Sunday

This morning I caught up with Selina and her friend Renee (who I've met a couple of times before) as Renee wanted to meet me to talk about my wedding photography - so we caught up for nearly 4 hours, chatted, and they checked out my new slideshow etc - so cross fingers that she books me for her wedding in July!

Came home, just relaxed a bit and then we took Oscar for a big walk - 50 minutes is a big walk with the kids but I did piggy back Dom about 1 or 2 kilometres..

Valentine's Day

Well if you know me and Ben, you'll know that not much was celebrated on Valentine's Day. Ben doesn't really believe it in, thinks it's all hype - but I was pretty annoyed that he didn't even remember until 12.30pm after he came back from a portrait shoot!! S/o needless to say, i wasn't very happy - especially when he comes home and says "It's Valentine's day today, so what did you get me?" - you can imagine my reply! I even had a card for him, but didn't bother to write in it because I knew he wouldn't have a card for me. Each years gets worse Ben! He did try make up to by buying Thai for dinner, but that was about it.

And of course we didnt' go camping due to the rain (4th trip cancelled now), so we pretty much spent the day at home and all 4 of us had a snooze in the afternoon.

Friday the 13th

Besides the wet and windy weather, thankfully nothing bad happened on the 13th ;o)

Dom and I went grocery shopping at Coles today as they were putting all their profits to the Bush Fire Relief, so it was our little way of helping, as well as donating all our extra sheets, blankets etc that they will need in a couple of months...

I pretty much fiddled around with the Magic Blog Board, took some photos and uploaded them - as it was too wet to do anything else...




I like the bottom left photo....

And I have also finished my DVD Wedding/Portrait slideshow - I think it looks pretty good...it's a start anyway...:O)

I can't upload it because it uses too much of Ben's "Ping"

Tell my why I don't like Thursdays....

I'll tell you why, because I rush around like a crazy woman!!

Kenz has to be at school at 8am for choir, so I drop her off, and then drop Dom off.

Come home, tidied up the house, before the house cleaners came, Ben got home from his breakfast meet, then I went down to McKenzie's swimming and then Ben and I went out to Closeburn (out past Samford) to catch up with a group of photographers for lunch..

The lunch was good as I met a photographer Steven and his wife Debbie (I've met him before) but Debbie was really interested in me because I said I was starting up - said I was looking for Budget weddings for now - and they've just moved out of the budget price range, so she said they have lots of enquiries, so they would send them my way. She had a wedding for me already but it's the 26th April when I already have my first wedding booked!!

I took some of these photos out at Closeburn -Stephen's property was sooooo relaxing and I got this new program called Magic Blog It Board, so I've fiddled around with it this morning.....



Then we rushed home for lunch to pick Kenz up at 3pm, raced home, took Kenz to Numberworks at Ashgrove (she got 100% on her test - yay), drove back to child care to pick up Dom and then drove us both back to Ashgrove to pick up Kenz. Then Ben mowed and went to his photog meeting. And the kidds and I had dinner and did all the night time stuff....no wonder i'm tired!

11th Feb

Work started off quiet today but then poor Stella got sick, so I was busy from 11am until 4.30pm preparing a big brief - so that was good to be busy!

There are meant to be train strikes next week, possibly over 2 days, so my boss said I could take the 2 days as annual leave if I wanted - I'm not sure what to do - would love to, but I dont have any leave up at the moment...

A lady at work, her friends moved to the Yarra Valley 5 weeks ago and they have lost EVERYTHING! Helen was telling me about the stuff that has happened to them, and they were evacuated 50klms away and still can't go back to what is left of their new house.

Helen saw that I still had my Peugeot up for sale on the website at work and asked if I would still be interested in selling it (which I had decided I didn't want to) - only because her friend had a Peugeot 307 as well as she's lost that too. I said if she wanted to buy it, that I would sell it to her - I'd be happy to do that for someone who has lost everything!!!

Victoria's Hells Fires

We can't believe what has happened with the fires in Victoria - the ferocity of those fires ....I don't even want to think about it...

Thankfully we don't know anyone who lives around there, but our hearts go out to them.

Ben went to HOTD again today, but I had to go to work.

And to top it off, the Ferny Grove train line wasn't running this afternoon, but I was fortunate enough to get a cab with 3 others from work, so it only cost me $10 and only took half an hour to get to my train station where my car was. I picked up the kids, got them home and bathed and dinner ready, just as Ben got home at 6.30pm.

Babysitter

Today we had a lovely babysitter (Robyn) come and mind the kids whilst Ben and I were at the Hair of the Dog photography Seminar. Robyn arrived at 7.30am and I got home at 6.30pm and the kids had a great day with her!

It was such a hot day and Robyn walked the kids THREE Times to the park (and even took Oscar).

Ben got home around 11.30pm after the cocktail party - which is better than 3am the previous year!