August Project Life and a Layout Share

Here are my August Project Life layouts. I have almost finished the September ones as well, only the summary page left to do, so I will share those soon as well.

Here they are (it was a big birthday month)

The Summary page:

Week 31 - Main events during this week were a Trivia night on Friday for Di (the team she was on won), Jane and Evan's combined 30th birthday party in Goulburn on Saturday, and then a pre-screening of Guardians of the Galaxy at Hoyts with Mel and Kate, followed by dinner at Chong Co Thai.

Week 32 - Some lovely weather, so much bouncing on the trampoline. Jasmin started her cooking project, making a Lemon Jelly Cheesecake as a birthday cake for Dave.  We went back to Goulburn for Chloe's birthday where we also had the cheesecake for Dave. Di also went to another trivia night this week!

Week 33 - At the beginning of the week we managed to have a meal with the girls at Jamie's Italian. They were very impressed with the kid's menu which came on a flick master. Di scored a second dinner out on Thursday with her ex-Aussie Scrap Source colleagues at Trev's in Dickson, and then Dave turned the big "46", so we went out to dinner with Dave's family at Belluci's in Dickson. His sister made him a very impressive R2D2, and Jasmin and I helped construct his R2D2 Lego over the weekend.  Jasmin made pasta from scratch as part of her school project, as well as a slow cooked Bolognese sauce.

Week 34 -  Bookweek this week, and the girls went as Red Riding Hood and the not so big bad wolf! They looked adorable. Jasmin even made choc-chip cookies for her basket, which she handed out to all her class mates at recess.  Jazz went to a sleepover birthday party on the Saturday night, and on Sunday we all traipsed over to Woden to the Brick Expo - a huge exhibition of Lego. Jasmin ran in to two of her three besties at the exhibition, so she got to spend some time looking around with them and then building some Lego. There were some very impressive displays, and there were some Star Wars characters you could get photo with as you were waiting to get into the exhibition.

Week 35 - A games night with Eliza's best friend's family on Friday night. They always provide dinner so Jasmin and I make a dessert and take over some gaming snacks and drinks. Wade is a master of games, so it is always a fun night. We also enjoyed a trip back to Goulburn to spend with my sister and niece - and her best friend, for a girly weekend. We watched movies, did facials, painted our nails, played games and ate lots of food (and consumed a little wine :-) ). We also popped in to see Bailie for her 8th birthday.



I had an extra page to fill in for the month (the back of the Week 35 page) so thought it would be nice to put in a few of the pictures of Jasmin doing her school project - learning to cook. The pasta and pavlova were two of my favourites - and I could not have done a better job!

Layout Share

I've also found a little time to do some scrapbooking pages - which hasn't happened in a while. I've managed to finish all of Jasmin's New Zealand pages for her albums (which I do a separate post on), but have also completed some 2013 layouts to go in her album.

Pictures of Jasmin at her cousin Anthony's wedding to Naomi (affectionately known as Omi to the girls).  The top picture is a picture of Jazz and Eliza with her younger cousin Annie, and her second cousin - Bailie.
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We haven't managed to make it to Wyangala Dam yet this year, so it was nice to do a page from one of last year's visits to the Dam at Easter time. The weather was fantastic so we got lots of water and sun time.

At the end of last year one of her best friend's moved away (she is a Defence child), Jasmin misses her heaps, but continues to Skype her on a regular basis. It will be nice for her to look back on some of the friendships that she has had over the years.

Jasmin's birthday is only a week before my Sister's birthday. Jasmin had a school friends birthday, but also got to share a cake with Aunty Hellie at her birthday. I made the cake, thus it was a fairly simplistic affair - a lady bug!

Last year Jasmin started violin lessons at school, and has continued them this year. I'm not sure she will continue them next year, she mentioned the other day that she didn't want to do any outside of school activities next year, as she just wanted to get through her first year of high school (she is expecting a much bigger homework load).

Off to play with Eliza - think we will take the chalks outside and do some drawing, it is a stunning day!

Di :-)