Catch up time

Well hello again.

As per usual, it's a long time between posts. I just wish I could find the energy to keep this updated on a more regular basis. My life seems to be this never ending cycle of work, home, eat, sleep....work, home, eat, sleep...work, home, eat, sleep... you get hte picture. I now know how a mouse on one of those wheels feels. Constantly running but not getting anywhere!!

Surprisingly, in the last few weeks I have managed to do a couple of things that go outside the previous mentioned cycle. As mentioned in the last post, Steve and I had our 5 year anniversary. With all his secret planning we ended up at the Waitakere Estate Lodge for the evening. It started with a lovely dinner and then a gorgeous room for the evening. I missed Ashley (as I always do when she isn't with me), but it was really nice to have a night off from being a mum for a change. Here ae a couple of shots of our room from outside, and the inside:




On the tuesday before all this happened tho, I was lucky enough to get to see "We Will Rock You" at the Civic. Fiona and Roger were going together, but Roger had to get back up north for work, so Fiona very generously offered me the ticket (thank you so much Fi, I really appreciate it!!) What a fantastic show!!! It has got to be one of the best things I have seen for a long time. It was so well staged and held your attention the entire time. I don't think there was a single part that I sat there and thought "ok, next scene please". And just to make it even more fabulous, Mig Ayesa was in the lead role. I think he's brilliant and I was so gutted that he didn't win Rockstar INXS, but atleast I got to see him live doing this. Steve went by himself on the 3rd to last night of the show and the lovely man that he is bought the Mig cd for me, and even waited to get it autographed for me. And just to put the icing on the cake, the following Monday the cast all flew out, and on one of the rare occassions that I was able to venture out of my little hole at work, I happened to bump into Mig and he said Hi to me. Very cool.

Ashley had her Xmas pageant/party at daycare yesterday, and her sectin of daycare (called the "Rising 5's") did a Hip-Hop dance. The cutest thing I've ever seen, my lily white girl trying to be a home-girl. Still, she did very well, one of the few kids that didn't get stage fright and she boogied the whole way through. Of course, the highlight for all the kids was the arrival of Santa and the receiving of pressies, and here is Ashley's moment:



My girl wasn't at all shy, she was the first and only kid to climb up on Santa's knee to receive her gift (a new Barbie doll). Gotta love it.

Well, I think it's time to finish off this post. I'm getting tired (still suffering the tired thing although I'm into the second trimester and I'm supposed to be feeling "vital and glowing". What a crock!!!) and little Miss needs a bath. Hopefully, I get the energy to post again before the end of the year. If not, have a Merry Xmas and all the best for the New Year.

Yeah, I'm slack, I know.

Hello there!!!

Okay, so I'm completely hopeless and the worst person in the world at keeping my blog updated.

I plead "preggy brain", that I am now calling "Goldfish Brain", as I'm lucky if my memory lasts more than 5 seconds at the moment!!!

Yes, we are very happy to announce in the Dye family, that we are expecting another little bundle in May 2008. I suffered really bad morning sickness for the first 11 weeks and was completely exhausted all the time (well the exhaustion bit is still on-going at the mo). The morning sickness was a bit of a surprise as I never had it with Ashley and I was always a big believer in the "mind-over-matter" thing, always convinced that morning sickness was all in your head, but I take it back now!!!!

Not alot else has been happening really in the last month. Work continues as it does. I'm not really overly happy with where I'm at right now, but still, I'll persevere and see where it all goes.

Next week, Steve and I celebrate our 5th Wedding Anniversary. I'm quite looking forward to it. Steve has been very secretively planning something, and I don't even have the slightest inkling what he could possibly have up his sleeve. Still, it will give me something to blog about in the next week or so, so that's always a good thing.

Well, miss Ashley is "feeling a bit weary" and so is mummy. Not to mention the fact that my custard brain is going in circles, so I can't think straight enough anymore to write anything else tonight. As soon as I can eget my scanner to work properly again, I will post bubs' "first picture" on the blog.

Yes, I am still here!

Hello there,

well, you could easily be forgiven for thinking i had fallen off the planet!!! I know, it's been to long between posts, but I have been really busy that's all.

In the middle of September, Steve, Ashley and I went on holiday for a week up to Steve's sister's place in Whangaparaoa. It's such a beautiful setting and so quiet and relaxing, which is exactly what we all needed. Kirstin, David and Devin came up to visit the first weekend we were there and some of Steve's friends from work popped up as well. Other than that, we just had some much needed family time together. We took Ashley up to the Waiwera in the middle of the week and she absolutley loved it!! She had the most adorable smille plastered on her face the entire time we were in the pool. She was getting very brave towards the end, jumping off the little steps on the side of the pool, regardless of whether mummy and daddy were ready to catch her or not!!

Of course, once the holiday was over it was back to work, which quickly put paid to the relaxing and recharging that had happened the week before!! Everything has been really full on for the last couple of weeks, as on Monday just gone, Travelex opened at the airport. It has been a pretty manic time I must say. Obviously, the first week has had it's fair share of teething problems and dramas, but I can only hope that it starts to settle down from now on, otherwise I don't think I'll be able to stick it out!

Well, Kirstin has tagged me again as well. I'm supposed to come up with a word or comment that describes me for the each letter of my name. Hmmmmm, a bit of a challenge I must say, but I'll give it a go:

Tempermental - But who isn't?! Seriously tho, I'm surprised my DH puts up with me. I can have a real Jekyll/Hyde personality swing in 2 seconds flat, and he unfortunately ends up on the receiving end of it most the time. I am aware of this, and I do conciously try not to do it, but sometimes the emotions get the better of me and I'm off!!

Romantic - I'm a hopeless romantic a heart. I love a good old fashioned, soppy girly romance flick and adore hapy endings!! I love the whole romance bit; chocolates, flowers, candlelit dinners etc. Is there any hope for me?

Ashley - Ok, I know that sounds a little weird as a word to describe me, but this adorable, loving little girl is the absolute centre of my universe. She makes me smile, she drives me mad, she pushes me to the absolute limit half the time, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't and don't want to imagine what my life would be like without her!

Crazy - about the other important person in my life, my gorgeous hubby Steve. As previously mentioned, he is incredibly tolerant of me and all my mood swings and quirks, but he is also the most loving and wonderful man in the world. He has his little quirks that make him just so cute (and he'll kill me for saying that), but I love him to pieces and wouldn't have him any other way.

Empty - As in I can't think of a single thing to describe me for the letter E, so this one is going to remain unfilled, sorry.

Yellow - Meaning "scaredy-cat". Alot of people think I'm brave because I can be this feisty little "pitbull" but in reality, i'm scared of just about everything, heights, thunderstorms, geese, confrontations. You name it, I'm probably scared of it.

Well, that's that. I've done my tag, but I have noone that i can tag, so my branch finishes here.

I've updated my blog, which has been a long time coming, but I won't make any rash promises that I will do it more regularly, cos then I'm just setting myself up for failure.

See you whenever I update next.

Bye. ;-)

Me again

Well, I'm sitting at home sick today, so I figured I may as well take the time to update my blog.

I haven't done much scrapbooking at the moment, but then I haven't really had alot of time to do anything much latlely. I was in Sydney, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed of last week doing the training for my new job at the airport. WOW, what an eye opener!! I can't believe how much is involved in it all. Obviously, for privacy reasons I can't discuss too much on a publicly viewed blog, but I'm really glad I got to see and learn what I did. Of course, I flew back into Auckland on wednesday night and straight back into work again on Thursday, which is going to be full-on until evrything gets going at the airport, I can hardly wait!!

We had a very busy weekend just gone. Went Father's Day shopping with Ashley on saturday morning, then we went and visited Mum for afternoon tea, and after that, we picked daddy up from home and went to visit our friends Belinda and Rowan and their little girl Olivia. We don't catch up with them nearly often enough, and as such, we couldn't get over how much Olivia has grown! They have number 2 on the way in December, so it was great to catch up with them again.

Sunday being Father's Day, we had a bit of time with Steve in the morning before we headed off to Kate's place (one of Steve's nieces), for a Father's Day brunch with his family. After that, Steve dropped me and Ashley back home and, unfortunately, he had to go to work, so Ashley and I had a sleepy afternoon cos I wasn't feeling well, which of course leads into why I'm home today. Ashley has had a cough a for a few weeks, and naturally mummy and daddy got it also. I think mine has been made worse by being on a plane just as it was starting to kick off. Now, I have this revolting cough that is making my chest, shoulders and stomach hurt like crazy!! Still enough of the medical 101.

I guess I'll sign off now as this is turning into a fairly large post for me. ;-)

Ciao.

Hello again

Well, I figured I'd beat Kirstin to the punch before she gives me grief for not updating my blog again.

It's great to see so many people (other than Kirstin) visiting my blog page and leaving comments. Thank you all, makes me more inclined to make sure I keep myself up to date online more often!!! ;-)

In the last couple of weeks, not alot has been happening beyond the usual work/home dance that seems to be life. Steve and I took Ashley to the Museum, so that Steve could see the "Egypt; Beyond the Tomb" exhibition (Ashley and I went and saw it with Mum a couple of weekends before this), and Ashley had a wonderful time having a look at the World War II planes in the "Scars on the Heat" exhibition. She also had a ball running through the "1866 Auckland City Street" part of the Museum too. Took alot of convincing (and the bribery of Fish 'n' Chips!!!!) to get her to leave!!!

Well, I'm going to head off to bed now. Very busy week ahead at work as everything starts to heat up with the Airport opening. I'm off to Sydney on Sunday for 3 days of training for my new role at the Airport.

How Exciting?!!!!!!!!! :)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

And you're probably going "huh?"

Well, my little angel has switched her DVD allegiance from "Toy Story 2" to "Mary Poppins". Once upon a time this was one of my favourite Disney movies, however, it's rapidly sliping from the ranks!!!! None the less, the one thing the countless replays of this movie has actually done for me is that I can now say Super........ backwards, something I have been envious of my mother about my whole life because she could say it faultlessly!!! What an achievement huh?!

I'm excited to say that I finished the final Harry Potter installment yesterday, allbeit by giving myself a headache over the 2nd half of the book by speed-reading because it was getting so exciting!!! But enough said, just in case anyone out there is/wants to read the book.

Well, not alot of scrapbooking has been happening with me lately, however I have managed to complete two layouts in the last couple of weeks that I'm rather proud of......




I bought the gorgeous fuzzy Elmo sticker for this layout from SENZ in Manukau and have been dying to do this page for ages. Believe it or not, the photo is actually a shot I took on my cellphone. Not bad huh?



This lovely layout, I actually scrap-lifted the layout idea from Kirstin. I liked her composition so much I thought it would work well for this. Good result I think.

Well, I think it's time to sign off. Need to think about having some dinner then a early night to bed i think. Been a pretty full on week at work, and it's only going to get busier from now on.

Later. ;)

What's been going on in our world...?

Well hello there.

Not alot has been happening lately.
Work has been frantically busy, what with helping in the close down of some of our branches, and all the craziness that is surrounding the opening of the Airport stores, and my new role as a part of it all!! It's really very exciting, because of the nature of the role I'm undertaking and with it being so specialised, i get to go to Sydney for my training. What a bummer!!!

My little princess has been a little unwell. Had a temperature that hit 39.8 degrees which freaked me out a little. She's on the mend now, but it was very scary there for a while.

Oh well, must go and have my dinner then hit bed me thinks. :)

I've been tagged!

Well, Kirstin has so nicley tagged me. I guess she's trying to make me update my blog one way or another.......

So here goes:

My roommate and I once: I think the only person who counts as my roommate is Steve. Do we really want to go there?!!

Never in my life have I: Seen the Eiffel Tower in person (?), but it's on my "Things to do before I die" list. That and getting over my fear of flying first!!

High School was: a distraction in between the rest of my life. Never really got into it.

When I'm nervous: I bite my nails. Disgusting habit I know.

My hair: is completely annoying!!! Thank goodness for hair straighteners (and hair dye, tho I have been challenged not to dye it so that we can find out what my actual hair colour is!!)

When I was 5: my baby sister was bought home from the hospital on my birthday. Not what you do to a 5 yr old on her birthday!!

When I turn my head left: I stare at the wall.

I should be: Folding the washing or getting ready for bed.

By this time next year: I would love to be expecting baby #2!!!

My favourite aunt is: Aunty Barbara. Always has been!

I have a hard time understanding: anything beyond basic computer stuff!!

You know I like you if: I laugh genuinely not forced. (and yes you can tell the difference)

My ideal breakfast is: croissants filled with ham, scrambled eggs, tomato and capsicum

If you visit my home town: at the moment you will freeze. Auckland is a tad cold right now.

If you spend the night at my house: Ashley will probably insist on you either playing in her "Kitchen" or making you watch "Toy Story 2"

My favourite blonde is: My baby sister Fiona

My favourite brunette is: My big sister Kirstin

The animal I would like to see flying besides birds: PIGS!! Then everything else we've said "when Pigs fly!!" would happen too (tho probably that isn't such a good idea)

I shouldn't have been: so uninterested at school

Last night I: watched "Sweet Home Alabama" and finished 10 ATC"S for the SBO forum swap.

A better name for me would be: dopey, grumpy, sleepy, doc, happy, sneezy, bashful. That's right, i could quite possibly be all seven dwarves rolled into one!!

I've been told I look like: My dad's mum

If I could have any car, it would be: a red, convertible MG BGT. It's all I've wanted since I was 13!!!

And I tag: I don't know anyone else that blogs so it probably has to stop here?! :(

And I promise I will update this blog again in a day or so. ;-)

Hello Again

Well, yet again I haven't updated my blog in a while.

Been at home for most of today cos I have a cold that's making me feel particularly unwell.

not much ahs been happening since last I blogged. Went to the SENZ thing at Manukau with Kirstin, which was fantastic. Talk about Scrapbooking Heaven!!!!! If only I was a millionaire!!!

Went to Kirstin's place last Sunday for David's birthday. Caught up with mum and Fiona and Roger as well. Didn't get any scrapbooking done, but I'm lacking inspiration again, so I probably wouldn't have achieved alot anyway.

Oh well, til another 3 weeks when I update again.

Feeling the inspiration again

Well, I haven't been feeling very Scrapbook inspired for the last couple of weeks, however, after chatting to Kirstin on the phone the other night, I suddenly got this plan in my head of this page (no idea why I got the inspiration it just happened)

This is the finished result. I'm quite pleased with the result really. Very simple yet it still makes an impression (or so I think anyway!!), and it only took an hour to put together.

Okay, time for another one!!!

So Kirstin is giving me a hard time because I haven't been maintaining the blog quite so regularly!!!
What can I say, I just keep getting side tracked and I forget to do it!!

This picture of Ashley was just too adorable not to put it in the blog. She hasn't been feeling the best as she seems to be a feasting platter for a flea so she has a multitude of bites on her right shoulder. So, we've been giving her an antihistamine to try and make her more comfortable. Of course, one of the side effects is that it makes her sleepy, so she had had her bath and asked me to "wrap her like a stausage" (no that isn't a typo, that's what she calls sausages!!) in her blanket and cape. Within 10 minutes she was asleep, and when I looked over at her, she looked just like a caterpillar going into a cocoon!!

Too cute not to publish really!!

Let's give this a try

So I figured I'd give this a go and see if I was able to upload a photo onto my page. Looks like it worked!! ;)

This is a page I finished last night at around 8pm and I decided I'd try it out in the cool scrapbook frame that my mum gave me for my birthday last weekend. I must say, I'm very pleased with the finished product and so is my husband!!!

Making Progress

Hi there,

Well.

I've had a little bit of a play with the blog and it's looking a little different now as well as having a new title.

Just trying to find out how to download pictures and stuff now. It's probably proving difficult because of the fact that I'm only on a silly dial-up connection, when i would really like to be on broadband. However, if I won't let Steve have digital, I don't suppose I can ask for broadband. :)

Let's get started

Hello.

Well I thought I should give this thing a crack and see how it all works.

Obviously it's all still under construction at the moment, but watch this space as I get the hang of what I'm doing and get creative with my page.