Jaimeson's Baptism

 Hi y'all!
Last Sunday we had Jaimeson's Baptism! Yep, it's taken us a little while to get around to it, seeing as he is nearly 2! But we finally organised a date for the Baptism and a BBQ lunch at home afterwards, and it was last Sunday. And we all had lots of fun!

Here is our little man, all dressed up in his finest Hawaiian shirt (which I even ironed for him {gasp!} Mum, you didn't even notice!), navy stripe linen pants and his cute little navy Boat shoes. With crisp white socks, of course {heart melting}

So first, a dunking. It was a fair bowl-full of water over the head by our new minister Fergus, but Jai didn't mind. He loves swimming after all. LOL! Jai did look up at us as if to say "Is this ok?" and Will and i must have been smiling sufficiently for him to think it was nothing to worry about!

Then a Blessing. Jaimeson is looking at the bowl as if to say "hmmm...will you and I be meeting again?" {giggles}

And he is now officially a member of St Dunstan's Anglican Church at Denistone East. Round of applause please! {clapping heard in the background}

Then it was back to our place for a BBQ lunch.

And cake.

Which was delicious. Yep!

I always think Jaimeson is quite a big boy, until I see him playing with his cousins and second cousins, and I realise he still is a little fella!

It was so nice to spend some time with my family too, especially my sisters, though it was a busy day and I could have done with a few more free minutes for a chat!

Here are all my siblings and all the grandchildren together with Granny and Papa for the first time since Venice was born. How exciting!

And here is Jaimeson's Godfather Ric, and his sister. So proud!
We had a fabulous day, thank you family for all coming along to support us and Jaimeson! We love you all!
:) C

Project Life Week 5!

Hi y'all!

Wow, its been a few weeks since I've posted, sorry bout that! I've found it a bit hard to get a moment on the computer, I've just stolen a moment now, while Jai is distracted watching Thomas, after his bath and before I feed him his dinner. It's a quick moment, so I'll be super speedy!
here is Week 5 of my Project Life for 2013. This was my birthday week, so there is also an insert for this week :)

 Left hand side. I used a drawing of Jaimeson's as the background for the title pocket, so cute!! Love the collage of my Birthday day, also this side is watching the floods in Grafton (my old home town) via Facebook and texts from my friends, and a dinner out with our old Work group of friends.

 Right hand side: At the park, and a visit to Alicia's while Yvette and Tassy were visiting. The first time all 6 grandkids were together, and Venice was only a week old!

 Front of the insert: My Coconut Rough birthday cake, and Jaimeson asking for "more" while the icing is spread all over his mouth! He loved it!

Insert back: at the park on my birthday and a pic of all my birthday presents together! I was very spoilt!

Have you been doing Project Life too? I'm loving it, and I've still managed to keep up to date, though I haven't printed last week's pics yet. This is probably the most I've been behind!
It's Jaimeson's Baptism on Sunday, that will make a fun entry into PL!
Happy Weekend!
:) C

Every day pages.

Hi y'all!
Still posting pages I finished last year, and it's already March! I say it all the time but... time is flying!! {Hands of the clock whizzing around}.

Here are some everyday pages of us hanging around.
I took this pic through the window at Mum and Dad's, cos Jaimeson was going OFF! Just laughing and having the best time up on Willy's shoulders!
Fun stuff: the chipboard arrow is pretty cool & I put a bit of patterned paper in the circle bit and stamped on it, call me genious (or not!); aren't the little boat stickers cute! They're from our local Korean shop.

And this second page is our weekly grocery shop. I'm so happy to have "ordinary" events in Jaimeson's album, as well as big events. And that's one reason why I am loving Project Lift too, cos it's all about every day events!
Fun stuff: the old Children's encyclopedia book paper on the top left, and i stamped around "grapes" cos they were in our trolley!; I also included a snippet of our shopping list, which will be fun to look back on, and wonder what we ate!; I've also been wanting to use that fruit & veg BG paper for ages, no more perfect theme than using it for a page on grocery shopping!
Hope you've got some fun plans for the weekend! We're going into the city tomorrow for Yum Cha for a friend's birthday, should be fun!
:) C

Create a Cake Cards!

Hi y'all!
How about some cards to share today?

Sometimes I actually squeal out loud when I'm looking through the Stampin Up Catalogue for the first time, and spot a stamp set I HAVE to have. When I saw "Create a Cake", I squealed! It was a little, high pitched, barely audible, noise, but it happened! It's such a cute set, and I knew I would have heaps of fun using it!
So recently, I sat down with some pretty pink papers and made some cards.

The stamp set consists of a base cake on a pedestal, another stamp has the top 2 cake layers on it (as one stamp) and then there are cake embellishments, like a row of bunting, a pinwheel and butterflies. So sweet!
For these first 2 cards I also embossed some paper using my cuttlebug and the fancy fan embossing folder from Stampin Up. I love those fans!

For these birthday cards, I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from SU's Perfectly Penned set as well. Aren't those pennants so pretty!

I think the set would also be perfect for Wedding cards, especially with the 3-layer cake!
Happy Friday! Hope you get some creating done this weekend!
:) C