home from ireland

Mum's birthday party was great fun. Katy stayed on the daancefloor all night and went to bed at 2am! She was so good throughout the night, especially as she was the only child there.

Here she is looking out at the Shannon waiting for everyone to arrive.

After most of the birthday celebrations were finished, we moved the boat back to its marina. Katy hadn't been on 'her' boat for a while and she really enjoyed it this time. I enjoyed it more too as she was a much better age to understand the safety aspects of it all and was really good.

We went up the Shannon and onto Lough Ree, where Katy enjoyed waving to all the other boats and wildlife spotting.

She then had a go at the helm and took the boat through the markers onto the inner lakes. With a little help of course. The inner lakes were beautiful, it was so quiet and calm. We met more family at the marina and went for a gorgeous lunch in Grogans. I had my usual - steak sandwich and my only Guinness of the trip. Yummy.

It's nice to be home now, we have a week of uniform shopping and last minute sorting to do before life gets back into its normal routine.

been here, done that

I had a great weekend in London with the girls. It was lovely to be a tourist in my hometown for a change.

I had hoped to take loads more pictures but the day we went on the open top bus tour it was too wet to risk getting the camera out so I only managed a few.

But it was great fun to show the girls London, thankfully they really enjoyed it. i have just about recovered from the late nights.

Below are the first offerings from my new and improved craft room.

one for the grannies

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

I've been meaning to do this for ages - here is Katy's first 5 years. Aww. Just click the photo to see the montage.

what I've been doing while the blog was down

Welcome to the home of wonky photos! I was super busy and productive befoe the holiday. Here's what I was doing.

holiday photos part 2

some holiday photos

Blog back in business. More pics tomorrow.

blog grief

I've been disconnected for what seems like weeks as I have been incapable of remembering my google and yahoo passwords and have been locked out of here all the while. What have we been up to? Well, we've been enjoying the warmer weather, working on the garden (photos to follow soon) and trying to keep up with Katy's social life. This weekend she had a party, a tea date and chatted in church with more friends this morning. We are so glad things worked out with school in the end; she is so happy there. Getting told off for chatting more and more though.

On the crafting front, I've hardly had the chance to get to my desk, so I'm posting some older pages. The top two were made from my Little Red Scrapbook kit. This one below was part of a challenge I took part in on the Studio Calico forum; basically to scrap a photo from another member. I was sent this beautiful photo by Christi and hope she likes it.

This last one is from this month's Studio Calico kit; I loved the colours here. Katy and Daddy in Legoland.