The Church

Tonight the Elders came to visit me.  The last time they came was a few weeks back and I told them they could come again.  The came the following week but I wasn't home.  Last night they showed up unannounced which was fine and weird all in one.  I had been thinking about church and how I had seen on FB via friends and the www.mormon.org page that general conference was coming up and wondered if I should watch from home or attend at the nearest stake center. 

I enjoyed the talk with the Elders and they invited me to conference on Sunday and will arrange for someone to pick me up which is really awesome.  They encouraged me to write down some questions that I had answers to and they knew that one of the apostles will have the answer to my question.

After nearly 2.5 years of inactivity it''s time for me to start thinking about going back.  Will blog and see how these next few weeks and months come along.

Happy Birthday Lani

April is the month of birthdays for my family and today is one of my fav cousins birthday today!  I miss her and all of the fun things we did together from baking to monopoly to 12 days of Christmas... happy birthday lani I hope you have a great fantastic day and I'm soo happy that you're having the time of your life in the Phillipines.  I love you.  Happy Birthday xox

Superhero Birthdays

Got invited last minute to flatmates grandsons superhero themed 2nd birthday. Fun afternoon.  I had all of yesterday to think of a costume but decided to wait last minute to pull together a costume. I've always been like that when it comes to dress up things.  

Birthday was fun and lots of bad yummo food which I totally ate.  Kel did an awesome job with baking all the cupcakes and Loren did an amazing jobs with the decorating.  Not sure where the cake came from but white chocolate cake totally yummo.  The brown family looked amaze!

After all of my back and forth with costume ideas I decided to go with this.  Made it last minute and all for under $30. 

Making the tutu

Done and added some felt stars on the front

Gold card for the arm band with red felt stars

Logo

Done and done. :)

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

I know I'm not the most perfect person in the world.  I know that I've done things I'm not proud of and I also know that yes I've lied and not just a little white lie BUT a full on break up my marriage kind of lie.  It's those experiences that have made me think twice before lying to anyone.

When talking with people online and there is the potential for there to become more than just friends or even just to be really good friends I'm cautious and wary and try to look at everything twice.

I had asked someone on more than one occasion if they were married both times they said no.. I asked again and still got the same answer.  A few days go by and today I decided to do a little more google stalking as you do (or should I say as I do)  and what do you know... hello married guy.  I hit him up about it but lets see if he decides whether or not he will finally be honest.  I told him the previous times I had asked him that I'd rather he were honest with me than lie in the hopes I'd keep talking to him.

I'm glad I trusted my instincts and decided to let my fingers do the typing.  Thank the Google Gods and the Cat Fish Gods I managed to find out the answer to my is he married question. 

Happy Birthday Paige

20 years ago today we welcomed into the world my sister Paige.  We have the same Dad different Mum so didn't see each other a lot growing up but if anyone ever asks I always say I have 2 brothers, 2 sisters which I do. Just Paige didn't live with us growing up that was all.

Happy Birthday Paige I hope you have a great day and that it is filled with love family friends and awesome presents... after all thats what birthdays are for aren't they? The presents? 

Ginger Ninja

Got home from work today and found that the crazy cat had jumped out of my window and onto the brick wall outside..  I don't know how he does it but the first time I saw him do it it scared the heck out of me. 

Oh and today's breakfast from Fit Me In was amazeballs.  It was muesli but not muesli.  Mix of slivered nuts and some seeds with fresh fruit and some coconut milk.  I hope it's on the menu for next week.  How can you not want to eat this?

In other news I think I'm coming down with a cold.  Blocked runny nose. Hot all the time. Sore tickling throat.  Not a good sign.

Rainbow Loom

My kids are in love with this new craze that is Rainbow Loom.  There are days when we are doing nothing and they can both just sit there and make bracelets galore.  Or use the iPad to find tutorials.

Today was no exception.  Mr. 10 has soccer so instead of dropping him off and coming back Mr. 6 and I tend to do a mix of watching him practice, play games on the tablet or do rainbow loom.  Today Mr. 6 was keen to get in some tutorials.  He got a little stuck and ended up giving him but he made this awesome bracelet for me which I love and wear.  He did warn me though to take it off when I sleep because it gets sore and tight lol.  All in all a good day.  Soccer starts this weekend for Mr. 10 so I might have to go out and watch the game depending on what time it is.

Happy Birthday Barb

Every morning Barb is the first person to arrive to work.  She gets in early and does her morning walk before work starts and every morning Esther and I catch up with her on whats new with her and her kids and her family.  It's great.  Yesterday it was Barbs birthday so yesterday Esther and I decided to get Barb a little birthday gift. 

Roll on this morning at work and global was hectic crazy.  After hours.  Monitoring.  Noise.  It just got a bit crazy and we didn't have a chance to catch up with her.  I guess the Birthday Gods were against us or something.  Later on that morning though before everyone else arrived to the office we got Barb to come back across the road and gave her her gift.

She loved it and I'm so glad that she did.  For a last minute gift I think we did a fantastic job.