My technique involves crossing my arms over, grabbing the front bottom of my shirt and then pulling over my head. It's fast - but the top ends up inside out. Jazz's technique involves bending the arms into the body, grabbing the bottom of the shirt and pulling over the head. It's also fast but not so good if you are wearing a tight body-hugging t-shirt. Dad's technique involves grabbing the back of the shirt collar (over the shoulder) and pulling the shirt forward over your head - it's also fast, the shirt ends up the right way out (instead of inside out) but doesn't work if you have boobs - they seem to get caught LOL! So we demonstrated all methods to Eliza (we also had a few competitions to see who could do it the fastest) - Eliza proceeded to test all methods, and by the end of it we were all rolling on the floor laughing, but I think she has finally settled on my technique! I wonder if there are more techniques out there?
So since my last blog post we have enjoyed Harmony Day, Crazy Hair Day, a school award for Eliza, Jazz being elected to the School Representative Council by her Class mates, Gen's birthday at the Collector Pub, the Charnie Carnie with friends, an a lovely trip to the coast with our friends. So there is nothing to complain about here. Here are some snaps from our last few weeks:
Wearing Orange for Harmony Day at School:
Copious amounts of Neon Yellow, Neon Orange, Gold and Glitter were used to complete their Crazy Hair Do's for fund raising at school:
Gen's Birthday at the Bush Ranger Hotel in Collector - a fun night, even though it was a little cold:
Julie and Gen having a great time together:
All the little ones ran around, danced and played together:
Toad Fish Chutney's #1 Groupie - aka. Eliza:
Gen's boyfriend plays guitar in the band:
So over the last few weeks I have also discovered Instagram - what a great little picture taking iPhone app! Lets you apply effects on the photos a bit like Photo shop, allows you to post them to facebook, twitter etc on the fly, but also puts them in your photos on your iPhone for easy download as well. I love it. Here are a couple of pictures from the Charnie Carnie as well as our more recent Coast trip with friends:
Our Beach Weekend:
Reading
So I've been also keeping up with my reading - now have three different mediums going since Christmas - so three books at a time. I use my iPhone for Audio Books (whilst I work or drive), Kindle for eBooks (for travelling, sitting, waiting etc), and also I still read paperbacks as well (at night in bed or when I am drinking my morning coffee). So to add to my list of books for this year:
15. Dark Betrayel Series - Book #1 - Mortal Defiance, Nichole Chase
16. Dark Betrayel Series - Book #2 - Mortal Obligation, Nichole Chase
17. Body Finder Series - Book #1 - The Body Finder, Kimberly Derting
18. Body Finder Series - Book #2 - Desires of the Dead, Kimberly Derting
19. When Gargoyles Fly, Lori Devoti
20. The Hush Hush Saga, Book #3 - Silence, Becca Fitzpatrick
21. The Night Huntress Series, Book #2 - One Foot in the Grave, Jeaniene Frost
22. The Night huntress Series, Book #3 - At Grave's End, Jeaniene Frost
23. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
24. Red Mist, Patricia Cornwell
25. Currently reading - The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Things to Look Forward to:
A few things lined up - a trip back to Goulburn to visit family, a trip out to Wyangala Dam (probably the last for this season as the weather gets colder), a trip to Sydney perhaps in May for another visit to Braza, Dinner at Black Mountain Tower with family, a few birthdays!, another trip to the coast in October, and drum roll.... I just booked our airfares to Fiji for September - super looking forward to spending quality time with the family and sunning myself by the pool whilst drinking cocktails!
Scrappin and Photography
As I mentioned - having a little fun with Instagram - planning to do a Week in our life layout so took a few snaps this week including these (helps when you have super cute photography material!):
And finally, to finish my, once again, mammoth blog post - a couple of my fav
layouts:
OK, I'm done for the night - see you next time :-)
