Round up Time........

Friday: I took Madeleine to her first Youth Group, it started at 7pm and went until 9pm. I dropped her off and their seemed to be a cast of thousands there. (ok ok well maybe 100 or so). She had an absolutely fantastic time, lots of music, dancing and generally alot of jumping up and down (ala mosh pit style jumping). Stacey who features in this months FK's Lo has been going there for a few years now, so also kept a watchful eye on her to make sure everything was going OK. Madeleine said it was great, she felt like she had a big sister there to watch out for her. So guess what we'll be doing every 2nd Friday night from now on. While Maddy was there, i took the opportunity to drop in to see Deb (her place is 5 minutes from the youth group) and say hello. Haven't caught up with her for a while so it was nice to see her and the rest of the gang.

Saturday: Madeleine played netball in the afternoon and the teams had a draw. They were very evenly matched so it was a pretty tense game. Then I spent the afternoon preparing for Shaun, Amanda and Charlie the next day. I made lasagna... well actually Neil made the spaghetti sauce, I made the rest of it and then made apricot nectar cheesecake, and cleaned as you do....

Then Saturday night Neil and I, Kate and James and John and Denise caught up at Sithara Indian restaurant in Parkdale. The food there is magnificent, if you live in the area do yourself a favour and give it a go. It is so Yummy. After dinner we headed back to Kates place for coffee and gelati and got home around midnight.

Sunday: Madeleine's team played in their first Grand Final. It was a great game and they all played hard but unfortunately were beaten by around 10 points in the end. Straight after the game was a short presentation were the girls were all given trophies for being runners up.

Finally Sunday afternoon arrived.....we had all been hanging out for our visitors from Queensland. I really hate that we live so far apart especially now that baby Charlie is around and we miss out on seeing her more regularly. Ah well!! that's life and you just have to make the most of their company when you can. Charlie is just gorgeous, she is a happy, contented chubby cuddly baby. Between Neil and I we took around 170 photos so watch out for one or two or maybe three or four baby layouts to follow. As always the hardest part of catching up is saying goodbye again and before we knew it, it was time for them to leave. I've put together a little collage of some of my fav photos.... here tis

Last but not least I've just been over visiting Wendy's Blog and discovered I have won the February sketch challenge.... Woo Hoo!!! I'm wrapt thanks to Jen Ballantyne for choosing my layout and a big thanks to Wendy for organizing the challenge and for the prize pack. She will be putting the March sketch challenge up shortly so give it a go... as they say in the classics You have to be in it to win it.

Hope you have had a great weekend... till next time

Cheers

Leeanne x