Back again...

I know I have been MIA! Apart from being a busy working mama - our laptop portals aren't working which means we can't upload photos from my iphone or camera :( The main reason why I started a blog was to have a photo journal with minimal writing!

I will try to get some pics of the last few months up soon but for now I'll be posting just words...

We've had a busy few months and just recently we celebrated Keira's 3rd birthday and 11 days later the twins 1st birthday. We had a park party for the twins and it had to fall on one of the hottest days of the year! We still had a great turn out and they had a lot of fun. I'm glad it's done and dusted though as we look forward to our first party of five holiday to NZ in 2 weeks!! We are going for 3 weeks over Xmas and New Years and it'll be the first time in 2 years all of Damo's immediate family will be together again so everyone is really excited about that. We are looking forward to spending some quality family time and no doubt we will have a lot of fun and good times to look forward to.

I'll be busy in the next few days putting together our Party of Five 2012 Family Photo book that I ordered and needs to be completed by Feb as I got it on special. I also ordered a book for each child as I decided that I'll do a yearly book of photos seeing as I have so many pictures of them. So, in total I have 4 photo books to complete hopefully by the time we leave for NZ so that they will arrive by the time we get back.

I don't think I posted that I did reach my goal of 60kgs on my 35th birthday in Aug! Actually it was 60.7kgs but the 60 was still there and I fit into a size 12! I have since put on a kilo and am close to 62kgs which is a shame :( however, my health kick starts again on MONDAY!! To be continued...

May Blog Projects

Like most people, I am blogging to record events and stories of my little family to share with family and friends around the world and with my children when they are older. I am new to blogging but not new to reading blogs.  I am so amazed by what I have read and learned from various blogs written mostly by women and mostly mothers. I have been inspired, cried, laughed, learnt how to cook, bake, save money etc and read things that makes me want to be a better mother, a better wife - to be the best 'me' I can be. There are so many talented people out there and I think it's so wonderful and generous that through their blogs they want to share their talents and real life stories with others and help strangers. I could literally search the blogesphere all day but with a 2 years old and 4 month old twins, my time is pretty limited. However, I have found two 'projects' that I want to challenge myself to do and blog about. They are:

Fat Mum Slim's Photo A Day Challenge
This is a photo a day challenge. Each day you look at the May list given by Fat Mum Slim and there will be a prompt that corresponds with the date of the month.  You then share the photo on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, your blog, Pinterest, Flickr or where ever you want to share it. It's a fun way to be creative every day and it's so much fun to be part of. Anyone can play {even if you haven't played before - like me}.

Happy Days in May Project
This encourages women and bloggers to record one sentence a day about what was making them happy during that day for one whole month in May. This project is about reflection and finding happiness and gratitude in every day.

"One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.

One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself."

{Gretchin Rubin}

Both challenges encourage me to blog and record my life in two different ways. I am excited and motivated! If you're up to it - join in! :)