We're off to Hawaii!!

Guess where we're heading to tonight??

HAWAII!!!!

YAY!! I am so so so so so excited!! We love Hawaii, and it is such a family friendly place, it's easy to get around and we love the shopping and the food! And the beaches, of course! 

We were last there in November 2012, when Jaimeson was 18 months old. He had a great time and we loved going there as a family. I look forward to going as a slightly bigger family now! We are staying 4 nights at Aulani Disney Hotel, and then 6 nights in Waikiki. I am SO looking forward to the Disney hotel, their facilities look amazing and I love everything Disney! I think Jaimeson will really love it too! YAY!!

 

Jaimeson is a good traveller, and I hope Flynn proves himself to be a good traveller too! He's usually a calm, flexible and patient baby, so I hope he travels well too :)

Catch up with you soon!

Follow me on Instagram if you want to catch up on our holiday in real time! I love instagram! Find me under "thehoursbetween"

Aloha!
:)C

My little man, Flinders.

Hi y'all!

I'm finally sitting at my computer with all the photos on it, which means I can do a post about Flinders!!
Remember, almost 5 months ago, I had a baby? Yep, it's been 5 months of joy and love with this little guy, and now I can't imagine our lives without him! He has slotted in so nicely to Lam family life, and I have settled into being a Mum of a newborn a lot easier second time around. I think it's cos I was already used to broken sleep, stinky poops, and a little person clinging on to you all day. LOL!
Flynn is very patient, flexible, calm, he brings such joy to our lives! I love that you can see his face light up when he spots Jaimeson across the room. You can see they are brothers who love each other so much! I hope they always stay that way!

Here are some recent pics of our newest little (8kg when we weighed him last week!!) Lam!

Chewing... he does this alllllll day. I thought it looked like he had a tooth coming through, but after 2 weeks he's still munching on everything that comes within 1cm of his mouth and those little chomping gums are tough! No tooth yet.

He loves playing under his playmat. And he's so patient, he'll play under there for a good 20mins while I feed Jaimeson or get our lunches/dinners together. His favourite toys are the giraffe and the racoon hanging from the gym. He smiles and talks to them, with such a happy face!

 Other fave toys are the roly clown and roly penguin beside him in this pic. Check out that happy happy face!

 He actually likes the Bumbo, which is something Jaimeson HATED! I love that it gives him another view of us all, and he can sit up on the bench to watch us cooking! Haha, I love his crazy expression here, it makes me laugh!

 What a beautiful boy :) Oh my heart warms just looking at that sweet face! If you lay down beside him that hand always reaches out to you, trying to touch your face. {hearts rising from head}

Don't you love a sleeping baby? Yep, me too! He's just gorgeous!

 And he fits in quite nicely to this crazy family!! What a bunch of weirdos he must think we are. Hahahahaha!! {belly laugh!}

I'll give Flinders a big hug from you!
:) C

Card lovin'

Some more cards that I whipped up at the end of last year, that I loved but never got the chance to blog about!

 This one was Felicity's birthday card. I used my Hexagon punch from Stampin Up to punch out different coloured scraps of aqua Patterned Paper and I love it!! The sweet little owl juuuuuusssstttt fit inside the hexagon, so he had to be included too!

 Next I broke out my hexagon embossing folder (also from SU) and thought I'd mix it up a bit by cutting along the embossed line to make an interesting edge. I'm so happy with it! I had this really sweet red patterned paper with a very baroque image on it, and I had no idea how to use it so you could still see the image. Well, when I mounted it behind the hexagon panel, it was perfect! I added the sentiment, some ribbon and a paper flower and voila!

 And cos it was so good, I made another one, just slightly different {wink!}

 I Love Hot Air Balloons! Do you? I'm loving this set from SU, and it goes so perfectly with the tiny Memory Box cloud dies I bought! Don't they cut such cute little clouds?! I embossed a piece of grey card with my chevron embossing folder and this card has to be one of my faves!

 Here's one that I threw together using all the scraps left over on my desk. I love when these cards practically make themselves! Cos I pick up all the bits, throw them down and just tweak the placement a little and I love it! The colour combo on these 2 cards- grey, aqua & yellow is gorgeous too, you can't go wrong!

 And for a totally different colour scheme I went with pale pink and aqua for these next 2 cards. I embossed 3/4 of the pink card so the top of the card would be patterned but the bottom 1/4 would be plain so you can see the pattern on the paper. Me muchos likey! It's quite interesting!

 And I made another one, similar. Hehe.

 Here's another fave card (have I said that about all the cards today?? {giggles}. The background paper is sooooo cool! Its from a pad of 12x12 paper, maybe even an Aldi one. Love it! I used some hexagon embossed aqua card, silver glitter washi tape and a punched shape for the sentiment. I love the colours and the patterns and the texture on this card!

So again, I made another one. {smiles}. This colour scheme is perfect for a modern wedding card, but for birthdays, babies, thanks, anything!
Have you been making cards lately?
Thanks for dropping by!
:) C

Project Life, Weeks 35 & 36

Hi y'all!
Its hot here, stinkin' hot. Like melt your ice cream in 5 seconds flat hot. And it's only 30ºC. Imagine how much I complained when it was 40ºC! {belly laugh... while sweating}.
Time for some Project Life!
Week 35: LHS
Unexpected Breakfast date cos Marg locked her keys in the car at a local shopping centre so we had to take the spares and rescue her! Thankfully there was a yummy café open so we had breakfast out! {high five!}
A dinner shot- it's fun to see what we were eating in what season :)
A funny little story about how Jaimeson will walk along the drain cover after his Swimming Lesson and when he gets to the end (which is where he is in this pic) he says "stuck Daddy!" and won't move on. LOL! What a funny little chap; Potty training; A visit from Granny & Papa; Buying a new pram and car seat for Lentil (who turned out to be Flynn {wink}!) Thankfully I have a Ford Mondeo which has a Serial-killer boot, you know, big enough to stash a few bodies in {giggles, reservedly} so we could fit it all in in one go.

Week 35: RHS
Having an Ultrasound- what a tummy at 31 weeks!; a visit to Blaxland Riverside Park with Felicity, Alicia and the crew; a little story about an amazing Op Shop find- check out my gorgeous Kookaburra vase I bought for $3. It's worth about $1000. Yep, that's the correct number of 0's! One thousand! It's a Grace Seccombe vase from about the 1920s I think, totally collectable, but just so gorgeous with that little Kookaburra. I couldn't believe it was worth so much when I did the research! {belly bump!} I joked it's Jaimeson's College Fund! See Op Shopping does pay off! Hey look, Father's Day, talk about being behind in posting! LOL!
Week 36: LHS
Some sweet Jaimeson love for Lentil!; Jaimeson changing the car tyre for Daddy. This is why you have Children right? LOL!; we were lucky to be able to go to Reptile day at Felicity's playgroup! Cool!; Jaimeson's poor swollen eye from a Mozzie bite! Poor little guy gets quite a bad reaction whenever he gets bitten & swells right up, which we found out after this bite! Ouchie! Not a great condition to have when you live in Australia. {giggles}.

Week 36: RHS
Look at this gorgeous hand crochet rug I got for Lentil/Flynn at the Auburn Hospital Auxiliary after my antenatal visit. I love the colours- turquoise and white- gorgeous!; Jaimeson drawing with Uncle Vincent; Big 32 week tummy!; Banana Bread Pancakes from Pintrest- so very good! Must be time I made these again!; Voting, ugh Tony Abbot, who voted for him?? Not me! {shaking head}. This campaign "If he wins, you lose" was my favourite of the election campaigns, so I kept one of the 6 million flyers that came in our mailbox to include here. It's folded over so you can still read the whole lot if you take it out of the pocket. A family lunch with Will's family at Vince & Nat's new (now old, cos they've moved back with us again, lol!) place.
Thanks for dropping by to catch up on my PL with me!
Hope you have a super week!
:) C