And then our girl had her year 10 semiformal on Saturday night. Huge event, all day spent preparing for it - and she looked beautiful. Meaghan had gone to a friends house for makeup and to get dressed. Geoff and I turned up for the red carpet arrivals and we didn't recognise her at first - so grown up. We just about burst with pride. Here she is with her date - Lachy who came back from Newcastle for the weekend.

 

 

 With her three best friends -

And here she is with her group of friends in a more informal pose -

 

And of course I had to do a Lo for her, this was for a challenge at the Lilypad, which was to use a royal name (queen, prince , princess etc). As my Dad had already said she looked like a princess, I had a ready made quote (although I will keep this one from Meaghan for a while as she is 15 and horrified at being called a princess..

 

Have yet to see the official photos yet - ours were pretty ordinary as it was pitch black and freezing cold - a function in Canberra in August- not the best timing  - luckily they are  young and can cope with sub zero temps in strapless dresses...

Off to sign the lease now and then more serious packing (most of my scrapping stuff is already packed. Have kept three pizza boxes worth out but the rest will go into storage. Some big descions need to be made about whether I continue paper scrapping next year or not. Either way I won't be getting any new supplies in the meantime. 

Ok, have a good day. xx