All aglow......................

Cake time for Laurences birthday...but the store didn't enclose the promised candles....so all we had were 10 pink and green candles and one tea light :) But Laurie didn't seem to mind :)

Saturdays shoot........

The shoot I had yesterday morning was sooooo much fun!!! A family with two little boys who were just the cutest little things...they had a BLAST in the Fall leaves!!!! The morning had started off all foggy and cold but by the time they arrived the fog was lifting and it warmed up enough for the boys to play in the leaves in just sweaters! The ground was wet but Susannah had raked up three bags of Fall leaves for us to use and we had stored them in the workshop so they were nice and dry :)

Compliments from the clients? "We'll never use Sears again!" and "This was sooooo worth it!" (ie they drove a LONG way through fog to come for the shoot!) And they tipped Susannah (my assistant for the day) and she was just soooooo excited!

Its wonderful to have a job you enjoy so much and clients who enjoy it too...they said it was so stress free and fun :)

It was a really great shoot :)

Sleepyhead....................

Chris had a very late night last night....................can you tell?????? ;)

Happy Birthday Laurence!!!

Above is Laurie on the phone to Grandma.

Below he is opening gifts beside his friends........

Today is my Son Laurences birthday!!! He is 11 today :)

Last night his two best friends came for a sleep over......they were still awake at 1:30am so I went downstairs (they camp out in the basement for sleepovers!) and told them to turn the lights etc off and get some sleep!

Needless to say this morning we had 4 very sleepy boys here!!! My Mom phoned to say Happy Birthday and then Lloyds Mom phoned............then he opened all his gifts...........then breakfast and then we headed out to the Scarecriw Festival........after that no one was in the mood to eat much (too much junk!) so we just grabbed a bagel each from Tims.....dropped the boys home and then came home and Lloyd went out on the quads with Laurie.................

We are about to have dinner followed by birthday cake and then I think we are planning to sit and watch Hoot...................not sure...........

Bed early for the boys for sure as they are soooooo tired!

I think Laurie had a nice birthday :)

Mud, puddles and fun!

We just got in from going out on our quad bikes...its like +1c outside and raining but it was sooo muych FUN!!!!! Racing through puddles, sliding in mud......we did all of the trails we have now made...through the woods, the tall grasses, the back fields.....around by the pond and the front paddocks.............going over the logs and through the woods was fun......

I was well padded out with two big sweaters, tshirt, winter jacket, gloves, helmet and walking boots.......my hands got cold though :( and we need to get snow-pants (trousers) before long as your legs get cold.........

Great fun :) I'm glad he persuaded me to go out there!

Scenes from the Scarecrow Festival..............

A few of the displays at the festival today..............

Cookie monsters sisters...............

The girls with their cookies

Cookie monster..........

Sam decorating (and eating!) a cookie at the scarecrow festival today..........

A post for Christie................

Christie is it weird that I always think of you now when I think of knickers????????

;)

I went to La Senza yesterday and spent a ridiculous amount of money on knickers....I wear thongs and to pay quite that much for quite so little fabric breaks my heart.......

But my knickers were all grey and holey and lately there has been more hole than underwear so I HAD to throw them away and buy new..............

I love buying things in underwear stores though because they wrap it all up so nicely in tissue paper and put them in those posh little gift bags with string or ribbon handles!!! It makes you feel special :)

So now I'm ok for knickers for the next 10 years ;)

Did I buy panties???????????????? NO!!!! Panties are for old men in raincoats to keep in their pockets and sniff lol..................I wear KNICKERS!!!!! ;)

Still waiting..................

I'm still waiting for a thank you........................I am stunned by some peoples manners..............

GGgggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Editing to add........I never learn!!! Maybe more than angry at them, I am actually angry at ME because I NEVER learn..............I guess I must like having my head slammed against the wall by this person because I constantly go back for more.......................

Jane remind yourself that if someone treats you like crap time and time again then they are NOT a friend..................and they are not going to change (more than likely) so QUIT getting sucked in!!!!!

Yet again!!!!

Yet again Lloyd manages to say exactly the right thing ;)

He wants me to go out on the quads with him in the rain....right now he is out there with Laurie having some Father/ Son one to one time on the quads for Lauries birthday :) and then he wants me to go out on mine....................so he says....

"Come out on the quads for a while with me and then you can come in and soak in the bath while I cook dinner............................"

Oh ok then...........................sigh..............if you INSIST!!! lol!

Facial wound.............

It looks as though Laurie got glassed in the face!! There is a big chunk of glass sticking out!! I have a few pics from my other camera to add later here so watch this space..........the wounds they were doing were really life like......the lighting was so bad for the pics so you can't really see its true effects................

Scarecrow Festival

We took the children to the Scarecrow Festival today at the Agricom...........they had a great time!! It is Laurences 11th birthday today and his teo friends Brett and Scott slept over last night and came with us to the festival...............