Thank goodness the cold has gone for awhile.

I am sure we were not the only ones experiencing really cold weather, but we actually had frost and ice in Rocky last Friday when the minimum temperature dropped to 2 degrees. I can't remember it ever getting that low. For goodness sake, we live in the tropics are are just not geared to survive in temperatures that low. Fortunately the temperature climbed to about 18 degrees during the day.

My scrapbooking has slowed down. I did manage to complete another double, but really can't claim creative originality with this layout, as I mostly scraplifted it. Unfortunately I have no idea who to credit it too, as for some reason I just saved the photo of this layout without the web address for it. If it is a layout you have done, please let me know so that I can give credit where it is due. These are the only photos we have for Christmas 2008. As you can see I am still very much into the circles.
We have our monthly scrapbooking crop this Saturday - boy these year they just seem to roll around so quickly. I am hoping to get some of the photos from the Scrap of Faith retreat scrapped this weekend.

Thought I would share some pretty random shots from the past week. Not a lot of exciting things happening here at the moment. In fact life has kinda of settled down a little which is nice.
Friday night I went out for dinner with my friend Eleonore to celebrate, as she landed a job that day. Steve was having dinner at school as he didn't really want to come home until he had finished his marking from the exam that day.

Steve sat up until 3am Saturday morning finishing off writing reports so that he could have the day off on Saturday. We actually had a great day together. We went off hunting for Kitchen ideas in the morning, as we had an appointment today for someone to come out and design and price a new kitchen for us (man alive got the quote this afternoon and all I can say is Kitchen's don't come cheap) We ended up going out for lunch together and went shopping for some Clothes for Steve (almost impossible to get him out clothes shopping so need to make the most of it when I can)

Sunday afternoon we had a luncheon to farewell the Chaplain from Rockhampton High School as he and his wife are moving back to Canada. He will really be missed. It was a good time to catch up with friends we hadn't seen for a while also.

Yesterday I also got a new one of these.

It will probably take me a little while to get used to it as my old bible has all my favourite passages marked and I know just where to find everything.

On the job front - still no news. Only two weeks left till the end of term. I am trying hard not to let it get to me. There is obviously no way I can speed up the decision, so I am just trusting that God has it all under control and I will find out when I need to know, and meanwhile I will just be thankful that I am still being paid each fortnight.

Here are a few shots taken from our evening here last night. Steve and I started watching this on the big screen before he had to go out to a meeting.
Kind of feels like being at the movies with the big screen and surround sound. By the time Steve got home, Chloe had a few friends around and they spent the rest of the night doing this.



They were all very serious, but none quite as serious as this one who really gets involved in playing with the kids.
Whilst they were busy playing this, I got a bit more of this done. I am now past the half way mark with my knee rug.
My dear daughter bought me home another bunch of these again this weekend How I love the beautiful fragrance of these lilies. I am so blessed to have such a thoughtful daugther and I really do thank the Lord for her daily.
Finally our fish tank seems to be exploding with new baby fish. We foever seem to have new babies. WE've already got rid of a few but we need to do a much bigger cull next time

Well my eyes are barely staying awake as I type this so it must be time to go to bed. I have an early morning start in the morning - date with a swimming pool again.

Finally in closing I came accross these couple of quotes and would love to share these couple of little quotes with you.

"That is a good day in which you make someone happy.

It is astonishing how little it takes to make one happy.

Feel that the day is wasted in which you have not succeeded in this."

[ t. de witt talmage ]