Thursday....going good :)

I am in high spirits today :) its been fun here this morning......busy! More of that later....

Last night was date night.......we don't like to leave the children long so we gave them an early supper and then headed to Joey Tomato's for a quick dinner. It was so nice :) Life has been busy since we got back from Banff so it was lovely to have a few hours with just Lloyd :) Joeys was fairly quiet. Our waitress was really nice....she has only been in Edmonton for two weeks...moved from Vancouver Island.....her parents are British and she has been to England many times so we chatted a lot. I ordered the Maple Glazed Salmon with Alfredo pasta and golden beets! I am a vegetable lover :) I don't think a vegetable exists that I don't like! But I had never even heard of golden beets.......they are like small yellow beetroots and are soooooo YUMMY! Dinner was wonderful...wow the salmon was good! And Lloyd and I chatted and laughed and it was just really nice. We grabbed coffee afterwards and were home by 8pm but it didn't feel rushed at all :)

This morning I woke up and went into the childrens bathroom .....I found blood everywhere and bloody tissues all over the counter............on investigation it turned out that Abby had had a nose bleed.......she was very clean and fine though by then and had dealt with it herself...she told me...."Its ok Mom, I pushed my brains back in!' roflmao she's too funny :)

So today...what have we done? I played Boggle with CHris and Susie, and then played connect four with Sam and Susie (he loves putting the pieces in!!) Abigail made butterflies at the table and decorated them with glitter glue...very pretty! She played with the math manipulatives too.........Laurie spent some time on the computer............Chris designed a psychology test for Susie and Laurie using music to see if it would distract them from answering a set of questions...he learnt that Laurie didn't get distracted but thast Susie takes after me and was very distracted by the noise!!! I can't think with background noise and I can't focus on a telephone call with background noise either....I'd be hopeless in an open-plan office!!!!

Susie played on the typing program Chris designed for her..........Laurie did some of his Write Now book....

I dealt with what seemed like hundreds of PM's and Emails about booking Christmas pictures...........sent my portfolio to several people and answered lots of questions. I tried to phone my Mum but no answer...........I now have to wait until after 8pm their time or I will call in the middle of Coronation Street lol!

Susie wanted me to take pictures of her so I did that and caught a few of Sam playing with a balloon.....I haven't looked at them yet! I cut his hair this morning and he looks so cute!! So grown up...but even more like a little sod ;)

The girls are now playing with balloons...............Abigail learnt the Lucky Star song and dance from Dan the Music Man........she performed for me :)

Lloyd went into work late again today so we got to have coffee together again :) I love that!

I've been asked to take some Maternity pictures....this really excites me because I love how artistic maternity pictures can look.........I'm going to get a black backdrop for some I think and try various different styles from wispy and natural to arty black and white! Well I guess I have to wait and see what the client wants but I am very excited to try! To even be asked...

Well I think we will walk to the mail box now and then I will look at the pictures I took today and add them here later..........

Where is everyone???? I don't get many comments any more and no one is updating their blogs regularly!!!! Maybe no one reads any more :(

I should have breakfast...its 1pm and I have yet to eat today! Lloyd told me to eat earlier but I don't seem to have had time...off to have breakfast!